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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PacifiCorp Faces $100M Ask In Newest Oregon Wildfire Trial

By Cara Salvatore

Oregonians, including a photographer and a charter boat operator, started the latest trial against utility PacifiCorp over wildfire damage Tuesday, with their lawyer telling a jury the 10 property owners deserve some $100 million for the fraught experiences they endured.

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'Frivolous' Defamation Suit From Diddy Security Guard Tossed

By Mike Curley

A New York federal judge has thrown out a defamation suit brought by the former head of security for Sean "Diddy" Combs against high-profile attorney Gloria Allred and her client in a sexual assault suit against Combs, finding several of the claims "frivolous."

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6th Circ. Denies PBMs' Privilege Claim In Opioid MDL

By Hannah Albarazi

A Sixth Circuit panel on Tuesday denied a petition from Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth's Optum seeking to reverse discovery orders allowing certain personnel files and internal communications into the multidistrict opioid litigation, finding that the two pharmacy benefit managers failed to show extraordinary abuses justifying relief.

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Egg Producer Beats Suit Over Salmonella Contamination

By Jonathan Capriel

Amish egg producer Milo's Poultry Farms LLC has beaten a proposed class action accusing it of selling eggs tainted with salmonella, after a Wisconsin federal judge ruled Tuesday there is no plausible way a batch of eggs worth less than $100,000 could result in more than $5 million in damages.

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Fla. Judge Trims Suit Over Cruise Passenger's Drowning

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge Tuesday declined to toss a lawsuit accusing Norwegian Cruise Lines of negligence in the death of a Pennsylvania man who drowned while on a shore excursion in Bermuda, but said the complaint must be refiled after ruling some counts weren't sufficiently alleged.

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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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License Lapse Gets Atty Suing NFL's Cardinals Suspended

By David Steele

The attorney representing former Arizona Cardinals Vice President Terry McDonough in his defamation suit against the NFL team and its owner has been suspended for one year from practicing in Arizona for continuing to represent McDonough while his state bar dues remained unpaid.

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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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6th Circ. Backs OSU In Diver's Sexual Abuse Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

A woman who was sexually abused by her diving coach while a teenager on the Ohio State University diving club can't sue the school, the Sixth Circuit ruled Monday, saying she filed her lawsuit too late because the statute of limitation on Title IX claims in Ohio is just two years.

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Canada Customers Agree To Halt 23andMe Data Breach Suits

By Clara Geoghegan

23andMe and Canadian customers suing over a data breach agreed on Tuesday to pause lawsuits against non-bankrupt third parties for up to six months amid the DNA testing company's Chapter 11 proceedings in Missouri.

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Weinstein Atty Casts Accusers As Abusers In Retrial Closing

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan jury on Tuesday heard closing arguments in Harvey Weinstein's retrial on sexual assault charges in New York state court, as his attorney said he was "abused" by "mad," "scorned" ex-lovers who didn't have the talent to make it in show business.

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Adjustment Of Claims Ordered After $66M Boat Death Suit

By Elizabeth Daley

A North Carolina federal judge granted a preliminary injunction ordering an adjuster to proceed with adjusting claims for insurers, including one related to a 2021 fatal Florida boat accident that resulted in a $66 million consent judgment against a policyholder.

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Allstate Urges Ga. Panel To Undo Dismissal Sanction

By Kelcey Caulder

Allstate Fire And Casualty Insurance Co. urged the Georgia Court of Appeals to overturn a trial court's decision to sanction it by tossing its lawsuit over a liability policy issued to the owner of a car involved in a fatal accident.

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Motocross Co. Seeks Coverage For $20M Paralysis Suit

By Elizabeth Daley

A motocross event company is seeking coverage for a $20 million personal injury suit after a child attending a 2022 championship was paralyzed while swimming in a creek onsite after another patron jumped in and landed on her, according to a suit removed to Tennessee federal court.

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Brief

Air Force Major, Wife Drop Negligence Suit Against Marriott

By Jonathan Capriel

A Marriott hotel operator in North Carolina accused of failing to prevent the robbery and sexual assault of an Air Force major in a Charlotte hotel has secured a voluntary dismissal from the major's negligence federal lawsuit, while other Marriott entities, the property owner and a parking management company remain as defendants, the parties said Tuesday.

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Buyer Says Roofing Co. Hid Sex Harassment, Other Liabilities

By Jeff Montgomery

A Colorado-headquartered roofing and exterior services company has sued an acquired business, D.K. Haney Inc., following a discovery that the $11.9 million deal overstated Haney's value by 77% due to a failure to reveal liabilities including sexual harassment by senior officers.

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Safari Co. Can't Arbitrate Fatal Hippo Attack Suit, Court Told

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut-based tour operator cannot force into arbitration a lawsuit over a hippopotamus attack that led to a New Jersey woman's death during a safari in Zambia, her husband and estate have said, claiming they didn't sign a "murky" private dispute clause attached to a ticket sale.

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2nd Circ. Says Social Worker Can't Challenge NY Abortion Law

By Dan McKay

The Second Circuit on Tuesday rejected a social worker's constitutional challenge to a New York law decriminalizing abortion, finding that she lacked standing to sue because she couldn't identify any specific fetus facing harm.

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Seaplane Co. Spars With Manufacturer On Fatal Crash Cause

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state charter flight company is seeking vindication in a state court lawsuit over a 2022 seaplane crash in the Seattle area that killed 10 people, contending that the plane's Canadian manufacturer is ultimately to blame because it lied to regulators about the model's airworthiness to get approval in the 1950s.  

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Norton Rose Adds K&L Gates Product Liability Litigator In LA

By James Mills

Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its product liability team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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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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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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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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