Uber Hit With $8.5M Verdict In 1st Fed. Sex Assault Bellwether

By Bonnie Eslinger

An Arizona federal jury on Thursday found that Uber wasn't negligent with respect to rider safety but was liable for the actions of a driver who allegedly sexually assaulted a passenger in 2023, awarding the rider $8.5 million in damages in the first such federal bellwether trial.

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5th Circ. Mulls Families' Rights In Boeing-DOJ 737 Max Deal

By Linda Chiem

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday questioned whether crash victims' families are owed "unfettered" rights to consult with the U.S. Department of Justice over its refusal to criminally prosecute Boeing for conspiring to defraud safety regulators about the 737 Max's development.

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Exxon Urges Justices To Permit Cuba Seizure Damage Claims

By Jack McLoone

Exxon said a Cuban government entity "fundamentally" misunderstands a federal act letting U.S. victims of Cuban property seizures seek damages, pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's finding that the act doesn't automatically void the immunity of state entities.

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Trump Admin Finalizes Rule Facilitating Federal Worker Firings

By Tim Ryan

The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last year that could affect 50,000 employees at federal agencies.

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Lima Can't Escape $200M In Arbitral Awards, Court Hears

By Caroline Simson

A contractor urged a D.C. federal judge on Wednesday to deny the Peruvian city of Lima's bid to overturn an order enforcing $200 million in arbitral awards against it based on an alleged conflict involving law firm Foley Hoag LLP, calling the motion a "stunt."

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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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Aircraft Service Co. Denied OT, Full Pay, Ex-Worker Tells Court

By Benjamin Morse

An aircraft services company stiffed workers on overtime and pay for all hours worked, a former employee alleged in a proposed collective action complaint filed in Texas federal court.

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Tesla Applicants Fight Uphill To Keep H-1B Visa Bias Suit Alive

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to tossing a proposed class action alleging Tesla discriminates against American workers by favoring allegedly underpaid H-1B visa holders, telling counsel repeatedly during a hearing the allegations seem to be "speculation."

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Colo. Appeals Panel Expands Insurer Disclosure Obligations

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado Court of Appeals panel Thursday found that a copy of an insurance policy obtained by the at-fault driver after a crash is still required to be disclosed to the victim driver in litigation in a split 2-1 decision and first impression interpretation of the Colorado statute.

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Car Services Co.'s $25M Investor Deal Gets First OK

By Sydney Price

Car services company Driven Brands Holdings Inc. and its investors have received initial approval of their $25 million deal settling claims it misled the public by overstating the success of the integration of its glass repair acquisitions and performance of its car wash businesses.

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Gilstrap Sends Tesla Patent Case From Texas To Calif.

By Lauren Berg

A Texas federal judge refused to change his mind — again — about transferring to California a patent infringement suit against Tesla related to technology used in self-driving cars, according to a Jan. 29 order unsealed Thursday.

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Seward & Kissel Taps Watson Farley Atty As Maritime Leader

By Andrea Keckley

Seward & Kissel LLP has appointed a former Watson Farley & Williams attorney to serve as its head of maritime finance in a move the firm says positions it "for continued diversification into complementary areas of transportation finance."

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Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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