New York

  • October 09, 2025

    Colgate-Palmolive's $332M Pension Settlement Gets Initial OK

    A New York federal court granted initial approval to a $332 million settlement between Colgate-Palmolive and a class of pensioners who claimed the household products company shorted them on lump-sum retirement payouts, which comes after the parties mediated their dispute earlier this year.

  • October 09, 2025

    GOP Sen. Joins Dems On Bill To Nix Trump's Global Tariffs

    Several Senate Democrats and one Republican introduced legislation Thursday to eliminate the national emergency associated with President Donald Trump's so-called reciprocal tariff regime.

  • October 09, 2025

    Sullivan & Cromwell Impersonators Hit With NY Fraud Claims

    New York Attorney General Letitia James is attempting to take down a slew of businesses whose names are variants of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, accusing them of attempting a scheme to fraudulently redirect checks meant for the global corporate law firm.

  • October 09, 2025

    2nd Circ. Says Immigration Board Ignored Torture Evidence

    The Board of Immigration Appeals glossed over evidence and failed to justify its decision to overturn an immigration judge who granted an El Salvador man protection from removal under the Convention Against Torture, a Second Circuit panel said.

  • October 09, 2025

    Ex-Manhattan ADA Joins Pryor Cashman From NY Boutique

    Pryor Cashman announced Thursday that its family law group has added a former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, who joins the firm's New York office from Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan LLP.

  • October 09, 2025

    Longtime Top NY State Judge In Brooklyn To Retire

    Longtime New York state Judge Lawrence Knipel told Law360 that he will retire next month with plans to go into commercial law and mediation after 35 years on the bench.

  • October 09, 2025

    Menendez Witness Avoids Prison After 'Honest' Testimony

    A Manhattan federal judge allowed a former insurance broker from New Jersey to avoid prison Thursday, after prosecutors said his "extensive" cooperation helped secure the conviction of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges.

  • October 08, 2025

    NYC Takes Social Media Youth Addiction Suit To Federal Court

    New York City has withdrawn from coordinated litigation against social media companies in California and filed a largely identical suit in federal court, a move the city determined was in its "best interest" for holding the companies accountable for purposefully getting youth hooked on their addictive platforms, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

  • October 08, 2025

    Retailers Lose Bid To Ax NY Algorithmic Pricing Law

    A New York federal judge Wednesday tossed the National Retail Federation's lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires retailers to disclose the use of so-called algorithmic pricing, saying the retailers have not plausibly alleged that the disclosure requirement violates the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech.

  • October 08, 2025

    Shinnecock Tribe Wants In On Long Island Land Dispute

    A Native American tribe at the heart of a Long Island, New York, town's lawsuit over a U.S. government decision to place 84 acres of land into "restricted fee" status for the tribe has asked a federal judge to let it intervene in the suit.

  • October 08, 2025

    Golf Execs Deny Discrediting Jack Nicklaus In NY Lawsuit

    Two executives with the company named after Jack Nicklaus testified in Florida state court on Wednesday that they played no role in providing defamatory statements in a New York lawsuit against the golf legend, denying that they also forwarded false claims to reporters and were involved with filing the complaint.

  • October 08, 2025

    OpenAI Says Copyright Case Isn't About AI Outputs

    OpenAI told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that a group of authors should not be allowed to argue that ChatGPT spits out summaries or verbatim portions of their books in a copyright infringement case, saying this is an additional theory of infringement that would make discovery more onerous than it already is.

  • October 08, 2025

    NY AG Cracks Down On Mercury In Skin Lightener Creams

    New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday said she has ordered three companies to end their selling of skin lightening creams that contain dangerously high levels of mercury, sometimes up to 30,000 times the legal limit under the state's law.

  • October 08, 2025

    Software Co.'s Ex-Chair Faces Jurist Ire Over 'Sloppy' Practices

    A New York federal judge expressed frustration with the former chairman of The Resource Group International Ltd. in his bid to challenge his ouster from the software investment company following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal, criticizing the executive's "sloppy and irresponsibly careless practices" in the proceeding.

  • October 08, 2025

    The Legal Advocacy Behind Fan Fiction's Biggest Site

    A nonprofit that appears on the docket as a friend of the court in some of the most important copyright cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals courts is also responsible for running one of the largest fan fiction sites on the internet.

  • October 08, 2025

    Fox Wins $5.8M Judgment In Mexican Media Co. IP Dispute

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday awarded Fox Corp. $5.8 million from the leader of a Mexican media company as part of a lawsuit alleging that Fox's trademarks were wrongly being used in the country.

  • October 08, 2025

    Thompson Hine Boosts Benefits Team With 7 Hires

    Thompson Hine LLP said Wednesday it's expanding its employee benefits and executive compensation practice with seven new lawyers, including a pair of senior attorneys from the Internal Revenue Service and another from the U.S. Department of Labor. 

