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  • October 30, 2025

    7th Circ. Seems Skeptical Of Alcoa Retirees' Benefits Win

    The Seventh Circuit appeared open Thursday to unraveling trial court orders that required metals giant Alcoa to provide lifetime healthcare benefits to union retirees, with judges picking apart different aspects of the lower court's judicial estoppel analysis.

  • October 30, 2025

    Health Group Urges 1st Circ. To Deny FCA Suit Fee Challenge

    A Massachusetts health network has asked the First Circuit to deny a whistleblower's attempt to secure more attorney fees for a False Claims Act suit, arguing that a federal judge properly denied numerous claims for fees after a $2.5 million settlement.

  • October 29, 2025

    Conn. Med Spa Says Ex-Workers Poaching Clients, Employees

    Two former employees of a Connecticut medical spa violated their employment contract when they lured a co-worker to join them at a nearby competitor and began soliciting the spa's clients, a state court lawsuit alleges.

  • October 29, 2025

    Wells Fargo Says Ex-Executive's Whistleblower Suit Fails

    Wells Fargo on Wednesday asked an Illinois federal judge to dismiss a suit from a former high-ranking testing and validation executive who said she was ultimately terminated for flagging reporting inaccuracies, arguing the plaintiff did not correctly report the alleged activity and failed to state a claim.

  • October 29, 2025

    Ohio Justices Revisiting Governor's Pandemic Aid Withdrawal

    Ohio's participation in temporarily enhanced unemployment benefits during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic will again go before the Ohio Supreme Court after the governor petitioned for review, arguing that state law doesn't force him to seek certain federal funds.

  • October 29, 2025

    Tesla Urges Del. Justices To Cut $176M Atty Fee In Options Suit

    Warning of a "shaking of public confidence," a Tesla Inc. attorney on Wednesday asked Delaware's Supreme Court to cut a $176.2 million class attorney fee award to $40 million in a case that saw Delaware's chancellor cancel $730 million in the electric car company's director stock options.

  • October 29, 2025

    'Smart Drugs' Amphetamine Suit Moves Forward Minus Execs

    A Washington federal judge declined to trim claims from a former army nurse's suit alleging that Thesis "smart drugs" contained amphetamines without warning consumers, while dismissing her claims against two executives for the company.

  • October 29, 2025

    DHS Ends Automatic Work Permit Extensions

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday unveiled an interim final rule to end automatic extensions for expiring work permits for which renewal applications have been filed.

  • October 28, 2025

    Justices Told 9th Circ. Erred In ERISA Claim Release Fight

    A microchip company urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision reversing the company's win in a dispute from ex-workers alleging they were cheated out of severance benefits following a merger, arguing the appellate court's decision finding claim releases were unenforceable had deepened a circuit split.

  • October 28, 2025

    Engineer Must Give Shipbuilders No-Poach Witness Names

    A Virginia federal magistrate judge ordered a naval engineer to name all the witnesses her attorneys spoke to, and all the information about those interviews, as the nation's largest military shipbuilders seek to argue she's too late to accuse them of agreeing not to poach each other's workers.

  • October 28, 2025

    Ebix Wants Ex-CEO's Revenge Porn Blackmail Suit Tossed

    Georgia-based software firm Ebix Inc. asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by its ousted former CEO, who alleged the company's director tried to blackmail him into dropping a suit over his severance pay by threatening to release "intimate images" of him and his wife.

  • October 28, 2025

    Va. Justices Urged To Restore Record $2B Trade Secrets Win

    A software company fighting to regain a $2 billion trade secrets award urged the Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday to affirm the verdict, arguing that an appellate court was wrong to disturb the conclusions from jurors and the trial judge.

  • October 28, 2025

    Apple Says Fintiv IP, Racketeering Case Belongs In Texas

    Apple Inc. is arguing that Texas, not Georgia, federal court is the right forum for Fintiv Inc.'s lawsuit accusing the technology giant of trade secret theft and racketeering, saying Fintiv is trying to repackage patent litigation from the Lone Star State, where Apple was partially cleared.

  • October 28, 2025

    Tax Software Co. Denies Poaching Rival's Workers

    Tax preparation software company Avalara asked a Pennsylvania federal court to deny claims by a competitor that it illegally lured workers with generous job offers, saying it did not unfairly compete or interfere with the competitor's contracts as it claimed.

  • October 27, 2025

    Tom Hayes Slaps UBS With $400M Malicious Prosecution Suit

    Former UBS trader Tom Hayes has filed a $400 million suit against his old employer, claiming the company "maliciously" framed him as the "evil mastermind" behind the company's Libor scandal despite the fact that he was explicitly directed to try to influence Libor submissions while at UBS.

  • October 27, 2025

    Drone Co., Exec Seek Exits From Trade Secret Suit

    A Utah drone company urged a federal judge to toss a trade secret suit brought by another company previously launched by one of its founders, arguing that it fails to identify any specific protected information that was misappropriated.

  • October 27, 2025

    Trump Asks Justices To Stay Copyright Chief's Reinstatement

    The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to stay a D.C. Circuit ruling that reinstated the fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office while she challenges her removal, arguing that allowing a terminated official to remain in place causes irreparable harm to the president's authority.

  • October 27, 2025

    Temp Agency Placed Unqualified Nursing Aides, Charges Say

    A Massachusetts temporary staffing agency sent unqualified nursing aides into at least four healthcare facilities by misrepresenting their credentials, and it allowed one of them to use the identity of a former employee, the state's attorney general alleged in an indictment announced Monday.

  • October 27, 2025

    Carlton Fields Adds EEOC Veteran In Tampa, Fla.

    A former acting assistant regional attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has joined Carlton Fields in Tampa, Florida, the firm announced Monday.

