https://www.law360.com/legalethics?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Ethics Copyright 2026 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Tue, 26 May 2026 22:35:53 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2482077?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2482077 The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday asked an Alabama federal court to throw out the Trump administration's indictment claiming it paid extremist group informants to "stoke racial hatred," arguing that it's a "top-down, retributive campaign" that constitutes vindictive prosecution. Tue, 26 May 2026 22:29:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481956?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481956 A compliance lawyer convicted at trial for allegedly conning an Emigrant Bank unit out of $20 million by lying about his investment firm's tax lien collateral was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to a year and a day in prison for what prosecutors say was a straight-up scheme to steal from a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-insured bank.  Tue, 26 May 2026 21:15:11 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481938?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481938 A Texas federal judge recommended Tuesday that a bias and retaliation suit against the city of Corpus Christi by a former assistant city attorney be tossed because he failed to show that comparable workers were treated better or that the city's performance-based reasons for firing him were false. Tue, 26 May 2026 19:57:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481860?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481860 A California man and a real estate company told a Texas federal judge that a Houston-based law firm improperly distributed money meant to pay off a loan to criminal elements, saying Tuesday that the law firm owes $1.3 million. Tue, 26 May 2026 19:46:07 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481994?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481994 The Third Circuit on Tuesday scolded a Pennsylvania federal judge for his "inappropriate attempted witticisms" while presiding over a lawsuit in which a parent blamed transportation companies for the deaths of his two children in a highway collision, saying the judge's "ill-conceived attempts at levity" in a fatal injury case could be misinterpreted by the public. Tue, 26 May 2026 19:41:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481690?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481690 Five private universities that have yet to settle with students over the alleged fixing of financial aid offerings argued Tuesday that an Illinois federal judge should deny them class certification rather than allow them to tap different lead counsel after misrepresentations regarding one firm's purportedly contingent casework have come to light. Tue, 26 May 2026 18:13:04 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481606?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481606 President Donald Trump wants a Florida federal magistrate judge to recuse herself from overseeing discovery in his $10 billion defamation suit against the BBC because she previously represented a U.K.-based company Trump sued over the dissemination of the Steele dossier, a controversial intelligence document claiming Trump had ties to Russia. Tue, 26 May 2026 18:01:30 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481913?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481913 Attorneys who represented Jan. 6 defendants will have to face a consultant's claims that they copied her jury-attitude report without permission after a D.C. federal judge rejected their arguments that their conduct fell under fair use and the public's right to access court records. Tue, 26 May 2026 17:21:56 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481826?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481826 Fenwick & West LLP will pay $54 million to resolve claims from spurned FTX Trading Ltd. investors, according to a new set of settlements that will also end investors' disputes with the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange's former auditor and a former NBA star who promoted the platform. Tue, 26 May 2026 16:54:04 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481883?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481883 Wiley Rein LLP has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Washington, D.C., firm of negligence after the firm said a group that may be affiliated with the Chinese government accessed emails of firm personnel. Tue, 26 May 2026 16:34:07 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481839?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481839 New York's highest court has affirmed the murder conviction of a man who, along with his wife, killed a neighbor, finding on Tuesday that though his trial transcript was "utterly inexcusable" — frequently containing "blah blah blah," "omitted" or "undecipherable characters instead of the words actually spoken" — it was sufficiently reconstructed. Tue, 26 May 2026 16:30:53 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481934?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481934 A Florida state appeals court has thrown out a breach of contract dispute following the parties' agreement to dismiss it, but ordered an attorney representing a roofing company to explain why he shouldn't be penalized after his brief apparently contained artificial-intelligence-generated legal citations. Tue, 26 May 2026 16:20:18 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481621?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481621 A New Jersey federal judge affirmed the Beasley Allen Law Firm's disqualification from multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder on Tuesday, determining that the firm has failed to provide a valid reason to back its attempt at a stay and temporary reinstatement into the matter. Tue, 26 May 2026 15:53:55 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481946?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481946 A former Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC client's professional negligence suit against the firm over its handling of a patent case belongs in Massachusetts rather than Texas federal court, according to a Tuesday order. Tue, 26 May 2026 15:45:25 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481856?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481856 The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take up U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's petition seeking to overturn her suspension from the Federal Circuit on June 11, according to a notice posted Tuesday. Tue, 26 May 2026 15:20:21 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481854?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481854 A Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, magisterial judge has entered a judicial diversion program to resolve a disciplinary investigation into reports that she kept a "book of grudges" with detailed and profane personal complaints about people she encountered in her courtroom. Tue, 26 May 2026 14:00:17 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481704?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481704 Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told a Democratic senator earlier this month he's paused immigration agents' use of administrative warrants to enter private property, but has not officially revoked the controversial policy issued last year. Tue, 26 May 2026 13:46:19 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481599?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481599 U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche are fighting a bid from the California man accused of an attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner to disqualify them from handling the case. Tue, 26 May 2026 12:38:46 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481810?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2481810 A Second Circuit judge on Tuesday questioned a Manhattan federal judge's decision to deny bail to prolific cooperator Jona Rechnitz while he appeals a five-month sentence for facilitating bribery inside the New York Police Department and in a law enforcement union, saying the lower court appeared "annoyed" when bail was mentioned. Mon, 25 May 2026 20:01:25 +0000 https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2470226?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/2470226 This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.