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Private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners has invested in the back-office operations of US insurance defense firm Wood Smith Henning & Berman, the law firm said on Monday, marking the latest influx of outside capital into the traditional legal market reut.rs/4sbWLqS

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 9h

The US Supreme Court asked President Donald Trump's administration to weigh in on whether it should review a lower court ruling that ‌blocked an Iowa law allowing state officials to arrest and prosecute people who are in the United States illegally reut.rs/4yXC84i

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 9h

A federal appeals court refused to allow President Donald Trump's administration to redirect money away from over 100 non-profit organizations that had historically received funding to help prevent and investigate housing ‌discrimination @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4ei4XQE

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14h

Uber won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits seeking around $453 million brought by thousands of London black cab drivers and two former private hire companies, Kabbie and Iride reut.rs/3VTeKGG

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15h

A federal judge rejected for now a request by lawyers for consumers who sued Google over its Play Store practices to collect $85 million in legal fees from a $630 million settlement. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17h

Arizona's top court approved the state's first non-ABA-accredited law school; And a federal judge ruled that Susman Godfrey can continue representing the ABA in its suit against the Trump administration. For legal buzz, subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 18h

A divided 10th Circuit upheld a decision by the EPA under President Trump to unconditionally grant Oklahoma authority over environmental programs on tribal lands within the state. For more top news, subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 19h

A DC federal judge will continue a court hearing she began last week to determine why the National Park Service removed more than 500 trees from a DC golf course that President Trump has sought to renovate. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 21h

In today's Daily Docket: Albertsons will begin its $8 billion trial against Kroger over their failed merger; Plus, the US Supreme Court is expected to issue orders in pending appeals. Subscribe: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/10/2026

A US appeals court said it won’t reconsider a ruling reviving hundreds of lawsuits against Tylenol maker Kenvue ‌alleging the popular painkiller can cause autism reut.rs/3VNu4EJ

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/10/2026

A divided federal appeals court upheld a Trump administration decision to unconditionally grant Oklahoma authority over ‌environmental programs on tribal lands within the state @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4i1EbgG

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/10/2026

The Arizona Supreme Court has approved the state's first law school not accredited by the American Bar Association, a move the court said would help address Arizona's lawyer shortage reut.rs/4yurv8j

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/10/2026

A federal judge in California has rejected for now a request by lawyers for consumers who sued Alphabet's Google over its Play Store practices to collect $85M in legal fees from ‌a $630M settlement, saying the attorneys failed to provide sufficient records to justify the award reut.rs/4s6wpXc

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/10/2026

A trio of Democratic US lawmakers lodged a new request for Kirkland & Ellis to turn over records related to a deal the law firm made with Republican President Donald Trump last year, vowing to press ‌their demands into the next congressional term @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/47nxEIi

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 17/10/2026

Column: Apple 'faceprints' case tests reach of biometric privacy law @jgreenejenna.bsky.social reut.rs/3VM6DeZ

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

Senate Republicans are planning back-to-back judicial confirmation hearings after the midterm elections. The move appears aimed at confirming as many of Trump's nominees as possible before a potential Democratic takeover of the chamber. Subscribe: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

The DOJ sued to block California from counting midterm mail ballots from more than 20,000 voters that the Trump administration alleges are likely noncitizens. For more top news, subscribe: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

COLUMN: A picture might be worth a thousand words. But for plaintiffs suing Apple, photographs could contain something more legally consequential: biometric data. @jgreenejenna.bsky.social examines Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act reut.rs/3VM6DeZ

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

In today's Daily Docket: AI experts are warning the federal judiciary about the risks of ‘deepfake’ evidence; Plus, the DC Circuit will take up the Trump administration’s challenge to a presidential records preservation law. Subscribe: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

A jury in Tampa, Florida, found that Comcast owes digital television provider WhereverTV $213 million in damages for infringing a ‌patent related to streaming video @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/3VJmtag

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

Judge calls $3,000 hourly rate 'patently unreasonable' as lawyer billing soars @davidjthomas.bsky.social @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4zDv3Gc

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 16/10/2026

Tech experts at OpenAI and Meta Platforms warned a federal judicial panel that AI-generated "deepfakes" are becoming so sophisticated that it will become increasingly challenging to determine the authenticity of audio and video evidence presented at trial @nateraymond.bsky.social reut.rs/4i39yYf

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

Longstanding racial gaps in US entry-level lawyer employment increased for 2025 graduates, with white law graduates securing jobs at a higher rate than their Black, Hispanic and Asian classmates, new data show. Subscribe: reut.rs/4zvBLxJ

