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March 12, 2025
US Trustee Seeks Sanctions Against NY Lawyer
The federal bankruptcy watchdog asked a New York judge Wednesday to sanction a lawyer who allegedly concealed her conflicts of interest while representing a debtor and a buyer in two separate Chapter 11 cases.
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March 12, 2025
DLA Piper Litigation Duo Follows Colleagues To Dentons
Less than a month after a pair of DLA Piper insurance litigators joined Dentons' New York office, two more attorneys from the same practice have decided to follow their colleagues' lead, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
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March 12, 2025
Weinstein Evidence Takes Shape Ahead Of Retrial In NY
A New York state judge on Wednesday ruled on evidentiary issues ahead of Harvey Weinstein's retrial on rape and sexual assault charges, as his overturned conviction — vacated due to improperly admitted evidence — loomed over the proceedings.
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March 12, 2025
Kirkland Guides Clearwater On $685M Investment Tech Buy
Clearwater Analytics said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $685 million across two strategic acquisitions that it said will transform its investment management technology platforms amid a surge in institutional investors seeking alternative assets.
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March 12, 2025
Buzbee, Ex-Client Say Roc Nation Can't Exit Conspiracy Suits
Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter's company Roc Nation "spearheaded" efforts to launch malpractice suits against the Buzbee Law Firm in retaliation for a lawsuit the firm filed accusing the rap star of rape, so it cannot exit a Texas federal suit over that effort by claiming a lack of jurisdiction, the firm said.
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March 12, 2025
2nd Circ. Upholds Sanctions In Chinese Billionaire's Ch. 11
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday torpedoed an appeal from the daughter of bankrupt Chinese exile Miles Guo — also known as Ho Won Kwok — and her attorney seeking to overturn a nearly $83,400 discovery sanction, saying the contempt ruling was merited.
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March 12, 2025
Luxottica Drops Appeal On ERISA Suit's Arbitrability
Luxottica shuttered its appeal of a New York federal judge's order that the company could not compel arbitration of a worker's representative claims that it violated federal benefits law by using outdated mortality data to calculate pensions benefits.
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March 12, 2025
Steptoe Hires National Security Veteran In New York
Steptoe LLP has hired a former Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP attorney known for his defense of Guantanamo Bay detainees and other high-profile national security matters, who joined the firm in New York as a partner.
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March 12, 2025
NY Judge Tees Up Bail, Venue Fights For Columbia Activist
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ordered expedited briefing on whether a Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student who was arrested on Saturday should be granted bail pending his release petition, and on where the case belongs, saying there's "some need for speed here."
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March 11, 2025
Russian Can't Claim Seized $300M Superyacht, Judge Rules
A New York federal judge ruled Monday that a Russian billionaire cannot claim ownership of a seized $300 million superyacht, saying the evidence shows he is a "straw" owner of the vessel in a ruling that moved the government closer to selling it at auction.
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March 11, 2025
Digimarc Faces Investor Suit Over Subscription Plunge
Digital watermarking technology company Digimarc Corp. and two of its executives face a proposed investor class action alleging that the company failed to warn investors that its recurring revenue would take a significant hit after one of its major customers had its contract expire in June.
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March 11, 2025
NJ Justices Say NY Doc Can't Be On Med Mal Verdict Form
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that an anesthesiologist accused of causing a patient's death during surgery can't have the verdict sheet at the upcoming trial apportion blame to a New York doctor who was never named as a party in the suit.
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March 11, 2025
SEC Disgorgement Snipped By $1M In Collectibles Fraud Case
A New York federal judge has trimmed over $1 million from a disgorgement award the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sought in a long-running suit against a sports memorabilia merchant found liable at trial for ripping off investors, after a recalculation revealed that the company had already repaid some of its victims.
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March 11, 2025
USPTO Acting Director To Review Bitcoin, Railway Patents
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's current acting director made some of her first moves wading into patent board rulings, deciding last week to take a closer look at two board decisions involving blockchain mines and railway signs.
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March 11, 2025
SDNY Illicit Finance Unit Co-Chief To Depart US Atty's Office
The co-chief of the Southern District of New York's Illicit Finance and Money Laundering Unit said in a withdrawal notice that he's leaving the U.S. attorney's office at the close of this week and requested that he be removed as counsel of record in an ongoing criminal case.
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March 11, 2025
Girl Scouts Cookies Contain Unsafe Lead Levels Suit Says
Cookies sold by the Girl Scouts — including the bestselling Thin Mints, Caramel deLites and Peanut Butter Patties — were tainted with heavy metals and pesticides, according to a New York federal lawsuit that leans on independent laboratory testing of the baked goods.
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March 11, 2025
Panini Trading Card Antitrust Suit Largely Beats Dismissal
A New York federal judge largely refused to dismiss Panini's antitrust suit accusing Fanatics of locking up the sports trading card market by entering decadeslong exclusive agreements with the NFL, NBA and MLB, while also culling large chunks of Fanatics' unfair competition and bad-faith negotiations countersuit.
