A California appellate panel has ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to 166 years in prison for shooting at police, calling the case a "cautionary tale" for lawyers who use hypothetical questions to eliminate prospective jurors during voir dire.
A California appellate panel has ordered a new trial for a man sentenced to 166 years in prison for shooting at police, calling the case a "cautionary tale" for lawyers who use hypothetical questions to eliminate prospective jurors during voir dire.
Deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pled not guilty Monday to narco-terrorism conspiracy charges in Manhattan federal court and vowed through his attorney to claim immunity as a sovereign leader and to challenge the legitimacy of his arrest in a deadly American military raid.
A survivor of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has moved to bolster her proposed class actions accusing Bank of America and BNY of enabling the disgraced financier's sex trafficking enterprise, filing freshly expanded complaints amid a push from the banks for dismissal.
A Wisconsin state judge has resigned from the bench after being convicted of felony obstruction for helping an unauthorized immigrant in her court evade arrest by federal immigration officers, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker confirmed to Law360 Monday.
Federal prosecutors heading to trial against former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein are urging a judge to deny his bid to prevent a jury from hearing about four love interests allegedly paid as no-show employees at his former law firm.
An Illinois state appellate panel has upheld a jury's $2.8 million award for a pedestrian woman who was struck by a Chicago Transit Authority bus and later convicted of murder, but said the "troubling result here" should not be considered an endorsement of her criminal conduct.
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday upheld the murder conviction of a man who allegedly drove a getaway vehicle during a 2018 Fourth of July drive-by shooting, finding that cellphone data recovered from a warrantless search of his phone could be admitted into evidence.
The new chief judge for Michigan's largest and busiest circuit court and his immediate predecessor tell Law360 that judicial safety, technology and staffing are the most pressing issues facing the court as they start the year.
Live Nation wants a pretrial win in a lawsuit brought by the families of two people killed at the Beyond Wonderland music festival in Washington in 2023, contending the company cannot be liable for the "random, unprovoked mass shooting" by a concertgoer who became psychotic while high on hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP saw a 10% uptick in its profits per equity partner in 2025, bringing the firm's average partner pay up over $9 million last year amid an active litigation market, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.
Employment attorneys say the increased use of AI by pro se plaintiffs has the potential to clog dockets, drag out cases and make litigation significantly more expensive.
A Georgia federal judge has slapped a McGuireWoods LLP attorney with a $1,500 fine for using incorrect citations in a brief lodged in a recently dismissed mortgage suit against Bank of America.
A contempt finding against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that contributed to a more than $600 million patent judgment against the firm's former client NortonLifeLock was scrutinized by a Federal Circuit panel on Monday, with one judge saying the order appeared to be invalid.
Federal immigration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate decision that allowed immigration judges to hash out their spat over a newly created speech policy in district court instead of within the congressionally designated special review system.
Legal department hires during the last month of 2025 included high-profile appointments at Apple, Berkshire Hathaway and LPL Financial. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from December.
