ROSS Says Anthropic Case Supports 3rd Circ. IP Appeal

By Adam Lidgett

An artificial-intelligence-based legal search engine appealing a finding that its use of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes did not constitute fair use has pointed to arguments in a separate case it says supports the idea that AI training is connected to national security.

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Alaska Airlines Pilot's Military Leave Benefits Suit Trimmed

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge has narrowed a pilot's class action accusing Alaska Airlines of denying employees sick leave and vacation accrual during military leave, while recognizing in the same Thursday order that a "reasonable jury" could find service members are entitled to certain benefits during absences spanning one to two months.

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Hexagon Purus Sells Aerospace Biz To Elon Musk's SpaceX

By Dawood Fakhir

Norwegian green technology company Hexagon Purus ASA said Friday that it has completed the $15 million sale of its U.S. aerospace business to Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX.

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Insurers Seek Early Win In Contractor's $1.7M Premium Suit

By Elaine Briseño

Hartford insurers argued in a bid for an early win that a straightforward policy justified their decision to retroactively charge a government contractor an additional $1.7 million in premiums for misclassifying some workers as clerical, instead of warehouse, employees.

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Shipbuilders Oppose New Plaintiff For Wage Suppression Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

Some of the country's biggest shipbuilders accused of conspiring to suppress naval architect and engineer wages told a Virginia federal judge a proposed class waited too long to add a new named plaintiff who worked in the industry more recently.

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C3.ai Investor Suit Over IPO Claims Gets Final Trim

By Sydney Price

Investors in artificial intelligence company C3.ai were told by a California federal judge that they can proceed with a slimmed-down version of their suit accusing the company and its executives of touting a worthless partnership with oil company Baker Hughes, but that they have no more chances to update it.

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Union Sues Feds For Revoking Immigrant Worker Access

By Britain Eakin

The Service Employees International Union and four Boston airport workers accused the Trump administration in a lawsuit on Friday of upending immigrant workers' livelihoods by unlawfully revoking security credentials that allowed them to work inside international airport terminals.

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Section 122 Tariffs Show Shift In Strategy, Not Trade Policy

By imposing temporary tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act as a stopgap measure while it pivots to less transitory statutory authorities, the Trump administration sent a clear message that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump, invalidating duties imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, will not precipitate a change in policy direction, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

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'Swinging Dicks' Dissent Stirs Uproar Across 9th Circ. Bench

By Jeff Overley

A raunchy dissent in litigation over transgender spa patrons prompted dozens of Ninth Circuit judges to denounce the "vulgar barroom talk" of a colleague, who returned fire by ridiculing his peers for adopting the "fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun."

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Atty Who Sought Trump Pardons Accused Of Extorting Client

By Stewart Bishop

A South Carolina attorney and lobbyist who has billed himself as a fixer for prisoners seeking clemency from President Donald Trump made an appearance in Brooklyn federal court Saturday, following his arrest over accusations that he tried to extort a client for over half a million dollars.

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Life Sciences Partner Hiring Up Amid Regulatory Scrutiny

By Aebra Coe

Large law firms' partner additions in life sciences rose slightly across five geographic markets between 2024 and 2025, with several factors including increased regulatory scrutiny driving new additions, according to an analysis by intelligence platform Macrae+.

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Judge Denies US Atty's Recusal Call Over Conflict Concerns

By Rose Krebs

Calling it "procedurally improper, untimely, and lacking merit," a federal judge on Friday nixed a demand from Minnesota's U.S. attorney for the judge to step aside from a habeas case related to the government's immigration enforcement operation since his wife is pursuing litigation over the crackdown as the state's solicitor general.

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NY Republicans Say Chief State Judge Crossed Ethics Line

By Emily Sawicki

Republican legislators on the judiciary committees of the New York state Senate and Assembly have brought a misconduct complaint against New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson over statements the judge made at a symposium in support of proposed legislation to reform minimum sentencing guidelines that they believed violated judicial conduct rules on impartiality.

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Immigration Watchdog Sues DOJ Over Secret Court Hearings

By Adrian Cruz

A Minnesota-based human rights nonprofit has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court over its decision to restrict public access to proceedings at St. Paul's Fort Snelling Immigration Court.

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Ariz. Judicial Council OKs ABS Rules Despite Bar Concerns

By Rachel Rippetoe

Arizona's Judicial Council approved some new restrictions on out-of-state operations for non-attorney-owned law firms allowed to operate under the state's licensure program, despite the Arizona state bar's concerns that the new rules aren't stringent enough.

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Reed Smith Is Ignoring Expanded Back Pay Window, Atty Says

By George Woolston

A former Reed Smith LLP attorney who claimed she was unlawfully underpaid told a New Jersey state court on Friday that the firm's bid to limit the window of time for which she's seeking damages is an attempt to roll the case back in time.

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Q&A

She Has A Point: Finnegan's Cora Holt

By Theresa Schliep

Cora Holt, a partner at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP in Washington, D.C., has a "do your job" attitude and "getting the stuff done" approach to litigation that earned plaudits from Kassie Helm, co-chair of Dechert LLP, who praised Holt for her work as part of a Law360 series celebrating women litigators.

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Q&A

NC Judge Brings Military Roots, Not Politics, To Biz Bench

By Abigail Harrison

The North Carolina Business Court added decade-long Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley to its bench this month. In an interview, Judge Shirley told Law360 how time as an attorney in the U.S. military helped make him a thorough and punctual jurist, and expanded on his interest in keeping partisan politics out of the judiciary. 

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Esquire's $348M Signature Deal Bolsters Litigation Platform

By Al Barbarino

Esquire Financial Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the parent company of Signature Bank in a roughly $348.4 million deal that Esquire said will help expand its Chicago-area commercial banking presence and support growth of its litigation banking platform.

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GSA Pans Giving 'Unelected Judiciary' Sway Over Property

By Courtney Bublé

The federal government's landlord told the federal judiciary it is "ill equipped" to have direct authority to maintain its buildings.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

In London, Estée Lauder accused Jo Malone's founder of intellectual property infringement, the wife of an Iranian businessman linked to a £75 million fraud sued several Iranian oil companies, HSBC sued U.S. property tycoon Michael Fuchs, and Charles Russell Speechlys brought a claim against a United Arab Emirates company it once represented in an international arbitration.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated an over $600 million judgment involving the maker of Norton antivirus software for infringing Columbia University patents.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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