A New Jersey federal judge disqualified a Garden State attorney from representing a former executive of a South Korean cosmetics company in a contentious employment dispute with the business because the lawyer obtained privileged documents belonging to the company.
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Atty DQ'd In NJ Cosmetics Biz Dispute Over Privileged Docs

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey federal judge disqualified a Garden State attorney from representing a former executive of a South Korean cosmetics company in a contentious employment dispute with the business because the lawyer obtained privileged documents belonging to the company.

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Cannabis Co. Says Lender Lied About Default To Steal Funds

By George Woolston

A cannabis company with facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has alleged in Garden State federal court that its lender lied about the company being in default in order to steal funds out of two of the company's bank accounts and claims it shows no sign of stopping.

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NJ Law Prof Given Chance To Amend Tossed Free Speech Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A New Jersey federal judge has declined a law professor's request to revive her free speech suit against Kean University over alleged controversial statements made in class, finding she failed to show errors in law in his dismissal, but left the door open for her to amend her complaint.

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PI Firm Sues Its Own Expert For Being 'Out Of Touch' At Depo

By Rae Ann Varona

A New Jersey personal injury law firm filed suit in state court against an expert witness it alleges had threatened to withdraw if he didn't receive an advance payment for preparing and attending his deposition, and then turned up to the deposition "confused, disoriented and out of touch."

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Up Next At High Court: Preventive HealthCare & LGBTQ Books

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventive healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties. 

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Democratic AGs Say Trump Illegally Fired FTC Commissioners

By Craig Clough

Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief Friday in D.C. federal court backing two fired Democratic Federal Trade Commission members, writing that President Donald Trump's actions violate federal law prohibiting their removal except for cause. 

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THIRD CIRCUIT

3rd Circ. Won't Revive Norfolk Southern Conductor's ADA Suit

By Vin Gurrieri

The Third Circuit refused Friday to reinstate a Norfolk Southern Railway Co. train conductor's suit alleging he was illegally suspended because of his history of seizures, saying the railroad's decision wasn't rooted in discrimination.

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

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Real Estate Recap: Q1 Dealmakers, Tariff Tension

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the law firms that guided the 10 largest real estate deals of the first quarter, and how dealmakers and companies have been navigating uncertainty in the market.

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PEOPLE

Philly Firm Leaders Form Employment, Civil Rights Boutique

By Rachel Rippetoe

Attorneys out of Philadelphia and New Jersey have merged their practices to start a new law firm focused on employment, criminal, civil rights and survivor's rights law, the partners announced earlier this week.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Learning From COVID-19 Enforcement Against Nursing Homes

Five years after the COVID-19 outbreak caused a high number of deaths in nursing homes, an examination of enforcement actions against nursing homes in New York and elsewhere in the country highlights obstacles that may arise when bringing cases of this type, and ways to overcome them, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.

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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

WilmerHale, Feds Dispute Reach Of Trump Order Against Firm

By Jack Karp

WilmerHale and the U.S. Department of Justice traded salvos in the BigLaw firm's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting it, with the firm and the government offering "starkly different" versions of what's at stake in the dispute.

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Ex-Katten Partner Hits Firm With $67M Age Bias Suit

By Lauren Berg

A former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner launched a $67 million discrimination lawsuit against his one-time firm in New York federal court, alleging he was pushed out of the aircraft-finance practice group, pressured to resign and then fired because of the firm CEO's "stereotyped views of lawyers in their 60s."

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Joel Katz, Music Law's Longtime Power Broker, Dies At 80

By Chart Riggall

Joel Katz, the powerful music industry lawyer who co-founded Greenberg Traurig LLP's media and entertainment practice and helped bring the firm to the Atlanta market, has died at the age of 80, Law360 confirmed Friday.

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Sunoco Accused Of Age Bias By Ex-Chief Counsel

By Gina Kim

A former chief counsel for Sunoco LP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court Wednesday, alleging she was denied promotional opportunities and later terminated due to her age, while also accusing the company of replacing attorneys older than 50 with significantly younger attorneys with less experience.

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How They Won It

How Manatt Beat A Crypto Trader's 'Code As Law' Defense

By Aislinn Keely

After a crypto user exploited a software bug to create millions of dollars' worth of new tokens from a blockchain network, a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP team defeated his claim to the tokens — and won an award worth millions — by showing that faulty code can't stand in for rule of law.

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Justices Temporarily Block Removals Under Wartime Law

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt removals of alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in Texas under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, pending further input from the court.

