A Pennsylvania state judge accused of misusing COVID-19 unemployment relief money to pay his law firm's staff is seeking employment records from their other jobs to determine the credibility of who he calls "disgruntled employees" who made the claims about him to the government.
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Indicted Judge Seeks Info On His 'Disgruntled' Ex-Workers

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania state judge accused of misusing COVID-19 unemployment relief money to pay his law firm's staff is seeking employment records from their other jobs to determine the credibility of who he calls "disgruntled employees" who made the claims about him to the government.

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Judge Extends Block On Post-Pandemic School Funding Cuts

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday maintained a block on a Trump administration move to halt funding for education-related COVID-19 pandemic recovery efforts, after lawyers for New York and other states said the feds are trying to get around an earlier injunction.

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Electrical Parts Co. Owes $1M For Fire Loss, Insurer Says

By Hope Patti

A manufacturer of electrical cables is responsible for over $1 million in damages for a fire at a Philadelphia-based discount department store, an insurer told a Pennsylvania federal court, saying the blaze was caused by the manufacturer's defective armored cabling.

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Precedent Does Apply To $6.6M Microcaptive Case, Court Told

By Anna Scott Farrell

A captive insurance program operator challenging $6.6 million in tax fraud penalties told a Pennsylvania federal court that the government boldly and incorrectly claimed that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling requiring a jury to make certain fraud findings doesn't apply to its case.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong and Sam Bell

A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

3rd Circ. Flags 'Double-Counting' Damages In Trade Secrets Trial

By Matthew Santoni

A Third Circuit panel on Tuesday seemed ready to double-check a jury's apparent double-counting of damages in a trade secrets case between two regulatory compliance businesses, noting that the jurors' math indicated they had multiplied an expert's estimate of allegedly ill-gotten profits, while the victor in the case cautioned against trying to divine the jury's thoughts.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

A Look At Employer Wins In Title VII Suits Over DEI Training

Despite increased attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, courts across the country have favored employers in cases opposing diversity training, challenging the idea that all workplace inclusion efforts violate the law and highlighting the importance of employers precisely recognizing the legal guardrails, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

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Series

Adapting To Private Practice: From US Attorney To BigLaw

When I transitioned to private practice after government service — most recently as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — I learned there are more similarities between the two jobs than many realize, with both disciplines requiring resourcefulness, zealous advocacy and foresight, says Zach Terwilliger at V&E.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Tom Girardi Sentenced To Over 7 Years For $15M Client Fraud

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge sentenced Tom Girardi on Tuesday to over seven years in prison for his wire fraud conviction, granting some leniency to the disbarred attorney on his 86th birthday by imposing a sentence below the guidelines in recognition of his age and ailing health. 

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Butler Snow Calls Bogus AI Citations An 'Isolated Event'

By Rose Krebs

Butler Snow LLP has told an Alabama federal court that fake citations in two of its filings in a prison abuse case that were the result of AI-generated "hallucinations" were an "isolated event," and it is revising policies and procedures to ensure such mistakes won't happen again.

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Google Taps Ex-SG, Munger Tolles Partner For Monopoly Fight

By Hailey Konnath

Google has hired former U.S. Solicitor General and prominent U.S. Supreme Court attorney and Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner Donald B. Verrilli Jr. to represent it in high-profile litigation accusing the tech giant of monopolizing the online search market, according to a notice filed in District of Columbia federal court Tuesday.

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5th Paul Weiss Atty Joins New Firm Dunn Isaacson Rhee

By Daniel Connolly

A partner with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP announced on LinkedIn this week that he's joining a new small firm that consists of other former Paul Weiss partners.

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Groups Ask California Bar To Discipline Google's Kent Walker

By Sue Reisinger

Four organizations are citing new court developments involving Google Inc. Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker's alleged mishandling of evidence in again asking the State Bar of California to discipline him.

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NJ Mayor Accuses US Atty Habba Of Defamation, False Arrest

By Carla Baranauckas

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka filed suit Tuesday against interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba over his May 9 arrest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility he was visiting with three members of Congress, claiming false arrest, malicious prosecution and defamation.

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Senators Preview Possible National Injunction Reforms

By Courtney Bublé

A Senate hearing on Tuesday was marked largely by partisan fighting over whether federal courts have justifiably ruled against the Trump administration, but there were some hints that cooperation to rein in acknowledged litigation abuses such as forum shopping and universal injunctions might be possible.

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SEC Chair Says Next Steps On Crypto Regs Coming Soon

By Jessica Corso

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins indicated Tuesday that the agency is working toward proposing regulations for the cryptocurrency industry and that a key aspect of the work being done by a recently established crypto task force could be complete within a matter of months.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Reid Collins' Lisa Tsai

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Reid Collins & Tsai LLP co-founder and managing partner Lisa Tsai and her team secured a $64.7 million final judgment against Credit Suisse for its role in a fraudulent appraisal that overvalued the Lake Las Vegas development, inducing plaintiff Claymore Holdings and other lenders to invest, earning her recognition as one of Law360’s 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

ArentFox Schiff

Arnold & Porter

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Barnes & Thornburg

Blank Rome

Bradley Arant

Bryan Cave

Butler Snow LLP

Clark Hill

Cleary Gottlieb

Cole Scott & Kissane

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Dagney Johnson Law Group

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Diamond McCarthy

Dilworth Paxson

Dinsmore & Shohl

Dorsey & Whitney

Duane Morris

Faegre Drinker

Fisher & Phillips

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Fried Frank

Frost Brown

Gibson Dunn

Girardi & Keese

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Haynes Boone

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Katten Muchin

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kutak Rock

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Lewis Roca

Lightfoot Franklin

Littler Mendelson

Mayer Brown

Maynard Nexsen

McDermott Will & Emery

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Minto Law Group

Mintz Levin

Morgan & Morgan

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

Nixon Peabody

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Parlatore Law Group

Patterson Belknap

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Polsinelli PC

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reid Collins

Ropes & Gray

Royer Cooper

Seyfarth Shaw

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Smith Mullin

Spencer Fane

Squire Patton

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Taft Stettinius

Troutman

Tucker Arensberg

Venable LLP

Vinson & Elkins

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Wilson Sonsini

Winston & Strawn

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Economic Liberties Project

Apple Inc.

Atkore International Group Inc.

Credit Suisse Group AG

Google LLC

Honeywell International Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Mozilla Corp.

Otto Bock Healthcare GmbH

Owlet Inc.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Stanford University

State Bar of California

The Segal Co. Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Homeland Security Investigations

Internal Revenue Service

New York Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

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

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

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 New Jersey

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama