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  • October 09, 2025

    Cannabis Co. Says 'Disgruntled' Employee Stole Trade Secrets

    New Jersey cannabis products maker Kushi Labs LLC is suing its former employees, claiming they stole confidential trade secrets and took them over to a rival manufacturer, according to a federal lawsuit seeking at least $750,000 in damages.

  • October 09, 2025

    Ga. Panel Considers Reviving Suit Over Fatal Work Fall

    The family of a man who fell to his death at SK Battery America Inc.'s lithium-ion battery production plant in Commerce, Georgia, on Thursday urged the state's intermediate appellate court to revive the case, arguing a trial court wrongly granted summary judgment to SK and its contractors.

  • October 09, 2025

    Feds' E-Verify System Resumes Operation During Shutdown

    The federal E-Verify system for employers to check people's eligibility to work in the U.S. has resumed operation, a little over a week after it went offline with the start of the ongoing government shutdown.

  • October 09, 2025

    BeFrugal Marketing Firm Says Exec Steered Clients To Rival

    Affiliate marketing firm BeFrugal said in a lawsuit this week in Massachusetts state court that a senior vice president secretly co-founded a competing company, then steered major clients, including DirecTV and Samsung, to the new business.

  • October 09, 2025

    UNC Ex-Provost Asks Court To Halt Alleged Evidence Deletion

    A former provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suing the university in state court warned that without speeding up discovery, the public's right to transparency will suffer from the university's trustees deleting text messages and other evidence.

  • October 09, 2025

    Tire-Maker Takes 13 Revived Asbestos Suits To NC High Court

    Continental Tire is asking North Carolina's top court to review whether more than a dozen workers' compensation cases linked to alleged asbestos exposure at one of its factories should carry on, saying the claimants cannot skirt the results of a bellwether trial.

  • October 09, 2025

    Biotech Wins $367K From Ex-CEO In Conn. Conversion Suit

    A Connecticut jury has ordered the fired CEO of a flavoring and aroma firm, who is also a tax attorney, to pay the company more than $367,000 plus punitive damages after agreeing that he improperly sent himself money around the time of his termination and breached his fiduciary duties.

  • October 08, 2025

    Golf Execs Deny Discrediting Jack Nicklaus In NY Lawsuit

    Two executives with the company named after Jack Nicklaus testified in Florida state court on Wednesday that they played no role in providing defamatory statements in a New York lawsuit against the golf legend, denying that they also forwarded false claims to reporters and were involved with filing the complaint.

  • October 08, 2025

    Ex-Hospital CEO Drops Fraud Suit Against Former Employer

    The former CEO of a Nevada-based psychiatric hospital operator has dropped her Colorado federal lawsuit alleging the company's president transferred contracts to his own business to avoid paying her severance and a consultation bonus after the company laid off all its employees.

  • October 08, 2025

    Ex-Avalanche Player's Comp Claim Is Time-Barred, Team Says

    The Colorado Avalanche and its insurer filed a petition in state court on Tuesday challenging a decision from Colorado labor officials to reopen a nine-year-old workers' compensation claim from a former player due to a show cause order allegedly being mailed to the wrong address.

  • October 07, 2025

    Goldstein's $968K Border Cash Claim To Be Admitted At Trial

    A Maryland federal jury will hear claims from prosecutors that SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein told Dulles International Airport border guards that the $968,000 in cash he brought into the country in 2018 had been gambling winnings, after a judge shot down his efforts to suppress his alleged statements Tuesday.

  • October 07, 2025

    Bank's Ex-Compliance Chief Sues Over 'Bad Faith' Termination

    A Florida community bank has been sued in New Jersey federal court by its former chief risk and compliance officer, who claims that he was fired without cause just months after signing a three-year contract with the bank at a $250,000 annual salary.

  • October 07, 2025

    Ex-Trinoor VP Agrees Not To Solicit Customers, For Now

    A former vice president at Georgia-based software company Trinoor LLC agreed Tuesday not to solicit the company's customers for business in a case alleging she stole internal data before joining a competitor firm.

  • October 07, 2025

    Ex-Executives' Payroll Tax Convictions Biased, 4th Circ. Told

    Two former software executives asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse their criminal convictions stemming from their failure to pay employment taxes, claiming the jury's instructions were biased.

  • October 07, 2025

    Litigation Funder, Ex-GC To Take Fight Out Of Texas Court

    Litigation funder Siltstone Capital LLC has agreed to arbitration with a former general counsel it has accused in a Texas state lawsuit of diverting business opportunities and using confidential business information when secretly forming a new rival litigation funder, Signal Peak Partners LLC.

