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## TOP NEWS

Manhattan DA Investigating 'Missing' NYC Real Estate Atty

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office is investigating a city real estate attorney who has allegedly gone missing along with millions in client funds, a source familiar with the probe told Law360.

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## Biden Floats $1.8B Boost In Justice Department Funding

President Joe Biden on Friday proposed a $1.8 billion discretionary funding increase to the U.S. Department of Justice for the next fiscal year, with more money going to civil rights enforcement, immigration courts and state and local criminal justice reforms.

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## Gaetz Lawyers Up With Prominent NYC Defense Team

Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida has retained a pair of top-shelf New York defense attorneys amid a federal sex trafficking investigation. Read full article >>

## Former Netflix Exec Faces Bribery Charges As Trial Kicks Off

Prosecutors accused a former Netflix executive of illegally receiving

kickbacks and stock options from startups in exchange for lucrative contracts

with the streaming giant during opening arguments in a bribery trial

in California federal court Friday, while defense counsel argued the deals

were legitimate and a product of Netflix's "no rules" culture.

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## House Slams DOJ's 2nd Bid To Delay McGahn Subpoena Case

A top House attorney has rebuked the Biden administration's claim that they've made "sufficient progress" toward a settlement that warrants another postponement of oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in House Democrats' long-running bid to compel testimony from former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn.

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## Ulbricht Floats Theory That 2nd Silk Road Plea Offer Existed

A federal judge on Friday directed the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office to check if there was a second plea deal offered to Ross Ulbricht, besides one he famously rejected, after the former Silk Road operator's lawyer cited a published report and said it suggests another offer existed.

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## Judge Mulls Trump Appointee's Jail Release Bid In Riot Case

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## Feds Drop Criminal Charges In Alleged Fintech Fraud Scheme

Federal prosecutors on Friday sought to drop wire fraud and securities fraud charges against a former financial planner, noting that his alleged co- conspirator had been pardoned by former President Donald Trump.

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## COMPLIANCE

## Texas Justices Say No Jail For Salon Owner In COVID Fight

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday a Dallas salon owner won't have to go back to jail to finish out a seven-day sentence for operating her business during the statewide coronavirus shutdown in April 2020, finding the temporary restraining order that's the basis of her punishment is invalid.

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## Biden Seeks 21% Boost For EPA Funding

President Joe Biden is seeking a 21% budget increase for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and billions more for climate investments, a dramatic reversal from the Trump administration, which consistently sought to gut the agency's funding and largely ignored climate issues. Read full article >>

## SECURITIES

## Boat-Buying Ponzi Schemer Admits Luring Investors

A self-professed venture capitalist from Boston admitted Thursday to duping investors with promises of easy, no-risk profits as part of a Ponzi-like fraud scheme that prosecutors say netted him a powerboat.

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## MONEY LAUNDERING

## Fed Asks Banks For Input On AML Risk Models

The Federal Reserve Board and a group of U.S. banking agencies asked the nation's banks on Friday for input on how they use risk models to comply with Bank Secrecy Act regulations, including models used to track and report suspicious activities.

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## HEALTH

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The parents of a woman who fatally overdosed on an Insys Therapeutics opioid called on a New Jersey federal court Friday to sanction a pharmaceutical wholesaler for allegedly deleting documents relevant to their wrongful-death suit, saying they wasted time and money searching empty hard drives.

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## 3 Reasons Securities Fraud Litigation Exposure Fell In Q1

Nessim Mezrahi and Stephen Sigrist at SAR analyze data on securities class actions filed against public companies in the first quarter of 2021, and explore factors that may have contributed to issuers facing their lowest exposure to such claims in years.

