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Florida Pulse By Adrian Cruz In a landmark decision that could provide a definitive answer to hundreds of lawsuits accusing businesses of violating the ADA by featuring websites inaccessible to the visually impaired, FisherBroyles LLP partner Susan Warner on behalf of supermarket chain Winn-Dixie successfully convinced an Eleventh Circuit panel that websites arent considered a "public accommodation." By Matt Perez BigLaw firm Lewis Brisbois announced Wednesday the expansion of its Tampa outpost...

By Adrian Cruz California-based Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP continued the expansion of its office in Orange County with a pair of experienced attorneys as partners in its trusts and estates group, the firm announced. By Emma Cueto After more than two decades of litigation, Best Best & Krieger LLP last week won an appellate decision for a waterworks district in Los Angeles County in a high-stakes case over water rights in an area with around 400,000 people, several agricultural intere...

News and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, and business of law.

By Rachel Rippetoe Paul Hastings LLP has scooped up a media and entertainment dealmaker from OMelveny & Myers LLP to fill out its Century City, California, office. By Rachel Rippetoe Law360 Pulse caught up with Halim Dhanidina, who was the first Muslim in the U.S. to serve as an appellate judge, about how hes continued to rise up in the ranks, the pressure he felt as one of the few Muslim and South Asian high-ranking judges in the country and his new foray into private practice at Umberg Zipser...

By Marco Poggio With less than 90 days left in Manhattans district attorney race, eight candidates are setting the tone for how they intend to lead one of the nations most prominent prosecutorial offices. By Emily Lever New York State Court of Appeals Judge Paul Feinman, the first openly gay person to serve on the states highest court, has died a week into his retirement, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced Wednesday. He was 61. By Marco Poggio New York City mayoral candidates sparred Tuesday...

By Sue Reisinger Beacon Roofing Supply Inc., the largest publicly traded roofing product business in the U.S. and Canada, named former Fannie Mae deputy general counsel Christine Reddy as executive vice president and general counsel Monday, effective later this month. By Sue Reisinger Barbara Kosaczs first general counsel job ended with a jolt when the e-health startup she was at became financially distressed, but she took the lessons she learned to forge a successful legal career and is now ch...

Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court. By Andrew Strickler The financial industry, the securities bar, and federal regulators will all be watching the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday for a hotly contested case about the proper class certification test for shareholders alleging fraud at Goldman Sachs. Here, a look at the attorneys arguing the case. By Cara Bayles For two weeks, a Minnesota state court vetted 76 people to sit on the jury that w...

By Andrew Strickler A surge in legal academic writing during COVID is straining law journal student-editors and authors alike, amid signs that women and younger professors shouldering the demands of remote teaching and caregiving are getting shut out of publishing their work. By Rose Krebs Recently named Woman of the Year by an international organization representing women in the restructuring industry, Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP senior partner Debra Grassgreen credits hard work and good...

By Khorri Atkinson Former Eighth Circuit Judge Kermit E. Bye, who served 15 years on the bench, died Saturday at the age of 84 in Fargo, North Dakota.  By Andrew Strickler Silicon Valleys own Fenwick & West LLP jumped on the midyear bonus bandwagon Tuesday, reportedly announcing that associates will get checks totaling from $4,500 to $64,000. By Justin Wise The attorney who is representing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo over alleged sexual harassment has departed New York firm Seward & Kissel LLP,...