BoFA Exec's Widow Sues Employer Plan, MetLife For Benefits

By Gianna Ferrarin

The widow of a former Bank of America executive brought a suit alleging the bank and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. wrongly denied her claim for life insurance benefits after her husband's death.

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NC Judge Halts Medicaid Cuts For Autism Services

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina state court judge blocked the state's Health and Human Services Department from implementing a 10% cut to Medicaid reimbursement rates for autism therapy after finding children who benefit from that therapy would be irreparably harmed.

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Another Boomerang Returns To McGuireWoods From DOJ

By Jack Rodgers

A former leader in U.S. attorney's offices in Virginia and North Carolina who spent more than 15 years working at the U.S. Department of Justice has rejoined McGuireWoods, where he'll team up with his former boss at the Eastern District of North Carolina, who returned to the firm earlier this year.

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NC Hotel Owner Says Insurer Botched Tornado Damage Claim

By Hope Patti

An insurer failed to conduct a meaningful investigation of a North Carolina hotel's claim for tornado damage, the property owner alleged in a suit removed to federal court, saying the insurer issued a "puzzling" coverage denial referencing damage at a property 150 miles away and a workplace injury in Florida.

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State AGs Want Further HPE-Juniper Integration Barred

By Bryan Koenig

The Democratic state attorneys general challenging the controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks want a California federal judge to bar the companies from "further integration" while they push the court to reject the deal outright.

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4th Circ. Revives Vaccine Bias Suit Against Humane Society

By Patrick Hoff

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday reopened a lawsuit alleging the Humane Society of the United States fired two remote employees rather than granting their religious requests to skip the COVID-19 vaccine, saying the workers had sufficiently connected their vaccine opposition to their faith.

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Senate Panel OKs Miss. Judge, US Atty Nominees After Delay

By Courtney Bublé

After weeks of holdup, nominees for Mississippi federal courts and U.S. attorneys were voted out of committee on Thursday, following an impasse between Republican senators.

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Winston-Led Mosaic Capital Secures $205M For 2nd Fund

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Winston & Strawn LLP-advised private equity shop Mosaic Capital Partners LLC said Thursday that it closed its second small business investment company fund with $205 million in tow.

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Rule Amendments Pave Path For A Privilege Claim 'Offensive'

Litigators should consider leveraging forthcoming amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which will require early negotiations of privilege-related discovery claims, by taking an offensive posture toward privilege logs at the outset of discovery, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law.

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Series

My Miniature Livestock Farm Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Raising miniature livestock on my farm, where I am fully present with the animals, is an almost meditative time that allows me to return to work invigorated, ready to juggle numerous responsibilities and motivated to tackle hard issues in new ways, says Ted Kobus at BakerHostetler.

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Worker Says Law Firm Fired Her Over Fraud Concern

By Irene Spezzamonte

Injury law firm Morgan & Morgan PA fired a case manager after she voiced a concern about fraudulent client hospital records she said the firm gave to opposing counsel to snag more favorable settlements and failed to pay overtime, according to a suit in California state court.

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DC Judge Backs Local Grand Jury's Federal Indictment Power

By Jared Foretek

Following a D.C. federal judge's Thursday ruling that the city's unique legal structure allows prosecutors to bring indictments from local grand juries to federal court, a District of Columbia man on Friday asked the court to stay the ruling for five business days.

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Ga. Justices Spell Out How Atty Ads Can Be Misleading

By Emily Johnson

The Georgia Supreme Court has updated the State Bar of Georgia's rule that prohibits attorneys from misleading the public in advertising their services, defining how lawyers' messaging in ads could run afoul of the state's rule and possibly lead to disbarment.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Clyde & Co. face a claim from Yorkshire firm GWB Harthills, a property developer previously investigated over suspected bribery and corruption sue the general counsel and solicitor to HM Revenue and Customs, and sportswear giant Gymshark bring an intellectual property claim against its co-founder's rival company, AYBL. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Ex-Gordon Rees Atty Reprimanded For Mistakes Blamed On AI

By Rose Krebs

An Alabama bankruptcy judge won't sanction Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLC for a filing submitted by one of its former lawyers that contained mistakes blamed on artificial intelligence, but has reprimanded the attorney and ordered her to notify her clients about the reprimand.

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DOJ Will Speed Some Classified Discovery In Bolton Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors agreed Friday to accelerate their classified discovery timeline in the prosecution of John Bolton, as a Maryland federal judge pressed them to move faster.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge rejected a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of illegally monopolizing social media through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

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Bonus Spotlight

Texas Boutique Giving Associates Bonuses Of Up To $135K

By Tracey Read

Texas complex commercial litigation boutique Vartabedian Hester & Haynes LLP announced Friday that it will reward associates with additional year-end bonuses of up to $135,000 by Dec. 31, while more firms said they'd match or exceed the prevailing BigLaw scale.

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Ex-US Trustee Director's Firing Appeal Tossed, For Now

By Clara Geoghegan

The former head of the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog program had her appeal challenging her abrupt firing dismissed, at least for now, while a federal agency mulls questions around executive power in separate cases.

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Fenwick & West Must Face New Claims In FTX Crypto MDL

By Madison Arnold

A Florida federal judge signed off on a bid to file new claims against Fenwick & West LLP by victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam after they argued that new information had emerged about the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.

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Longtime Administrator Tapped For Conn. Trial Court Bench

By Rose Krebs

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced that he will be nominating a lawyer with a lengthy career in policy development and administration who is currently secretary of the state's Office of Policy and Management for a seat on the state's Superior Court bench.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

This week's edition of GC Cheat Sheet explores which top legal officers take home the most money and why. And the general counsel of SolarWinds Corp. can finally put its data breach regulatory problems behind after the Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its unprecedented case against the company and its chief information security officer.

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