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• Senate Confirms Paul Atkins as SEC Chair

  10-04-2025 03:45 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "He's taking the helm of the SEC on a time of transition and will work alongside the CFTC [Commodity Futures Trading Commission] to implement a new crypto regulatory framework," said Renato Mariotti, a partner at Paul Hastings. "Given all the uncertainty and change at the commission, his confirmation will provide much needed direction to the SEC."       
  
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• Energy Companies Claim State AG Uses Profit-Seeking Law Firms for Unjust Legal Action

  17-05-2025 01:01 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  This action was surfaced by Law.com Radar, which delivers real-time alerting on new litigation across more than 2,600 state and federal courts. Click here to get started and be first to act on opportunities in your region, practice area or client sector.       
  
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• Changpeng Zhao in UAE Can Be Sued for Terrorism Finance Via U.S. Counsel

  16-05-2025 23:46 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "CZ can run but he cannot hide,said Ryan Sparacino, the managing partner at Sparacino, who is among the litigators representing the plaintiffs, referring to Binance's founder Changpeng Zhao. “We look forward to seeing him in court soon."       
  
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• HSF Makes Leadership Changes Ahead of Merger, Creates US-Focused Role

  16-05-2025 23:15 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The merger is set to happen in two weeks.       
  
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• Litigation Trends to Watch: Michigan Privacy Suits Hit Former UM Football Coach. Plus, Carmakers Sued over Infotainment Tech

  16-05-2025 23:13 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Patent litigation against major carmakers soared in Texas courts over infotainment tech.       
  
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• Judge Stands By $1 Damages Award in Contract Dispute Over Multimillion Dollar Turbine Project

  16-05-2025 22:44 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood for the Northern District of Illinois denied The Boldt Co.'s motion to alter a $1 judgment in favor of the defendant, Black & Veatch Construction. Boldt moved to amend in an attempt to recover money it believed it was owed for work it performed as a subcontractor for the defendant before it was fired for scheduling issues.       
  
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• Varying Rulings: When Is Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege Waived in Emotional Distress Case?

  16-05-2025 22:43 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  In Del Prete v. Villaege of Romeoville, the plaintiff claimed she was wrongfully convicted for the murder of an infant in her care and has sued the investigators overseeing her case for the emotional pain she faced during her 10-year prison sentence. She filed a motion for a proposed protective order covering her health records, where she sought access to mental-health documents before they were disclosed to the defendants.       
  
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• Trump Is Targeting Insurance Companies: Expect Spike in Fraud Litigation

  16-05-2025 22:01 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The Department of Justice pointed out that the case falls in line with "the government's emphasis on combating health care fraud."       
  
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• Hogan Lovells Partner Takes On Broadway With Producing Debut

  16-05-2025 21:54 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Hogan Lovells partner Doug Fellman has recently taken on a new position as a Broadway producer, while maintaining his full-time white-collar practice.       
  
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• Suit Against Sprinklr Exemplifies How AI Claims Can Imperil Firms—and Their Officers and Directors

  16-05-2025 21:44 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “While many D&O policies will respond to securities claims, policyholders need to ensure that AI-related losses are covered and not subject to exclusions addressing AI and similar technologies," said Geoffrey Fehling, a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth.       
  
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• $32.5M Gift Prompts Name Change for University of Tennessee College of Law

  16-05-2025 21:05 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The University of Tennessee College of Law has been renamed the Frank Winston College of Law, an alumnus of the university and law school.       
  
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• Trump Legal Battle Does Not Deter Susman From Recognizing 25 Students of Color with Prize

  16-05-2025 20:53 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The Susman Godfrey Prize has been expanded this year, with the firm increasing the number of award recipients and increasing the award prize.       
  
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• Federal Judge Restricts 'Continuous' Employment Harassment Claims to 300-Day Window

  16-05-2025 20:09 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The judge said the plaintiff properly detailed how the university and its supervisors created a hostile work environment by pressuring her into creating a retirement date and separation plan so a younger colleague could assume her position.       
  
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• How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Be Engaged and Proactive in Your Career and at Your Firm,' Says Amanda Zablocki of Sheppard Mullin

  16-05-2025 17:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "Be engaged and proactive in your career and at your firm. There are many lawyers who have great ideas, but few are willing or able to execute on them. Be the person that others rely on to come up with new and exciting initiatives and to deliver. Bring along others for the ride as much and as often as you can. The more coordinated, cohesive, and invested your team is, the more successful you all will be."       
  
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• 'Just Ship It': How to Prevent Heat-of-the-Moment Emails From Capsizing Your Company

  16-05-2025 16:41 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "If you read your document, your email or whatever and it wouldn't be appropriate to read in open court, before a jury or a judge, then you better rewrite it," said David Graham, senior counsel at Gardner Law.       
  
