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    Davis Wright Picks Up Former Acting US Attorney In Seattle

    A 23-year veteran of the U.S. Department of Justice who spent much of 2025 as acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington joined Davis Wright Tremaine LLP's Seattle office as a partner, the firm announced Monday.

  • Trump Taps Vance For Fraud Task Force, Bashing Blue States

    President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating a task force chaired by Vice President JD Vance that aims to curb "fraud, waste and abuse" in federal housing, food and other benefit programs, with the president alleging "staggering fraud and waste" in Minnesota and other Democratic-led states.

  • Boris Epshteyn Targeted Over Trump Bid To 'Coerce' BigLaw

    Lawyers, law professors and retired judges led by two nonprofits urged the New York state courts' ethics committee on Monday to investigate Boris Epshteyn's involvement in President Donald Trump's efforts to "intimidate and coerce" BigLaw firms into pro bono agreements with the administration.

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    Meet The Attorneys Facing Off Over NJ Judicial Privacy Law

    Top appellate litigators at private firms, state agencies and public interest organizations will square off Tuesday before the New Jersey Supreme Court over a state-of-mind question at the center of a constitutional challenge to Daniel's Law, a state judicial privacy law.

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    Judges Using AI For Some Tasks, But Cautious About Risks

    Every federal and state judge who participated in a recent survey said they are using generative artificial intelligence in their work, but acknowledged the risks the technology poses and insisted it should only help with speeding certain tasks, according to a new report.

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    NY Suspends Atty Accused Of Scamming Clients There, Fla.

    A New York appellate court has suspended the law license of a Florida-based lawyer accused of "causing great public harm" by abandoning dozens of clients' cases after charging them nonrefundable retainer fees.

  • Justices To Review Terminations Of TPS For Syria, Haiti

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will consider the Trump administration's appeal of lower court rulings barring the government from moving forward with terminations of temporary protected status for Haitian and Syrian migrants.

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    Ex-SDNY Prosecutor To Join Lowell & Associates In DC

    A former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York has departed MoloLamken LLP after more than 7 1/2 years to join Lowell & Associates PLLC, the firm announced Monday.

  • Democrats Push DOJ To Investigate Noem For Perjury

    Democrats have referred the departing U.S. secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, to the Department of Justice for a perjury investigation following her recent congressional testimony.

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    Conservative Groups Back DOJ As Amici In Law Firm EO Suits

    Conservative groups are backing the Trump administration's attempts to revive executive orders targeting BigLaw firms, arguing in an amicus brief to the D.C. Circuit that Perkins Coie LLP had "unclean hands" for its part in what they called the "Russiagate hoax."

  • PFAS Judge Again Declines Recusal Over DuPont, 3M Ties

    A Connecticut federal judge again declined to recuse himself in a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances lawsuit, dismissing the plaintiffs' concerns that his former law clerk's representation of several DuPont-related defendants as well as his daughter's employment at a firm representing co-defendant 3M would affect his ability to remain impartial.

  • Mass. Justices Won't Boost Pay For Court-Appointed Attys

    Massachusetts' highest court on Monday declined a request to let state judges offer higher hourly rates to induce attorneys to accept court-appointed cases, a proposal meant to alleviate a shortage of appointed counsel in two of the state's busiest counties.

  • Trump To Get 5th North Carolina Federal Court Vacancy

    President Donald Trump will get another judicial vacancy to fill in North Carolina with U.S. District Judge William L. Osteen Jr. of the Middle District of North Carolina recently announcing he will take senior status.

  • Texas Attorney To Stay In Jail In Cyberstalking Case

    A Texas attorney accused of cyberstalking attorneys at BigLaw firms must remain in jail after a Texas federal court accepted on Friday a magistrate judge's findings that the attorney would not likely abide by the basic terms of her release.

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    'Swinging Dicks' Dissent Stirs Uproar Across 9th Circ. Bench

    A raunchy dissent in litigation over transgender spa patrons prompted dozens of Ninth Circuit judges to denounce the "vulgar barroom talk" of a colleague, who returned fire by ridiculing his peers for adopting the "fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun."

  • 6th Circ. Affirms Denial Of Atty's Theft Deduction

    An attorney who led an investment partnership whose principals were criminally prosecuted for fraud is not entitled to tax deductions for theft loss related to the fallout, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying there was no evidence that the principals intentionally fleeced him.

  • GSA Pans Giving 'Unelected Judiciary' Sway Over Property

    The federal government's landlord told the federal judiciary it is "ill equipped" to have direct authority to maintain its buildings.

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    Judge Denies US Atty's Recusal Call Over Conflict Concerns

    Calling it "procedurally improper, untimely, and lacking merit," a federal judge on Friday nixed a demand from Minnesota's U.S. attorney for the judge to step aside from a habeas case related to the government's immigration enforcement operation since his wife is pursuing litigation over the crackdown as the state's solicitor general.

  • NY Republicans Say Chief State Judge Crossed Ethics Line

    Republican legislators on the judiciary committees of the New York state Senate and Assembly have brought a misconduct complaint against New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson over statements the judge made at a symposium in support of proposed legislation to reform minimum sentencing guidelines that they believed violated judicial conduct rules on impartiality.

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    Ariz. Judicial Council OKs ABS Rules Despite Bar Concerns

    Arizona's Judicial Council approved some new restrictions on out-of-state operations for non-attorney-owned law firms allowed to operate under the state's licensure program, despite the Arizona state bar's concerns that the new rules aren't stringent enough.

  • Pa. Suspends Lawyer Jailed For Threats To Disciplinary Atty

    A Pennsylvania attorney jailed for threatening to kill a state ethics lawyer had his law license suspended for two years Friday, according to an order from the state Supreme Court.

  • Immigration Watchdog Sues DOJ Over Secret Court Hearings

    A Minnesota-based human rights nonprofit has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court over its decision to restrict public access to proceedings at St. Paul's Fort Snelling Immigration Court.

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    NC Judge Brings Military Roots, Not Politics, To Biz Bench

    The North Carolina Business Court added decade-long Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley to its bench this month. In an interview, Judge Shirley told Law360 how time as an attorney in the U.S. military helped make him a thorough and punctual jurist, and expanded on his interest in keeping partisan politics out of the judiciary. 

  • Court Software Co. Dumped Docs At Last Minute, Class Says

    A class of North Carolinians who say the state's new digital court system subjected them to wrongful arrests and extended jail time have told a federal judge that the defense produced "virtually nothing" over five months of discovery, only to bury them in hundreds of thousands of documents at the eleventh hour.

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    Former Deputy AG Joins Margolis Edelstein In Pittsburgh

    A former deputy attorney general has recently returned to private practice after more than 13 years in the public sector and joined Margolis Edelstein's litigation team in the Pittsburgh office.

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    In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging. 

  • Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap Author Photo

    In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.

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