Ga. Atty Disbarred Over Misconduct In Immigration Cases

By Ryan Boysen

A Georgia immigration attorney has received a big lump of coal in his stocking from the Supreme Court of Georgia, which disbarred him after finding he abandoned several vulnerable clients in a yearslong "pattern of neglect."

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DHS Finalizes Rule Shifting H-1B Odds To Higher Earners

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration finalized changes to the H-1B lottery Tuesday, unveiling a final rule it said will favor higher-paid and higher-skilled positions and tamp down on employers exploiting the program to hire low-wage workers and depress the wages of U.S. workers.

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11th Circ. Stands By Partial Revival Of VA Worker's Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

The Eleventh Circuit affirmed its opinion that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs did not violate disability bias law by allegedly delaying a worker's remote work request, rejecting the employee's rehearing bid arguing that a three-judge panel bungled a key fact in its August ruling.

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11th Circ. Backs Mercedes-Benz Win In Religious Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit on Monday declined to revive a discrimination suit brought against Mercedes-Benz by a Muslim employee who alleged he was denied a religious accommodation to take breaks to pray at specific times throughout the workday as required by his faith.

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OCC Wants To Preempt State Mortgage Escrow Interest Laws

By Hailey Konnath

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has unveiled a pair of proposals aiming to, among other things, preempt state laws requiring banks it regulates to make interest payments for escrow accounts connected to certain types of residential mortgage loans, calling it a "critical tool for reducing unnecessary burden."

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Sanofi Eczema Drug Linked To Lymphoma, Suit Says

By Chart Riggall

Drug manufacturers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi were hit with a lawsuit Monday from a Georgia woman alleging the companies have covered up a "strong and consistent causal relationship" between their drug Dupixent and a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

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Ga. City Fired Worker Over Race, Sex Bias Claims, Suit Says

By Kelcey Caulder

The city of Stockbridge, Georgia, and its police chief were sued in federal court by a Black former code enforcement supervisor who claimed she was threatened, demoted and ultimately fired for her involvement in reporting alleged race and sex bias.

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Blue Cross Seeks McDonald Hopkins' Fraud Warning Docs

By Jack Karp

Advice that McDonald Hopkins LLC gave a Florida hospital manager about potential exposure to criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud is neither privileged nor work product, and so should be handed over to a Blue Cross health insurer being sued for malicious prosecution in Georgia federal court, the insurer said.

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11th Circ. Asked To Rehear Pregnancy Center Vandalism Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida woman convicted of vandalizing crisis pregnancy centers across the state asked the Eleventh Circuit Monday to reconsider a ruling affirming her conviction, arguing that she should not have been prosecuted under a conspiracy statute for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.

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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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