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Panel Probes Disbarring Eastman Over 2020 Election </title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2311683?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2311683</guid> <description>An appeals panel appeared unlikely Wednesday to reverse a California State Bar judge's finding that John Eastman, a former attorney for President Donald Trump, engaged in misconduct when he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election, but questioned whether disbarment is the appropriate punishment.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:29:45 +0000</pubDate> <title>Jury Deliberates Fraud Charges Against 'Jailhouse Lawyer'</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312759?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312759</guid> <description>A Manhattan federal jury on Wednesday weighed charges accusing a longtime "jailhouse lawyer" of unauthorized practice of law, conspiracy and fraud after he began charging inmates and their families for legal services upon leaving prison.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:12:26 +0000</pubDate> <title>White House Says It Will Obey Court Orders But Faults Judges</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312853?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312853</guid> <description>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday the Trump administration will comply with court orders, but continued to escalate its verbal attacks on the judiciary.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate> <title>Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Wants Suspension Halved</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312940?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312940</guid> <description>A Connecticut attorney suspended for two weeks over his role in the mishandling of Sandy Hook families' confidential records has asked a state court judge to credit him for a weeklong suspension he served more than two years ago and to pause the order while he appeals.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:52:27 +0000</pubDate> <title>Goldstein Says Feds 'Misled' Court With Obstruction Claim</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312749?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312749</guid> <description>U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein wants a Maryland federal judge to sanction prosecutors in his tax evasion case for a "pattern of false and misleading statements" to the court accusing him of hiding millions in cryptocurrency and bribing his former law firm manager.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:29:10 +0000</pubDate> <title>Miami Courthouse To Be Named After Civil Rights Champion</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312525</guid> <description>A civil rights advocate and a "trailblazing lawyer" in South Florida who fled Cuba after surviving his participation in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion will be the namesake of Miami-Dade's massive new courthouse.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:22:58 +0000</pubDate> <title>3rd Circ. Passes On Appeal Of NJ Judicial Privacy Law Ruling</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312589?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312589</guid> <description>Data brokers cannot consolidate dozens of lawsuits in federal court that claim they violated the New Jersey data privacy statute known as Daniel's Law, after the Third Circuit declined to revisit an earlier ruling that sent the lawsuits back to state court.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:10:14 +0000</pubDate> <title>Ex-Cognizant CLO Fires Paul Weiss After Trump Order</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312945?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312945</guid> <description>A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing a bribery trial next month has fired Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from his defense team following the Trump administration's revocation of the firm's security clearances, according to a withdrawal motion filed Wednesday by firm partner Roberto Finzi.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:32:27 +0000</pubDate> <title>EEOC Bid For Law Firm DEI Info On Shaky Ground, Attys Say</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312137?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312137</guid> <description>The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent call for law firms to cough up a trove of information about their diversity, equity and inclusion programs lacks statutory authority and may contravene federal law, according to experts from both sides of the aisle.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:04:47 +0000</pubDate> <title>Making Legal Cents: Firm Culture Is The New Game Plan</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2310828?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2310828</guid> <description>Law firm culture is often dismissed as a soft factor — merely platitudes on a website that seem disconnected from the bottom line — but by intentionally embedding a strong culture into day-to-day operations, law firms can achieve sustainable success, says Shireen Hilal at Maior Strategic Consulting.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:04:45 +0000</pubDate> <title>Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards </title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2310155?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2310155</guid> <description>Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:17:06 +0000</pubDate> <title>FCPA Uncertainty May Lead Attys To 'Gamble' On Disclosure</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312841?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312841</guid> <description>The Trump administration's pullback on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement is sowing confusion in the white collar bar, as companies consider whether to voluntarily disclose potential violations of the anti-bribery law while the chances of getting a favorable resolution seem good or keep quiet until the dust settles.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:11:20 +0000</pubDate> <title>Judiciary Under Unprecedented Attack, Wash. Judge Says</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2311805?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2311805</guid> <description>The federal judiciary is facing an unprecedented attack, a senior Washington federal judge told Law360, with his judicial colleagues who've blocked President Donald Trump's actions receiving condemnation from high up the administration and personal threats from members of the public.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate> <title>Six Takeaways From California's State Of The Judiciary</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312385?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312385</guid> <description>California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero gave an annual State of the Judiciary address to Golden State legislators Tuesday that highlighted the judicial branch's independence and commitment to providing "fair and impartial justice," while putting less attention than in years past on policies that support diversity and inclusion.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:53:47 +0000</pubDate> <title>Top Cases Of DC Judge Facing Trump Call For Impeachment</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312230?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312230</guid> <description>The D.C. federal judge threatened by President Donald Trump with impeachment Tuesday has presided over important and politically sensitive cases before, including some involving Trump himself.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:49:55 +0000</pubDate> <title>Dem Ex-EEOC Officials Call Law Firm DEI Letters Overreach</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312458?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312458</guid> <description>A group of Democratic-appointed former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials urged acting Chair Andrea Lucas on Tuesday to rescind letters seeking information from 20 law firms about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices, saying she had exceeded the agency's power.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:46:31 +0000</pubDate> <title>Administrative Leader Of US Courts Retires From NC Bench</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312470?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312470</guid> <description>U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. has stepped down from the Western District of North Carolina after 20 years on the federal bench, leaving the longtime jurist to focus on his role as director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Law360 exclusively learned Tuesday.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:42:06 +0000</pubDate> <title>Fulton DA Must Pay $54K To Law Firm Over Trump Case Docs</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312076?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312076</guid> <description>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' office must pay more than $54,000 in attorney fees and turn over documents it wrongly withheld from an attorney representing one of the co-defendants in the Trump election interference case, a judge has ruled.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:31:57 +0000</pubDate> <title>Chief Justice Speaks Out After Trump's Impeachment Push</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312101?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2312101</guid> <description>U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a rare statement Tuesday saying "impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision" after President Donald Trump called for impeaching a judge who blocked the deportation of Venezuelans.</description> </item> <item> <pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:45:26 +0000</pubDate> <title>Judge Ikuta's Sr. Status Plans Give Trump 9th Circ. Opening</title> <link>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2311881?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section</link> <guid>https://www.law360.com/pulse/courts/articles/2311881</guid> <description>U.S. Circuit Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta of the Ninth Circuit will be taking semi-retired status upon appointment of her successor, a court representative confirmed to Law360 on Monday.</description> </item> </channel> </rss>