SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein was confronted Thursday with allegations of extramarital affairs, lavish spending and lies on asset disclosures, all in front of the jury in his ongoing tax fraud trial.
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Affairs, Spending Come Out In Goldstein Cross-Examination

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein was confronted Thursday with allegations of extramarital affairs, lavish spending and lies on asset disclosures, all in front of the jury in his ongoing tax fraud trial.

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Conn. Judge Says 'Game Over' To Little League Safety Suit

By David Steele

A suit by parents accusing a Little League Baseball organization of inadequate training of coaches and unsafe conditions for players was thrown out by a Connecticut state judge, who ruled that the parents never proved any harm by the league.

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Prep School To Pay OFAC $1.7M Over Cartel-Tied Payments

By Emilie Ruscoe

A Florida boarding school for student athletes has agreed to pay $1.72 million to settle claims it took tuition payments from families with ties to a sanctioned Mexican drug cartel, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced Thursday.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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PRACTICE GROUP OF THE YEAR

Sports & Betting Group Of The Year: McDermott

By Ganesh Setty

McDermott Will & Schulte's sports practice continued to be at the forefront of record-setting team purchases as private equity firms and other institutional investors continue to secure spots in the owner's box, landing it a spot among the 2025 Law360 Sports & Betting Groups of the Year.

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LITIGATION

Investor Claims $250K Fraud In Project Tied To Magic Johnson

By Elaine Briseño

A business owner accused an associate of Earvin "Magic" Johnson of fraudulently taking $250,000 to invest in an online education platform about cryptocurrency that was endorsed by the legendary basketball player but never launched or paid any royalties.

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ARBITRATION

Brief

Ukrainian Athlete Appeals Olympic Ban Based On Helmet

By David Steele

Men's skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych filed an appeal with the international Court of Arbitration for Sport after the International Olympic Committee and the sport's governing body announced his disqualification from the Winter Olympics in Milan on Thursday for wearing a helmet depicting fellow Ukrainian athletes slain in the conflict with Russia.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Trail Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Navigating the muddy, root-filled path of trail marathons and ultramarathons provides fertile training ground for my high-stakes fractional general counsel work, teaching me to slow down my mind when the terrain shifts, sharpen my focus and trust my training, says Eric Proos at Next Era Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a former U.S. defense contractor convicted of tax evasion face legal action, French football club Olympique Lyonnais sued following a $97 million ruling against its owner John Textor, consulting giant Kroll targeted by a South African airline, and H&M hit with a claim alleging it copied protected sunglasses designs. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

WilmerHale and Gillam & Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Texas federal jury cleared Apple of infringement claims over patents covering 4G wireless technology, in a case that previously led to jury verdicts of $506 million and $300 million.

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Brief

Indiana AG Declines Intervention In Posner Wage Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Indiana's attorney general has declined to intervene in a pro se plaintiff's suit seeking to revive $170,000 in wage claims against retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, finding the case did not pose a "substantial" constitutional challenge to a state statute mandating that delayed contracts must be written and signed to be enforced.

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Louisiana Atty Takes Responsibility For AI Usage Snafu

By Christine DeRosa

After facing the threat of sanctions alongside three of his co-counsel, a Louisiana attorney told a federal judge that he was solely responsible for an error-riddled brief written with the assistance of artificial intelligence. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Taking heat from Republican senators over not notifying members of Congress about subpoenas for their phone records, Verizon's general counsel has pledged that in the future, the company will fight gag orders requiring it to keep silent. And taking heat from shareholders and colleagues over her ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Goldman Sachs' chief legal officer has agreed to leave the firm in June.

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Colorado Atty Delayed Filing, Gave Faulty Advice, Suit Says

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado attorney waited nearly five years to file a lawsuit on behalf of two clients and provided faulty advice, the former clients alleged Thursday in a malpractice lawsuit in state court.

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'Acqui-Hires' In AI Drawing Antitrust Scrutiny, Tech Attys Say

By Bonnie Eslinger

Attorneys with Nvidia, Google and Uber took the stage at a conference hosted Thursday by Baker McKenzie to discuss emerging trends in antitrust enforcement, including how booming AI investment has produced new regulatory scrutiny of "acqui-hires," in which large companies acquire startups primarily to hire their teams.

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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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6th Circ. Says Ch. 13 Motion Came 84 Minutes Too Late

By Vince Sullivan

A 2-1 split panel of the Sixth Circuit affirmed two lower court rulings from Michigan federal judges denying a Chapter 13 debtor's motion to dismiss his bankruptcy case because the request came 84 minutes after a bankruptcy court converted the case to a Chapter 7.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Bar Association

American International Group Inc.

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Audemars Piguet Holding SA

Aux

Barclays PLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Boston Celtics

British Broadcasting Corp.

ByteDance Ltd.

Court of Arbitration for Sport

Google LLC

H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB

HTC Corporation

IMG Academy LLC

Instagram Inc.

International Business Machines Corp.

International Olympic Committee

Investments Ltd.

J Sainsbury PLC

Johnson & Johnson

Kansas City Chiefs

Kyndryl Holdings Inc.

Laing O'Rourke

Leidos Holdings Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyd's America Inc.

Los Angeles Lakers

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

Navy Federal Credit Union

Netflix Inc.

PPG Industries Inc.

Phoenix Suns

Sling TV LLC

Snap Inc.

Symphony Technology Group

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Hershey Co.

The Home Depot Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Transocean Ltd.

Uber Technologies Inc.

Valaris

Verizon Communications Inc.

Vodafone Group PLC

W.R. Berkley Corp.

W.R. Grace & Co.

Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts

Walmart Inc.

Washington Commanders

Wells Fargo & Co.

YouTube Inc.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

ArentFox Schiff

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Barclay Damon

Beasley Allen

Ben Crump Law

Brockstedt Mandalas

CMS Cameron McKenna

Clyde & Co

Conyers Dill

Covington & Burling

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Dean Omar

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Eichhorn & Eichhorn

Faegre Drinker

Fenchurch Law

Gibbs Mura

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Gowling WLG

Greenberg Traurig

HJV Car Accident Personal Injury Lawyers

Hacker Stephens

Harrison Goddard Foote

Hogan Lovells

Homburger AG

Howes Percival

Ivie McNeill

Jones Fussell

Keoghs LLP

Kessler Topaz

Kirkland & Ellis

LK Law Pty Ltd

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Jeffrey Hellman

Lenz & Staehelin

Levin Sedran

Lieff Cabraser

Liskow & Lewis

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

MoloLamken

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Munger Tolles

Nabarro LLP

Napoli Shkolnik

Osborne Clarke

Penningtons Manches

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

Reynolds Porter

Riess LeMieux

Robbins Geller

Seeger Weiss

Sharp Law LLP

Sherin & Lodgen

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Taylor Rose

The Cochran Firm

Thompsons Solicitors

Trethowans LLP

Trowers & Hamlins

Tycko & Zavareei

Vincents Solicitors

Wagstaff & Cartmell

Walker Morris LLP

Ward Hadaway

White & Case

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Yetter Coleman

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Indiana Attorney General's Office

Internal Revenue Service

National Labor Relations Board

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court