Trials

  • October 10, 2025

    Wyden Urges Justices To Revive UBS Retaliation Case Again

    Sen. Ron Wyden and several whistleblower organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive for a second time a fired UBS worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, pointing to a "deep and direct conflict" the Second Circuit has created with its latest decision in the case.

  • October 10, 2025

    DUI Defendant Can't Blame Atty For Gun License Suspension

    A lawyer's failure to alert his client that a drunken-driving conviction would cost him his license to carry a gun is not ineffective assistance of counsel, a Massachusetts intermediate-level appeals court panel concluded.

  • October 10, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Voting Rights & Warrantless Entries

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return Tuesday to hear oral arguments in four cases, including a dispute over the constitutionality of the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act and whether federal prisoners seeking postconviction relief are subject to the same rules as state inmates.

  • October 10, 2025

    High Court To Eye Limits On Appeal Waivers In Plea Deals

    The U.S. Supreme Court will consider which exceptions might apply to criminal appeal waivers, which are common in plea deals, the court announced Friday.

  • October 10, 2025

    Cisco Tells Albright $65.7M Patent Verdict Was Rightly Axed

    Cisco has urged a Texas federal judge to reject Paltalk Holdings' request for reconsideration of a decision tossing a $65.7 million patent infringement verdict against Cisco, saying he correctly found that Paltalk presented no evidence of infringement.

  • October 10, 2025

    GoPro Beats Infringement Claims In $174M Camera IP Trial

    A California federal jury cleared camera giant GoPro of accusations that some of its products infringed two video camera technology patents in a case where Contour IP Holding LLC had sought $174 million in damages.

  • October 10, 2025

    Prosecutors, Ex-AT&T Exec To Resolve Bribery Case With DPA

    A former AT&T executive will not be retried on charges that he bribed ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan early next year as planned, as his attorneys and prosecutors told an Illinois federal judge that they've agreed to resolve the matter with a deferred prosecution agreement.

  • October 10, 2025

    EDTX Jury Says Samsung Owes $445.5M After Patent Trial

    Samsung has to pay up about $445.5 million after a Texas federal jury found that the South Korean electronics giant infringed a series of patents related to wireless communication network efficiency owned by Collision Communications.

  • October 09, 2025

    Judge Narrows Evidence Ahead Of Boeing 737 Max Trial

    A Washington federal judge on Thursday ruled on which evidence will be allowed in a Nov. 3 trial in LOT Polish Airlines' lawsuit against Boeing, in which LOT accuses the aerospace giant of tricking it into leasing defective 737 Max jets that were later grounded after two fatal crashes.

  • October 09, 2025

    Weinstein Says Jurors Traded Threats, Tainting Verdict

    Harvey Weinstein's legal team said his June sexual assault convictions were tainted by juror misconduct, including physical threats and an unfounded bribery claim, arguing in a motion for a new trial that a judge refused to properly investigate.

  • October 09, 2025

    Mich. Justice Eyes Scope Of Judge-As-Grand-Jury Issue

    Michigan's chief Supreme Court justice on Thursday pondered the real-world implications of retroactively applying a 2022 ruling that judges cannot act as a one-person grand jury to issue indictments, saying the practice seems to have grown more prevalent.

  • October 09, 2025

    Conn. Official Pushed Firm That Hired Family, Witnesses Say

    Two local Connecticut officials on Thursday testified that Kosta Diamantis, a former state budget official accused of corruption, pushed them to hire a construction management firm they considered expensive and unnecessary without disclosing that the firm had hired his daughter and was allegedly paying him kickbacks.

  • October 09, 2025

    Tort Report: Nuked 'Nuclear Verdict' Stays, Texas Justices Say

    The fate of a "nuclear verdict" that was used to jump-start tort reform campaigns across the country and a settlement of a suit over a Kiss guitar technician's death lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

  • October 09, 2025

    Megan Thee Stallion Wins Sanctions Over Deleted Messages

    A Florida magistrate judge Thursday sanctioned online personality Milagro "Mobz World" Cooper for deleting thousands of text messages and WhatsApp data after being told to preserve evidence in rapper Megan Thee Stallion's defamation and cyberstalking suit against her.

  • October 09, 2025

    Ineffective Counsel Claim Could Afford Immigrant Legal Status

    A Guatemalan man who lost his path to U.S. citizenship after being convicted of breaking into a car has been offered another chance at a new trial if he can show his attorney failed to inform him of his right to appeal, Massachusetts' intermediate appeals court said Thursday.

