Corporate

  • August 08, 2025

    9th Circ. Grounds Lufthansa Refund Deal On Atty Fee Question

    The Ninth Circuit on Friday vacated an order that granted class certification and gave final approval to a $56.6 million settlement reached between Lufthansa and customers in a dispute concerning refunds for flights canceled due to COVID-19, saying a district court's calculation gave class counsel a disproportionate distribution.

  • August 08, 2025

    Frank Founder, Exec Can't Undo JPMorgan Fraud Convictions

    Charlie Javice, the startup founder convicted of lying to JPMorgan Chase ahead of its $175 million purchase of her college-aid website Frank, and her former colleague have failed to show good reasons why they should now be acquitted, the judge on her case has found.

  • August 08, 2025

    Ripple Exits SEC Case With An Injunction Still Over Its Head

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's long-running case against Ripple Labs has finally come to an end with both sides agreeing to drop competing appeals, but the crypto firm's inability to shake a court-ordered judgment leaves it potentially vulnerable to future enforcement actions.

  • August 08, 2025

    9th Circ. Says Ex-Atty Sued By CFPB Still On Hook For $243M

    The Ninth Circuit refused to free a disbarred attorney from a $243 million order that included civil penalties to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for his role in a student loan scam, finding no genuine dispute whether the former lawyer violated consumer protection law.

  • August 08, 2025

    Feds Aim To Dismiss ABA's 'Law Firm Intimidation Policy' Suit

    The Trump administration on Friday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to throw out a lawsuit from the American Bar Association claiming the federal government has launched an unconstitutional war of intimidation against lawyers and law firms.

  • August 08, 2025

    How Patent Attys Can Limit 'Skinny Label' Risks In Ads

    The Federal Circuit has twice cited a company's marketing practices to allow arguments that a generic drug's "skinny label" could induce patent infringement, and here, Law360 offers tips on how patent attorneys can take a more active role in making sure company and client advertisements pass muster.

  • August 08, 2025

    UC President Says $1B DOJ Demand Would Cripple University

    The head of the University of California system said Friday that a $1 billion settlement proposed by the Trump administration in order to spare UCLA from threatened federal research funding cuts would "completely devastate our country's greatest public university system."

  • August 08, 2025

    Nielsen Holdings, Spinoff End Data Cutoff Fight In Del.

    Nielsen Holdings Ltd. and consumer intelligence spinoff Nielsen Consumer IQ, or NIQ, agreed Friday to dismiss a Delaware Court of Chancery suit that saw the two battle over what a vice chancellor termed a "fairly blatant" NIQ effort to unilaterally sever data flows to Nielsen Holdings and another user.

  • August 08, 2025

    Judge Says Insurer Must Face $100M Biz Interruption Claim

    A chemicals manufacturer accusing a reinsurer of failing to fully cover its roughly $100 million business interruption claim over a chemical plant explosion can still pursue its coverage claims, a Texas federal court ruled, finding the Texas Supreme Court would likely adopt the same holding.

  • August 08, 2025

    Trump EO Requires Appointee Oversight Of US Grantmaking

    President Donald Trump has issued an executive order requiring that all funding opportunity announcements and grant awards be reviewed by his political appointees and allowing for grants to be terminated that fall outside the administration's priorities. 

  • August 08, 2025

    Employment Authority: Recap Of 5 Major Wage-Hour Deals

    Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on a more than $200 million minimum wage settlement involving Disneyland and other major wage-and-hour deals at this point in 2025, a look at how a recent opinion from a divided Seventh Circuit panel shows judges' varying interpretations the U.S. Supreme Court's Groff ruling and the potential shifts in collection and reporting of union membership data after President Trump's firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

  • August 08, 2025

    Costco Judgment Reversed Over Expert Report Rule Misstep

    The Eleventh Circuit has reversed a Florida federal court's judgment for Costco Wholesale Corp. that nixed a $155,000 jury award in a shopper's slip-and-fall lawsuit, finding the lower court misinterpreted a rule as requiring the shopper's treating physician to file an expert written report in order to testify.

  • August 08, 2025

    Allbirds Faces New Del. Derivative Suit In Chancery

    Stockholders of footwear and clothing venture Allbirds Inc. launched a new Delaware Court of Chancery derivative suit Friday naming the company's key corporate figures, citing in part a now-third-amended securities action in the Northern District of California.

  • August 08, 2025

    Papa John's No-Poach Deal Barely Clears Initial Hurdle

    A Kentucky federal judge expressed lingering concerns despite giving initial approval to a $5 million settlement for claims from Papa John's employees over its past use of no-poach provisions in its franchise agreements after rejecting a previous approval bid.

  • August 08, 2025

    Home Depot Gives DOJ More Time To Review $5.5B GMS Deal

    Home Depot has pulled and refiled the notice for its planned $5.5 billion acquisition of building products distributor GMS Inc. in order to give the U.S. Department of Justice additional time to review the transaction for competition concerns.

  • August 08, 2025

    Latest T-Mobile Deal Suggests DOJ-FCC Spectrum Tension

    The Federal Communications Commission declared victory last month in affirmatively clearing T-Mobile's $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular wireless operations, but the Justice Department appeared far more reluctant in a statement hinting at the wider dynamics of how the Trump administration looks at telecommunications transactions.

  • August 08, 2025

    Tesla Ousted HR Workers Who Flagged Race Bias, Suit Says

    Five former human resources workers and one former security employee at Tesla's beleaguered Fremont, California, facility said in a new lawsuit that higher-ups systemically punished employees who pushed back against racist and other discriminatory behavior at the plant.

