Analysis

NY Huawei Case Roars To Life With Historic Corp. RICO Trial

By Stewart Bishop

The sprawling racketeering case against Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has faded from the spotlight in recent years, but the Chinese telecommunications giant has bucked convention by proceeding to a historic criminal trial over accusations of rampant intellectual property theft, sanctions violations and brazen lies to banks and U.S. officials about its business practices.

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Top Groups Lobbying The FCC

By Christopher Cole

Lobbying activity at the Federal Communications Commission dropped off in August, but dozens of groups still sought to affect agency policies in areas such as media ownership caps, satellite spectrum sharing, network modernization and more.

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Lawmakers Say DOD To Divert NIH Funds For Defense Budget

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to "siphon" billions of dollars from the National Institutes of Health intended for biomedical research to supplement the agency's budget, according to top Democrats on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.

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SpaceX Presses For Opening 3 Bands To Direct-To-Device

By Nadia Dreid

SpaceX has its eye on three bands of spectrum it wants the Federal Communications Commission to open for direct-to-device satellite services, a move it told the agency would be good for both competition and the integration of satellite and terrestrial networks.

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US Extends Trade Programs With African Countries, Haiti

By Jack McLoone

The government funding bill signed by President Donald Trump this week included extensions of U.S. trade agreements with African nations and Haiti through the end of 2028, locking in duty exemptions for broad swaths of products following bipartisan support.

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Advocates Slam SpaceX Proposal To Cut FCC High-Cost Aid

By Nadia Dreid

SpaceX's suggestion that the Federal Communications Commission "wind down and sunset" the agency's multibillion dollar program that provides subsidies for installing broadband in high cost, hard-to-serve places, is a bad one, say rural broadband advocates.

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Brief

FCC Pays Back $3.08B 'Rip And Replace' Treasury Loan

By Christopher Cole

After completing a spectrum auction directed by federal law, the Federal Communications Commission said Friday that it has repaid a $3.08 billion loan from the U.S. Treasury that it used to fill a funding gap in the "rip and replace" network security program.

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Boeing OT Suit Says Incentive Pay Was Omitted From Rates

By Ben Adlin

Boeing shorted its workers in Washington state by failing to factor in bonuses and other nondiscretionary compensation when calculating overtime and sick leave payments, according to a proposed class action that the company removed to federal court Thursday.

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Juul Hit With Vape Patent Suit On Newly Approved Device

By Ryan Davis

A company that says it developed technology for delivering caffeine to military pilots that forms the basis of all modern e-cigarettes has accused Juul's products of patent infringement, including a new vaping device that just received regulatory approval.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Legal Sector Hiring Grows For 5th Month, But At Slower Pace

By Rachel Rippetoe

The legal sector saw 600 more jobs in August, growing for the fifth consecutive month, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

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3rd Circ. Revives Malpractice Claim Against Kirkland Atty

By Emily Sawicki

A New Jersey divorcee may once again pursue a legal malpractice claim against a Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney who she said lost her millions by mishandling estate documents, after the Third Circuit found it could be possible to link her alleged damages to the lawyer's work.

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Quinn Emanuel DQ'd In Defamation Case Over Stock Reports

By Lynn LaRowe

A Texas federal court on Friday booted Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP from representing a Hong Kong manufacturing company in its defamation lawsuit against investment research service Muddy Waters LLC after finding that the law firm had received relevant confidential information when it represented Muddy Waters in a related government probe.

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DC Panel's Rare Rebuke Over AI Errors Flags Rules Gap

By Andrea Keckley

A D.C. appellate court panel issued a rare sua sponte sanctions order on Thursday after finding nonexistent case citations in a brief filed by a McCabe Weisberg & Conway LLC attorney representing Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. in a foreclosure action, noting an apparent gap in the rules governing the court's sanctions authority.

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Motley Rice Founder Remembered As Titan Of Mass Tort Bar

By Adrian Cruz

Motley Rice LLC co-founder Joseph F. Rice, who died Thursday, was remembered by former colleagues and friends as a "transformational" attorney and "giant in the civil litigation bar" who spent decades working on some of the most high-profile mass torts and obtaining landmark asbestos, opioid and tobacco settlements.

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Sinema Can't Duck Suit Over Affair With Ex-Security Guard

By Y. Peter Kang

A North Carolina federal judge Friday denied former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's bid to escape the suit brought by the ex-wife of a former member of her security detail with whom she allegedly had an affair, saying the district court indeed has the authority to adjudicate the case.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Meta's Social Media Addiction Deal

By Y. Peter Kang

A $17.1 billion social media addiction settlement between Meta and 29 states and Johnson & Johnson's $5.5 billion ovarian cancer deal over its talc products lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morgan Verkamp LLC and Sparacino PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eleventh Circuit held that the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions do not violate the appointments clause of the U.S. Constitution.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Attorneys and academics differ over whether the moves by Meta's in-house lawyers ahead of its $17 billion settlement over claims its content harmed children were legal missteps or defensible efforts to manage litigation risk. And the co-founders of a partner-only law firm told Law360 Pulse how their technology reduces intake, billing and other nonbillable tasks that attorneys would normally perform. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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