Senate Dems Seek Briefing On Threats To Federal Judges

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced Monday that they're asking the U.S. Marshals Service for a briefing on threats against federal judges.

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Susman Godfrey Asks To Block 'Unconstitutional' Order

By Lauren Berg

Susman Godfrey LLP on Monday asked a D.C. federal judge to immediately restrain the federal government from enforcing President Donald Trump's "unconstitutional" executive order revoking the firm's access to government resources, saying the directive is blatant retaliation for the firm's representation of clients and causes the president doesn't like.

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Conservative Lawyers Seek Ethics Probe Of DC US Attorney

By Ali Sullivan

A group of conservative lawyers and former prosecutors on Monday called for an attorney ethics investigation into President Donald Trump's nominee to be Washington, D.C.'s top federal prosecutor, saying the attorney has shown a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the role.

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Colo. Atty Suspended 3 Years For Looting Firm Trust Account

By Emily Sawicki

A Colorado attorney who operates a small criminal defense firm has been suspended from practicing law for three years in the state after admitting to taking tens of thousands of dollars from his firm's trust account for his own use.

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NY Judge Chided For Tossing Kid's Friend's Traffic Ticket

By Emily Sawicki

A Westchester County, New York, judge who threw her title around while handling her daughter's traffic ticket in a neighboring town, and later tossed a different traffic ticket for her daughter's friend, has been hit with a public admonishment, the state's judicial watchdog announced Monday.

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Ga. Judge Faces New Misconduct Charges For Case Delays

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia state judge has been accused of delaying cases — including taking over two years to provide an order in a probate matter — after he was accused of similar misconduct in October.

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McElroy Deutsch Settles Theft Suit Against Former Execs

By Jake Maher

McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP has reached a settlement with two former executives who the firm accused of stealing millions through fraudulent bonuses and credit card use, capping off nearly two years of hard-fought litigation.

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Law Firm Fights 'Career Ending' Calif. Sanctions At Fed. Circ.

By Jack Karp

Three attorneys from Texas patent firm Ramey LLP asked the Federal Circuit to press pause on a California magistrate judge's sanctions against them, arguing that their case was not filed in bad faith, they were not practicing law in California without a license and the penalties imposed on them are too harsh.

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ABA Scholarship Illegally Bars White Applicants, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

The American Bar Association unlawfully discriminates against white law students by excluding them from a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities, according to a federal lawsuit from a group founded by the conservative legal strategist who led a successful Supreme Court challenge to affirmative action in university admissions.

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Ex-Reed Smith Atty Gets Review Of NJ Bias Damages Limit

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey state appeals court has said it will consider a former Reed Smith LLP labor and employment lawyer's appeal of a ruling that damages in her gender discrimination suit against the firm can only go as far back as the start date of a New Jersey equal pay law.

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3 Firms Sued By Freight Co. Over $18M Fatal Crash Judgment

By Carla Baranauckas

Three U.S. law firms botched their representation of a Canadian trucking company in Garden State personal injury lawsuits, resulting in a judgment of more than $18 million and excess attorney fees, according to a lawsuit filed in New Jersey state court.

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UK Co. Says Ex-Sikorsky Atty Gave 'Inconsistent' Testimony

By Emily Sawicki

A British company locked in a $64 million contract feud with Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky Aircraft accused its former in-house counsel of giving testimony "blatantly inconsistent" with other evidence at a Connecticut trial, requesting the alleged transgressions be discussed after a Texas bankruptcy judge slammed the lawyer for providing "false statements" in a separate matter.

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NJ Attorney Must Face Land Dispute Malpractice Suit

By Adrian Cruz

A New Jersey state judge has rejected a Fox Rothschild LLP attorney's bid for an early exit from a suit by a pair of sisters accusing him and related parties of malpractice stemming from the mishandling of their late stepfather's estate.

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Ex-Allied Wallet Exec Seeks Trial Delay Amid Recusal Bid

By Elliot Weld

A former executive of payment processing company Allied Wallet asked to pause his criminal bank fraud case Monday while a Massachusetts federal judge considers a recusal motion questioning his impartiality.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work

Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.

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DC Judge Blocks Trump Order Against Susman Godfrey

By Ryan Boysen

A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday largely blocked President Donald Trump's executive order over Susman Godfrey's handling of election litigation, saying the "Framers of the Constitution would see this as a shocking abuse of power."

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Judge Orders Discovery On Actions In Abrego Garcia Case

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge ordered two weeks of discovery and depositions of at least four Trump administration officials into whether it's complying with her order to get back a Maryland man sent to a Salvadoran megaprison, saying that the updates she's gotten so far have shown that "nothing has been done."

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How They Won It

How An Apple Exec's Attys Turned A Bribe Charge Into 'Vapor'

By Cara Salvatore

When jurors ruled this month that an Apple executive's promise to donate iPads to the local sheriff's department was not a bribe, it appeared to vindicate a defense strategy of calling no witnesses and painting the case as fundamentally flawed.

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Retiring Calif. Ethics Committee Atty Says Judicial Trust Vital

By Bonnie Eslinger

Nancy Black, who retires this month as founding counsel to California's Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics, reflected in an interview with Law360 on the wide range of ethical concerns the committee has handled over her 15-year tenure and the group's key role in safeguarding public trust in the courts.

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McGuireWoods Immune From Defamation Case, NC Panel Told

By Hayley Fowler

McGuireWoods LLP and a former partner have told a North Carolina state appeals court that they have absolute privilege over allegedly defamatory statements made in connection with an investigation into the former CEO of a managed care organization, arguing that the trial court should have granted them a pretrial win.

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Moye White Says It Was Evicted To Make Way For Tech Co.

By Isaac Monterose

Defunct law firm Moye White LLP is fighting back in Colorado state court against its Denver landlord's nearly $4 million lawsuit, alleging in counterclaims that the landlord unlawfully evicted the firm and its subtenants from a downtown office building in order to make room for a technology business.

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Fired NLRB, MSPB Members Tell Justices Not To Rush Ruling

By Katie Buehler

A pair of fired independent regulators implored the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to keep them unemployed while they challenge his authority to fire them without cause, arguing his new attack on a century-old precedent doesn't qualify as an emergency that the high court must address.

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NJ Judicial Privacy Law Is Unconstitutional, 3rd Circ. Told

By Jake Maher

A group of data brokers told the Third Circuit that the New Jersey judicial privacy measure, Daniel's Law, is facially unconstitutional and that a federal district judge effectively "rewrote" it when he found otherwise.

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