Analysis

FBI Portal Hack Sharpens Focus On Cyber Regulation Path

By Allison Grande

The recent hack of the FBI's jobs portal underscores mounting cyberthreats to government agencies and critical infrastructure, fueling the debate over whether internal fixes or formal regulation can best address the growing cyber risks powered by artificial intelligence.

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Analysis

M&A Attys See Resilience Through Q3 Amid Geopolitical Risk

By Al Barbarino

Global M&A activity remained strong through the first nine months of 2026 despite a third-quarter slowdown, as strategic buyers and private equity firms continued to pursue deals in areas ranging from technology and defense to essential services, attorneys told Law360.

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GAO Calls For DOD To Reevaluate Academic Training Contract

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a $7.8 million contract to provide academic skills training for military service members, even though the winning proposal failed to address a material requirement for offline course access, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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Boeing Can't Preclude Punitive Damages In Door Plug Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Washington judge Friday rejected The Boeing Co.'s effort to shut down passengers' bid for punitive damages in a lawsuit over the 2024 blowout of an aircraft door plug, allowing the plaintiffs time to conduct more discovery around whether Illinois law applies.

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FCC Aims To Boost Mexico, Canada Telecom Border Security

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission will vote on proposed new rules that would strengthen border security by improving transparency and disclosures for communications across the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders.

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FCC To Begin Search For Upper C-Band Clearinghouse Admin

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission has begun the process of selecting an entity that will serve as the clearinghouse charged with reimbursing incumbent spectrum users for making way for 5G wireless in the upper C-band.

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Brief

US Sets Rules For Mexico, Canada Metal Tariff Discount

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday defined how the U.S. content of certain metal products from Canada and Mexico will be determined for purposes of applying President Donald Trump's modifications to the steel, aluminum and copper tariff regimes.

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Anthropic Says Claude Gave False Murder Tip To Philly Cops

By Hailey Konnath

Anthropic on Friday disclosed a series of incidents in which its Claude artificial intelligence tool went rogue, particularly in interactions with federal and local government websites, including an incident in which it submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Va.'s Arlington County Seeks To Halt Trump's 'Triumphal Arch'

By Ganesh Setty

Arlington County, Virginia, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the development of President Donald Trump's 250-foot "triumphal arch" between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, telling a Virginia federal court that his administration undertook a "cursory and conclusory" environmental assessment.

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CNN Says Azerbaijan Can't Sue Over Israel-Iran Report

By Jarek Rutz

CNN has urged a Delaware federal court to throw out Azerbaijan's defamation lawsuit over the network's report that Israel used the country as a base for covert operations against Iran, arguing the First Amendment bars governments, foreign or domestic, from suing news organizations over criticism of their conduct.

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NM Groups Contest Militarization Of Public Land On Border

By Tom Lotshaw

A coalition of New Mexico groups has accused the Trump administration of unlawfully transferring more than 110,000 acres of public land along the southern border to the U.S. Department of Defense to close it off and rope the military into immigration enforcement.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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DOJ's Unusual Warning Puts Protests In FARA Crosshairs

The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent atypical press release about Foreign Agents Registration Act liability may signal greater scrutiny of public demonstrations and foreign-directed advocacy — but it does not change the statutory requirements for companies and individuals, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Brief

Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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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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