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  • February 25, 2025

    Landscaping Plant Farmer TreeSap Hits Ch. 11 With Sale Plans

    A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday agreed to give interim approval for landscaping plants grower TreeSap Farms LLC to access $14 million of its debtor-in-possession financing, which it hopes to use to turn its business around ahead of a sale.

  • February 24, 2025

    Injury Attys Sanctioned Over AI-Hallucinated Case Citations

    A Wyoming federal judge overseeing a personal injury lawsuit against Walmart sanctioned the plaintiffs' attorneys from Morgan & Morgan PA and the Goody Law Group after they filed pretrial motions containing case law hallucinated by artificial intelligence, but acknowledged Monday their "remedial steps, transparency and apologetic sentiments."

  • February 24, 2025

    Trump Birthright Citizenship EO Must Stay Paused, States Say

    A coalition of states on Monday urged a Massachusetts federal judge to leave in place his preliminary injunction blocking President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship while the government appeals, arguing that the injunction merely maintains a centurylong status quo recognizing those citizenship rights.

  • February 24, 2025

    US Was Behind Privatbank Nationalization, Suit Alleges

    Two Miami-based associates of the former owners of Ukraine's largest bank have sued the U.S. State Department in Florida, saying officials are wrongly refusing to release records showing that the U.S. — not an alleged $5 billion money laundering scheme — was behind the bank's nationalization in late 2016.

  • February 24, 2025

    Trump Media Co. Wants TRO Against Brazilian Justice

    President Donald Trump's media company and online video sharing platform Rumble Inc. have asked a Florida federal court for a temporary restraining order blocking a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, arguing they illegally suppress political speech in the United States.

  • February 24, 2025

    Fla. Teacher Wins Appeal Over Memes Posted To Social Media

    A Florida state appellate court overturned a punishment handed to a math teacher who was suspended for three days over posting political memes to his Facebook profile, saying his right to free speech was violated because the posts were a matter of public concern and didn't disrupt school operations.

  • February 24, 2025

    'Fraternal Duty' No Grounds For Conspiracy, 11th Circ. Told

    A Georgia man found guilty last year of participating in a bid-rigging and price-fixing scheme for tens of millions of dollars of ready-mix concrete contracts asked the Eleventh Circuit Friday to throw out his conviction, arguing federal prosecutors failed to prove a wide-ranging conspiracy that captured the coastal concrete market.

  • February 24, 2025

    SEC Could Loosen Income Limits On Startup Investments

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's acting chairman said Monday that the agency is looking at a number of changes aimed at freeing up capital for investment, including the possibility of allowing lower- and middle-income Americans to invest in private, early-stage companies.

  • February 24, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Revives Irish Food Biz Kerry's Meat-Curing Patent

    Irish food flavoring business Kerry Group persuaded the Federal Circuit on Monday to order administrative patent board judges to take another look at a patent the company owns covering a purportedly new way to prepare cured meats.

  • February 24, 2025

    Trump Media Seeks Shareholder Approval To Leave Delaware

    The owner of Donald Trump's social media platform plans to hold a shareholder vote in April asking investors whether it should move its legal address to Florida, potentially joining a growing number of companies reincorporating outside of Delaware.

  • February 24, 2025

    Buchanan Ingersoll Adds Ogletree Employment Ace In Tampa

    Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC announced Monday that it picked up a new shareholder in Tampa, Florida, for its labor and employment section from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC.

  • February 24, 2025

    Pierson Ferdinand Adds Fla. Corporate Pro From Sterlington

    Pierson Ferdinand LLP continued its rapid growth Monday when it announced the addition of a former Wall Street corporate lawyer and Sterlington PLLC partner who runs his own private placement advisory firm.

  • February 24, 2025

    Supreme Court Skips Fee-Shifting, IP Web Scraping Questions

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected petitions involving fee-shifting in copyright cases, whether judges or juries should decide what can be copyrighted, and if scraping public information online should be considered hacking under the Defend Trade Secrets Act when it is done by a computer.

  • February 22, 2025

    NY Judge Extends Block On DOGE's Treasury Access

    A New York federal judge on Friday barred Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing U.S. Treasury Department data, handing a win to 19 state attorneys general who claimed giving the new entity access to citizens' personal information posed a massive cybersecurity risk.

  • February 21, 2025

    AP Says Press Ban Over Gulf Naming Row Unconstitutional

    The Associated Press claimed the White House violated its constitutional rights by banning its reporters from presidential "pool" events due to a dispute over the name of the Gulf of Mexico, which the president wants renamed the Gulf of America, in a suit filed Friday in D.C. federal court.

  • February 21, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: 'Park Ave' Effect, Federal Leases, Atty Hires

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a fourth-quarter "Park Avenue Phenomenon" seen by top brokerages, industry reaction to the potential federal lease slimdown, and a senior analyst's projection for family office investment in commercial real estate.

  • February 21, 2025

    11th Circ. Backs Ga. Military College In Race Bias Appeal

    The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday backed Georgia Military College's early win in a race bias suit brought by a laid off former human resources professional, finding that the college "advanced legitimate, nondiscriminatory" reasons for eliminating her position amid a round of budget cuts.

