The North Carolina State Bar can't discipline lawyers who may reside in the state but are not licensed to practice there, a state appellate panel ruled Wednesday in reversing the disbarment of an immigration attorney who lives in the Tar Heel State but is licensed in New York.
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NC Bar Lacks Power To Punish NY-Licensed Atty, Panel Rules

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina State Bar can't discipline lawyers who may reside in the state but are not licensed to practice there, a state appellate panel ruled Wednesday in reversing the disbarment of an immigration attorney who lives in the Tar Heel State but is licensed in New York.

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NC Panel Rejects HCA Unit's Appeal Over Rival Project Award

By Gianna Ferrarin

A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday rejected an HCA Healthcare subsidiary's challenge to an award of a certificate of need allowing a rival to build a new acute care facility, backing a decision in favor of the state health department behind the award.

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Kumho Tire Says NC Seller Is Ripping Off Trademarks

By Kelcey Caulder

Georgia-based tire maker Kumho Tire USA Inc. is going after an Amazon seller for alleged Lanham Act violations, saying North Carolina-based GE Tires Online Inc. is selling tires using its trademarks and branding them as new when they are "used, closed-out, liquidated, counterfeit, and/or nongenuine."

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Lender Registers $20M Win For Mobile Home Loans Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A lender has registered in North Carolina district court its nearly $20 million victory in a Georgia federal suit accusing a manufactured homes company and its affiliates of defaulting on loans used to buy more than 600 manufactured homes.

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Paralegal Says Firm Fired Her For Cancer Recurrence

By Abigail Harrison

A paralegal alleged in North Carolina federal court that The Driscoll Firm PC fired her one day after she informed her superiors about the recurrence of her ovarian cancer, violating federal disability and state wage laws.

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FOURTH CIRCUIT

4th Circ. Backs Ban On Handgun Sales To Young Adults

By Jared Foretek

A Fourth Circuit panel upheld a set of federal laws barring licensed firearm dealers from selling handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds Wednesday, reversing lower court decisions in Virginia and West Virginia in a split decision.

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LITIGATION

AGs Tell 3rd Circ. To Close 'Loophole' In Kalshi Betting Case

By Abigail Harrison

A bipartisan group of attorneys general co-led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, a Republican, pressed the Third Circuit to prevent trading platform Kalshi's "broad preemptive coup," urging the appellate court to allow New Jersey to regulate the company.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Brief

Belk Didn't Protect Private Info From Data Breach, Suits Say

By Hayley Fowler

Belk Inc. allegedly failed to safeguard the personal information of its employees and customers from hackers, resulting in a cyberattack that the department store chain has reportedly concealed, according to a pair of class action lawsuits filed in North Carolina.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Teaching Yourself Legal Tech

New graduates often enter practice unfamiliar with even basic professional software, but budding lawyers can use on-the-job opportunities to both catch up on technological skills and explore the advanced legal and artificial intelligence tools that will open doors, says Alyssa Sones at Sheppard Mullin.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

'Absolutely Disgusting': Litigant's Stashed Gum Irks Judge

By Hailey Konnath

A Florida federal judge admonished a plaintiff for sticking her chewed gum to a courtroom table, leading to a federal prosecutor getting the gum stuck to her skirt later, calling it "absolutely disgusting" and saying he "never dreamed" he would have to "write an order like this."

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9th Circ. Backs 'Legitimate' Bar Membership Admission Rules

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit on Friday tossed a challenge to local rules in district courts in the circuit requiring lawyers to be bar members in the state where the court is located in order to seek general admission, saying admission rules aren't unconstitutional and there are several "legitimate reasons" for the rule.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton and Andrea Keckley

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated a $300 million patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, based on instructions by a Texas federal judge that the appellate court panel determined to be erroneous.

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Feature

Current And Former GCs Urge Law Grads To 'Rise Up'

By Michele Gorman

From sharing details about being part of the first class of female graduates at Washington and Lee University School of Law to explaining how a middle-school teaching job led to obtaining a law degree, five commencement speakers — all current or former general counsel — recently shared their wisdom for the next generation of attorneys.

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Trump Taps Atty Dropped By Biden For Eastern Ky. Fed. Court

By Ali Sullivan

President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate former Kentucky Solicitor General Chad Meredith to serve as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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NJ Court Greenlights Beasley Allen Attys In Talc Litigation

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state judge will allow two Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent a California couple in their suit accusing Johnson & Johnson of selling carcinogenic talc-based baby powder and appear pro hac vice despite the company's vehement opposition.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A new report showed a dip in the average size of corporate legal teams over the last year, and an attorney focused on special purpose acquisition companies is predicting the Trump administration's friendly stance on cryptocurrency will spawn a wave of new cryptocurrency-related ventures going public in the coming months. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Attys Face Sanctions For 'Sweeping' Copying Of Firm's Motion

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge has ordered The Neil Jones Food Co.'s defense counsel to explain why she shouldn't sanction them for filing a dismissal motion that appears to plagiarize a losing motion filed by another firm in another case in the district, slamming the "sweeping copy and paste" conduct as "patently unacceptable."

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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 Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Akin Gump

Arias Sanguinetti

Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team, LLP

Baker Donelson

Barnes & Thornburg

Beasley Allen

Bingham McCutchen

Bird & Bird

Blackstone Chambers

Bradley Arant

Butler Snow LLP

Candey Ltd.

Clyde & Co

Coleman & Horowitt

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

DMH Stallard

DWF LLP

Dean Omar

Denlea & Carton

Dentons

Ellenoff Grossman

Faegre Drinker

Federman & Sherwood

Fieldfisher

Fridman Fels

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Gordons LLP

Gowling WLG

GrayRobinson

Harding Counsel

Holland & Knight

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Levy Firestone

Lewis Brisbois

Liddle Sheets

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Milberg Coleman

Mishcon de Reya

Moore Hill & Westmoreland

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pogust Goodhead

Prince Lobel

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reynolds Porter

Ropes & Gray

Ross Aronstam

Seladore Legal

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Slaughter and May

Squire Patton

Stewarts Law LLP

Stranch Jennings

TLT LLP

Taylor Wessing

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

White & Case

Wiggin LLP

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AdventHealth

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Gaming Association

Apple Inc.

Assicurazioni Generali

Associated Press

Association of Corporate Counsel

Astellas Pharma Inc.

Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd.

BHP Group PLC

Baltimore Ravens Inc.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA

Belk Inc.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

Canaccord Genuity Group Inc.

Cantor Fitzgerald LP

Chevron Corp.

Council for Innovation Promotion

Duke University

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Google LLC

HCA Healthcare Inc.

Hisense Co. Ltd.

John Wayne Airport

Johnson & Johnson

Kumho Tire Co. Inc.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Microsoft Corp.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Nav Technologies Inc.

Neil Jones Food Co.

New York Mets

New York State Bar Association

New York Yankees

Nokia Corp.

North Carolina State Bar

Northeastern University

PepsiCo Inc.

Point Mortgage Corp.

Purdue Pharma LP

Red Bull GmbH

Shenandoah Life Insurance Company Inc.

State Bar of California

TC Energy Corp.

The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Trainline

TransCanada Corporation

University of Virginia

Washington & Lee University

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

House of Lords of the United Kingdom

National Institutes of Health

New Hampshire Department of Justice

New Jersey Court

New Jersey State Ethics Commission

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

North Carolina Department of Justice

Ohio Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court