  • August 08, 2025

    Warner Bros. Faces TM Trial Over 'Ugliest House' Show

    A Delaware federal judge ruled Friday that Warner Bros. Discovery cannot avoid a bench trial this month over whether its HGTV show "Ugliest House in America" infringes the trademarks of HomeVestors of America Inc., which owns marks for "We Buy Ugly Houses" and "Ugliest House of the Year" for an annual contest.

  • August 08, 2025

    Stewart Rejects 8 IPR Petitions While Overriding May Denial

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart used her director review powers to grant a petition for inter partes review that she'd previously denied, but otherwise largely supported patent owners in the small batch of recent discretionary denial reviews.

  • August 08, 2025

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    Among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week: A South Carolina judge tossed Charleston's lawsuit seeking damages from oil and gas companies, and California sought information about Tractor Supply Co.'s compliance with the state's data privacy regime.

  • August 08, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Latham, Alston & Bird, Orrick

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, fiber optic connector systems maker Amphenol Corp. buys CommScope's connectivity and cable solutions business, Blackstone acquires Enverus from private equity firms, investors buy a majority stake in medical device company HistoSonics Inc., and ESPN swaps an equity stake for the National Football League's NFL Network and other intellectual property.

  • August 07, 2025

    ConocoPhillips Agrees To $1.3B Sale Of Anadarko Assets

    ConocoPhillips, with guidance from Haynes Boone, is selling its Anadarko Basin assets for $1.3 billion, with the sale expected to close at the beginning of the fourth quarter, the independent oil producer announced on Thursday.

  • August 07, 2025

    Colo. Investor Claims It Was Cut From $132M Skyscraper Sale

    A real estate investment firm that says it was wrongfully cut out of a $132 million purchase of a downtown Denver skyscraper at the eleventh hour sued the buyer, a private equity firm, in Colorado state court on Wednesday.

  • August 07, 2025

    ND Judge Strikes Down Fed's Debit Card Fee Regulation

    A North Dakota federal judge has invalidated the Federal Reserve's regulation limiting certain debit card fees charged in merchant transactions, ruling in favor of a truck stop and convenience store in finding that the Fed had attempted to "improperly repackag[e] the defunct-Chevron deference under a different name."

  • August 07, 2025

    Music Publishers Denied Anthropic User Info In AI Case

    A California federal judge on Thursday denied a request from music publishers for the names of people who used Anthropic PBC's generative text tool Claude to get copyrighted lyrics, saying she was not persuaded that production of personal third-party user information was needed for the infringement litigation.

Expert Analysis

  • Capital One Deal Approval Lights Up Path For Bank M&A

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    The federal banking regulators' recent approval of Capital One's acquisition of Discover signals the agencies' willingness to approve large transactions and a more favorable environment generally for bank mergers under the Trump administration, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures

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    With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • New FCPA Guidance Creates 5 Compliance Imperatives

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    In light of new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act guidelines that mark a fundamental shift in enforcement priorities, companies should consider several specific steps to ensure compliance, from enhanced due diligence to robust whistleblower protections, says Andrew Wirmani at Reese Marketos.

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    Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.

  • DOJ Enforcement Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

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    Recent investigations, settlements and a declination to prosecute suggest that controlling the flow of goods into and out of the country, and redressing what the administration sees as reverse discrimination, are likely to be at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement agenda the rest of this year, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

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    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

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    In the second quarter of the year, New York utilized every available tool to fill gaps left by federal retrenchment from consumer finance issues, including sweeping updates to its consumer protection framework and notable amendments to cybersecurity rules, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • SEC Proposal Could Hurt Foreign Issuers' US Market Access

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s June call for feedback on potentially narrowing how it designates foreign private issuers of securities could ultimately result in significant new barriers for traders that rely on FPI accommodations to participate in U.S. markets, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • Federal Regs Order May Spell Harsher FDCA Enforcement

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    A recent executive order aimed at reducing criminal prosecutions of those who unknowingly violate complex federal regulations may actually lead to more aggressive felony indictments under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, but companies and executives can mitigate risks by following several key principals, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.

  • DOJ's 1st M&A Declination Shows Value Of Self-Disclosures

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to charge private equity firm White Deer Management — the first such declination under an M&A safe harbor policy announced last year — signals that even in high-priority national security matters, the DOJ looks highly upon voluntary self-disclosures, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care

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    Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.

  • Nev. Steps Up Efforts To Attract Incorporations With New Law

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    Recent amendments to Nevada corporate law, which will narrow controlling stockholders’ liability, streamline mergers and allow companies to opt out of jury trials, show the interstate competition to attract new and reincorporating companies is still heating up, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'

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    The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Plan For Increased HSR Info Sharing With Wash. Antitrust Law

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    Washington's merger notification requirements, effective later this month, combined with the Federal Trade Commission's new Hart-Scott-Rodino Act rules, will result in greater information sharing among state and federal agencies, making it important for merging parties to consider their transaction's potential state antitrust implications early on, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Federal Construction Considerations Amid Policy Overhaul

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    The rapid overhaul of federal procurement, heightened domestic sourcing rules and aggressive immigration enforcement are reshaping U.S. construction, but several pragmatic considerations can help federal contractors engaged in infrastructure and public construction avoid the legal, financial and operational fallout, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • 3rd-Party Audit Tactics To Improve Export Control Compliance

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    Companies should take a strategic approach to third-party audits in response to the Trump administration's ramp-up of export control enforcement with steps that strengthen their ability to identify the control weaknesses of distributors, dealers and resellers, say Michael Huneke at Hughes Hubbard, and John Rademacher and Abby Williams at Secretariat Advisors.

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