NYC Mayor Mamdani Appoints 3 New Judges

By Andrea Keckley

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled three judicial appointments on Monday, drawing from a familiar pipeline to the bench that includes former assistant district attorneys with long tenures in the city's court system.

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Authors Demand OpenAI's $1B Disney Deal Details For IP Suit

By Ivan Moreno

Bestselling authors accusing OpenAI of unlawfully using their copyrighted works to train ChatGPT have asked a New York federal judge to order the company to produce details of its $1 billion licensing deal with Disney announced last month, saying the agreement could show the "feasibility" of a licensing market for AI training.

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NY Civil Legal Services Provider Plans To Unionize

By Andrea Keckley

Staff members at the civil legal services organization Build Up Justice NYC announced Monday that they plan to join the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, a union representing more than 3,400 public-interest workers across the greater metropolitan area.

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Ciminelli Walks As 10-Year Buffalo Billion Fraud Case Ends

By Stewart Bishop

The long and contentious corruption case against New York developer Louis Ciminelli and others that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on fraud came to a close Tuesday, after he pled guilty and was sentenced to no time in prison.

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Ramey Blocked As Atty In Image Patent Fight In NY

By Adam Lidgett

Intellectual property attorney William Ramey was prevented from representing the owner of image processing and modifying patents used in special eyeglasses in an infringement suit in New York federal court, leading the company to abandon the case.

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Law Clerk Conflict Talk Can't Get Javice Retrial, Feds Say

By Cara Salvatore

Charlie Javice, the founder of defunct student loan startup Frank, should not get a new trial over charges that she defrauded JPMorgan, which acquired her company, simply because two clerks who worked on the trial had accepted offers from a law firm involved in the litigation, federal prosecutors have argued.

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Top Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice Cases Of 2025

By Y. Peter Kang

A headline-grabbing $329 million wrongful death verdict against Tesla and a landmark $2.5 billion deal between DuPont and New Jersey over PFAS "forever chemicals" are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from 2025.

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Fed. Circ. Asks If Wrong Autel Was Sued In Nixed $6.6M IP Row

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel grappled Tuesday with a Texas federal judge's disposing of a $6.6 million infringement verdict against Autel over Orange Electronic Co.'s tire pressure monitoring patent, with one judge questioning Orange's choice of defendant in the case.

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NYC Hospital Network, Co. Fight Class Cert. In Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

NYC Health and Hospitals workers weren't subject to a single policy that violated federal law, the hospital network and a staffing company told a New York federal court, urging it to reject the workers' bid for collective certification in their wage suit.

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Rakoff Rules Software Co. Ex-Chair Tried To Defraud His Co.

By Joyce Hanson

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said he barred the ex-chairman of a software investment company, Invisalign inventor Zia Chishti, from trying to transfer money out of the United States to avoid a $9 million arbitral award because Chishti intended to defraud his former company.

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Russian Asks Supreme Court To Reverse Fugitive Label

By Jack McLoone

A Russian woman accused of helping an oligarch evade sanctions imposed by former President Barack Obama against people who contributed to the 2014 national emergency in Ukraine told the U.S. Supreme Court she is wrongly being labeled a fugitive and denied the ability to contest her indictment.

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Ex-Robbins Geller Attys' New Firm To Lead Securities Suit

By Katryna Perera

A new firm by former partners of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has secured its first lead counsel appointment in a securities suit against National Instruments Corp., which alleges the company repurchased stock while concealing from investors it was considering being acquired.

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Rick Perry's AI Energy Co. Hit With Post-IPO Lawsuit

By Jessica Corso

An artificial intelligence infrastructure company co-founded by former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is facing a proposed class action accusing it of overselling its key development in order to secure $745.7 million through an initial public offering.

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Google Wants One Complaint From Ad Tech Rivals, Not Six

By Bryan Koenig

Google has asked a New York federal judge to tee up a bid to forcibly consolidate half a dozen antitrust lawsuits from rivals accusing Google of hobbling their advertising placement technology businesses, arguing one combined complaint would be more efficient for the lawsuits bearing "substantial similarities."

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1st Circ. Questions Feds' Mootness Claim In NIH Grant Suits

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit appeared to push back Tuesday on assertions by the government that new guidance for terminating medical research grants over supposed links to issues like DEI, gender identity and vaccines — along with a partial settlement last week — moot a pair of lawsuits challenging the directives.

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Willkie Adds DC, NY Funds Attys From K&L Gates, Sidley

By Jack Rodgers

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired asset management partners in New York and Washington, D.C., who join the team from Sidley Austin LLP and K&L Gates LLP to continue advising clients on transactions and regulatory matters related to a range of investment funds.

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Paul Hastings Adds Ex-Cravath Tax Pro To Growing M&A Team

By Andrea Keckley

After adding 20 partners to its mergers and acquisitions platform over the past two years, Paul Hastings LLP announced on Tuesday that it has hired a former Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP partner who advises on the tax elements of mergers and acquisitions.

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Ex-SDNY Deputy Chief Of Appeals Joins Pryor Cashman

By Matt Perez

Pryor Cashman LLP announced Tuesday that it hired a former assistant U.S. attorney at the Southern District of New York as a partner in its white collar and regulatory enforcement practice out of its New York office.

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Fox Rothschild Adds Ex-Steptoe Atty To Head Fintech Practice

By Tracey Read

Fox Rothschild LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired the former leader of Steptoe LLP's payments team as chair of the firm's newly formalized fintech and digital assets practice.

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2nd Circ. Ruling Shows Procedural Perils Of Civil Forfeiture

The Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Ross decision, partially denying the return of an attorney's seized funds based on rigid standing requirements, underscores the unforgiving technical complexities of civil asset forfeiture law, and provides several lessons for practitioners, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard Mullin.

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Reviewing 2025's Artificial Intelligence Disputes Over IP

2025 brought the first major fair use rulings involving generative artificial intelligence, and in 2026 courts will weigh in on more discovery disputes, renewed motions to dismiss, class certification challenges and fair use defenses that could shape the course of future AI litigation, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

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Trump Announces First Judicial Picks Of 2026

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening his first judicial nominees of 2026, a slate of four district court picks for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Judgeship Nomination Not Renewed Amid Fla. Charity Probe

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of John Guard, senior counselor to the attorney general of Florida, for a Middle District of Florida federal judgeship, has not been renewed for the new session of Congress after he came under scrutiny in a criminal probe regarding a charity connected to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs

By Elliot Weld

A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.

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Texas Justices Erase ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

By Lynn LaRowe

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order ending a longstanding rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, with the court giving itself the authority for accreditation.

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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."

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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

By Jeff Overley

The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President

By Jake Maher

The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.

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