  • October 09, 2025

    Ill. Judge Blocks Trump's Deployment Of National Guard To Chicago

    An Illinois federal judge Thursday partially granted a temporary restraining order over the objection of the Trump administration blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, saying the presence of those officers would "only add fuel to the fire defendants themselves have started."

  • October 09, 2025

    Mich. Justices Urged To Restore Diminished Capacity Defense

    A lawyer for a man awaiting trial for murder told the Michigan Supreme Court on Thursday that a jury deserves to hear that his client was mentally ill and possibly suffering from delusions, urging the court to lift a decades-old bar on so-called diminished capacity evidence.

  • October 09, 2025

    False-Statement Case Puts Comey In Rare Company

    Former FBI director James Comey is the latest addition to the relatively short list of government officials who have been criminally charged over the past several decades with making false statements to Congress.

  • October 09, 2025

    Biotech Wins $367K From Ex-CEO In Conn. Conversion Suit

    A Connecticut jury has ordered the fired CEO of a flavoring and aroma firm, who is also a tax attorney, to pay the company more than $367,000 plus punitive damages after agreeing that he improperly sent himself money around the time of his termination and breached his fiduciary duties.

  • October 09, 2025

    Fintech Exec May Claim Double Jeopardy Amid Judge Shuffle

    A former executive of payment processor Allied Wallet has filed a double jeopardy motion after the initial Massachusetts federal judge overseeing the fraud case recused himself, a second declared a mistrial and exited due to a family emergency, and a third flagged a potential conflict with a prosecutor.

  • October 09, 2025

    Va. Panel Nixes $2.5M Med Mal Verdict Over Jury Instruction

    A Virginia state appeals court has overturned a $2.5 million verdict awarded to a woman who sued an anesthesiologist because he did not provide anesthesia before her cesarean section, finding that the jury should have been given an instruction on superseding cause.

  • 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

    GoPro Owes $174M For Infringing Video Camera IP, Jury Hears

    GoPro Inc. infringed Contour IP Holding LLC's patented video camera technology and should pay $174 million in damages, Contour's counsel told a California federal jury during closing trial arguments Wednesday, while GoPro's attorney countered that the action cam maker didn't infringe because it actually invented the technology first.

  • 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

    4th Circ. OKs Verdict In Gang Case Despite Bad Translations

    The Fourth Circuit said Wednesday that a court translator's errors during trial don't merit overturning the convictions of three men on gang-related racketeering conspiracy and other charges.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • How To Successfully Challenge Jurors For Cause In 5 Steps

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    To effectively challenge a potential juror for cause, attorneys should follow a multistep framework rather than skipping straight to the final qualification question, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • Criminal Healthcare Fraud Takeaways From 4th Circ. Reversal

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    After the Fourth Circuit reversed a doctor’s postconviction acquittal in U.S. v. Elfenbein last month, defense attorneys should consider three strategies when handling complex criminal healthcare matters, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • Opinion

    Furtive Changes To Federal Health Data Threaten Admissibility

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    A recent study showing that nearly 100 U.S. federal health datasets have been modified this year without any notation in official change logs should concern plaintiffs counsel, defense counsel and judges alike — because undermining data's integrity, authenticity and chain of custody threatens its admissibility in litigation, say attorneys at Kershaw Talley.

  • 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.

  • DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders

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    The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.

  • Series

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Strategies For ICE Agent Misconduct Suits In The 11th Circ.

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    Attorneys have numerous pathways to pursue misconduct claims against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Eleventh Circuit, and they need not wait for the court to correct its misinterpretation of a Federal Tort Claims Act exception, says Lauren Bonds at the National Police Accountability Project.

  • How Securities Defendants Might Use New Wire Fraud Ruling

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    Though the Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Chastain decision — vacating the conviction of an ex-OpenSea staffer — involved the wire fraud statute, insider trading defendants might attempt to import the ruling’s reasoning into the securities realm, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • Cos. Must Tailor Due Diligence As Trafficking Risks Increase

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    As legislators, prosecutors and plaintiffs attorneys increasingly focus on labor and sex trafficking throughout the U.S., companies must tailor their due diligence strategies to protect against forced labor trafficking risks in their supply chains, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Series

    Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.

  • Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions: The Term In Review

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    Though the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal law decisions in its recently concluded term proved underwhelming by many measures, their opinions revealed trends in how the justices approach criminal cases and offered reminders for practitioners, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

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