  • October 07, 2025

    Copyright Chief Says DC Circ. Decision Bars Removal

    Shira Perlmutter has shot back at the government's arguments defending President Donald Trump's decision to fire her as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying the D.C. Circuit has said in her case that Trump likely never had the power to do so.

  • October 06, 2025

    Justices Deny Cert. In Uber Wrongful Death, Sex Assault Suits

    The U.S. Supreme Court Monday denied Uber's petition for review of two Ninth Circuit rulings holding it had a duty of care, one in a wrongful death case brought by a murdered driver's family and the other from a woman who was sexually assaulted by a suspended driver.

  • October 06, 2025

    Puerto Rico Finance Board Members' Removal Paused

    A federal district court judge blocked President Donald Trump's removal of three members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico who had accused the president of illegally firing them without cause.

  • October 06, 2025

    High Court Won't Take Up Md. Retirees' Drug Benefits Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a Fourth Circuit decision concluding that Maryland wasn't contractually bound to provide benefits to employees upon retirement, turning away a case that challenged the state's transition of retirees' prescription drug benefits from a state subsidy to Medicare.

  • October 06, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Last week, the owner of the Kentucky Derby was hit with a suit accusing it of withholding escrow funds for environmental compliance violations owed under a 2022 deal with hospitality company Enchantment Holdings LLC.

  • October 06, 2025

    Social Security Chief Adds Duties As Inaugural CEO Of IRS

    The current administrator of the Social Security Administration is adding a new role as the Internal Revenue Service's first chief executive officer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday.

  • October 06, 2025

    Mass. Justices Say Harvard Must Face Cadaver Theft Claims

    Massachusetts' highest court on Monday reinstated claims against Harvard University over what one justice called a "ghoulish" and "macabre scheme" by its former medical school morgue manager to dissect, steal and sell body parts from donated medical research cadavers.

  • October 06, 2025

    High Court Turns Down 6 Patent Cases At Start Of Term

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected six petitions in patent-related cases, taking some of its first actions on intellectual property matters this term.

  • October 03, 2025

    Benzene At NC BASF Plant Caused Cancer, Ex-Worker Says

    A former worker at a North Carolina vitamin plant is suing BASF Corp. and affiliates of Takeda America Holdings Inc. in North Carolina federal court, alleging BASF exposed her to benzene, resulting in her developing cancer later in life.

  • October 03, 2025

    OpenAI Looks To Ditch XAI's Trade Secrets Theft Suit

    OpenAI Inc. has written off a suit from xAI accusing it of poaching employees in order to steal trade secrets as another attempt by Elon Musk to disrupt OpenAI's efforts to create artificial intelligence that benefits humanity, adding that employees were leaving Musk's company of their own volition.

Expert Analysis

  • Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job

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    After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.

  • Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

  • What The New Nondomiciled-Trucker Rule Means For Carriers

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    A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interim final rule restricting states' issuance of commercial drivers licenses to nondomiciled drivers does not alter motor carriers' obligations to verify drivers' qualifications, but may create disruptions by reducing the number of eligible drivers, say attorneys at Benesch.

  • Understanding And Managing Jurors' Hindsight Bias

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    Hindsight bias — wherein events seem more predictable after the fact than they were beforehand — presents a persistent cognitive distortion in jury decision-making, but attorneys can mitigate its effects at trial through awareness, repetition and framing, say consultants at Courtroom Sciences.

  • Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.

  • What Ethics Rules Say On Atty Discipline For Online Speech

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    Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo.

  • How Okla. High Court Ruling Will Alter Workers' Comp. Cases

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    The Oklahoma Supreme Court's recent decision in OBI Holding Company v. Schultz-Butzbach confirms that workers' compensation claims should move through the system without needless delay, which means attorneys on both sides will need to adjust how they handle such claims, says Steven Hanna at Gilson Daub.

  • Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes

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    Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Tips For Contesting, Settling Citations With The OSHRC

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    To effectively practice before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, employers should strategically use the notice of contest and thoughtfully evaluate settlement considerations, and recognize that the implications of Occupational Safety and Health Administration citations extend beyond immediate monetary penalties, says John Ho at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Demystifying Generative AI For The Modern Juror

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    In cases alleging that the training of artificial intelligence tools violated copyright laws, successful outcomes may hinge in part on the litigator's ability to clearly present AI concepts through a persuasive narrative that connects with ordinary jurors, say Liz Babbitt at IMS Legal Strategies and Devon Madon at GlobalLogic.

  • Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve

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    Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.

  • Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.

  • 5 Years In, COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Landscape Is Shifting

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    As the government moves pandemic fraud enforcement from small-dollar individual prosecutions to high-value corporate cases, and billions of dollars remain unaccounted for, companies and defense attorneys must take steps now to prepare for the next five years of scrutiny, says attorney David Tarras.