  • February 21, 2025

    Fla. Biz Owner Gets 4 Years In Prison For Worker Fraud Plot

    A Florida federal judge sentenced a construction business owner to four years in prison and ordered him to pay millions of dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to fraud-related charges in connection with an elaborate worker scheme and violating safety standards that led to the death of an employee.

  • February 21, 2025

    6 Things To Know About Shein's Fast Fashion Feuds

    Ultra-fast fashion behemoth Shein is facing accusations of infringing intellectual property in dozens of cases from plaintiffs ranging from major fashion brands to individual artists. Here are six things to know about Shein's intellectual property battles.

  • February 21, 2025

    First Horizon Says Ex-CEO Is Dropping Claims To Avoid Loss

    First Horizon Bank told a Florida federal judge that a former bank CEO cannot drop claims against individual bank directors to shield himself from an inevitable adverse judgment in the suit, which accused the bank and its directors of setting up the CEO as a scapegoat in the legal fallout of attorney Scott Rothstein's $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.

  • February 21, 2025

    Fla. Worker's Wage Suit Against Dillard's Sent To Arbitration

    A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered Dillard's and a former employee to resolve claims that the company shorted workers on minimum and overtime wages out of court after granting an unopposed motion to compel arbitration and stay proceedings in a proposed collective action lawsuit.

  • February 21, 2025

    FanDuel Demands Arbitration For Ex-Jaguars Employee Suit

    The former NFL team administrator now imprisoned for embezzlement is bound by an arbitration clause in his FanDuel contract, the betting platform argued Friday in its motion to send a $250 million New York federal lawsuit to arbitration.

  • February 21, 2025

    Lobbyist Admits To Evading $1.3M Tax By Blocking Home Sale

    A lobbyist admitted to trying to thwart IRS efforts to collect about $1.3 million in taxes he owed by preventing a real estate agent from widely listing his home and by transferring assets to a family member, according to Florida federal court documents.

  • February 21, 2025

    Off The Bench: White House Hosts PGA Tour-LIV Golf Summit

    In this week's Off The Bench, the two former rival pro golf tours join the president to discuss their long-delayed combination, several NBA teams support a bid for the U.S. Supreme Court to keep copyright claims in check, and prosecutors charge Chilean nationals with robbing the homes of high-profile athletes.

  • February 21, 2025

    Childish Gambino Nabs Fees In 'This Is America' IP Case

    A New York federal judge has ordered a Miami rapper to pay out nearly $287,000 in legal fees for litigating a failed copyright case targeting Childish Gambino's 2018 hit song "This Is America," less than a third of what the record label lawyers and others had asked for. 

Expert Analysis

  • Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

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    Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • AV Compliance Is Still A State-By-State Slog — For Now

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    While the incoming Trump administration has hinted at new federal regulations governing autonomous vehicles, for now, AV manufacturers must take a state-by-state approach to compliance with safety requirements — paying particular attention to states that require express authorization for AV operation, say attorneys at Frost Brown.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

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    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • The Malpractice Perils Of Elder Abuse Liability

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    Recent cases show that the circumstances under which an attorney may be sued for financial elder abuse remain unsettled, but practitioners can avoid these malpractice claims altogether by taking proactive steps, like documenting the process of evaluating a client's directives under appropriate standards, says Edward Donohue at Hinshaw & Culbertson.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

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    Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Series

    Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

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    For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Rank-And-File DOJ Attorneys Will Keep Calm And Carry On

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    Career prosecutors at the U.S. Department of Justice often pride themselves on their ability to remain apolitical in order to ensure consistency and keep the department’s mission afloat, and the incoming Trump administration is unlikely to upend this tradition, says Michael Landman at Bird Marella.

  • Series

    Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.

  • Lessons From EEOC Case Of Fla. Worker Fired After Stillbirth

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    A recent federal court settlement between a Florida resort and a fired line cook shows that the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission sees stillbirth as protected under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, also providing four other important lessons, says Gordon Berger at Pierson Ferdinand.

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    Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.

  • Opinion

    Weak Reasoning Underlies Fla. Judge's Bold Qui Tam Ruling

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    U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle's groundbreaking decision in U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC, holding that qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are unconstitutional, relies on weak logic to reach a conclusion that differs from every other court that has ruled on the issue, says Ethan Greenberg at Anderson Kill.

  • 3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less

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    Today’s junior lawyers are experiencing a skills gap due to pandemic-era disruptions, but firms can help bring them up to speed by offering high-impact skill building content in bite-sized, interactive training sessions, say Stacey Schwartz at Katten, Diane Costigan at Winston & Strawn and Lauren Tierney at Freshfields.

  • Hurricane Coverage Ruling Clarifies Appraisal Scope In Fla.

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    In a case involving property insurance for hurricane damage, a Florida federal court recently enforced policy limits despite an appraisal award exceeding those limits, underscoring the boundaries between valuation and coverage — a distinction that provides valuable guidance for insurers handling post-catastrophe claims, says Tiffany Bustamante at Cozen O’Connor.

  • The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule

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    Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.

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