  • October 08, 2025

    Lender, Servicer Fight Bid To 'Relitigate' Foreclosure Claims

    A state-run mortgage lender and a servicer asked a New York federal court to dismiss a proposed class action alleging that they schemed to inflate interest calculations in foreclosure cases, arguing that the borrower is attempting to improperly relitigate a state court's foreclosure judgment.

  • October 08, 2025

    Musk Ordered To Explain Attys' Role In Twitter Dispute

    Elon Musk must explain whether he plans to argue that he relied on legal advice to defend himself against a dispute over his acquisition of an ownership stake in Twitter, with a New York federal judge saying Musk's statements on the matter have so far been contradictory.

  • October 08, 2025

    2nd Circ. Skeptical Of Reviving NY Teamsters Pension Suit

    The Second Circuit appeared unlikely Wednesday to revive a New York Teamsters worker's proposed class action alleging mismanagement by the caretakers of his multiemployer pension plan, as multiple judges seemed to doubt that the complaint contained enough evidence of a deficient process to manage fees and investments.

  • October 08, 2025

    NJ Court Urged To Keep $3M Ice-Cream-Biz Malpractice Suit

    A Florida physician is fighting bids to dismiss his legal malpractice suit against Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, Fox Rothschild LLP and several attorneys whom he accused of botching documents in a low-calorie ice cream business project, arguing the $3 million suit belongs in New Jersey, where the attorneys were based.

  • October 08, 2025

    DOJ Asks For Stay In PVC Antitrust Case Amid Criminal Probe

    The U.S. Department of Justice is asking an Illinois federal court to pause discovery in a case accusing polyvinyl chloride pipe manufacturers of using a commodity pricing service to exchange information and fix prices while a grand jury investigates the alleged activity.

  • October 08, 2025

    Gibson Dunn Lands NY Real Estate Pro From Skadden

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Tuesday that a former Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP lawyer has joined its real estate practice in New York.

  • October 07, 2025

    Chobani Says Coffee Rival Can't Claim 'Bright & Mellow' TM

    Chobani on Monday urged a New York federal court to throw out rival Danone's unregistered trademark infringement suit over use of the phrase "Bright & Mellow" to market ready-to-drink coffee, arguing that Danone contends "it alone" may use those "ordinary adjectives."

  • October 07, 2025

    Wine Co. Exec Cops To Wire Fraud Conspiracy In $99M Scam

    A United Kingdom wine company executive pled guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in New York federal court Tuesday in a criminal case accusing him of scamming investors out of $99 million after persuading them to make loans using wine collections as collateral.

Expert Analysis

  • Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue

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    While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • It Ends With Us Having No Coverage?

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    A recent suit filed by Harco National Insurance disclaiming coverage for Wayfarer and Justin Baldoni's defense against Blake Lively's claims in the "It Ends With Us" legal saga demonstrates that policyholders should be particularly cautious when negotiating prior knowledge exclusions in their claims-made policies, says Meagan Cyrus at Shumaker.

  • Rebuttal

    BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

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    A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

  • Environmental Justice Is Alive And Well At The State Level

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    Even as the Trump administration has rolled back federal environmental justice policies, many states continue to prioritize it, with new regulations, strengthened enforcement of existing rules and ongoing private litigation — so companies must stay alert to how state-level EJ enforcement may affect their operations, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Liquidity Rule Compliance Still Vital Even After SEC Dismissal

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    Despite its recent dismissal of a novel case against Pinnacle Advisors over liquidity rule violations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has continued to bring enforcement actions involving investment advisers, making compliance with the rule important for registrants, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • 5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust

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    Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.

  • Notable Q2 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

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    Vehicle valuation challenges regarding the use of projected sale adjustments continued apace in insurance class actions this quarter, where insurers have been scoring victories on class certification decisions in federal circuit courts, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.

  • Series

    Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills

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    I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.

  • Taxpayers Face Tough Choices Under NJ's New Nexus Rules

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    Though New Jersey’s new rules expanding the commercial nexus that triggers state taxation are likely to be challenged, businesses still need to carefully consider whether it’s best to minimize potential tax by reducing online customer support services or maintain their current instate services and begin paying tax, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

  • Opinion

    Bar Exam Reform Must Expand Beyond A Single Updated Test

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    Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.

  • How States Are Regulating Health Insurers' AI Usage

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    The absence of a federal artificial intelligence framework positions states as key regulators of health insurers’ AI use, making it important for payors and service providers to understand the range of state AI legislation being passed in California and elsewhere, and consider implementing an AI-focused compliance infrastructure, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • How To Navigate NYC's Stricter New Prenatal Leave Rules

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    On top of the state's prenatal leave law, New York City employers now face additional rules, including notice and recordkeeping requirements, and necessary separation from sick leave, so employers should review their policies and train staff to ensure compliance with both laws, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • Justices Could Clarify Post-Badgerow Arbitration Jurisdiction

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    If the U.S. Supreme Court grants a certiorari petition in Jules v. Andre Balazs Properties, it could provide some welcome clarity on post-arbitration award jurisdiction, an issue lingering since the court's 2022 decision in Badgerow v. Walters, says David Pegno at Dewey Pegno.

  • A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations

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    As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.

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