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U.S. District Judge Eric R. Komitee of New York's Eastern District on Tuesday refused to step aside from former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson's fraud and identity theft case, slamming as meritless Watson's effort to undo his convictions over the judge's financial investments.

The "atypical" conflict and threat to public confidence in the judiciary created by a New York federal judge's financial investments warrants the Second Circuit stepping in to undo former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson's fraud and identity theft convictions sooner rather than later, Watson told the appellate court Monday.

The legal market is positioned to have a very strong year, with firms seeing increases in demand, revenue and attorney productivity during the first three quarters of 2024, according to the results of a survey by Citi Global Wealth at Work.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including a dispute between Facebook and investors over a data harvesting scandal and the formula used to calculate payments to hospitals treating low-income patients. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House following his election victory on Tuesday is sure to bring a series of policy changes that will keep lawyers busy, particularly attorneys working in international trade, immigration, tax and antitrust.

Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House following his election victory on Tuesday is sure to bring a series of policy changes that will keep lawyers busy, particularly attorneys working in international trade, immigration, tax and antitrust.

A Florida state judge facing ethics charges on allegations she improperly held people in contempt, acted unprofessionally and handcuffed a victim admitted Monday to making mistakes, but attributed many of those mistakes to a lack of training and experience.

The public significance of former President Donald Trump's federal criminal trial on election interference charges and the potential for artificial intelligence-created deepfakes of that trial are good examples of why cameras should be allowed in criminal court, according to a coalition of media outlets and a court transparency group.

Prosecutors have pushed back against Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson's "last-ditch effort" to get his fraud and identity theft convictions undone, insisting that investments owned by the New York federal judge overseeing his case are in hedge funds and not in Watson's victims, and are too small to matter.

Prosecutors have pushed back against Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson's "last-ditch effort" to get his fraud and identity theft convictions undone, insisting that investments owned by the New York federal judge overseeing his case are in hedge funds and not in Watson's victims, and are too small to matter.

The U.S. Trustee's Office is exceeding its authority as a "watchdog" in seeking to claw back money paid to Jackson Walker LLP in bankruptcy cases because the judge presiding over those cases was having a secret relationship with a firm partner, the firm told a Texas federal bankruptcy court.

An African energy company has to pay nearly $166,000 in attorney fees to an international arbitration specialty law firm after the company was sanctioned for lying to a Ghanaian court about proceedings in Texas, a Texas federal judge has ruled.

The State Bar of California may not have sovereign immunity that would allow it to duck an attorney's federal lawsuit claiming it failed to provide him with adequate disability accommodations during a bar exam amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.

The State Bar of California may not have sovereign immunity that would allow it to duck an attorney's federal lawsuit claiming it failed to provide him with adequate disability accommodations during a bar exam amid the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.

With dozens of states holding elections next month for more than 80 seats on their courts of last resort, a number of races could prove critical for the courts' ideological balances and important cases relating to abortion, voting rights and possibly even the outcome of the presidential election.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases during the holiday-shortened week, including disputes over the vagueness of a San Francisco water permit, the rejection of two veterans' disability claims, and allegations that CBD companies' mislabeling of their products constitutes racketeering. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP owes a physician practice almost $8 million for negligently removing hundreds of the practice's employees from a list of those entitled to part of a $4.9 million wage and hour settlement, costing the practice another $3.6 million to correct the mistake, according to a California suit.

A New Jersey judicial privacy law is not unconstitutional since it requires that defendants act negligently by knowingly violating the law, a data privacy company said in seeking to prevent the dismissal of dozens of lawsuits, which the company also acknowledged are being funded by third-party litigation funder Parabellum Capital LLC.

The federal courts should adopt a uniform process for the disclosure of third-party litigation funding in federal cases, a host of companies, including Johnson & Johnson and Google, told the judiciary's Rules Committee.

A Massachusetts federal judge declined on Monday to reconsider his ruling that the federal judiciary did not violate the rights of a former North Carolina public defender because the attorney had not adequately put her office on notice of her sexual harassment claims.