New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed dozens of nonprofit leaders, BigLaw attorneys, law professors and other lawyers to transition committees that will help advise the incoming administration.
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Mamdani Transition Team Includes Dozens Of Attorneys

By Anna Sanders

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appointed dozens of nonprofit leaders, BigLaw attorneys, law professors and other lawyers to transition committees that will help advise the incoming administration.

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Feds Run Table In Housing Bribery Case With 70th Conviction

By Pete Brush

A former public housing superintendent from Brooklyn admitted accepting bribes in exchange for handing out no-bid work contracts Tuesday, as federal prosecutors secured the convictions of all 70 New York City Housing Authority workers arrested last year in an anticorruption sweep.

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Democrats Seek Documents On Emil Bove's DOJ Tenure

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.

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HUD Housing Aid Limits Will Drive Homelessness, States Say

By Rachel Riley

Washington and 19 other states launched a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Rhode Island federal court, seeking to stop abrupt policy changes they claim will result in tens of thousands of formerly homeless people being ousted from publicly subsidized housing and onto the streets.

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Unions Say More Info Is Needed In DOGE Data Access Dispute

By Emily Brill

A union coalition urged a New York federal judge Monday to order the federal government to disclose how much access to federal workers' personal information it gave the Department of Government Efficiency and what the White House unit formerly headed by Elon Musk did with that information.

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$255K In Fees To Google For 'Frivolous' Ramey Case Upheld

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

2nd Circ. Won't Revive NYC Income Source Ban Challenge

By Nate Beck

A Second Circuit panel has sided with the City of New York and a housing nonprofit in tossing arguments from a landlord that a law to prevent discrimination against the use of housing vouchers is unconstitutional.

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INSURANCE

$2.6M Coverage Suit Over Bronx School Collapse Paused

By Mark Payne

A New York federal judge paused a $2.6 million lawsuit Tuesday against Zurich Insurance over unpaid insurance coverage following the collapse of a Bronx school construction site after both parties asked for a stay pending the outcome of a state court lawsuit involving the same claims. 

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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE

NYC Boutique Hotel Can't Undo $1.6M Sex Assault Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A New York federal judge has denied a Manhattan boutique hotel's bid to vacate a $1.6 million judgment awarded to a hotel guest who was sexually assaulted by an unlicensed massage therapist in 2018, saying a seven-figure award for pain and suffering was reasonable.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Bloomberg Can't Nix Mike Huckabee's IP Suit Over AI Training

By Gina Kim

Bloomberg must face a proposed copyright infringement class action led by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee alleging the media company used e-books to train its large language model, after a New York federal judge said Monday she can't determine whether the fair use defense applied without "a robust factual record."

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EMPLOYMENT

MSG Seeks To Boot Atty From Ex-Exec's Bias, Retaliation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A Reavis Page Jump LLP attorney representing a former Madison Square Garden security executive in a discrimination suit is too enmeshed in the facts of the case, MSG said, urging a New York federal court to kick the lawyer and firm off the suit if it's not outright dismissed.

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CSX Must Face Jury On Retaliation Claim, 2nd Circ. Says

By Aaron Keller

Overruling its own precedent governing Federal Railroad Safety Act claims, the Second Circuit on Tuesday said a jury should decide whether CSX Transportation Inc. used a safety violation to justify firing a freight train conductor who had accused two supervisors of ordering him to falsify performance records.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

StubHub Hit With Investor Suit Over Pre-IPO Disclosures

By Sydney Price

Online ticket reseller Stubhub was hit with a proposed shareholder class action in New York federal court accusing it and several of its executives and underwriters of concealing changes to the company's operations that would impact its free cash flow ahead of its initial public offering earlier this year.

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Investors Say Alexandria Overhyped Leasing, NYC Project

By Katryna Perera

Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. investors filed suit in California federal court Tuesday, claiming the real estate investment trust overstated the strength of its leasing business and the projected value of a New York City property, causing the company's stock price to drop once the truth came to light.

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MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

Sustainability-Focused SPAC Invest Green Raises $150M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Special purpose acquisition company Invest Green Acquisition began trading publicly on Tuesday after raising $150 million in its initial public offering built by Greenberg Traurig LLP, Mourant Ozannes (Cayman) LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

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CRIMINAL PRACTICE

2nd Circ. Backs Jury's $3.85M Verdict In Sex Trafficking Case

By Brian Steele

A New York jury had enough evidence to hold retired financier Howard Rubin liable for sex trafficking after six women testified that he lured them with promises of money, travel and modeling opportunities and then subjected them to violent, nonconsensual acts, the Second Circuit has ruled in upholding a $3.85 million civil verdict.

