Raytheon, Nightwing To Pay Feds $8.4M Over Cybersecurity

By MJ Koo

Four Raytheon and Nightwing-related defense contractors have agreed to collectively pay $8.4 million to resolve a False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Raytheon knowingly failed to adhere to cybersecurity requirements during contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday.

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Troops Urge High Court To Keep Transgender Ban On Ice

By Katie Buehler

Several transgender service members and recruits told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to lift a federal judge's order prohibiting implementation of the Pentagon's ban on transgender military service, claiming the policy is so deeply rooted in animosity that it won't survive judicial inspection.

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Board Denies Corps Bid To Trim Some Hangar Project Claims

By Tom Lotshaw

The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals refused to toss some claims that a company seeking over $6 million in damages from the Army Corps of Engineers lodged over delays and cost increases on a hangar reconstruction project at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona.

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Rubio Named As Nat'l Security Adviser After Waltz Reshuffle

By Madeline Lyskawa

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he will nominate Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, while choosing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take over Waltz's role as national security adviser.

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WhatsApp Trial Judge Bars NSO's 'Outlandish' IP Theft Claim

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge presiding over a damages trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices ruled Thursday NSO's counsel violated multiple pretrial orders, finding corrective instructions are warranted and barring counsel from making the "outlandish" claim Meta Platforms' spyware-attack remediation was trade secret theft.

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Senate Panel Delays A Vote On Martin Nomination For US Atty

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held off for now a vote to call for a hearing on Ed Martin's nomination for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a move Democrats say would allow more time to review his record and, they hope, convince enough Republicans to help them block his nomination.

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9th Circ. Asked To Revisit Ruling On Guam Munitions Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Ninth Circuit decision allowing a Guam group to challenge an Air Force permit renewal application to detonate expired munitions conflicts with precedent and threatens to burden permit applicants, agencies and courts, the U.S. government said in a rehearing petition filed Wednesday.

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US Tells Justices Telemedicine Case Isn't Ideal For Eligibility

By Dani Kass

The Justice Department is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition over the eligibility of telemedicine patents it's accused of infringing, but it said that if the petition is granted, it plans to argue the patents shouldn't have been invalidated as abstract.

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Army Contractor Seeks $1.3M Over Undelivered Cable Sets

By Madeline Lyskawa

A U.S. Army contractor sued a custom cable manufacturer in Texas federal court Thursday, alleging that it is owed more than $1.3 million for specialized cable sets that were never delivered.

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Hawaii Tenant's Tainted Water Eviction Claims Survive Ruling

By Nate Beck

A Hawaii federal judge preserved a tenant's claims that he was effectively evicted from his home when a landlord failed to identify or warn of water contamination caused by leaks in 2021 at a U.S. Navy fuel storage facility on Pearl Harbor.

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Kirkland Adds National Security Attys From DC Boutique

By Rachel Rippetoe

Kirkland & Ellis LLP picked up two national security partners from a D.C. boutique, the firm announced Thursday.

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Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.

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A Look At Trump's First Judicial Pick Of His Second Term

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's first judicial nominee, Whitney Hermandorfer, who's been tapped for a seat Democrats tried to fill while Joe Biden was in the White House, has been part of litigation on several politically charged issues due to her job with the Tennessee Attorney General's office.

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Cannabis Drink Co. Accuses Stoel Rives Attorneys Of Fraud

By Sam Reisman

A startup that develops nonalcoholic cannabis beers has alleged in a California state court action that attorneys from Stoel Rives LLP and others conspired on a scheme to defraud the company out of millions by purporting to sell an unlicensed marijuana business.

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4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In April

By Julie Manganis

Some notable Massachusetts state court decisions in April wrestled with a Staples affiliate's jurisdictional challenge in an employment case, a discovery dispute in the state's greenwashing litigation against Exxon involving McKinsey & Co., and an insurer's effort to be let off the hook for representing a lawyer in a malpractice claim.

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Trump Announces First Judicial Nominee Of 2nd Term

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced his first judicial nominee of his second administration late Thursday night.

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DC US Atty Pick Vows To Take On Judicial Threats

By Courtney Bublé

Ed Martin, nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia who is currently serving in the role on an interim basis, has told federal judges in D.C. he is concerned about the increase in threats to judges and pledged to work together to stop it.

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Legal Job Sector Stayed Strong In April Despite Economy

By Tracey Read

The U.S. legal sector added 1,400 law-related jobs in April, marking the second straight month of improvement, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Colorado Investor, Ex-Counsel Trade Blows In Malpractice Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A Colorado real estate investor and Fox Rothschild LLP have filed a flurry of motions in a legal malpractice suit, with the investor requesting that the firm be found liable for damages amid its representation in an underlying fight over a soured development deal, and the firm contending the investor abandoned a claim over attorney fees.

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Ex-Litigator, Wilson Elser Plan To Drop Bias Suit

By Ryan Boysen

An ex-Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP litigator who sued the firm for allegedly firing him over his disabilities appears to have settled with his former colleagues, with both parties telling a New York federal judge on Friday they plan to dismiss the case.

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Reuters Escapes Suit Over NJ Judicial Privacy Law

By George Woolston

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging Thomson Reuters violated the New Jersey judicial privacy measure Daniel's Law, finding the plaintiffs failed to properly serve the Canadian organization.

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Convicted Ex-Sacks Weston Atty Gets Early End To Probation

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted the request of a Philadelphia lawyer sentenced in 2023 to prison and supervised release for resolving cases behind the back of his former firm to be let out of probation early.

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Head Of Calif. State Bar To Step Down After Botched Exam

By Jack Karp

The leader of the State Bar of California, who oversaw the problem-plagued rollout of this year's state bar exam, will be leaving the organization when her contract expires in July, the bar announced Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Corporate diversity policies are alive and thriving, according to a new report, although they are often taking on new names to dodge the anti-diversity backlash. Another new study warns that 60% of in-house lawyers are considering looking for a new job, primarily in search of higher pay and better benefits.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and Pilot Law PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federally employed military reservists called to active duty during wartime or a national emergency are entitled to a top-up differential pay, regardless of their specific role.

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NJ Bankruptcy Judges May Be Tapped As Unpaid Mediators

By Emily Lever

Bankruptcy judges may be among the jurists called upon to mediate New Jersey federal court cases without compensation, according to a proposed amendment to court rules.

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FIFA Seeks Fees After Citation Mistakes In Antitrust Case

By Madison Arnold

FIFA is demanding attorney fees from plaintiffs for misusing artificial intelligence in an antitrust suit against the soccer federation in Puerto Rico, with a formatting error revealing that it is seeking more than $50,000 for work performed by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and a local firm, according to court documents.

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Abbe Lowell Launches New Firm With Ex-Skadden Associates

By Rachel Rippetoe

Tapping a team of ex-BigLaw associates, some of whom publicly quit their firms in response to deals struck to avoid scrutiny from the Trump administration, prominent defense lawyer and former Winston & Strawn LLP partner Abbe David Lowell launched a new boutique Friday aimed at helping clients facing what it called "politicized investigations" by the government.

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