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• When are TROs Appealable? Trump Admin Cases Put Question in Spotlight

  16-05-2025 14:44 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  As a general rule, TROs—short-term orders that pause actions pending preliminary injunction decisions—are not appealable, though courts have recognized exceptions, such as when a TRO threatens irreversible harm or basically functions as a preliminary injunction.       
  
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• 'Everyone, Stop Talking!': Judge Sends Fight Between Kline & Specter and Ex-Associate to Arbitration

  16-05-2025 07:03 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  While the judge endeavored to keep the hearing focused on whether and how Kline & Specter's claims against Terrance DeAngelo should be arbitrated, the acrimonious history of the dispute occasionally bled in.       
  
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• Read the Verdict: Federal Jury Finds Amgen Liable in Drug Monopolization Case

  16-05-2025 04:19 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The jury after just over half a day of deliberations found Amgen Inc. liable on 10 of the 11 claims in the complaint, including monopolization and unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Act.       
  
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• Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Helping Immigrant Evade Arrest by ICE

  16-05-2025 03:31 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty to federal charges that she obstructed an arrest and deportation operation by U.S. immigration authorities in her courtroom.       
  
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• Trump Media Attorneys Argue That Presidential Immunity Warrants Halting Chancery Case

  16-05-2025 02:02 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Vice Chancellor Lori Will took three hours of argument on the case. Lawyers for Trump Media & Technology Corp said the court should rule clearly stating the supremacy clause bars all civil litigation against a sitting president, partly because state court judges would benefit by keeping themselves out of "any political entanglements." But plaintiffs' counsel said civil lawsuits over non-official acts have always been allowed even if a sitting president is a defendant.    
  
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• The Law Firm Disrupted: Big Law's Collective Efforts to Either Strike a Deal or Fight Trump Were Unfolding at Same Time

  16-05-2025 00:52 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  It's been easier for firms to team up to accede to the Trump administration than to oppose it.       
  
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• Ferguson Says FTC's Workforce Must Shrink to Stay Within Budget

  16-05-2025 00:38 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The FTC began the fiscal year with a staff of 1,315, which has since been reduced by 95 people after deferred resignation, voluntary separation and retirement agreements, the agency's chair said. Andrew Ferguson added he anticipates the staff will be cut further to its lowest level in a decade— about 1,100 full-time employees.       
  
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• Feds Drop Criminal Charges in Illinois Against Tom Girardi

  16-05-2025 00:37 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland of the Northern District of Illinois said she would grant the government's motion to dismiss criminal charges against Girardi.       
  
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• Beyond the Logo: How AI Complicates Trademark Protection In the Digital Age

  16-05-2025 00:20 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Today, building brands solely on the promise of a different product or service has become unsustainable. Any “new and improvedfeature or benefit is quickly eclipsed by competitors. Consequently, brands signal category superiority not through rational claims, but by reinforcing a distinct persona — a “nesscomprised of distinguishing traits and behaviors that form an ownable brand essence difficult for competitors to replicate.       
  
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• Are Gen Z Law Students Suffering More Than Previous Generations?

  15-05-2025 22:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “The world has changed. The profession has changed. The people in the profession have changed.       
  
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• Microsoft Faces 'Multi-Billion' Pound Class Action

  15-05-2025 22:52 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The lawyers leading the case said it is one of the largest class actions to be filed in the U.K.       
  
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• US Judges Deal 2 Setbacks to White House, Restoring ABA's Domestic Violence Grants and Blocking a 'Union Busting' Executive Order

  15-05-2025 22:50 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  U.S. District Judges Christopher Cooper and Paul Friedman of the District of Columbia granted preliminary injunctions restoring the American Bar Association's $3.2 million federal grant awards and protecting the bargaining rights of the American Foreign Service Association, respectively.       
  
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• Combs Defense Paints Accuser as Willing Participant in Charged Sex Acts

  15-05-2025 22:45 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The hip hop mogul's defense team used the messages to show his former partner was eager to take part in sex with male escorts.       
  
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• Coinbase Sued in Nationwide Class Actions Over Data Breach

  15-05-2025 22:25 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “Whether through impersonation, bribery or social engineering, the endgame is the same: gaining access to corporate IT systems or sensitive data,said Justin Daniels, an equity partner at Baker Donelson.       
  
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• Former Fried Frank Litigation Chair James Wareham Dies at 64

  15-05-2025 22:23 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  James Wareham, longtime litigation chair at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, died earlier this month at the age of 64.       
  
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