/legalindustry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Industry Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:53:23 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357544?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357544 An employee-side law firm repeatedly stood in the way of a Latino attorney's career advancement, underpaid him, and fired him after he advocated for increasing a Black attorney's pay to match that of a white colleague, a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Maryland federal court said. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:02:41 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357635?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357635 The Trump administration has made clear its intent to prioritize U.S. interests, eliminate transnational cartels and cut government fraud, waste and abuse — but questions remain about the administration’s approach to foreign bribery, crypto, public corruption, self-disclosure and clemency as we head into the second half of the year. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:42:58 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357265?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357265 The legal ethics watchdog Campaign for Accountability on Wednesday accused interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba of an "abuse of power" over her office's recent investigations and arrests of New Jersey officials and called for an ethics investigation. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:39:33 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357008?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357008 Emil Bove, nominee for the Third Circuit, who previously served as President Donald Trump's criminal attorney and was a top acting official at the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year, where he took various controversial actions, made his case on Wednesday for judicial confirmation. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:37:33 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357122?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357122 A Missouri federal judge has granted final approval of settlements for two antitrust class actions and awarded roughly $24 million to class counsel representing home sellers who accused multiple real estate brokerages of conspiring to artificially inflate buyer-broker commission fees for home sales. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:33:40 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356893?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356893 The ex-wife of an intellectual property lawyer in North Carolina has asked the state's highest court to affirm an order awarding her half the value of his law firm in their divorce, arguing the practice's goodwill is marital property subject to equal distribution. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:19:45 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357483?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357483 U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver pled not guilty Wednesday in New Jersey federal court to assault and interference charges stemming from an incident at an immigration detention center in Newark on May 9. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:22:31 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357052?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357052 A Massachusetts lawyer, whose conviction for attempting to bribe a police chief to endorse his client's retail cannabis license application had been partly reversed at the First Circuit, was re-sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison by a federal judge who said the attorney should have known better. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:55:54 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356558?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356558 The U.S. Department of Justice's recent firing of a prosecutor-turned-whistleblower involved in the Abrego Garcia v. Noem case illustrates the tricky balancing act between zealous client advocacy and a lawyer’s duty of candor to the court, which many clients fail to appreciate, says David Atkins at Yale Law School. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:25:23 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2348925?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2348925 Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:10:02 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356776?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356776 A former associate White House counsel to President Joe Biden, who has worked in the Senate and in leadership roles in higher education, has joined the litigation team at Cooley LLP, having served alongside some of his new colleagues while representing victims of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:56:23 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357304?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357304 The Trump administration is suing the Maryland federal district court and all of its judges over a standing order that temporarily staves off the deportation of detained noncitizens who file habeas petitions. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:05:09 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356182?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356182 Latham & Watkins LLP has added an attorney from Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to bolster its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice and capacity to handle various types of transactions globally. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:03:27 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357287?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357287 Several federal agencies must stop enforcing a part of President Donald Trump's executive order that would ax labor contracts covering agencies that have "national security" aims, a California federal judge ruled, finding unions showed they would suffer irreparable harm by losing collective bargaining rights. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:30:30 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2354445?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2354445 Latham & Watkins LLP on Wednesday announced the addition of a new D.C.-based antitrust partner with the hiring of Andrew Forman, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division who is rejoining private practice after three years of helping lead civil competition enforcement. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:44:25 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357065?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357065 The first federal court decision on the fairness of taking copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence is a mixed outcome for tech companies and content creators that could prompt both parties to seek coexistence, according to attorneys, with the judge concluding that while the technology is "spectacularly" transformative, using pirated material is inexcusable. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:09:44 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2357079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2357079 A California federal magistrate judge on Tuesday became the latest federal judge to recuse from a case involving Elon Musk, this time stepping down from handling his lawsuit challenging OpenAI's now-abandoned transition to a for-profit enterprise. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:56:11 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356790?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356790 A top career official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired has come forward with a whistleblower complaint alleging Third Circuit judicial nominee Emil Bove, who was acting deputy attorney general at the beginning of the year, sought to defy court orders. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:32:20 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356962?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356962 Counsel for President Donald Trump told the Second Circuit on Tuesday that he did not "unequivocally and explicitly" waive presidential immunity before a jury awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in their defamation battle, refining the theory that he cannot be held liable. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:26:29 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2356749?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2356749 The American Bar Association announced Tuesday it is launching a national research project on attorney mental health, which will provide an updated benchmark of the issue nearly a decade after its 2016 study.