Corporate

  • June 08, 2026

    White Editor Leans On Ames In EEOC's New York Times Suit

    A white former New York Times editor joined the EEOC's suit alleging he was unlawfully denied a promotion, asserting Monday that the paper "boldly and badly" ran afoul of a recent U.S. Supreme Court holding that federal antibias law offers equal protection to majority and minority groups.

  • June 08, 2026

    Biogen To End Investors' Alzheimer's Drug Case For $18.9M

    Biogen Inc. has agreed to pay $18.9 million to exit a lawsuit accusing it of misleading investors about the commercial readiness of a new Alzheimer's treatment, according to a settlement filed in Massachusetts federal court.

  • June 08, 2026

    States Preparing To Challenge Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal

    The New York Attorney General's Office is among state enforcers preparing to file a lawsuit challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion deal for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., the office confirmed to Law360 Monday.

  • June 08, 2026

    5th Circ. Says Estate's $17M Transfer Was Mainly Tax-Driven

    The Internal Revenue Service properly denied an estate's attempt to reduce the value of assets moved to a partnership, the Fifth Circuit ruled Monday, rejecting arguments that the $17 million transfer was driven by reasons other than a lower estate tax bill.

  • June 08, 2026

    1st Circ. Partially Revives IRobot, Amazon Merger Suit

    The First Circuit has partially revived a shareholder proposed class action accusing iRobot Corp. of misleading investors about expected regulatory opposition that ultimately led to the abandonment of a proposed $1.7 billion merger with Amazon, finding that a modified 2023 proxy statement "omitted important contrary information about European approval."

  • June 08, 2026

    Goodwin, Fenwick Guide Incyte-Vega Deal Worth Up To $2B

    The biotechnology company Incyte said Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vega Therapeutics Inc. from Star Therapeutics for up to $2 billion, with Goodwin Procter LLP advising Incyte and Fenwick & West LLP representing Star Therapeutics. 

  • June 08, 2026

    CEO Was 'Central' To Sham Revenue Scheme, SEC Says

    The former CEO of Lottery.com should not escape U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims he was a "central actor" in a scheme to cook the company's books, the regulator argued, telling a Manhattan federal judge that its enforcement action "extensively" details its fraud allegations against the executive.

  • June 08, 2026

    King & Spalding May Be Sanctioned In $300M Fraud Lawsuit

    Two King & Spalding LLP partners face a sanctions hearing in a $300 million fraud lawsuit to determine whether they violated a rule requiring candor to the tribunal by falsely claiming attorneys for other parties were copied on letters to two Connecticut jurists, according to two state court orders.

  • June 08, 2026

    Womble Bond Adds Alston & Bird Patent Atty To IP Team

    Womble Bond Dickinson has brought on an Alston & Bird LLP partner to its Atlanta office, strengthening its patent prosecution and litigation practice.

  • June 08, 2026

    IHG Hotels In-House Atty Betsy Griswold To Lead Atlanta Bar

    The Atlanta Bar Association has named a corporate counsel of IHG Hotels & Resorts as its 2026-2027 president, according to its website.

  • June 08, 2026

    France's SFR Inks $24B Deal For Sale To Telecom Companies

    French telecom operators Bouygues Telecom, Iliad and Orange have signed a memorandum of understanding with Altice France to acquire rival SFR in a deal valuing the business at about €20.35 billion ($23.5 billion). 

  • June 08, 2026

    Bankman-Fried Seeks Trump Pardon On FTX Fraud Conviction

    FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, has asked President Donald Trump to pardon him for defrauding customers who placed billions of dollars with the fallen cryptocurrency exchange, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney.

  • June 08, 2026

    Paul Weiss Corporate Atty Returns To Cahill Gordon

    Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP announced Monday that a corporate partner from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has rejoined the firm in New York, bolstering its ranks with his expertise in financing and deal execution.

  • June 08, 2026

    Trump's $100K H-1B Fee Is Unauthorized Tax, Judge Rules

    A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa payment constitutes a tax that Congress did not authorize the president to impose, declaring the fee unlawful and vacating it in its entirety.

  • June 08, 2026

    WWE Merger Case In Chancery Settles On The Eve Of Trial

    The Delaware Chancery Court trial over World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.'s $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship's parent company has been canceled after the parties reached an agreement in principle to settle the case, according to a minute order from Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster.

  • June 05, 2026

    More Skechers Investors Sue Over $9.4B Take-Private Deal

    Additional investors have sued over Skechers' $9.4 billion take-private sale to private equity giant 3G Capital, with the latest complaint in Delaware Chancery Court alleging the company's founder and family used their majority voting power to push through an unfair deal.

  • June 05, 2026

    Ex-Trader Accused Of Profiting From Cousin's Insider Info

    A retired New York Mercantile Exchange trader is charged with insider trading by securities regulators who allege he bought shares of Sanofi's biopharmaceutical unit Kadmon Holdings Inc. based on confidential information the trader received about Kadmon's flagship chronic graft-versus-host disease treatment drug in July 2021, and that the trader tipped off a friend about the information.

  • June 05, 2026

    Fla. Judge Tosses Nearly All Counts In PE Fund Dispute

    A Florida federal judge tossed most of the counts in a lawsuit brought by two men who alleged their former partner defrauded them in a private equity fund operation, saying the complaint contains repetitive claims and provides little information of wrongdoing. 

  • June 05, 2026

    9th Circ. Revives TCPA Suit Against Keller Williams

    The Ninth Circuit reinstated a proposed class action against Keller Williams Realty and an Arizona real estate solutions company over phone calls and texts asking a woman about selling her home, ruling she sufficiently alleged the communications at issue constituted solicitations prohibited under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. 

