Georgia Lawmaker Vows To Overhaul Judicial Pay

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia state representative has announced plans to revamp state judges' pay and end a longstanding pay disparity between judges by capping and eventually ending local supplemental pay, calling for similar changes that the Georgia Judicial Council recommended in 2023.

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Ga. Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Media On Shooting By Cop

By Emily Johnson

The city of Savannah has urged a Georgia federal court to sanction Claiborne Firm PC attorneys for "inject[ing] bias into the jury pool" by allegedly mischaracterizing facts related to the shooting death of a Black man in 2022 by a police officer who's facing murder charges.

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Judge Spikes Challenge To Ga. Utility Commish Elections

By Chart Riggall

A federal judge on Monday tossed a lawsuit that challenged the extension of terms for members of Georgia's utility regulatory commission while its elections were suspended by voting rights litigation, clearing the way for its members to return to the ballot next year.

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Ozempic Maker Says Atlanta Clinic Misuses TM To Sell Meds

By Kelcey Caulder

Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that makes weight loss drugs Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, filed suit against an Atlanta anti-aging treatment center in Georgia federal court Friday, alleging trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.

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High Court Won't Revive Widow's Suit Against Trucking Co.

By Carolina Bolado

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined a bid from the widow of a man killed in a tractor trailer collision to review a decision that federal transportation law preempts her negligent selection claim against the company that hired the trucker and his carrier.

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AGs, Lobbyists Ask Justices To Keep Shell Co. Law Blocked

By Kevin Pinner

The U.S. Supreme Court should deny the federal government's emergency application to stay a Texas district court's injunction on a law aimed at cracking down on crimes committed with shell companies, according to numerous state attorneys general and interest groups and a handful of small businesses.

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Ga. Waste Authority Sues To Block County's Audit Attempt

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia county's solid waste authority, whose finances came under scrutiny from the Federal Bureau of Investigation last year, has sued its county's government to block an effort by the county to force inspections and audits of its waste facilities.

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Court, Not County, Was Worker's Employer, Ga. Judge Says

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge on Friday recommended freeing Fulton County from a lawsuit brought against it by a former juvenile court employee, who sued for age and disability discrimination after she was fired at 60 and had requested medical leave due to an upcoming knee surgery.

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6th Circ. OKs Home Depot's $50M Data Breach Coverage Loss

By Dorothy Atkins

The Sixth Circuit affirmed Monday a finding that an electronic-data exclusion provision in Home Depot Inc.'s commercial general liability excess policies with Steadfast Insurance Co. and Great American Assurance Co. unambiguously barred coverage for the retail giant's $50 million claim for defense and settlement costs over a 2014 data breach.

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Brief

Justices Won't Review 11th Circ.'s Cancer Cluster Decision

By Jonathan Capriel

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review the Eleventh Circuit's affirmation of a favorable jury verdict for defense contractor Pratt & Whitney, which was found to have failed to exercise reasonable care when disposing radioactive materials, but also freed it from liability for the cancer cases that emerged in a Florida neighborhood.

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Analysis

Latham Grabs Top Spot For 2024 IPOs By Large Margin

By Tom Zanki

Latham & Watkins LLP guided more initial public offerings than any law firm in 2024, capturing a diverse mix of large listings for companies that seized opportunities to go public as the broader IPO market inched toward recovery, new data shows.

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Meta Atty Quits IP Case Over Zuckerberg's 'Toxic Masculinity'

By Ivan Moreno

An attorney helping defend Meta Platforms in copyright litigation brought by artists who claim their content was used to train the large language model Llama has dropped the tech company as his client, citing Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness" in a LinkedIn post.

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Allred Seeks To Ax 'Absurd' Defamation Suit Over Diddy Case

By Emily Sawicki

High-profile women's rights litigator Gloria Allred and her client have fired back at Sean "Diddy" Combs' former head of security, calling his defamation claims arising from the rape suit they filed against him and the embattled music mogul "absurd" and worthy of sanctions.

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Legal Pros Offer LA-Area Fire Victims Insurance Tips

By Dorothy Atkins

Personal injury and insurance attorneys offered Los Angeles fire victims practical tips during an hourslong info-session hosted by the Beverly Hills Bar Association on Tuesday, cautioning against hiring public adjusters and attorneys quickly or taking money from FEMA and detailing actions victims should take now to get insurance claims timely adjudicated.

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Trump Org. Taps Quinn Emanuel Atty For Ethics Adviser

By Emily Sawicki

A co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has been selected to step into the role of outside ethics adviser for the Trump Organization, President-elect Donald Trump's real estate conglomerate, according to an announcement by its executive vice president.

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Ex-NC Assistant AG To Co-Lead WilmerHale State AGs Group

By Jack Rodgers

WilmerHale has tapped the former first assistant attorney general and general counsel to former North Carolina attorney general Josh Stein as co-leader of its state attorneys general practice, the firm announced Monday.

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Steptoe Hires A&O Shearman Political Law Leader In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Steptoe LLP has hired the former head of A&O Shearman's political law group, who is joining the team in Washington, D.C., as a partner to continue her practice focused on a range of white collar investigations and political law issues, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Ex-Department Of Commerce Trade Pro Joins King & Spalding

By Rose Krebs

King & Spalding LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired an attorney who formerly served as a U.S. Department of Commerce official and assistant general counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to bolster its international trade team.

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K&L Gates Inks 15-Year Lease For Smaller Pittsburgh Office

By Tracey Read

K&L Gates LLP has signed a new 15-year lease to remain in its central business district location in the heart of Pittsburgh in a smaller, more flexible workspace, the firm announced Monday.

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Fed. Court, Judges Beat Atty's Challenge To 'Gag Order' Rule

By Jack Karp

Sovereign immunity bars a Nashville civil rights lawyer from challenging a U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee rule barring attorneys from making "any extrajudicial statements" about cases pending in the district, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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DA Says Trump's Appeals To Intervene In NY Case Now 'Moot'

By Frank G. Runyeon

Counsel for the Manhattan district attorney urged both a federal and a state appeals court to toss out Donald Trump's lingering invitations to intervene in his hush money case now that he's been sentenced, arguing there's no need for a "bizarre mechanism" when Trump can appeal normally.

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Both Michigan US Attys Resign Ahead Of Inauguration

By Danielle Ferguson

Michigan's U.S. attorneys, Dawn Ison in the Eastern District and Mark Totten in the Western District, announced their departures this week ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

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RNC Preempts Dem Attacks Ahead Of AG Nominee's Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Ahead of the confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee on Wednesday, the chair of the Republican National Committee and other Trump allies brushed off concerns about Pam Bondi's possible conflicts of interest and close ties to the president-elect.

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El Paso Firm Failed To Pay Overtime Wages, Paralegal Says

By Emmy Freedman

An El Paso, Texas, law firm required a paralegal to respond to emails and text messages outside her working hours but refused to pay her overtime wages, she told a federal court Tuesday.

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