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

The US Justice Department sued California, asking a federal judge to block the state from counting mail ballots for the November midterm elections from more than 20,000 voters the Trump administration alleges are likely non-citizens reut.rs/3TJnIWl

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

JUST IN: DOJ sues California to block votes from alleged non-citizens reut.rs/4yHIqV3

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

More than 94% of 2025’s white law graduates found jobs within 10 months compared with less ‌than 91% of law graduates of color, according to NALP data. For more legal buzz, subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

Florida can enforce a state law barring children under 14 from accessing social media platforms, the 11th Circuit ruled. For more top news, subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

The DC Circuit will take up an appeal by Michael and David Sztrom seeking to reverse a lifetime advisory industry ban imposed by the SEC after they settled an enforcement action. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

In today's Daily Docket: We examine what’s keeping election lawyers up at night; Plus, the federal judiciary is weighing whether to broadcast criminal trials to allow victims to watch; And AI-powered law firms are drawing big-firm lawyers. Subscribe: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

A US Justice Department official whose work included defending the use of force against allegedly violent protesters during a Chicago immigration crackdown has left to join Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm said @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4hHWZ5C

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

Roche's Genentech has settled a US lawsuit against Indian biopharmaceutical company Biocon over its proposed biosimilar of Genentech's blockbuster breast-cancer drug ‌Perjeta, Biocon said @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/4yhHh6l

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

Perrigo has agreed to pay $10?M to settle a proposed class action alleging it conspired with Gerber Products to block new entrants into the ‌market for store-brand infant formula, allowing Perrigo to inflate prices that retailers passed on to consumers @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/4jmLe5L

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 15/10/2026

Apple has asked a federal judge in San Diego to overturn a $5.7 billion patent ‌verdict won by Taction Technology against the tech giant last month over the haptic feedback in Apple's iPhones and Apple Watches @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/4jFdu3V

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Iowa, Kansas and six other states said they sued OpenAI in courts across the country over harms they say ChatGPT caused to children, alleging the chatbot coached children to harm themselves or others reut.rs/4Bp6M8D

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

JUST IN: Eight US states sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT harms children reut.rs/4Bp6M8D

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

A victory in one or both chambers of Congress would give Democrats powerful tools to probe Wall Street banks, prediction markets and crypto firms as well as their watchdogs. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Anthropic asked the DC Circuit on October 13 to reconsider a ruling that upheld the Pentagon's decision to label it a national security supply chain risk reut.rs/47SujRy

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Cornell's sexual-assault investigation aims at transparency, but will the findings become public? In her latest column, Sara Randazzo speaks to education lawyers about how universities balance transparency and more litigation risk when bringing in outside law firms reut.rs/4B63vuo

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Delaware jury awarded Qualcomm $2 in damages after finding that chip technology supplier Arm Holdings breached a licensing agreement and intentionally interfered with Qualcomm’s relationship with Meta. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear President Trump’s fight with a watchdog group over DOGE, as well as an asylum fight involving a Nigerian cook. For more top news, subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global, a consumer privacy case which centers on how the Video Privacy Protection Act applies in the internet era. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

In today's Daily Docket: We look at five key takeaways from a Reuters special report that found Trump’s pardon list leans right; And two new lawsuits against SpaceXAI show Illinois' biometric privacy law is a growing risk for AI companies. Subscribe: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

OpenAI illegally profits from the personal information and data minors share with ChatGPT, a mother whose two children use the chatbot ‌alleged in a proposed class action filed in San Francisco federal court reut.rs/4yh4Mfu

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Uber Technologies can pursue civil racketeering claims against a Philadelphia-based lawyer even though the company's insurer footed its defense bills in a series of allegedly fraudulent personal injury lawsuits, a federal ‌judge ruled @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/4yOlnss

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Column: Cornell's sexual-assault investigation aims at transparency, but will findings become public? @sararandazzo.bsky.social reut.rs/4B63vuo

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by lawyers who were sanctioned over a lawsuit they brought challenging Arizona's voting machines in the run-up to the state's 2022 midterm elections @davidjthomas.bsky.social reut.rs/47Rq8W8

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 14/10/2026

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has been hit with two proposed class actions alleging its Grok platform violates a stringent Illinois privacy law through its manipulation of facial images, marking the latest lawsuits against AI companies over their collection and use of biometric data reut.rs/47jUGjb

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 13/10/2026

A federal judge lambasted government lawyers over their conduct in a lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump administration’s takeover of a historic golf course in DC. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 13/10/2026

Corcept Therapeutics wants to exclude a retired federal judge's testimony supporting Teva Pharmaceuticals in an antitrust lawsuit. Corcept said that the judge's opinions could sway jurors without shedding light on the facts. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4dsTnQ1

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