  • June 05, 2026

    Epic Fights Apple's Bid For High Court Sanctions Review

    Epic Games told the U.S. Supreme Court there's no need for high court review of a California federal court's contempt order against Apple for violating a ban on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

  • June 05, 2026

    Employment Authority: AI Could Impact Worker Classification

    Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on how artificial intelligence tools could support findings that an independent contractor is an employee under federal law, how U.S. Department of Labor's recently finalized rule changing financial disclosure requirements for unions will increase their reporting burden, and the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year to lift an evidentiary barrier that discrimination plaintiffs in majority groups had faced. 

  • June 05, 2026

    Ex-F5 Director Claims Gender Bias By 'Biggest Tech Bro' Boss

    A former product management director at technology firm F5 Inc. accused the company of "deliberate sex discrimination," claiming in a Washington state lawsuit that she was wrongfully fired after raising concerns about demeaning treatment from a supervisor described as the "biggest tech bro."

  • June 05, 2026

    Musicians Say UMG, Warner Stiffed Them On AI Licensing

    The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada claims Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group violated its members' collective bargaining agreement by licensing sound recordings to two artificial intelligence companies without compensating the musicians involved, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York federal court.

  • June 05, 2026

    Paramount Told To Produce Skydance Deal Board Materials

    The Delaware Chancery Court has recommended that Paramount Global turn over additional board-level documents to stockholders investigating whether controlling shareholder Shari Redstone improperly influenced the company's $8 billion sale to Skydance Media, finding there is a credible basis to suspect potential wrongdoing in the merger process.

  • June 05, 2026

    Spotify Lawsuit Says Algorithms Squeeze Small Artists

    Spotify USA Inc. has been accused of unfairly reducing payments to small creators by implementing a 1,000-stream royalty threshold and changing the way it counts streams, saves and other engagement metrics, according to a lawsuit alleging violations of Connecticut trade laws.

Expert Analysis

  • Turning To The Courts When PBM Reform Falls Short

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    The effectiveness of state laws intended to regulate pharmacy benefit managers remains uncertain, but litigation — utilizing tried-and-true theories like breach of contract and fair dealing — offers another mechanism through which stakeholders may seek relief from PBMs, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • 2 'Rocket Dockets' And The Rules That Propel Them

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    The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

  • Operational AI Washing: Dismantling Claims Before Discovery

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    Operational AI washing claims can be rebuffed before discovery extracts their true costs by turning the documentary record established in earnings calls and public disclosures into a layered defense, which can exploit the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act’s heightened pleading standards, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • Opinion

    Attys Should Aid Clients' AI Use While Safeguarding Privilege

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    Until legislatures enact laws expressly extending privilege to artificial intelligence queries, lawyers should try to shield their clients' case-related use of AI tools by offering them dedicated access on firms' enterprise accounts and utilizing a long-standing privilege precedent, says Joseph Rillotta at Meadows Collier.

  • What End Of SEC Settlement Gag Rule Means For Defendants

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescinding of its gag rule prohibiting defendants from publicly denying allegations in settled SEC enforcement actions actually heightens the need to think strategically when negotiating resolutions and pursuing public denials of wrongdoing, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • SEC's Co-Investment Relief Broadens Private Market Access

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent no-action letter to J.P. Morgan Investment Management permits open-end funds to co-invest with affiliates, removing a long-standing barrier open-end fund sponsors have faced in sourcing private market investments at scale, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

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    The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Musk-OpenAI Verdict Shows Value Of Early-Stage Governance

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    A California federal court's ruling last week in Musk v. Altman preserves the status quo at OpenAI, but signals to the technology industry at large that courts will not relitigate the governance decisions of early-stage organizations on a founder's competitive timetable, surfacing questions that will outlast the litigation, says attorney Alan N. Walter.

  • Series

    Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

  • 10 US Patent Pressure Points For EU Life Sciences Cos.

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    U.S.-specific patent issues can be challenging for European life sciences companies because they require decisions at the intersection of legal, scientific, regulatory and commercial functions, necessitating proactive, cross-functional steps from EU patent counsel, says Paul Calvo at Sterne Kessler.

  • Sold Inventory May Drive Tax Treatment Of Tariff Refunds

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    Companies determining the tax treatment of refunds expected following the U.S. Supreme Court's February decision invalidating tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act should consider whether the tariff costs have already reduced their income considering the cost of goods sold, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Del. Justices' Ripeness Ruling Shields Advance Notice Bylaws

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    The Delaware Supreme Court’s recent decision dismissing two AES and Owens Corning stockholder challenges of advance notice bylaws as unripe provides corporations more room to insulate their nomination procedures from activist pressure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Operational AI Washing: Fortifying The Disclosure Record

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    The same artificial intelligence-driven workforce narratives that once appeared in earnings calls and Form 8-Ks can easily become raw material for future operational AI washing claims, so companies must be careful when drafting public disclosures because winning a federal motion to dismiss starts months before a lawsuit is ever filed, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • Tax Teams Get No Bright-Line Rule From AI Privilege Cases

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    Three recent appellate decisions that considered artificial intelligence in the context of attorney-client privilege protections illustrate that taxpayers and tax practitioners alike must consider the pertinent facts on a case-by-case basis, with particular attention to confidentiality, disclosure risk and system design, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Claiming The Narrative Before The SEC Files Charges

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    Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of its no-deny rule, Scott Schneider at FTI Consulting, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission communications official, details when and how to publicly respond to news of a pending regulatory inquiry targeting your company.

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