  • October 24, 2025

    Feds Want Goldstein To Disclose 'Blame Everyone' Defense

    The federal government Friday urged a Maryland federal judge to give SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a December deadline to disclose whether he intends to assert at trial that he failed to file tax returns due to legal advice, saying it expects him to "blame everyone other than himself."

  • October 24, 2025

    Immigration Firm, Ex-CFO Settle Money Misuse Claims

    The ex-chief financial officer for a Virginia immigration law firm has settled her former employer's lawsuit alleging she routed firm funds to companies she controls and charged the company for personal expenses, court records show.

  • October 24, 2025

    Morgan Lewis Seeks Fees Over Ex-Media Exec.'s 'Absurd' Suit

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP is seeking over $500,000 in legal fees from a media executive after successfully defending his former employer from a suit over severance pay that it called "absurd."

  • October 24, 2025

    Senior Care Exec Says CEO's Estate Must Repay $1.5M Loan

    A Florida man who worked as chief business development officer for Connecticut's Maplewood Senior Living LLC says the estate of the organization's deceased CEO owes nearly $1.5 million on a 2016 loan that he previously refused to collect due to a personal friendship.

  • October 23, 2025

    Delta Workers Can't Revive Claim Lands' End Uniforms Toxic

    The Seventh Circuit refused to revive a suit Thursday against Lands' End brought by hundreds of Delta Air Lines employees who claim their Lands' End-produced Delta uniforms were toxic and made them sick, saying none of the employees' experts offered testimony establishing that the uniforms were defective.

  • October 23, 2025

    Pa. Justices Won't Undo General Contractors' Injury Immunity

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court gave an injured worker a chance to convince the court to "overrule our decades-old precedent" that a general contractor shares subcontractors' immunity to suits brought under the state's workers' compensation law, but on Wednesday said he failed in his plight.

Expert Analysis

  • H-1B Fee Guidance Is Helpful But Notable Uncertainty Persists

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    Recent guidance narrowing the scope of the $100,000 entry fee for H-1B visas will allow employers to plan for the hiring season, but a lack of detail about the mechanics of cross-agency payment verification, fee exemptions and other practical matters still need to be addressed, say attorneys at Klasko Immigration Law Partners.

  • 10 Quick Tips To Elevate Your Evidence Presentation At Trial

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    A strong piece of evidence, whether in the form of testimony or exhibit, is wasted if not presented effectively, so attorneys must prepare with precision to help fact-finders both retain the information and internalize its significance, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

  • Practicing Stoicism Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Practicing Stoicism, by applying reason to ignore my emotions and govern my decisions, has enabled me to approach challenging situations in a structured way, ultimately providing advice singularly devoted to a client's interest, says John Baranello at Moses & Singer.

  • How Courts Treat Nonservice Clauses For Financial Advisers

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    Financial advisers considering a job change should carefully consider recent cases that examine controlling state law for nonservice and nonacceptance provisions to prepare for potential legal challenges from former firms, says Andrew Shedlock at Kutak Rock.

  • The Biz Court Digest: Texas, One Year In

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    A year after the Texas Business Court's first decision, it's clear that Texas didn't just copy Delaware and instead built something uniquely its own, combining specialization with constitutional accountability and creating a model that looks forward without losing touch with the state's democratic and statutory roots, says Chris Bankler at Jackson Walker.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Educating Your Community

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    Nearly two decades prosecuting scammers and elder fraud taught me that proactively educating the public about the risks they face and the rights they possess is essential to building trust within our communities, empowering otherwise vulnerable citizens and preventing wrongdoers from gaining a foothold, says Roger Handberg at GrayRobinson.

  • Federal Grantees May Soon Face More Limitations On Speech

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    If courts accept the administration’s new interpretation of preexisting case law, which attempts to graft onto grant recipients the existing limitations on government contractors' free speech, a more deferential standard may soon apply in determining whether an agency’s refusal or termination of a grant was in violation of the First Amendment, say attorneys at Venable.

  • 7 Areas To Watch As FTC Ends Push For A Noncompete Ban

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    ​​​​​​As the government ends its push for a nationwide noncompete ban, ​employers who do not want to be caught without protections for legitimate business interests should explore supplementing their noncompetes by deploying elements of seven practical, enforceable tools, including nondisclosure agreements and garden leave strategies, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

  • 5 Crisis Lawyering Skills For An Age Of Uncertainty

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    As attorneys increasingly face unprecedented and pervasive situations — from prosecutions of law enforcement officials to executive orders targeting law firms — they must develop several essential competencies of effective crisis lawyering, says Ray Brescia at Albany Law School.

  • It's Time For The Judiciary To Fix Its Cybersecurity Problem

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    After recent reports that hackers have once again infiltrated federal courts’ electronic case management systems, the judiciary should strengthen its cybersecurity practices in line with executive branch standards, outlining clear roles and responsibilities for execution, says Ilona Cohen at HackerOne.

  • Identifying The Sources And Impacts Of Juror Contamination

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    Jury contamination can be pervasive, so it is important that trial teams be able to spot its sources and take specific mitigation steps, says consultant Clint Townson.

  • Writing Novels Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Writing my debut novel taught me to appreciate the value of critique and to never give up, no matter how long or tedious the journey, providing me with valuable skills that I now emphasize in my practice, says Daniel Buzzetta at BakerHostetler.

  • SDNY OpenAI Order Clarifies Preservation Standards For AI

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    The Southern District of New York’s recent order in the OpenAI copyright infringement litigation, denying discovery of The New York Times' artificial intelligence technology use, clarifies that traditional preservation benchmarks apply to AI content, relieving organizations from using a “keep everything” approach, says Philip Favro at Favro Law.