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March 11, 2025
Rising Caseloads Call For 71 New Judges: Judicial Conference
The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday asked Congress to create dozens of new judgeships in districts across the country in an effort to address what it calls a "worsening shortage" of judges amid mounting caseloads, months after then-President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to add 63 new permanent judgeships over partisan concerns.
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March 11, 2025
NY AG Claims Fla. Woman Stole Housing Corp.'s Rent Money
A Florida woman stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rent from a "low-income cooperative corporation" that owns a residential building in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, the Office of the New York State Attorney General alleged on Tuesday.
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March 11, 2025
NY's Banking Regulator Hangs 'Help Wanted' Sign In DC
At a Washington, D.C., appearance on Tuesday, New York's top financial services regulator Adrienne Harris had a message for the legions of federal financial agency employees who have been cut loose by the Trump administration in recent weeks: She's hiring.
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March 11, 2025
EPA Officially Cuts $20B In Funding For Climate Projects
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday canceled $20 billion in congressionally approved grant funding for climate change projects that it had frozen for weeks and criticized as wasteful and out of step with the Trump administration's priorities.
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March 11, 2025
Trump, Ontario Back Down After Two-Day Trade Flare-Up
President Donald Trump called off additional tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum Tuesday after the Ontario government dropped a briefly imposed surcharge on electricity exports, the White House told Law360 on Tuesday evening.
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March 11, 2025
GPB Capital Execs Denied New Trial In Fraud Case
Two GPB Capital executives were denied a new trial by a Brooklyn federal judge who said a jury was reasonable in finding them guilty of running their funds like a Ponzi scheme, using investor capital to make distribution payments to give the appearance of a healthy portfolio.
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March 11, 2025
Judge Questions Authority To Pay Giuliani's Ch. 11 Bill
A New York bankruptcy judge questioned Tuesday whether he could order former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to sell off real estate to cover claims against his Chapter 11 estate, saying an order dismissing his bankruptcy case included assumptions that didn't come to fruition.
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March 11, 2025
Spirit Airlines Judge Says Opt-Out Releases Well Explained
A New York bankruptcy judge explained his February decision to approve third-party releases in budget air carrier Spirit Airlines' Chapter 11 plan, saying an opt-out mechanism of the releases is enough to establish the consent of creditors, given how thoroughly the process was discussed and the number of people who did opt out.
Expert Analysis
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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Biden-Era M&A Data Shows Continuity, Not Revolution
While the federal antitrust agencies under former President Joe Biden made broad claims about increasing merger enforcement activity, the data tells a different story, with key claims under Biden coming in at the lowest levels in decades, say attorneys at Covington.
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Citibank Wire Transfer Ruling Creates New Liability For Banks
A New York federal court's recent decision in New York v. Citibank, affirming the Electronic Fund Transfer Act's consumer protections cover wire transfers allegedly initiated by scammers who infiltrated Citibank customers' online accounts, creates new liability for sending financial institutions and upends decades-old regulatory guidance, say attorneys at Stinson.
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4 Do's And Don'ts For Trial Lawyers Using Generative AI
Trial attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools should review a few key reminders, from the likelihood that prompts are discoverable to the rapid evolution of court rules, to safeguard against embarrassing missteps, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.
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Series
Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.
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The Case For Compliance During The Trump Administration
Given the Trump administration’s shifting white collar enforcement priorities, C-suite executives may have the natural instinct to pare back compliance initiatives, but there are several good reasons for companies to at least stay the course on their compliance programs, if not enhance them, say attorneys at Riley Safer.
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Opinion
Undoing An American Ideal Of Fairness
President Donald Trump’s orders attacking birthright citizenship, civil rights education, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs threaten hard-won constitutional civil rights protections and decades of efforts to undo bias in the law — undermining what Chief Justice Earl Warren called "our American ideal of fairness," says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Opinion
DOJ's Visa Suit Shows Pitfalls Of Regulating Innovative Tech
A policy of allowing free-market mechanisms to operate without undue interference remains the most effective way to foster innovation, and the U.S. Department of Justice's 2024 case against Visa illustrates the drawbacks of regulating innovative technology, says attorney Thomas Willcox.
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Expect To Feel Aftershocks Of Chopra's CFPB Shake-Up
Publications released by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau personnel in the last days of the Biden administration outline former Director Rohit Chopra's long-term vision for aggressive state-level enforcement of federal consumer financial laws, opening the doors for states to launch investigations and pursue actions, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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How SDNY US Atty Nom May Shape Enforcement Priorities
President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton, will likely shift the office’s enforcement priorities, from refining whistleblower policies to deemphasizing novel prosecutorial theories, say attorneys at Cohen & Gresser.
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CFPB's Message To States Takes On New Weight Under Trump
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's January guidance to state enforcers has fresh significance as the Trump administration moves to freeze the bureau's work, and industry should expect states to use this series of recommendations as an enforcement road map, say attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt.
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National Bank Act Rulings Facilitate More Preemption Analysis
Two recent National Bank Act preemption decisions from an Illinois federal court and the Ninth Circuit provide the first applications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s May ruling in Cantero v. Bank of America, opening the potential for several circuit courts to address the issue this year, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.