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High Court's Pause Of Removals Was 'Premature,' Alito Says

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision early Saturday morning to prohibit the Trump administration from using a 1798 wartime law to remove alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in northern Texas to an El Salvadoran prison was hasty and premature, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Ex-DOJ Atty Convicted In 1MDB Case Ordered Disbarred In NY

By Craig Clough

A New York appellate court ordered Wednesday that a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney be disbarred due to his felony conviction as part of a sprawling, billion-dollar fraud scandal connected to 1Malaysia Development Berhad and Fugees founder Pras Michél.

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Judge Nixes Feds' DQ Bid In Migrant Kids Legal Funding Case

By Ryan Boysen

A California federal judge has denied the Trump administration's bid to remove her from a lawsuit challenging funding cuts that prevent attorneys from representing child migrants, ruling her employment at one of the plaintiffs nearly seven years ago doesn't undermine her impartiality.

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PTAB Judge Heads To Boutique, Citing Return-To-Office Order

By Andrew Karpan

An outgoing Patent Trial and Appeal Board judge based in Austin, Texas, tells Law360 that President Donald Trump's return-to-office order was a "significant factor" in her decision to return to private practice, joining boutique patent firm Smith Baluch LLP as a partner.

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Judiciary Faces Security Risks Amid Spending Freeze

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary is warning congressional appropriators that funding shortfalls could threaten courthouse security.

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Wis. Sens. Renew Bipartisan Judicial Nomination Commission

By Courtney Bublé

The Republican and Democratic senators from Wisconsin announced Friday they are renewing their bipartisan commission to recommend U.S. attorney and judicial nominees to the president.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Google and its chief legal officer have now lost two major antitrust cases to DOJ prosecutors after a federal judge ruled Thursday the search engine monopolized markets and servers related to display advertising. Meanwhile, a new study shows companies are disclosing their business risks, and how they are trying to mitigate those risks, amid changing tariffs and the uncertainty of the U.S.-China trade war. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Schlichter Bogard LLC and the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court revived a class action from Cornell University workers who said their retirement plans were saddled with excessive fees.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Ballard Spahr

Barnes & Thornburg

Buchanan Ingersoll

Carter Ledyard

Chang & Lee

Clarick Gueron

Clement & Murphy

Cole Schotz

Covington & Burling

DLA Piper

Dechert LLP

Dynamis LLP

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Giordano Halleran

Goldshaw Greenblatt

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

Habush Habush

Hueston Hennigan

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Katten Muchin

Kilgore & Kilgore

Kim Lim & Partners

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Loeb & Loeb

Loevy & Loevy

Manatt Phelps

Montgomery McCracken

Morris Nichols

Morrison Cohen

Moye White

O'Melveny & Myers

Olshan Frome

Patterson Belknap

Paul Hastings

Paul Law Offices

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pierce LLC

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Pryor Cashman

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Sacchetta & Baldino

Salmanson Goldshaw

Schlichter Bogard

Skadden Arps

Smith Baluch

Stone & Magnanini

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Weir Greenblatt

Williams Cedar

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Accenture PLC

Advanced Flower Capital Inc.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Allianz SE

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc.

Boston University

Brookfield Property Partners LP

Citigroup Inc.

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto

Cornell University

Cushman & Wakefield Inc.

DePuy Synthes Cos.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

EMI Group Ltd.

EOG Resources Inc.

Extendicare Inc.

Federal National Mortgage Association

Fillmore Capital Partners

Global Payments Inc.

GoDaddy Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Intel Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

Mariner Health Central Inc.

Match Group LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Molson Coors Beverage Co.

Monster Beverage Corp.

National Association of Realtors

Norfolk Southern Corp.

NuStar Energy LP

Petersen Health Care

Prologis Inc.

Protect Democracy Project Inc.

Ritz-Carlton Company LLC

Rocket Cos.

Sony Music Publishing LLC

Sunoco LP

T-Mobile US Inc.

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

The City University of New York

The Recording Academy

Tupperware Brands Corp.

U.S. Bancorp

Universal Music Group NV

University of Virginia

Vital Pharmaceuticals

Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

Worldpay LLC

Zillow Group Inc.

e.l.f. Beauty Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Bureau of Indian Affairs

California Attorney General's Office

California Civil Rights Department

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Dallas County, Texas

Delaware River Port Authority

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Ione Band of Miwok Indians

Judicial Conference of the United States

Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation

National Labor Relations Board

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Court

New Jersey Department of Health

New York Attorney General's Office

New York State Division of Human Rights

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Philadelphia Housing Authority

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court