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BANKING

Ex-Bank GC Faces Garnishments After $7M Restitution Order

By Aaron Keller

Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC has told the Connecticut federal court it blocked a former Webster Bank general counsel from drawing money from five accounts totaling close to $178,000 in response to recent garnishment actions, presumably filed by prosecutors to satisfy part of a $7.4 million fraud restitution order.

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Brief

MoonPay Secures NY Trust Charter For Crypto Custody

By Aislinn Keely

Cryptocurrency firm MoonPay announced Tuesday that New York State Department of Financial Services has given it the green light to provide crypto custody and over-the-counter trading services as a New York limited purpose trust company.

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IMMIGRATION

Split 2nd Circ. Faults Immigration Courts' Torture Review

By Tom Lotshaw

A split Second Circuit panel revived a Guatemalan man's bid for deportation relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture, ruling immigration courts used the wrong standard to consider whether he would be tortured by gang members if returned there.

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Cruz Says Biden DOT Pressured Airports To House Migrants

By Britain Eakin

A new report spearheaded by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, concluded that the Biden administration pressured several airports to house migrants and let poorly vetted migrants board domestic flights, despite security risks associated with doing so.

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PEOPLE

Winston & Strawn Promotes 18 To Partner

By Matt Perez

Winston & Strawn LLP has elevated 18 attorneys to partner, two shy of last year's class.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How 2nd Circ. Decision Extends CFTC's Extraterritorial Reach

The Second Circuit recently concluded in U.S. v. Phillips that the Commodity Exchange Act extends to entirely foreign conduct if a victim of the conduct is based in the U.S., suggesting there is a heightened risk that foreign swap transactions will be susceptible to U.S. regulation when U.S. counterparties are involved, say attorneys at Skadden.

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NBA Gambling Probes Highlight Sports Betting's Broad Risks

Recent NBA gambling scandals illustrate the integrity risks arising from legal sports betting, but organizations, which must navigate a patchwork of state laws, can protect their reputations by drafting and enforcing internal policies to address betting-related risks and complying with league and institutional rules, say attorneys at Littler.

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Considerations When Invoking The Common-Interest Privilege

To successfully leverage the common-interest doctrine in a multiparty transaction or complex litigation, practitioners should be able to demonstrate that the parties intended for it to apply, that an underlying privilege like attorney-client has attached, and guard against disclosures that could waive privilege and defeat its purpose, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

By Anna Sanders

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

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Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment

By Courtney Bublé

Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar with the situation told Law360 on Tuesday.

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DOJ Official Sues Over Firing For Epstein Talk On Hinge 'Date'

By Alison Knezevich

A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.

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Fla. Law Student Expelled For Antisemitic Post To Be Reenrolled

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat." 

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Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Rose Krebs

An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.

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Husch Blackwell Blasts Ex-Firm Atty's ERISA Suit

By James Boyle

A former Husch Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aboushi Law Firm

Baker & Hostetler

Bond Schoeneck

Chandra Law Firm

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Darby Law Group LLC

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

DiCello Levitt

Disparti Law Group

Fried Frank

Glancy Prongay

Greenberg Traurig

Hinckley Allen

Holwell Shuster

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

K&L Gates

Levi & Korsinsky

Liston Abramson

Littler Mendelson

Lowenstein Sandler

Mark S. Zaid PC

Milbank LLP

Mound Cotton

Napoli Shkolnik

Nixon Peabody

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Pollack Pollack

Poynter Law Group

Ramey LLP

Reavis Page

Reece Moore Pedergraft

SBSB Eastham

Sabatini Law Firm PA

Sanford Heisler

Schaerr Jaffe

Scott&Scott

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Vladeck Raskin

Weil Gotshal

Winston & Strawn

Yankwitt LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.

Allianz SE

American Federation of Government Employees

BNSF Railway Co.

BP PLC

Bloomberg LP

CSX Corp.

Caterpillar Inc.

Center for Constitutional Rights

Chicago White Sox

Coinbase Global Inc.

Corning Inc.

Dow Inc.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Hudson Valley Holding Corp.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Legal Momentum

Local Progress

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Metro-North Commuter Railroad Co.

Microsoft Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Netflix Inc.

New York Civil Liberties Union

Nidec Corp.

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Safe Horizon Inc.

Soros Fund Management LLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Sterling Financial Corp.

StubHub Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The City University of New York

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Legal Aid Society

The Morganti Group Inc.

The New York City School Construction Authority

The State University of New York

Toronto Raptors

UBS Group AG

United Way Worldwide Inc.

Webster Financial Corp.

YouTube Inc.

Zurich Insurance Group AG

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

City of New York

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Cook County Circuit Court

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

New York City Housing Authority

New York Department of Financial Services

Transportation Security Administration

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

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations

Washington Attorney General's Office