Lawyers for a homebuilder are asking Delaware's Supreme Court to reconsider its decision affirming the dismissal of a legal malpractice suit against Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC over damages the builder said it suffered due to the firm's negligence handling loan-restructuring disputes, arguing that key issues have been left unresolved.
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Justices Asked To Rethink Gellert Seitz Malpractice Ruling

By Rose Krebs

Lawyers for a homebuilder are asking Delaware's Supreme Court to reconsider its decision affirming the dismissal of a legal malpractice suit against Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC over damages the builder said it suffered due to the firm's negligence handling loan-restructuring disputes, arguing that key issues have been left unresolved.

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Bankrupt Rite Aid Trust Sues Walgreens Over Opioid Costs

By Jarek Rutz

A trustee for Rite Aid Corp.'s bankruptcy estate has sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and a subsidiary, Walgreen Co., in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the pharmacy giant of failing to cover tens of millions of dollars in opioid epidemic-related litigation costs that it had agreed to cover.

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Jazz Denied Preferred Drug Royalty Rate, But Still Gets Boost

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge has agreed to increase the royalty rate a specialty drugmaker has to pay drug manufacturer Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. for using a patented process behind a newer narcolepsy drug, but by less than what Jazz asked for.

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POLICY & REGULATION

USDA Can't Curb SNAP Benefits As States Fight Data Demand

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Wednesday preliminarily blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from withholding potentially billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefit funds from states that refuse to turn over highly sensitive personal information on millions of SNAP food assistance benefit recipients.

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COURT OF CHANCERY

Gabelli, Entwistle Make Lone Paramount Suit Pitch In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

A fund of Paramount Global Inc. investor Mario Gabelli notified Delaware's Court of Chancery on Thursday that no other stockholders have sought to lead a suit challenging Paramount Global's $8.4 billion acquisition by David Ellison's Skydance Media, with the fund seeking lead plaintiff status and Entwistle & Cappucci and Farnan LLP to be lead counsel.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

3rd Circ. Says FLSA Doesn't Limit Class Member Settlements

By Irene Spezzamonte

The Fair Labor Standards Act tackles only who can litigate claims and is silent on whether settlement class members who have not opted into a collective can release their claims under the federal law, the Third Circuit found Thursday.

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Brief

3rd Circ. Denies DOL's Bid For 2nd Look At H-2A Fine Powers

By Irene Spezzamonte

The full Third Circuit won't weigh whether the U.S. Department of Labor had the authority to use in-house administrative proceedings to impose more than $580,000 in fines on a New Jersey farm for what the department said were violations of the H-2A visa program.

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DISTRICT COURT

Nexus Wants New Trial After Exela Cleared In $89M IP Case

By Elliot Weld

Nexus Pharmaceuticals has asked a Delaware federal judge to order a new trial on its patent infringement claims against rival Exela Pharma Sciences, saying a jury that cleared Exela of those claims in September did so "against the great weight of evidence."

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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Traveling Solo Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Traveling by myself has taught me to assess risk, understand tone and stay calm in high-pressure situations, which are not only useful life skills, but the foundation of how I support my clients, says Lacey Gutierrez at Group Five Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Loan Forgiveness Overhaul May Chill Legal Aid Work

By Alison Knezevich

Civil legal services groups and public defenders say the Trump administration's proposed change to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program would politicize the initiative and make it harder to recruit attorneys to jobs that pay less than the private sector.

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Atty Quits Ga. Bar's 'Facade' Committee On Client Solicitation

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia attorney resigned Friday as head of the state bar's committee on attorney-client solicitation, accusing the bar of not even "reaching for a garden hose" while unlawful solicitation of accident victims has spread "like wildfire" across the Peach State.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Johnson & Johnson hit with a £1 billion ($1.34 billion) claim for allegedly selling contaminated baby powder, Carter-Ruck bring a claim against the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and Hewlett Packard file a probate claim against the estate of Mike Lynch.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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NY Court Orders Hearing On Counsel Conflict In Drug Case

By Elizabeth Daley

A man who pled guilty to gun and drug charges and was sentenced to 12 years in prison can argue for a new trial due to ineffective counsel after a similarly culpable co-defendant got a light sentence allegedly due to cooperation between their attorneys, a New York state appeals court said in a reversal.

