Clippers Tap BigLaw Vet To Fill In For Suspended Owner

By Alex Lawson

The Los Angeles Clippers on Monday named veteran corporate litigator John S. Gibson as the team's interim CEO and governor while team owner Steve Ballmer serves a one-year suspension for violating the NBA's salary cap rules.

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Ex-Bank CEO Gets 9 Years For Fraud, Sanctions Evasion

By Sydney Price

The former CEO of the Puerto Rico-based Nodus International Bank was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to running a scheme that stole more than $13.6 million from the now-collapsed bank and evading sanctions on Venezuela.

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Ex-PetIQ CEO's Brother Admits To Illicit Trades Over Deal Info

By Gina Kim

An Idaho man pled guilty Monday in federal court to trading on confidential information he received from his brother, the former CEO of PetIQ, about the company's acquisition by Bansk Group in August 2024.

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Ex-NFL Player Gets New Trial In $328M Medicare Fraud Case

By Elaine Briseño

A Texas federal judge has granted a new trial for a former NFL player convicted in a $328 million Medicare billing scheme, finding that the government presented unreliable testimony and did not identify the alleged lies the defendant used to influence physicians.

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Fla. Woman Cops To Fraud In Collecting Epstein Victim Funds

By Gina Kim

A Florida woman pled guilty last week in New York federal court to wire fraud and admitted submitting fabricated documents to obtain $750,000 from a compensation fund established for Jeffrey Epstein's victims in separate civil litigation after she had previously been deemed ineligible for compensation.

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NEC Hits Anker With New Patent Suit, Days Before EDTX Trial

By Ryan Davis

Japan-based electronics company NEC Corp. has sued over home security products made by Chinese rival Anker Innovations, accusing it of infringing six image processing patents, days before another NEC suit against Anker on similar patents is set for trial in Texas.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week dismissed a challenge to Alteryx Inc.'s $4.4 billion take-private sale, resolved a fight over the removal of a security technology company's director and declined to let Empery Digital Inc. immediately appeal a proxy contest ruling.

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TelexFree Investors' 2nd Bid For Cert. Called Futile

By Nadia Dreid

A Massachusetts federal judge has once again rebuffed an attempt to certify a class of investors who say they lost money in the massive TelexFree Ponzi scheme, calling their second bite at the apple futile.

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Ex-Girlfriend Of $36M Crypto Schemer Gets 18 Months

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge sentenced an Orange County woman to 18 months in prison and ordered her to pay more than $1.48 million in restitution for failing to report more than $2.6 million in taxable income she received through accounts funded by her then-boyfriend's criminal activities related to a $36 million hacking scheme.

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Ex-NJ Utility Worker Gets 3 Years For False Water Reports

By Carla Baranauckas

A former employee of the water utility for Trenton, New Jersey, was sentenced to three years in state prison after admitting he falsified water testing records and failed to collect required samples while working for the public utility, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said Monday.

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Lenders Say Baltimore Property Flips Fueled $10M Fraud

By Jared Foretek

Two wholesale asset-based mortgage lenders have accused a cadre of appraisers, title companies and real estate investors of passing off inflated appraisals on nearly 60 Baltimore homes and causing more than $10 million in loan losses.

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Ex-NJ AG Platkin Says Suit Over RICO Case Still Falls Short

By Jake Maher

Former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin says an amended malicious prosecution complaint against him, filed by a former CEO indicted in a now-dismissed racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George Norcross, still misses the mark.

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Brief

DOJ Says 3 Noncitizens Face Charges For Voting In Ga.

By Kelcey Caulder

Three non-U.S. citizens have been criminally charged with voting illegally in federal elections in Georgia, federal prosecutors said. 

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Legal Deserts: Millions Across America Struggle To Access Lawyers

Tens of millions of Americans live in towns and counties across the nation with limited or no access to legal services. By one estimate, at least a third of the nation's counties qualify as a "legal desert," having only one or no attorney per 1,000 residents. Roughly 24 million Americans reside in these counties.

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Greenberg Traurig Hit With Action Over Client Data Breach

By Matt Perez

A proposed class of Greenberg Traurig LLP clients said the New York law firm failed to secure their personal data prior to a preventable data breach and delayed notifying clients of the breach for two weeks, in an action filed over the weekend in New York federal court seeking injunctive and other equitable relief to protect client data.

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Tesla Atty Misled Witness Days Before Bias Trial, Judge Hears

By Dorothy Atkins

The California Civil Rights Department asked a California judge for a protective order Monday on the first day of a bench trial over claims Tesla Inc. fostered racism at its Fremont factory, after a witness testified that an in-house Tesla attorney recently called him and misled him into believing he represented the agency.

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New Calif. Law Bars Legal Funders From Influencing Litigation

By Jack Karp

Corporate investors and litigation funders will be barred from influencing litigation strategy in California under a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Q&A

She Has A Point: Fenwick's Jessica Kaempf

By Theresa Schliep

Jessica Kaempf of Fenwick & West LLP is a pragmatic yet tenacious attorney whose representation of her clients has earned her plaudits from Kathi Vidal of Winston Taylor, who praised Kaempf as part of a Law360 series celebrating women litigators.

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$1.35M Class Deal Reached Over Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Johnson

Takers of the February 2025 California bar exam that was marred by technical failures have agreed to settle their proposed class action against the proctor for $1.35 million, while the company also agreed to complete quality checks before proctoring future bar examinations, according to a motion seeking preliminary approval in federal court.

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Ex-Prosecutor Escapes Jan. 6 Atty's Defamation Suit

By Jared Foretek

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday won judgment on the pleadings in a defamation case brought by attorney Stefan Passantino, who had represented Cassidy Hutchinson, after Passantino alleged Weissmann had defamed him when saying he'd "coached" Hutchinson "to lie" to the January 6th Select Committee.

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