New from us: The US government is attempting to block lawyers from collecting what could be hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from the Camp Lejeune toxic water cases. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/la…

In March, Bloomberg Law wrote about a million-dollar lobbying campaign by a South Carolina law firm to pass a bill that included no restrictions on fees that attorneys could charge in Camp Lejeune toxic water cases and what that meant for veterans. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ma…

Now, the DOJ is moving to restrict attorney fees for all Lejeune cases. Our story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/la…

Sen. Dan Sullivan: "This means more money for sick Marines and less money for trial lawyers."

Parties should prepare for Camp Lejeune contaminated water trials to begin in 2024, four judges overseeing the litigation in the Eastern District of North Carolina said Tuesday. The court also ordered plaintiffs’ attorneys to file a master complaint within 10 days. #BLAW #BGOV

The order from the judges comes days after the Justice Department moved to restrict attorney fees in Camp Lejeune cases. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/la…

Immigration law is a lot of administrative work—standardized applications, support letters, document translation. And the law is federal, with one set of rules and regulations. All of which matches up well with the advantages of generative AI. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/im…

Doomed are societies in which people, after hearing about Pythagoras’ theorem, want to know Pythagoras’ political party affiliation in order to decide whether the theorem is correct.

The government plan to pay billions of dollars to victims of toxic water at Camp Lejeune has unleashed a wave of fraudulent claims trib.al/CvxwS5K

Another #CampLejeune exclusive from Bloomberg Law reporters Kaustuv Basu and Emily Siegel, this one about a rise in fake claims that could disrupt govt efforts to pay out billions to veterans and their relatives. news.bloomberglaw.com/product-liabil…

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People pay $3K to jump in a helicopter and gun down wild hogs from the sky? What a wild and well-done @BGov story from Jack Fitzpatrick ☘️: news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-an…

Jerry Ensminger has been seeking #CampLejeune answers--and justice--since his 9-year-old daughter died of leukemia in 1985. He can see the finish line, but not yet grasp it. A powerful Bloomberg Law story from Kaustuv Basu: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ma…

Jerry Ensminger, a Camp Lejeune veteran, has spent more than two decades seeking justice for his 9-year-old daughter, who died of leukemia. His quest feels like it is reaching a finish line. But hurdles remain. Our latest on the Camp Lejeune lawsuits. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ma…

Hurdles remain for Camp Lejeune toxic water victims seeking compensation, reports Kaustuv Basu. Victims are still fighting over caps on lawyer fees and the right to jury trials. Bogus claims are also a problem news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ma…

1/ People need to understand that good government is not possible without great journalists. With all of the layoffs, I’m going to try to do a better job at flagging when my own thinking FTC is informed by investigative reporting. I’ll start today…

Another #CampLejeune scoop from Bloomberg Law reporter Kaustuv Basu: The four presiding EDNC judges rule that toxic water victims don't have a right to have their cases heard by juries. news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-an…

A judge's 2022 order for the Juarez cartel to pay $4.6B to families of nine US women and children murdered in Mexico seemed just a paper ruling. But an unusual legal strategy could help them collect. A Bloomberg Law deep dive from Kaustuv Basu & Seamus Hughes news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/dr…

Proud to win the ASBPE Foundation’s 2024 Journalism That Matters Award with, Julie Steinberg, Kaustuv Basu, Alex Ruoff. We did our own testing for heavy metals in baby foods. It's great to work at a place that will put resources into stories like this. asbpe.org/news/2024/05/2…

Top universities in the US are strategically positioned to help lawmakers understand the power of AI. The question is whether Congress will act on the lessons it’s learning this summer. Our story on AI boot camps and more: news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-int…