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Gov.-Elect Sherrill Taps Dozens Of Attys For Transition Teams
New Jersey Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill's recently announced transition teams feature a number of legal professionals from within New Jersey and outside the state working in a variety of roles as she prepares for her term to begin.
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DOJ Says Ex-Employees Can't Challenge Firings In Fed. Court
The government says a D.C. federal court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate a lawsuit filed by a former assistant U.S. attorney who prosecuted defendants charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and two other ex-Department of Justice employees, alleging they were unlawfully fired.
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Democracy Forward Adds High-Profile Former DOJ Atty
A former top attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Immigration Litigation, who was fired in April after telling a court the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García was made in error, has joined Democracy Forward as a senior counsel, the group announced Tuesday.
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Ga. Prosecutor Drops Election Case Against Trump, Allies
A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others accused of attempting to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.
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6th Circ. Largely Shoots Down Ohio Derailment Atty Fee Fight
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday largely refused to revive Morgan & Morgan's bid to halt the allocation of attorney fees from a $600 million class settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents affected by the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment disaster, but remanded it for a look into the firm's individual allocation amount.
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Trial Over Judge's Alleged ICE Interference Gets Ground Rules
A Wisconsin federal judge on Tuesday set some ground rules for an anticipated December trial over criminal charges alleging a state judge attempted to hinder a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest this spring, including the types of arguments and evidence that can be presented to the jury.
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Ex-Bank GC Faces Garnishments After $7M Restitution Order
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC has told the Connecticut federal court it blocked a former Webster Bank general counsel from drawing money from five accounts totaling close to $178,000 in response to recent garnishment actions, presumably filed by prosecutors to satisfy part of a $7.4 million fraud restitution order.
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4th Circ. OKs Fees In Health Co. Workers' OT Suit
A healthcare company must pay $410,000 in attorney fees and costs in overtime suits filed by nearly a dozen former employees, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, upholding a lower court's calculations after initially rejecting them.
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Democrats Seek Documents On Emil Bove's DOJ Tenure
Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.
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DOJ Official Sues Over Firing For Epstein Talk On Hinge 'Date'
A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.
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Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment
Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar with the situation told Law360 on Tuesday.
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Goldstein Asks 4th Circ. To Undo Pretrial Rulings
SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein is appealing a series of rulings from a Maryland federal judge denying his bid to toss five of the 22 federal tax charges he's slated to stand trial for next year.
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Law Libraries Hoping To Attract Attorneys To The Profession
Staffing levels at U.S. law libraries now average nearly seven full-time equivalent positions — the highest reported in nearly a decade, according to a new American Association of Law Libraries report.
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Mamdani Transition Team Includes Dozens Of Attorneys
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed dozens of nonprofit leaders, BigLaw attorneys, law professors and other lawyers to transition committees that will help advise the incoming administration.
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DOL Seeks To End 5th Circ. Fiduciary Rule Battle
The U.S. Department of Labor asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss two appeals defending a package of Biden-era investment advice regulations that had expanded the definition of a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which two Texas courts had blocked in 2024.
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Feds' Claim Against Judge Weighing Trans Troops Ban Tossed
The D.C. Circuit's chief judge tossed the U.S. Department of Justice's misconduct complaint against the federal judge overseeing litigation challenging the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops serving in the military, saying judicial misconduct proceedings are not the appropriate avenue to address concerns about a judge's impartiality.
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Wash. Gov. Ferguson Taps Civil Rights Chief For Top Court
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has tapped a leading civil rights litigator from the attorney general's office to replace retiring Washington State Supreme Court Justice Mary I. Yu when she steps down at the end of the year.
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Jenner & Block Hires Ex-DOJ Atty, Space Force Adviser In DC
Jenner & Block LLP has tapped a former trial attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, who brings to the firm's team in Washington, D.C., the perspective of a former member of the U.S. Air Force and legal adviser to the U.S. Space Force, according to a Monday announcement.
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DOD Probes Sen. For Urging Troops To Defy Illegal Orders
The U.S. Department of Defense announced on Monday it is investigating Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., a retired Navy captain, for telling members of the military to not follow illegal orders.
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UC Law SF Fights Bid To Recuse Judge In Disability Bias Suit
The University of California College of the Law, San Francisco is pushing back against a bid to recuse U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen from presiding over a onetime student's disability discrimination lawsuit in California federal court, arguing that the judge's "minimal ties" to the school do not warrant recusal.
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Stone Hilton Fights Ex-Aide's Bid To Toss FLSA Defense
A former Stone Hilton PLLC executive assistant's bid to toss the firm's defense in her sexual harassment and unpaid wage suit that she is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act was three weeks late, the firm and its founders have told a Texas court.
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Google Calls Rumble's Recusal Bid Irrelevant To Its Appeal
Google is urging the Ninth Circuit to disregard concerns Rumble has raised about the trial judge's relationship with the tech giant's litigation vice president, saying Friday that the information is irrelevant to the YouTube rival's appeal of the court's ruling that its antitrust lawsuit was filed too late.
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Comey, James Defeat Charges Over Halligan's Appointment
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the headline-grabbing indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding the controversial prosecutor handling both cases was not properly appointed.
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8th Circ. Won't Force Judge's Recusal In Pork Price-Fixing Case
The Eighth Circuit has denied a mandamus petition from Agri Stats Inc. and major pork producers who are seeking a Minnesota federal judge's recusal in price-fixing litigation based on a law clerk's previous work on a related case.
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Justices Won't Review Doctor's Conviction For Reusing Devices
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from a North Carolina physician seeking to revisit the Fourth Circuit's decision to back her conviction for healthcare fraud.
Expert Analysis
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The Importance Of Client Engagement In Law Firm Innovation
As clients increasingly want law firms to serve as innovation platforms, firms must understand that there is no one-size-fits-all approach — the key is a nimble innovation function focused on listening and knowledge sharing, says Mark Brennan at Hogan Lovells.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Women-Owned Law Firms
In addition to establishing their brand from scratch, women who start their own law firms must overcome inherent bias against female lawyers and convince prospective clients to put aside big-firm preferences, says Joel Stern at the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms.
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The Pursuit Of Wellness In BigLaw: Lessons From My Journey
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Jane Jeong at Cooley shares how grueling BigLaw schedules and her own perfectionism emotionally bankrupted her, and why attorneys struggling with burnout should consider making small changes to everyday habits.
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Why We Must Recruit And Advance More Black Prosecutors
Black Americans make up a disproportionate percentage of the incarcerated population but are underrepresented among elected prosecutors, so the legal community — from law schools to prosecutor offices — must commit to addressing these disappointing demographics, says Erika Gilliam-Booker at the National Black Prosecutors Association.
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Young lawyers overwhelmed with a crushing workload must tackle the problem on two fronts — learning how to say no, and understanding how to break down projects into manageable parts, says Jay Harrington at Harrington Communications.
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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Series
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.