Analysis

Iran War Has Oil & Gas Dealmakers Holding Their Breath

By Keith Goldberg

Oil and gas dealmakers are cautiously optimistic they can ride out any immediate energy market volatility caused by the U.S. and Israel-Iran war, but the potential for disrupted transactions will grow if the conflict drags on, or continues to provoke Middle East neighbors.

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GAO Denies Incumbent's Protest Of Navy $232M Cyber Deal

By Madeline Lyskawa

An incumbent contractor hasn't shown the U.S. Navy unreasonably accepted an awardee's contract reference, which the firm said lacked experience required by the solicitation, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said, denying a protest of a $232 million cybersecurity task order.

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GOP Pushes For DHS Funding Amid War With Iran

By Courtney Bublé

Republicans are putting pressure on Democrats to support funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as the U.S. and Israel-Iran war continues.

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FCC Asks If Int'l Regulatory Barriers To Space Biz Are Fair

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is wondering if other countries are treating U.S. satellite companies with the same equality that the United States has shown to satellite entrants from other nations and whether the agency ought to do something to level the playing field.

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Iridium Challenges 'Spectrum Hoarder' Ligado's SkyTerra Plan

By Christopher Cole

Iridium has urged the Federal Communications Commission to reject Ligado Networks' push for a carveout from licensing rules to allow AST to build a new satellite constellation in the L-band airwaves, saying it could interfere with other users.

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Judge Says Accounts Of DOJ And FEMA 'Completely Different'

By Rachel Riley

A California federal judge overseeing a lawsuit by federal worker unions, local governments and nonprofits challenging Trump administration layoffs expressed deep frustration Tuesday after a U.S. Department of Justice attorney contradicted a senior Federal Emergency Management Agency official's sworn declaration in the case.

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NJ Firm Faces DQ Bid After Port Authority Chair Added To Suit

By Jake Maher

A former McCarter & English LLP attorney suing over alleged anti-veteran discrimination in New Jersey state court has moved to have his opposing counsel at O'Toole Scrivo LLC disqualified after having named the firm's managing partner — chair of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey — as a new defendant.

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What US Arms Sales Reforms Mean For Defense Industry

A recent executive order with the goal of increasing U.S. arms sales transparency, speed and government-industry collaboration carries both promise and risk for the defense industry as the government seeks to leverage the private sector and use commercial products for defense purposes, say attorneys at Fluet.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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DOJ Nixes Plan To Drop Law Firm EO Appeals In About-Face

By Emma Cueto

A day after informing the D.C. Circuit that it would no longer seek to defend the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump against four law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course Tuesday, requesting permission to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.

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Goldman's Departing CLO, Gates Asked To Testify On Epstein

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday asked outgoing Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others to testify about their connections to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Early Publicity Could Poison DOJ's Criminal Cases, Attys Say

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has shrugged off long-standing prosecutorial policies against publicizing criminal probes in their early stages and disparaging the targets, an "unusual" and "troubling" development that threatens the integrity of investigations, grand jury proceedings and the right to a fair trial, experts tell Law360.

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Skadden Hit With Sanctions Over 'Vexatious' Gaming Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge has sanctioned Papaya Gaming and its attorneys from Skadden for what the court said was a "blatant" attempt to relitigate claims in Virginia that had already been dismissed in a false advertising dispute in New York with Skillz Platform, one of its competitors.

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NY Judicial Watchdog Says Complaints Break Record Again

By Andrea Keckley

New York's judicial watchdog has reported a record number of new complaints filed against judges for the fourth year in a row in 2025.

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Day Pitney Faces DQ Bid Over Ex-Justice's Role In $1.3M Case

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP should be sidelined from a $1.3 million private equity management company's windup lawsuit because former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a partner at the firm, heard the case before it was earmarked for a new trial, three company owners have argued.

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New Whistleblower Program Adds 'Bit More Stick,' DOJ Says

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's new whistleblower rewards program partnership with the U.S. Postal Service doesn't displace the leniency program by which companies disclose potential price-fixing and other antitrust violations, a DOJ official said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., but it is an important complement.

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DOJ Turns To 2nd Circ. In Bid To Revive James Subpoenas

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the Second Circuit to revive an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James launched by a federal prosecutor later found to have been serving unlawfully, arguing the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York had been rightfully appointed when he launched the probe.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice got its antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster teed up for trial, as a court continues mulling the department's settlement last year in a case challenging a deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and lawmakers call for scrutiny of Paramount Skydance's blockbuster acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Meta Atty's Slip Reveals Social Media Trial Plaintiff's Identity

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Meta Platforms on Tuesday revealed the highly guarded full name of the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial accusing its Instagram platform and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health, prompting the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case to strike it from the record and order everyone in the courtroom not to reveal it.

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