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• Opioid Judge Faces Recusal Request Over Handling of Alleged Ex Parte Communications

  04-04-2025 03:43 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  On Wednesday, two pharmacy benefit managers filed a motion to recuse U.S. District Judge Dan Polster after he failed to order the disclosure of alleged ex parte communications.       
  
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• Minnesota Jury Returns $65.5M Talc Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson

  20-12-2025 01:11 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Friday's verdict, in the Second Judicial District in Ramsey County, Minnesota, is the latest talc verdict against Johnson & Johnson for Dallas-based plaintiffs' firm Dean Omar Branham Shirley.       
  
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• Delaware Supreme Court Rejects Chancery's Rescission of Elon Musk's Tesla Pay Package, Substituting $1 in Nominal Damages as Remedy

  20-12-2025 00:17 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The court stated rescinding the $56 billion pay package wasn't a proper remedy because it left Musk uncompensated for six years of work he'd already contributed to Tesla.       
  
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• Law Firm Disrupted: Getting 'Under the Hood' of Law Firms at Merger Time More Art Than Science

  20-12-2025 00:07 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Several Big Law mergers lately have had vastly different financial pictures. At the end of the day, that may not matter anymore.       
  
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• Yale Law School Appoints Cristina Rodri guez as New Dean

  19-12-2025 23:03 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Rodri guez is currently serving as deputy dean and will take over the role on Feb. 1, 2026. The school's prior dean, Heather Gerken, stepped down in August to run the Ford Foundation.       
  
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• Litigation Trends to Watch: Lawsuits Center on Marketing Emails, Pollution in Minnesota and Force Majeure Provisions

  19-12-2025 22:16 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Welcome to the Trend Detection Weekly Scan from Law.com Radar. This weekly article highlights shifts and patterns in case filings that are surfaced by Law.com Radar's award-winning Trend Detection system.       
  
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• Judge in Depo-Provera MDL Orders Additional Briefing on FDA's Brain Tumor Warning

  19-12-2025 21:02 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  At a Friday hearing, U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers, of the Northern District of Florida, ordered supplemental briefs to Pfizer's summary judgment motion on federal preemption in light of the FDA's warning label added this month to Depo-Provera.       
  
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• Call for Nominations: The Recorder and Law.com's California Legal Awards 2026

  19-12-2025 19:53 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The California Legal Awards 2026 are now open for nominations.       
  
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• Law School Applicant Boom to Benefit Lower Tier Schools

  19-12-2025 19:40 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  At least a half dozen law schools had their highest enrollment for the 2024-25 academic year in five years according to American Bar Association 509 reports.       
  
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• 5 Reasons Law Firms Keep Undervaluing Their Administrative Backbone and How to Fix It

  19-12-2025 19:05 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The firms investing in administrative strategy — and in the people who embody it — continue to be the ones turning innovation into true competitive advantage.       
  
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• The Lands: Brothers On—And Off—the Bench

  19-12-2025 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Supreme Court of Georgia Justice Benjamin A. Land and U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land sit down with Legal Speak podcast co-host Cedra Mayfield to discuss what it's like being brothers in law.       
  
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• Meet the Lands: Brothers In Law—Literally

  19-12-2025 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Supreme Court of Georgia Justice Benjamin A. Land and U.S. District Judge Clay D. Land sit down with Legal Speak podcast co-host Cedra Mayfield to discuss what it's like being brothers in law.       
  
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• A $2B Roundup Verdict and a Talc Award Approaching $1B: A Look Back at 2025's Biggest Mass Tort Trials

  19-12-2025 11:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The first bellwether trials will take place in 2026 involving addiction claims against social media sites, like Instagram and TikTok, as well as allegations that the pesticide paraquat causes Parkinson's disease.       
  
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• Unusual and Practical Places to Meet People with Client Potential

  19-12-2025 06:47 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Lawyers are in the sales business, just like accountants, financial advisors and doctors. At one time, business walked through the door. Today, you need to raise your profile and be the first person they think of when they need a lawyer.       
  
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• Coinbase Takes States to Court Over Prediction Market Regulation

  19-12-2025 06:41 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “We're right on the law and the facts,Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer for Coinbase, said on social media. “And we will prove it. “       
  
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• Three Mistrials to $48M Med-Mal Verdict: Attorneys Reflect on 'Nuclear' Outcome

  19-12-2025 06:03 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  In addition to avoiding a potential fourth mistrial, the plaintiffs' team had to grapple with the fact their client had multiple, unrelated cancer diagnoses, one of which ultimately killed him. However, Lloyd Bell said he stuck with the case because "the negligence was easy to understand at some level."       
  
