Justices Decline Chance To Clarify Medical Pot Protections

By Sam Reisman

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal arguing that congressional spending legislation bars federal prosecutors from bringing cases against state-compliant medical marijuana operations.

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US Steel Beats Fired Medical Pot Patient's Fed. ADA Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday granted U.S. Steel summary judgment on a medical cannabis patient's Americans with Disabilities Act claims in a lawsuit alleging the steel giant wrongfully fired him for his medical marijuana license and off-the-job marijuana use.

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Disbarred Fraudster Gets 25 Years For $18M Hemp Scam

By Mike Curley

A disbarred attorney with a history of investor fraud was sentenced to 25 years in prison for a scheme in which he solicited more than $18 million from investors by claiming to own a hemp farm that didn't exist and overhyping an edibles company.

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Origins Tech Can't Dodge Counterclaims In $4M Dispute

By Mike Curley

Origins Tech Inc. and its officers can't get counterclaims against them tossed in a $4 million suit over losses from a loan and the canceled acquisition of a cannabis license, a Utah federal judge ruled on Monday, giving a shareholder the opportunity to amend his counterclaims.

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Calif. Pot Co. Seeks Receivership, Blames Merger 'Disaster'

By Rick Archer

A cannabis producer in California has moved to enter receivership in state court, disclosing more than $173 million in liabilities and saying a 2023 merger with its parent company proved to be a "financial disaster."

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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.

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Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump

By Alison Knezevich

After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.

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Ex-DHS Intel Head To Lead Mayer Brown Investigations Team

By Jack Rodgers

The former leader of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office has joined Mayer Brown LLP to help lead its global investigations and white collar defense practice — a role that he says allows him to join forces with attorneys whom he's known for years.

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Ex-Speaker Gingrich Lends Support To Limited Injunctions Bill

By Courtney Bublé

Former GOP Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on Tuesday endorsed the idea behind Republican legislation that would require nationwide injunctions imposed by lower courts against White House policies to be quickly brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. 

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Analysis

Fight Over AI Training Pushes Copying Question To Forefront

By Ivan Moreno

When courts weigh fair use in copyright disputes, how much a defendant takes from a particular work is usually overridden by other factors. But with artificial intelligence requiring immense amounts of training material, a legal tech company is trying to change that as it battles infringement claims by Thomson Reuters over the media company's Westlaw platform.

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Venezuelans Ask Justices To Keep Block On Removals

By Katie Buehler

Five detained Venezuelans urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to deny President Donald Trump's move to lift a D.C. federal judge's order prohibiting the removal of alleged gang members from the U.S. under the Alien Enemies Act, arguing the president's "staggering" assertion of authority under the wartime law is unsubstantiated.

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Wilson Sonsini Adds Antitrust Attys From MoFo, K&L Gates

By James Mills

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC is expanding its antitrust team, bringing in two new partners — a Morrison Foerster LLP trial attorney in San Francisco and a K&L Gates LLP litigator in Chicago.

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Schiff Says He'll Hold On Trump's Pick For DC US Attorney

By Lauren Berg

Senate Judiciary Committee member Adam Schiff announced Tuesday he will hold on President Donald Trump's nomination of Ed Martin to be the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., calling Martin a "one-man wrecking ball" demolishing the wall between the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice.

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The Top In-House Hires Of March

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the last month included high-profile appointments at the NFL, Supermicro and Dropbox. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from March.

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Hub Hires: Ropes, Sherin, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

March gave us a little madness in the Boston legal scene, with a former U.S. attorney returning to his old BigLaw stomping grounds, a smaller firm bringing on a real estate veteran, and the launch of a new plaintiff-side boutique.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Tymkovich On New Judgeships

When Tenth Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich testified before Congress recently about the need for more federal judges, it had been about 10 years since he'd made a similar request of Congress, which hasn't expanded the federal bench since 2002.

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