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  Trump's Broker & Club Member Touts Mar-A-Lago's $1B Value

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  A Florida real estate broker and member of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club took the stand Tuesday in New York sta...(read more)

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  Ulmer & Berne, Greensfelder Hemker To Create 275-Atty Firm

  By Emma Cueto

  Mid-Law firms Ulmer & Berne LLP and Greensfelder Hemker & Gale PC voted on Tuesday to approve a merger of equals...(read more)

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• BigLaw Firms Are Focused On Growth Going Into 2024

  By Aebra Coe

  A primary concern for large law firms for the next year is how to continue to get bigger, whether that's through lateral hiring or combinations, even as the geopolitical and macroeconomic environments remain volatile, according to a report released Wednesday.

• SEC Chair Warns Businesses Against AI Washing: 'Don't Do It'

  By Hailey Konnath

  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler on Tuesday cautioned business owners not to "AI wash," or mislead investors as to their true artificial intelligence capabilities, comparing the practice to "greenwashing" and saying that securities laws require "full, fair and truthful disclosure."

• 1st Circ. Revives Fight Over Liberace's Rhinestone Piano

  By Henrik Nilsson

  Liberace's rhinestone-encrusted concert piano once again found itself in the limelight when the First Circuit held that a district court wrongly tossed the Gibson Foundation's suit accusing a piano store of refusing to return the piano after Gibson entrusted it with warehousing the instrument.

• Roberts Declines To Freeze Virginia Pipeline Construction

  By Katie Buehler

  U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts declined Tuesday to pause construction of the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, allowing work to continue on the natural gas pipeline while Virginia landowners challenge the constitutionality of land seizures related to the project.

• 9th Circ. Throws Out Tinder Age Bias Settlement Again

  By Hailey Konnath

  The Ninth Circuit held Tuesday that a revised $5.2 million settlement between Tinder and users accusing it of age bias still doesn't hold up, ruling that the class representative has a conflict of interest and failed to vigorously litigate on behalf of the proposed class before agreeing to the deal.

• Floor & Decor Insider Trading Case Moves Ahead In Del.

  By Leslie A. Pappas

  Floor & Decor shareholders got the nod from Delaware's Court of Chancery on Tuesday to proceed with a derivative suit alleging that directors and controlling shareholders of the company sold $466 million worth of inflated stock in 2018 based on insider information.

• 1st Circ. Open To Reviving Whole Foods BLM Retaliation Suit

  By Brian Dowling

  The First Circuit on Tuesday appeared willing to consider at least partially reversing Whole Foods' pretrial win on retaliation claims brought by three former employees who say the grocery chain disciplined and later fired them for wearing Black Lives Matter masks at work.

• Massive Hack At 23andMe Got Health, DNA Ancestry Data

  By Beth JoJack

  Hackers accessed data from about 6.9 million users of the DNA testing company 23andMe Inc., the company confirmed Tuesday. The breach got a wealth of sensitive information, including health and DNA ancestry profiles.

• Ga. Judge Puts Hold On Murder Retrial Of Ex-BigLaw Atty

  By Kelcey Caulder

  The Georgia retrial of a former Fisher Phillips partner accused of murdering his wife was put on hold Tuesday after the Fulton County Superior Court judge overseeing the case said he would not allow prosecutors to allege for the second time that Claud "Tex" McIver intended to kill his wife when he shot her.

• Jackson Urges High Court To Dispose Of Automatic Vacaturs

  By Katie Buehler

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday again criticized a procedural mechanism that obligates the justices to vacate lower court opinions and offered up an alternative analysis they could use to decide whether to vacate rulings by the lower courts.

• Google, Amazon Raise Microsoft Cloud Concerns In UK

  By Matthew Perlman

  Google and Amazon both told Britain's competition enforcer that the cloud services market is generally functioning well but contended Microsoft's licensing practices block competition and deserve a close look during a market investigation of the sector that the agency is undertaking.

• Calif. Justice Asks 'What's Consumer To Do?' In Lemon Fight

  By Dorothy Atkins

  California Supreme Court justices on Tuesday doubted Chrysler's arguments that a consumer who traded her lemon vehicle with a third party must deduct its trade-in value from restitution she's entitled to under the Song-Beverly Act, noting Chrysler repeatedly refused to buy back her Jeep, with one justice asking, "What's the consumer to do?"