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• How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Leadership Is About Service, Not Title,' Says Sunni Beville of Otterbourg

  19-12-2025 05:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "Leadership is about service, not title. Approach it with curiosity, empathy, and a solutions-oriented mindset. Those qualities, combined with strong technical expertise, prepare you to step into a practice leadership role successfully."       
  
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• Insurers Ask Court to Block $80.7 Million Verdict, Seeking New Trial

  19-12-2025 01:09 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The insurers argued in their motion for a new trial that the jury's verdict "was against the clear weight of the evidence, was based upon false evidence, and will result in a miscarriage of justice."       
  
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• North Korean Hackers Stole $2 Billion in Crypto in 2025, Chainalysis Finds

  18-12-2025 23:52 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "This underscores that crypto theft is not merely a technological issue but a governance and risk-management problem that continues to outpace defensive controls," said Felix Shipkevich, a professor of law at Hofstra Law who teaches the business and policies of cryptocurrencies.       
  
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• Attorney Fee Dispute Hinges on Client Agreement and Work Completed, Judge Says

  18-12-2025 20:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "When an attorney leaves a firm, there are rules in our profession, where every client that I was representing should have had an opportunity to pick Ken Nugent or Eric Sterling," Sterling said during a hearing this week.       
  
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• Admission to Top-Tier Law Schools More Competitive Than Ever

  18-12-2025 19:19 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "This is looking to be a brutal year for applicants and admissions outcomes," because schools "have more high-quality applicants," and in the last several years "medians for both LSAT and GPA have risen at almost all schools," one expert said.       
  
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• Cadwalader, Hogan Lovells Intend to Create $3.6B Merged Firm

  18-12-2025 06:28 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Partner votes will be held in spring 2026, with the firms aiming to complete their combination and launch on July 1, 2026.       
  
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• Judicial Panel Declines Coordination of Salesforce Data Breach Suits But Transfers TransUnion Cases

  18-12-2025 03:43 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, on Tuesday, declined to create multidistrict litigation over Salesforce's data breach, but coordinated cases brought specifically against one of its clients, TransUnion.       
  
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• SEC Alleges $48.5M Crypto-Mining Fraud by Philadelphia Man

  18-12-2025 00:38 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “Chairman Atkins has signaled a laser-like focus on those who lie, cheat or steal—and this complaint alleges a trifecta where the defendant managed to do all three,said Jason Spitalnick, who previously served as enforcement counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.       
  
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• Lawsuit Revives Uncertainty Over OSHA's Future

  17-12-2025 22:35 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  “Regardless of how this challenge unfolds, it has the potential to reshape the future of workplace safety regulation and test ... the outer limits of congressional delegation to administrative agencies,Morgan Lewis & Bockius attorneys wrote in a recent client alert.       
  
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• There Are Limits to Congress's Investigatory Powers

  17-12-2025 21:53 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Businesses across all sectors of the economy should be knowledgeable about how best to respond to a Congressional investigation, and ultimately, if the investigatory Committee is not satisfied with voluntary compliance efforts, the options available to them for objecting to a Congressional subpoena.       
  
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• Big Law, Bitcoin and Conflicts: Dickinson Wright Hit With Malpractice Suit

  17-12-2025 21:22 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The malpractice lawsuit arises from an underlying case in which Dickinson Wright was disqualified for alleged conflicts of interest.       
  
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• Unanimous Panel Lets Trump's National Guard Deployment in D.C. Continue

  17-12-2025 19:57 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The federal government showed that the D.C. Code likely gives the president—as the D.C. Guard's commander-in-chief—the power to mobilize the troops within the District of Columbia, stated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.       
  
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• Fed. Judge Sanctions Healthcare Companies Nearly $600K for 7-Year Discovery Delay

  17-12-2025 17:20 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "There is no real way at this point for defendants to cure the failure, because the damage in unnecessarily prolonging the case has already occurred," said U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman for the Northern District of Illinois.       
  
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• Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: LA Jurors Award $40M In Critical Talc Trial, Uber Wants To Slam Brakes On Bellwether Sex Assault Trial

  17-12-2025 16:45 via feeds.feedblitz.com
         
  
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