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The New York attorney general’s office has filed judgments in Westchester County, where former President Trump’s golf resort and private estate known as Seven Springs is located — a first step toward seizing the assets.

The judgments were filed with the Westchester County clerk’s office March 6, public records show. Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw the sweeping civil fraud trial against Trump and his business, formally entered his multimillion-dollar judgment just a week earlier.

Engoron ruled that Trump, the Trump Organization and top executives, including two of Trump’s sons — Eric and Donald Jr. — were liable for fraud after conspiring to change the former president’s net worth for tax and insurance benefits. He ordered them to pay $464 million, plus interest, in total.

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Trump has just four days to find the cash to post a surety bond for his portion of the judgment — a whopping $454 million, plus interest — before New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) can begin seizing his assets. If Trump posts the bond, the judgment would be automatically paused while the former president appeals Engoron’s ruling.

James has said that if

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Case Lawyer

Sam Smith & Normani Can’t Recover Legal Fees After Copyright Case Win

06/12/2025

Six months after Sam Smith and Normani beat a copyright lawsuit over their 2019 hit “Dancing With a Stranger,” a federal judge is refusing to force their accuser to reimburse their legal fees — a bill the stars say exceeded $700,000.

Smith and Normani have argued that they shouldn’t be forced to foot the huge bill they incurred fending off the “frivolous and unreasonable” lawsuit, which claimed the duo had copied a little-known 2015 song of the same name when they created “Dancing .”

While US District Judge Wesley L. Hsu dismissed the lawsuit last year, he ruled Monday (Mar. 18) that the case was not so completely baseless as to warrant punishing the accuser with paying the stars’ massive legal bill.

“Plaintiff’s claims were neither frivolous nor objectively unreasonable,” the judge wrote, calling the lawsuit a “close and difficult case” on a “contentious area of copyright law.”

Attorneys for Smith and Normani had argued that the lawsuit was merely a “gamble,” filed against the stars with “hopes for a massive payout.” But Judge Hsu said Monday there was “no evidence” of such ill intent by the accusers.

The case was filed in 2022 by songwriters Jordan Vincent, Christopher Miranda

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Law Firm

Law Firm Newswire Expands Press Release Distribution Plan Giving Lawyers Access to The Street and MSN for Less

05/12/2025

San Francisco, California – Law Firm Newswire, the press release distribution service catering to law firms, announced today a significant expansion to their Primetime distribution plan. The press release distribution company will now incorporate The Street, and MSN to their Primetime distribution level. This move will offer law firms a more comprehensive network, reaching over 450 websites and other major broadcasting channels at a rate that competes with mainstream press release wires.

Previously, The Street and MSN were only available to law firms that opted for the top-tier LFN Spotlight network. However, this recent shift translates into a saving of $290/release for law firms making the Primetime plan a great way for lawyers to Make the News®.

The Primetime distribution level, with its reach of over 450 sites and networks, already included prominent news outlets such as Google News, Apple News, AP News, Bigger Law Firm Magazine, Digital Journal, and Benzinga, as well as local ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox affiliates.

In addition to the expansion of the Primetime distribution level, Law Firm Newswire also announced a new addition to its top-level Spotlight distribution plan. Law firms sending news under the LFN Spotlight level will now have their announcement published

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Law Firm

International firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner announces second round of layoffs in under a year

04/12/2025

Reuters reported that the legal industry, particularly in the US, has seen a series of layoffs among large firms over the past year, attributed mainly to a softening demand for legal services, especially within transactional practices. Although the pace of publicly confirmed layoffs seemed to have slowed in recent months, the sector remains in a state of flux, as evidenced by the nearly 10 percent workforce reduction at Silicon Valley-based Fenwick & West last month, a move reported by various media outlets.

Despite these industry adjustments, the broader US legal services sector appears resilient, adding 2,700 jobs in February and approaching its all-time employment high from December, per the latest US Labor Department data. This data encompasses various legal workers employed across law firms, companies, and other organizations.

This series of layoffs at BCLP follows the dismissal of 47 business services professionals globally last May. The previous round of layoffs was said to mainly affect secretarial and administrative positions in the US, attributed to “excess capacity following a comprehensive review of support ratios.”

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Legal Update

Immigrants without legal status get public health insurance in more states : Shots

03/12/2025

Immigrants wait to be processed after they crossed the border into the US in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 22. Eleven states and DC offer taxpayer-funded health insurance to some immigrants without legal status.

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A growing number of states are opening taxpayer-funded health insurance programs to immigrants, including those living in the US without authorization, even as Republicans assail President Joe Biden over a dramatic increase in illegal crossings of the southern border.

Eleven states and Washington, DC, together provide full health insurance coverage to more than 1 million low-income immigrants regardless of their legal status, according to state data compiled by KFF Health News. Most aren’t authorized to live in the US, state officials say.