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Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

By Jack Karp

The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid crisis, a spokesperson for the Utah attorney general's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Ga. Judge Resigns After DUI Arrest Outside Fla. Strip Club

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia Superior Court jurist who led the state's Council of Superior Court Judges stepped down from the bench Thursday after his driving under the influence arrest last week outside a Jacksonville, Florida, strip club.

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UC Law School Can Drop Hastings Name, Appeals Court Says

By Andrea Keckley

California is allowed to drop Serranus Clinton Hastings' name from the University of California's San Francisco-based law school, a state appeals court has ruled, backing a trial judge's decision to toss a lawsuit filed by the former chief state Supreme Court justice's descendants and various school alumni.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Caldwell Cassady & Curry PC and Miller Fair Henry PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury found Samsung must pay nearly $445.5 million for infringing four wireless communication patents.

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Liberty Mutual Attys Face Sanctions Bid Over Citation Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A St. Louis federal court is weighing whether to sanction Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Company's lawyers after they submitted a motion containing citation errors and then, after a warning, "somehow" submitted a second motion with the same types of mistakes.

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Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

By Ryan Boysen

The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

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Robbins Geller To Steer REIT Investors' Suit Over $787M Deal

By Sydney Price

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP will lead a proposed class of investors in real estate investment trust Broadmark Realty Capital Inc. who claim they were misled by executives from the REIT ahead of a $787 million merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2023.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin & Tate

Alston & Bird

ArentFox Schiff

Armstrong Teasdale

BCL Solicitors

Barley Snyder

Brett Wilson LLP

Burges Salmon

Caldwell Cassady

Cambre & Associates

Capsticks Solicitors LLP

Carter-Ruck

Cooley LLP

Cox Byington

Cravath Swaine

Dhillon Law Group

Dickinson Wright

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Ellis Jones Solicitors

Entwistle & Cappucci

Farnan LLP

Fish & Richardson

Florida Justice Institute

Foley & Lardner

Fountain Court Chambers

Freshfields

Gellert Seitz

Gibson Dunn

Goldblatt & Singer

Hill Dickinson

Hillis Clark

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Keller Rohrback

Kennedys Law LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Landis Rath

Latham & Watkins

Laytons LLP

Leigh Day

Marshall Dennehey

Matrix Chambers

McCarter & English

McKool Smith

Michael Yamamoto LLP

Miller Fair

Morgan Lewis

Morris James

Morris Nichols

Motley Rice

Parr Brown

Pinsent Masons

Quinn Emanuel

RWK Goodman

Richards Layton

Robbins Geller

Ross Aronstam

Rule Garza

Rynearson Suess

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Stephenson Harwood

Sterlington PLLC

Stewarts Law LLP

Summerville Firm LLC

Taylor Wessing

Travers Smith

Troutman

Trowers & Hamlins

Watson LLP

White & Case

Winebrake & Santillo

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aldi GmbH & Co. KG

American Bar Association

Anglo American PLC

Association of Corporate Counsel

Balfour Beatty PLC

Barclays PLC

BlackRock Inc.

Burford Capital LLC

CVS Health Corp.

Co-operative Group Ltd.

Conduent Inc.

Exela Pharma Sciences LLC

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FedEx Corp.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Fort Point Capital

Fulton Financial Corp.

Global Infrastructure Partners

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Iceland Foods Ltd.

Investments Ltd.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

L'Oreal SA

Legal Aid Society of Cleveland

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Lloyds Bank PLC

Macquarie Group Ltd.

Marks & Spencer

National Amusements Inc

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Consumer Law Center Inc.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association

National Westminster Bank PLC

Nexus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ocado Ltd.

OptumRx Inc.

Paramount Global

Ready Capital Corp.

Rite Aid Corp.

Ritz-Carlton Company LLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Skydance Media LLC

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd.

UC Hastings Law

Visa Europe

Volcano Corporation

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.

Waterfall Asset Management LLC

Wells Fargo & Co.

Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Judicial Qualifications Commission

Georgia Supreme Court

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Secretary of State for Health and Others

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Utah

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio