Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.
Thirty-one Iranians and one Sudanese national have sued the Trump administration to force U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to process their pending work permit applications, alleging the agency unlawfully put them on hold under directives for nationals of travel-ban countries.
A California federal judge has declined the government's bid to dismiss a suit from Stanford University's student newspaper challenging the Trump administration's targeting of foreign students with pro-Palestinian views for removal, ruling that the paper and two students have standing to sue.
A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday that immigration court judges appear to be "effectively ignoring" rulings by her and other district judges to grant bond hearings for detainees, but acknowledged there's little she can do about it.
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split in In re: Grand Jury, federal courts remain split as to when attorney-client privilege applies to dual-purpose legal and business communications, and understanding the fragmented landscape is essential for managing risks, say attorneys at Covington.
A Washington federal judge has determined that Democratic lawmakers used the wrong procedure to challenge a new Trump administration policy requiring members of Congress to provide notice before making oversight visits to immigrant detention facilities, but also said they could try again.
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday halted the Trump administration's renewed effort to tack allegedly unlawful immigration and other policy-related conditions onto certain public safety grants for sanctuary cities, and blocked the government from enforcing the conditions while two cities' legal challenge plays out.
Five conservation groups have urged the Eleventh Circuit to uphold a preliminary injunction halting operations of an immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, saying state and federal actions commissioning the site run contrary to the National Environmental Protection Act.
Federal prosecutors told a Pennsylvania jury on Thursday that brothers operating a nationwide chain of dental practices were the driving force of a complex scheme that the government said defrauded Medicare through bogus reimbursement claims, the use of unapproved dental implants and the fudging of visa paperwork to recruit foreign workers.