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## What Associates Should Consider Before Switching Practices

The current high demand for midlevel associates provides them a rare opportunity to potentially explore new practice areas, but associates should first ask themselves six questions to begin figuring out why a change sounds appealing, says Stephanie Biderman at Major Lindsey. Read full article >>



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## LEGAL INDUSTRY

Holland & Knight, Thompson & Knight In Talks To Combine BigLaw firms Holland & Knight and Thompson & Knight are discussing a possible combination, a move that would form a practice with nearly 1,600 attorneys across 30 offices, firm leaders said Friday. Read full article >>

## NY Fed. Judge Sandra Feuerstein Killed In Fla. Hit-And-Run

U.S. District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein of the Eastern District of New York was killed on Friday after being fatally struck by a vehicle in a hit and run crash in Florida, authorities said.

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## Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Salvi Schostok's Patrick A. Salvi

Almost 40 years after founding Salvi Schostok & Pritchard PC, and with more than $1.5 billion in verdicts and settlements under his firm's belt, trial attorney Patrick A. Salvi still loves few things more than the chance to argue for his clients in court.

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## Bonus Spotlight Baker Botts And MoFo Join Special Bonuses Action

Morrison & Foerster LLP and Baker Botts LLP are joining the dozens of major U.S. law firms handing out special bonuses this year, according to reports and details Law360 confirmed on Friday.

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## Biden Forms Commission To Study Supreme Court 'Reform'

President Joe Biden on Friday followed through on his plan to form an

outside commission to study possible reforms of the U.S. Supreme Court

amid progressive criticism of the court's conservative majority. The

"bipartisan" group includes former federal judges, high court advocates and

legal scholars.

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Justices Won't Hear In-Person Args Until At Least Next Term

## Biden Forms Commission To Study Supreme Court 'Reform' (cont.)

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## Biden Forms Commission To Study Supreme Court 'Reform' (cont.)

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will continue to hear oral arguments by telephone for the remainder of its current term.

Read full article >> Morgan Lewis Sues Pierce Bainbridge For $436K Unpaid Rent

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has alleged in California state court that Pierce Bainbridge PC and its predecessor firm owe nearly a year's worth of rent for office space in a commercial building in downtown Los Angeles. Read full article >>

## Wolf Haldenstein Sues NY Landlord For Breach Of Contract

Class action firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP is suing its New York landlord over an alleged breach of contract, claiming that it has failed to make building renovations required under a lease agreement and that the firm has no obligation to pay base rent until those are near completion.

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## Gibson Dunn, Recruiter Agree To Arbitrate Hiring Fees Dispute

A California judge Friday sent to arbitration Lateral Link Group Inc.'s suit

claiming Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP cheated it out of its recruiting

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commission for the hire of a lateral partner, after the legal recruiting company

didn't oppose the law firm's motion.

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## Studio Can't Slip Gay Asst.'s Bias Suit Against Atty's Cos.

A California judge Friday overruled a bid by an attorney's dance studio to escape a lawsuit brought against the lawyer and her companies by her gay former legal assistant over claims the attorney's namesake firm didn't pay him minimum wage, harassed him and wrongfully fired him after he informed a superior he had HIV.

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## McCormick Picked As Bouchard's Del. Chancery Successor

Gov. John Carney nominated Vice Chancellor Kathaleen S. McCormick on Friday to become the first woman to lead Delaware's nationally important Chancery Court, replacing Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard, who is slated to retire at the end of April after serving just short of seven years of a 12-year term.

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## Departing Attys Taking Files Can Break Law, Mass. Court Says

Massachusetts' top court ruled Friday that attorneys who smuggle client files

out the door to start a new firm can be held liable for deceptive business

practices, even if they were still employed by their old firm at the time.

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## LegalZoom Hires Former Google Exec As Chief People Officer

LegalZoom announced that it has hired former Google executive Sheily Chhabria Panchal to join the company as its new chief people officer. Read full article >>

## GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

Experts have urged general counsel to lean into innovation following a survey that found significant challenges facing lawyers amid shrinking corporate legal budgets, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decadelong case that Google made fair use of Oracle's software. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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## GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week (cont.)

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## GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week (cont.)

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For more than a decade, Google and Oracle have been duking it out over the extent to which individual companies can control an important building block of computer software code, with Google potentially on the hook for billions of dollars in damages and the future of the technology industry seemingly at stake.

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