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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

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Justices Won't Hear Serta Simmons Ch. 11 Plan Challenge

By Alex Wittenberg

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a challenge by Serta Simmons lenders to a Fifth Circuit ruling last year that rejected the mattress maker's controversial "uptier" debt exchange, choosing not to consider whether the appellate court erred in altering Serta's Chapter 11 plan without allowing a new vote on it.

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Hotel Operator Sonder Announces Wind-Down, Liquidation

By Rick Archer

San Francisco-based hotel company Sonder said Monday it will immediately wind down operations and file for a Chapter 7 liquidation, one day after Marriott announced it ended an affiliation the hotel chain began with Sonder a year earlier.

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Utah Enviro Agency Objects To US Magnesium Transaction

By Emlyn Cameron

Utah's environmental regulatory agency has asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject US Magnesium's asset sale agreement, saying a buyer should be bound by the same responsibilities as the debtor.

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CHAPTER 11

Sunnova Ch. 11 Wind-Down Approved Over Release Objection

By Vince Sullivan

The Chapter 11 liquidation plan of solar panel company Sunnova Energy International received bankruptcy court approval Monday in Texas after a judge overruled objections to third-party releases raised by the U.S. Trustee's Office.

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Boy Scouts Trustee Pushes Back On $31.2M Claim

By Hilary Russ

The trustee overseeing the distribution of funds to sex assault victims in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is opposing negotiations with a man who holds what could be a $31.2 million claim — possibly the biggest single claim so far — saying that procedures require him to take his claim to court instead.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

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The Biz Court Digest: How It Works In Massachusetts

Since its founding in 2000, the Massachusetts Business Litigation Session's expertise, procedural flexibility and litigant-friendly case management practices have contributed to the development of a robust body of commercial jurisprudence, say James Donnelly at Mirick O’Connell, Felicia Ellsworth at WilmerHale and Lisa Wood at Foley Hoag.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Senate Committee To Investigate Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a hearing next week to consider impeachment of "rogue" federal judges, according to an announcement on Monday.

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Ex-Mass. Judge Joins Todd & Weld After Fiery Resignation

By Emily Sawicki and Chris Villani

A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday he would join Boston boutique litigation firm Todd & Weld LLP after resigning from the bench and penning a public letter saying that he could no longer "bear to be restrained" from speaking out against the Trump administration.

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Shutdown Deal Funds Justices' Security, Public Defender Pay

By Courtney Bublé

The government funding agreement reached in the Senate on Sunday includes funding for public defenders, some of whom haven't been paid since July, and security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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Judge To Review Grand Jury Materials In Comey Indictment

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge said he would review grand jury materials in camera to see if any privileged information was used to secure the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress.

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Ex-Judges, US Attys Urge Axing 'Political' Indictment Of NY AG

By Lauren Berg

A bipartisan group of former federal judges and U.S. attorneys on Monday threw their weight behind New York Attorney General Letitia James' bid to dismiss the indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud, rebuking the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and slamming the prosecution's apparent political motivations.

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Fitch Even, Ex-Client Settle $1.2M Fee Fight

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge suspended all briefing deadlines Monday in Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO, following the parties' signal that they've resolved their legal issues in principle.

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Trump Pardons Giuliani, Others Accused Of Election Crimes

By Emily Sawicki

President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned scores of lawyers accused of attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell, according to a social media post created by the president's pardon attorney, Ed Martin.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's top court issued a flurry of rulings last week and heard arguments on recently passed legislation that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts while the Court of Chancery passed on another round of arguments over control of Caribbean broadcaster Caribevision.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A M Saccullo Legal

A&O Shearman

Bass Berry

Baughman Kroup

Beins Axelrod

Bernstein Litowitz

Bielli & Klauder

Blank Rome

Bracewell LLP

Bradley Arant

Cadwalader Wickersham

Cahill Gordon

Carmichael Ellis

Clifford Chance

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Ziffer

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dechert LLP

Desmarais LLP

Duane Morris

Esbrook PC

Eversheds Sutherland

Fitch Even

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Freshfields

Gellert Seitz

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert LLP

Goodwin Procter

Gupta Wessler

HSF Kramer

Hagens Berman

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hueston Hennigan

Hunton Andrews

Irell & Manella

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Joseph Saveri Law Firm

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kelley Drye

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

King & Wood Mallesons

Kirkland & Ellis

Kreindler & Kreindler

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lowell & Associates

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Mirick O'Connell

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Nichols Law LLP

Nossaman LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Pillsbury Winthrop

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reese Marketos

Ropes & Gray

Saul Ewing

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Todd & Weld

Wachtell Lipton

Waymaker LLP

Weil Gotshal

Wigdor LLP

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

Barings LLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Boy Scouts of America

Coinbase Global Inc.

Eaton Vance Corp.

Federalist Society

Financial Times Group Ltd.

Invesco Ltd.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Marriott International Inc.

Massachusetts Bar Association

Novo Nordisk A S

Pfizer Inc.

Purdue Pharma LP

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Serta Simmons Bedding LLC

Stanford University

Sunnova Energy Corp.

The Carlyle Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

The Renco Group

Uber Technologies Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Congressional Research Service

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Supreme Court

Utah Attorney General's Office

Utah Department of Environmental Quality