Trump's Day 1 Immigration Actions: What You Need To Know

By Britain Eakin

President Donald Trump issued a flurry of immigration-related executive orders Monday, declaring a state of emergency on the southern U.S. border, limiting birthright citizenship and closing the border entirely to new asylum seekers.

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Trump Names Immigration Official As Acting Attorney General

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump on Monday designated a longtime immigration official at the U.S. Department of Justice to be acting attorney general until his pick Pam Bondi, former Florida attorney general, can be confirmed.

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5th Circ. Finds DACA Unlawful, Limits Ruling To Texas

By Rae Ann Varona

The Fifth Circuit on Friday affirmed a Texas federal court's finding that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is unlawful but limited its ruling to Texas, saying the state was the only one to show it was injured due to DACA.

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DHS Sec. Nominee Faces Senators Ahead Of Inauguration

By Courtney Bublé

Appearing before senators on Friday, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, previewed the incoming Trump administration's crackdown on immigration and fielded questions on distribution of disaster aid in wake of the Los Angeles wildfires.

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Immigrant Military Members OK To Ax Time-In-Service Appeal

By Madeline Lyskawa

Immigrant members of the military challenging a since-rescinded U.S. Department of Defense requirement to serve for one year before becoming eligible for citizenship told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that they would not oppose the dismissal of the agency's appeal on its terms.

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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

By Xiumei Dong

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

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DOJ Wants No Jail Time For Cross-Border Monopoly Member

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Justice has told a Texas federal judge that a woman who pled guilty to conspiring to monopolize cross-border sales of used vehicles should be sentenced to up to 14 months of home detention.

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NYC Mall Lenders, Developer Want Foreign Investor Suit Nixed

By Tom Lotshaw

Financial backers of a Staten Island mall project are asking a federal judge to toss a suit by foreign investors seeking damages, arguing that the investors are just trying to "claw back" whatever they can from others who lost even more money.

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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

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Meet The Key Players In Tom Goldstein's Tax-Crimes Case

By Phillip Bantz

The tax-evasion indictment of U.S. Supreme Court expert lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein features an eclectic cast of characters linked to his purported side career as a high-stakes poker player, including law firm partners, professional gamblers, a Texas billionaire, a movie producer and an actor.

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Morgan Lewis Shrinks China Presence With Shenzhen Closure

By Tracey Read

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has closed its office in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen after less than two years, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Friday, the latest firm to reduce its operations in the country recently.

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What To Expect From Trump's Judicial Nominations

By Courtney Bublé

President-elect Donald Trump is taking office with 45 judicial vacancies, which is far less than the 100 plus seats he came in with in 2017, but more seats could open up if a fair number of sitting conservatives take the opportunity to ensure a Republican president names their successor.

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Up Next At High Court: Forum Shopping & TCPA Definitions

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Tuesday for a short argument session, during which the justices will consider the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's bid to limit forum shopping by manufacturers challenging agency decisions and how much deference district courts must give to Federal Communications Commission orders.

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Insurer Tried To 'Embarrass' Cadwalader, NC Court Told

By Matt Perez

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP has accused a Lloyd's of London syndicate of attempting to "embarrass" the firm by publicly revealing the firm's data breach recoveries amid the insurer's bid to toss a coverage suit stemming from a 2022 hack.

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Attorney General Nominee Bondi Outlines Ethics Parameters

By Courtney Bublé

Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, outlined in an ethics agreement posted on Friday how she intends to avoid possible conflicts of interest with her previous positions, such as her role as a partner at a lobbying firm, and how she will divest from Trump's media company. 

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Trump, Musk Sued By Nonprofits Over DOGE Transparency

By Dorothy Atkins

Public Citizen and other nonprofits hit the Trump administration with multiple lawsuits seeking to shut down the new Department of Government Efficiency in D.C. federal court Monday, alleging the Elon Musk-led advisory committee targeting government waste lacks requisite transparency guardrails to prevent DOGE from solely advancing private interests.

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No Conflict In Judge's Friendship, John Deere, Farmers Say

By Jonathan Capriel

John Deere and the farmers suing it in a right-to-repair suit said they have no concerns about the potential conflict of interest an Illinois federal judge flagged, saying there was "no reason" for the jurist to recuse himself, according to a joint letter filed by the parties.

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Ex-Pol's Atty Chided For Early Morning Sentencing Memo

By Julie Manganis

The lawyer for a former Massachusetts state senator convicted of tax and pandemic aid fraud was scolded by a federal judge on Friday for filing a sentencing memo at 3:30 a.m. on the day of the hearing, then showing up late to court, forcing a postponement.

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Trump Opposes DA Willis' Bid To Return To Ga. Election Case

By Kelcey Caulder

President-elect Donald Trump urged the Georgia Supreme Court on Friday not to review the state intermediate court's ruling that disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from prosecuting the Georgia election interference case.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Keller Postman LLC, Ward & Smith PA, Pope McGlamry PC and Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that after a Missouri resident dropped her federal claims in a putative class action over alleged mislabeling of prescription dog food, the case was properly sent back to state court.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A report says the market is heating up for the hiring of general counsel and chief compliance officers. Meanwhile, Meta is having trouble hanging on to its lawyers, with its deputy general counsel for civil rights leaving, and an outside IP counsel quitting over the CEO's "toxic masculinity." These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen the family of the late chairman of Leicester City FC sue a helicopter manufacturer for £2.15 billion ($2.63 billion), Vivienne Westwood bring a copyright claim against the late designer's foundation and blockchain giant Tether file a new claim in its ongoing dispute with crypto trading firm Swan Bitcoin. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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