U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that Lindsey Halligan's 120-day term as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is over, the same day a Virginia federal judge criticized "this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading" in a role in which she was not lawfully serving.
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Lindsey Halligan Out As US Atty As Judge Criticizes 'Charade'

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday that Lindsey Halligan's 120-day term as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia is over, the same day a Virginia federal judge criticized "this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading" in a role in which she was not lawfully serving.

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Shooting Of Indiana Judge, Wife Prompts Call For Vigilance

By Lynn LaRowe

The shooting of an Indiana Superior Court judge and his wife over the weekend has prompted the chief of the state's highest court to urge all jurists in the Hoosier State to "remain vigilant in your security."

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Former NJ AG Platkin Reflects On Legacy Of 'Tough Fights'

By Jake Maher

Matthew Platkin joined Law360 Pulse for an exit interview exploring the biggest cases and issues of his tenure as attorney general, including his anti-corruption work and litigation against the Trump administration.

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Private Equity Eyes Legal Field As Alternative Paths Open Up

By Ryan Boysen

This could be the year that private equity finally cracks the ramparts of the U.S. legal sector, as the rise of alternative business structure programs and managed services organizations chip away at the long-standing ban on nonlawyer ownership of law firms.

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Goldstein Poker Pals Got Money From Firm, Witness Says

By Jared Foretek

A former office manager at Thomas Goldstein's law firm Tuesday told the jury in his tax fraud trial in Maryland federal court that hundreds of thousands of dollars in wire transfers sent to the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's poker counterparts were classified as business transactions in documents used by the firm's tax accountants.

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Senior DOJ Fraud Atty Joins Akin Amid Surge In FCA Cases

By Jack Rodgers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has expanded its bench of former public servants, announcing Tuesday the hire of a senior trial counsel from the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Fraud Section, shortly after the agency revealed last week a record $6.8 billion in False Claims Act judgments and settlements in the most recent fiscal year.

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Supreme Court Rules Mandatory Restitution Is Punitive

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion Tuesday that restitution is a criminal punishment subject to the Constitution's ban on increasing punishment retroactively.

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Justices Ax 6th Circ. Abortion Order Amid Loper Bright Outcry

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday erased a Sixth Circuit decision allowing abortion-related conditions on family planning grants, a victory for Tennessee officials who accused the circuit of flouting the high court's landmark rejection of judicial deference to regulators.

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Justices Say State Med Mal Laws Don't Apply In Federal Court

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Delaware medical malpractice statute clashes with federal rules of procedure and is therefore unenforceable in federal court, saying the state law unfairly asks for evidence early on in a case.

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Justices Set Time Limit To Ax Judgments, Ending 11-1 Split

By Jeff Overley

Almost every circuit court has wrongly allowed litigants to vacate invalid judgments regardless of how long ago the judgments became final, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, endorsing one circuit's outlier interpretation of a decades-old procedural rule.

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Supreme Court Security Gets $30M Boost In DHS Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The consolidated U.S. Department of Homeland Security funding bill for fiscal year 2026 released early Tuesday morning includes $30 million for the security of U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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Fulton County Says DA Should Foot Trump Election Case Bill

By Emily Johnson

Fulton County told a Georgia state court that a new state law requires the disqualified district attorney's office to pay for millions of dollars in legal fees requested by President Donald Trump and others after defeating election interference charges, pushing back on the argument that the fees would be paid from the county's own coffers.

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Texas, Fla. AGs Pen Opinions On 'Unconstitutional' DEI Efforts

By Madison Arnold

The attorneys general of Florida and Texas both issued opinions calling diversity, equity and inclusion requirements and laws unconstitutional.

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Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

By Kevin Penton

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Aprio Legal

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Baker McKenzie

Barnes & Thornburg

Bass Berry

Bernstein Litowitz

Beveridge & Diamond

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Cahill Gordon

Caldwell Carlson

Cassidy Levy

Cleary Gottlieb

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Ziffer

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Desmarais LLP

Duane Morris

Dykema

Edelson PC

Elzufon Austin

Erise IP

Eversheds Sutherland

Feuerstein Kulick

Finnegan

Freshfields

Garland Samuel & Loeb

Gibson Dunn

Glancy Prongay

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Traurig

Griffin Durham

Hagens Berman

Harding Law Firm LLC

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hughes Hubbard

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Irell & Manella

Jones Day

Kelley Drye

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lieff Cabraser

Maloy Jenkins

Mandelbaum Barrett

Marshall Dennehey

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

Milbank LLP

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Munger Tolles

Napoli Shkolnik

Nossaman LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Oles Law Group

Orrick Herrington

Otterbourg PC

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Pierson Law LLC

Pillsbury Winthrop

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reese Marketos

Rivkin Radler

Robbins Geller

Ropes & Gray

Ruloff Swain

Sanford Heisler

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Smith Gambrell

Squire Patton

Steptoe LLP

Stris & Maher

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Burton

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

Wheeler Trigg

White & Case

Wigdor LLP

Wiley Rein

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

deRubertis Law Firm

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Air Lease Corp.

Akin's

American Bar Association

American Clinical Laboratory Association

American Water Works Company Inc.

Apollo Global Management LLC

Aprio LLP

Avidity Biosciences

BlackRock Inc.

Bloomingdale's Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Drummond

Electronic Arts Inc.

Elliott Investment Management LP

Fort Point Capital

George Washington University

Global Infrastructure Partners

Harvard University

Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

KPMG International

LegalZoom.com Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Meta Platforms Inc.

New York University

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Northeastern University

Novartis AG

Novo Nordisk A S

Papa John's International Inc.

Pfizer Inc.

ROSS Intelligence

SMBC Aviation Capital Ltd.

Stanford University

State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio

Sycamore Partners Management LLC

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

United Services Automobile Association

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

Indiana Supreme Court

National Institutes of Health

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Superior Court of Fulton County

Tennessee Attorney General's Office

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Supreme Court