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A California ruling boosting policyholders' prospects in water leak suits and a Texas Supreme Court decision compelling appraisal in a complex commercial property loss are among the biggest property insurance decisions of the year so far.

The soccer federation representing 55 European countries announced Thursday that it will boycott World Cup competition in protest of FIFA's plan to sell billions of dollars in shares of the sport's premier international tournament to private investors. www.law360.com/artic...

Horror stories abound about lawyers getting punished for filing briefs riddled with AI hallucinations. But in a recent report, the nation's biggest criminal defense association said attorneys should be just as scared about failing make enough use of the new technology. www.law360.com/artic...

In a sharply worded memo, Johnson & Johnson told the Connecticut Appellate Court that it should deny a "nonsensical" dismissal motion from a real estate developer who won a $25 million asbestos-related cancer verdict. www.law360.com/artic...

A former assistant U.S. attorney has been selected by Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker to serve as the city's top attorney.

The Second Circuit on Thursday revived claims in multidistrict litigation alleging oral decongestant-makers misled consumers by labeling their products as "maximum strength," while finding the bulk of the remaining claims were preempted by federal regulation. www.law360.com/artic...

Attorneys from Susman Godfrey said this week they helped secure a recent $3 million jury award in Delaware federal court for Yale University in a trade secret misappropriation case by keeping their trial strategy focused on "common sense" issues.

Counsel for an Alabama man told a federal jury Thursday that Covidien LP failed to adequately warn doctors about the risks of complications from a hernia mesh implant, closing out the first bellwether trial among thousands of cases pending against the Medtronic unit.

Instructing a law school course on SEC investigations has made me a more thoughtful practitioner because it requires me to continually reassess and challenge what I know about securities law enforcement, how I know it and how best to explain it, says David Chase at Miami Law. www.law360.com/artic...

A California federal judge declined to order a group of women suing xAI Corp. over Grok-generated deepfakes of them in sexual situations to reveal their identities and allowed them to proceed pseudonymously.

A Sixth Circuit panel looked askance at Kalshi's push to have its sports event contracts shielded from state gambling regulators Thursday, pointedly questioning the prediction market giant about the difference between its offerings and traditional sports bets.

The ABA is poised to eliminate the first of multiple diversity-related law school standards, a controversial move it hopes will allow it to remain an accreditor despite an uncertain outcome in the face of an administration increasingly wary of its role in legal education.

A unanimous Illinois appeals court sanctioned an attorney representing a former Starbucks employee in a workplace discrimination suit after determining that he submitted briefs using false citations and quotations hallucinated by artificial intelligence software.

Former NFL general counsel Jeffrey Pash is joining Proskauer Rose as a partner in its sports group in New York, the law firm announced Thursday.

Two men pled guilty Thursday in Massachusetts federal court to their roles in a sweeping scheme to trade on inside information stolen from huge corporate law firms about upcoming deals.

A small business owner who also advocates for domestic victims has joined Delaware's incumbent attorney general and an American Civil Liberties Union attorney in seeking the Democratic nomination for the First State's top law enforcement post.

Husch Blackwell has selected a litigator in the firm's technology, manufacturing and transportation group to serve as leader of its Houston shop, while a healthcare regulatory partner has been chosen to take the helm in Dallas.

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An attorney who is an expert in private investment in public equity transactions told a Florida jury hearing a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher Thursday that companies who enter into an agreement similar to the one Patriot National Inc. did take on "grave risk."

A proposed federal class action accuses WilmerHale of failing to protect clients' personal information after an employee allegedly disclosed sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, to an unauthorized person who misrepresented their identity back in May. www.law360.com/artic...