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For-Profit University Pays $32M to Settle Whistleblower Suit

When Atlanta attorney Joseph Wargo and partner David Pernini first filed a federal whistleblower case against a private, for-profit university with campuses in Atlanta's northern suburbs, they had no idea the litigation would last more than eight years.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Judge Cites Neil Gorsuch for a Judicial 'Renaissance'

Just days before Neil Gorsuch will plunge into the U.S. Supreme Court's menu of regulatory challenges, a Washington federal appeals judge on Tuesday turned to the newest justice to bolster her own concerns about the deference that courts give to agencies' interpretation of their rules.
8 minute read

Litigation Daily

A Tour of Trump Lawsuits: Flipped Out, Freaked Out and Just Plain Daffy

When you are president, people like to sue you. A lot.
10 minute read

The Recorder

California's Covington Team Calls Trump Immigration Claims 'Unsupported'

Covington & Burling lawyers representing the California legislature are demanding U.S. officials identify any state and local laws that "prohibit or hinder" immigration enforcement, an allegation leveled by Trump administration officials amid an escalation of tension between the Golden State and Washington.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Report Faults Wells Fargo's Law Department in Sham-Accounts Scandal

Shearman & Sterling's report on the Wells Fargo sham-accounts scandal didn't hold any punches. And the bank's law department didn't escape scrutiny. The report found the law department "did not appreciate that sales integrity issues reflected a systemic breakdown in Wells Fargo's culture and values and an ongoing failure to correct the widespread breaches of trust in the misuse of customers' personal data and financial information." Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan said the report provides a new opportunity to "learn from our mistakes."
20 minute read

The Recorder

DOL v. Google Trial Over Employment Records Starts

The bench trial over the U.S. Department of Labor's lawsuit against Google Inc. alleging the company failed to turn over employee compensation data as part of a compliance review, as required by law, started Friday in San Francisco.
21 minute read

National Law Journal

Akin Shuffles Lobbying Chiefs, Jenner Hires Two Davids in DC, and Husch Loses Office Leader

With the Republicans in charge, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has tapped a bipartisan team for its lobby group.
82 minute read

National Law Journal

José Andrés, Trump Organization Settle DC Hotel Feud

Details of the settlement were not disclosed, but the two sides had sued each other for millions of dollars in a breach of contract suit sparked by President Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Twitter Sues Feds, Refuses to ID Anti-Trump Tweeter

@ALT_USCIS claims that it is run by an individual currently employed by the federal government, in this instance the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

A Decade in Turmoil: Where Chiquita's GC Steered His Company Wrong

In the spring of 2003, Robert Olson, then general counsel of Chiquita Brands International Inc., was advising the company on whether to continue making illegal "security payments" to known terrorists in Colombia. The money bought protection for the company's employees and banana plantations.
8 minute read

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