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NJ Cases To Watch In 2025: Power Broker, Pollution Cleanup
This year, litigators in New Jersey and beyond will be watching the state's prosecution of power broker George Norcross and his close associates for the alleged wide-ranging RICO conspiracy to obtain Camden waterfront properties and the millions of tax credits that come with the lots.
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Pa. Cases To Watch In 2025: Climate Change And Skill Games
President-elect Donald Trump's impending return to the White House casts a new light on certain pending cases in Pennsylvania courts with federal implications, such as a suburban Philadelphia county's climate change claims against oil companies that contend the suits are preempted and the U.S. Department of Justice's entrance into monopoly allegations against University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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Trump Seeks High Court's Pause Of TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Law
President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to freeze the impending deadline for TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban, suggesting his new administration could negotiate a deal that would end the need for the congressional mandate.
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Biden Vetoes Bill To Add New Judgeships
President Joe Biden vetoed a bill Monday that would have added more federal judgeships, despite the judiciary's plea that more seats on the bench are needed desperately.
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'Tragedy To Farce': Menendez Makes 3rd New Trial Bid
Former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and two co-defendants, convicted of bribery in July, have made a third push for a new trial in Manhattan federal court, contending that the government's latest admission of an evidence gaffe bolstered their case.
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Trump Taps Ex-Homeland Security Atty As DOJ Chief Of Staff
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Chad Mizelle, who formerly held top legal roles at Trump's Department of Homeland Security and is married to Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Kathryn K. Mizelle, as chief of staff at the Department of Justice.
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Public Faith In State Courts Up As Trust In Fed. Courts Sinks
Public confidence in state courts seems to be rising at the same time that trust in the federal courts and overall judicial system is plummeting, according to recent surveys that paint drastically divergent pictures of people's faith in state and national judicial systems.
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New Jersey US Atty Resigning Before Trump Returns
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger of the District of New Jersey announced Monday that he was resigning, making him the latest appointee of President Joe Biden to make departure plans ahead of the incoming Trump administration.
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McElroy Deutsch Beats Former Exec's Malicious Claim
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP got a claim for malicious prosecution against it dismissed without prejudice in litigation against its former business development director, who the firm accused of embezzling millions from it.
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Ex-NJ AG Leader Says Lowenstein Sandler Feels Like Home
Michael Long, Lowenstein Sandler LLP's newest partner and the former head of the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General’s Division of Law, joined Law360 Pulse to reflect on his time leading the 500-attorney division and his plans at the firm.
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What 2024 Looked Like For 4 Small Firms
A lot can happen in a year for small firms. Law360 Pulse caught up with four, some just getting started and others with long legacies, to talk about what their 2024 looked like.
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NYC's New Corp. Counsel Talks Importance Of Law Dept.
Muriel Goode-Trufant first joined the New York City Law Department in 1991 — and now she's running the show.
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House Report Says Gaetz Paid For Sex, Accepted Gifts
Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz regularly paid women for sex, including with one 17-year-old girl, used illicit drugs and accepted a trip to the Bahamas in excess of permissible gift amounts, according to a report released Monday morning by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics.
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Meet New Members Of Georgia's Judicial Nominating Board
Georgia Gov. Brian P. Kemp has added nine people to the state commission that recommends judicial candidates for state, superior and appellate courts, including former Chief Justice Harold Melton of the Georgia Supreme Court, the former judge of the Georgia State-wide Business Court and the general counsel of Synovus Financial.
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Another Texas Judge Exits X's Advertising Boycott Suit
The second Texas judge to oversee litigation filed by Elon Musk's X Corp. accusing the World Federation of Advertisers and others of conspiring to withhold advertising revenue from the company has recused himself from the case.
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High Court Bar's Future: Williams & Connolly's Sarah Harris
Sarah M. Harris of Williams & Connolly LLP never planned on being a U.S. Supreme Court advocate, or even an appellate one. She stumbled upon that career path after realizing her initial goal of becoming a national security or government lawyer wasn't the right fit.
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Feds Rip Atty For NYC Mayor Over Press Statements
Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge Friday that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' lawyer has violated local court rules by making comments to the press that deride their bribery and corruption case against the mayor as a "contrived" effort to tarnish his reputation.
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Biden Exceeds Trump's Record On Judges By One
The U.S. Senate confirmed on Friday the last two judicial nominations from President Joe Biden, making his total of lifetime judicial appointments 235, just one over President Donald Trump's 234.
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Approach The Bench: What Judges Had To Say This Year
Jurists weighed the benefits of partisan elections, praised innovations in telehearings and worried about the future of the profession in nearly a dozen interviews with Law360 this year.
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A Judge Reflects: West Wing Call, 'Alford Plea?' Early Exit
When Chief Judge Louis A. Bledsoe III of the North Carolina Business Court hangs up his robes for the last time on Dec. 31, he'll leave behind a white-hot docket of high-profile cases and a profusion of opinions that helped mold the court into a tribunal fit to rival Delaware's Court of Chancery.
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Former Connecticut Bank GC Admits Embezzling $7.4M
A former general counsel and corporate secretary who once worked for suburban New York and Connecticut banks pled guilty on Friday to two counts connected to a nearly 10-year embezzlement scheme that topped $7.4 million before Webster Bank, based in Stamford, terminated his employment in February 2023, federal prosecutors said.
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Indicted NH Justice Loses Bid To Toss Charges
A New Hampshire state judge has declined to throw out an indictment accusing New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi of interfering with a criminal investigation into her husband, rejecting her argument that the case is tainted by a conflict of interest.
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Ga. Atty Disbarred For Battery Of Cop During DUI Stop
An Atlanta-area attorney was disbarred Friday by the Supreme Court of Georgia after pleading guilty to felony obstruction charges for battery and resisting arrest while under suspicion of driving drunk.
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NJ Atty Says RICO Case Only Alleges He Acted As Lawyer
New Jersey attorney William Tambussi has slammed the Garden State's response to his bid to toss charges against him in the state's sweeping indictment against power broker George E. Norcross III, claiming it does not show how his routine legal work constitutes a crime.
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How Lawyers May Sue The Trump Administration … Again
During the last Trump administration, BigLaw firms challenged White House policies, focusing on immigration, environmental regulations and healthcare. This time around, attorneys could rely on old tools, and some new tactics, to stall the executive branch.