Enrollment in these programs could nearly double by 2025 as at least seven states initiate or expand coverage. In January, Republican-controlled Utah will start covering children regardless of immigration status, while

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Law News

Move to expand CT’s sick day law gets committee approval

02/12/2025

Connecticut lawmakers have advanced legislation seeking to expand the state’s paid sick day law to include all employees in the state.

The move would require workplaces to offer employees 40 hours of paid sick time per year. Current law only mandates this for workplaces with 50 or more employees.

Sick days can be used for time needed to tend to illness, injury and mental health. The time can also be used toward recovery from family violence or sexual assault. Improving the statute is an issue of gender and racial equity, said Janée Woods Weber, executive director of She Leads Justice, a nonprofit that advocates for women in Connecticut.

“Workers who lack access to paid sick days, also tend to work jobs that don’t pay livable wages, or have predictable schedules,” Woods Weber said. “So not being forced to choose between their paychecks and taking off a day or two to recover from an illness also helps to protect their economic security.”

Connecticut’s largest business organization, CBIA, said the high number of open jobs is already making private companies seriously examine employee pay and benefits.

“Companies that can’t offer paid time off are at a significant disadvantage,” Ashley Zane, senior public

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Attorney

What happens if Trump can’t secure a bond for his $464 million civil fraud judgment?

01/12/2025

Donald Trump has boasted that his assets include the “Mona Lisas” of real estate, but the former president risks losing some of those properties and unraveling his personal finances if he can’t satisfy the judgment in his $464 million civil fraud case by next week .

New York Attorney General Letitia James could ask the court to freeze Trump’s bank accounts, begin collecting rent from the tenants of his buildings, subpoena the former president for his personal financial information including tax returns, and request that the New York City Sheriff auction his trophy properties within months, according to several experts in the judgment collection industry who spoke with ABC News.

In a filing this week, Trump’s lawyers told the court that securing a bond for the full judgment was a “practical impossibility” after more than 30 insurance companies declined to accept Trump’s cash and properties as collateral.

“If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets,” James said in an exclusive interview with ABC News last month.

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Attorney

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s securities fraud charges could be dropped under deal, according to report

30/11/2025

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Lawyers in Ken Paxton’s felony securities fraud case are in talks about a deal to drop the charges facing the Republican attorney general if he performs community service and pays restitution, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Paxton could also have to take advanced legal education courses under a “draft agreement” that would allow him to skirt next month’s trial, the Statesman reported.

Paxton, who has been under indictment on two first-degree fraud charges and a third-degree charge since 2015, was scheduled for a final pretrial hearing on Tuesday ahead of an April 15 trial in Houston. He is accused of soliciting investors in a McKinney technology company more than a decade ago without disclosing that the firm was paying him to promote its stock. He is also charged with steering clients to a friend’s investment advising business without registering with the state securities board.

The case has been delayed by a number of disputes between Paxton’s attorneys and the special prosecutors handling the case, including over how much the prosecutors should be paid. The sides have also sparred

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Legal Update

Trump’s political action committee spent nearly $50 million on legal bills in 2023, filings show

29/11/2025

Washington — Former President Donald Trump’s political apparatus spent more than it raised last year, thanks in part to about $50 million in legal bills spent for his numerous ongoing legal defenses across 2023, campaign finance reports filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission show.

Ace Trump’s legal and political calendars have collided in recent weeks, bounced him between Iowa, New Hampshire and courts in New York City and Washington, DC, related to three different cases, the financial burden of his legal challenges has taken its toll on his fundraising and advertising capabilities.

Trump’s campaign and the primary super PAC supporting him, MAGA Inc., are well-positioned heading into the new year, with over $56 million in cash between the two committees. But Trump’s leadership PAC — Save America PAC, which paid his lawyers — has just over $5 million cash on hand, and the political action committees working on his behalf spent more than what they were raising.

The former president is facing former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the race for the GOP presidential nomination and has been the front-runner throughout the campaign.

Save America PAC and Make America Great Again PAC, the two political

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Attorney

New York attorney general disputes Trump’s claim that he can’t secure $464 million to post bonds

28/11/2025

A lawyer for New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday disputed former President Donald Trump’s claim that he can’t secure more than $460 million needed to post bond and appeal the civil fraud ruling against him, writing in a filing that the court should deny Trump’s “extraordinary request” to appeal without posting the full amount.

On Monday, Trump’s lawyers told the court handling the appeal that it was a “practical impossibility” that he and other defendants could obtain the bond by March 25.

In his response on Wednesday, Dennis Fan, a senior assistant solicitor general for the state, called Trump’s filing “procedurally improper” and said the court should ignore it. He wrote that Trump’s issues should have been raised in an earlier filing, and could have been, since “their efforts to obtain that bond began before their stay motion was filed and indeed before judgment was even entered.”

In February, a New York judge ordered Trump and his co-defendants to pay more than $450 million in penalties and interest for a decade-long fraud scheme, one of the largest corporate sanctions in New York history. Trump must secure a bond for the full amount of the judgment, which continues to

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