Netflix Urges Justices Not To Disturb 9th Circ. ERISA Docs Ruling

By Kellie Mejdrich

Netflix urged the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday not to take up a petition from an employee health plan participant who alleged the company failed to provide him access to plan documents in violation of federal benefits law, arguing the Ninth Circuit's ruling in the case should remain in place.

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Novo Nordisk Gets 401(k) Investment Suit Narrowed

By Patrick Hoff

A New Jersey federal judge dismissed allegations accusing Novo Nordisk of unlawfully keeping underperforming investment options in its employee 401(k) plan, handing the pharmaceutical company a partial win by concluding workers hadn't identified comparable funds that performed significantly better.

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Kraft Heinz Must Arbitrate Union Pension Dispute, Judge Says

By MJ Koo

An Iowa federal judge has ordered Kraft Heinz Co. to submit a pension eligibility grievance to arbitration, finding the company's collective bargaining agreement requires it to arbitrate the dispute and rejecting its bid to block the proceedings.

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Delta Retirees Want Benefits Class Cleared For Takeoff

By Kelcey Caulder

Married retirees of Delta Air Lines Inc. asked a Nevada federal court to grant them class certification in a lawsuit alleging the airline shorted them on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts, arguing the proposed class shared enough common ground to warrant the court's sign-off.

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Brokerage Workers Say $1.05B Sale Shortchanged Them

By Jarek Rutz

A proposed class action in Delaware Chancery Court alleges the founders and directors of insurance brokerage startup Newfront Insurance Holdings Inc. breached fiduciary duties by forcing employee shareholders to accept inferior merger consideration and restrictive employment conditions in the company's $1.05 billion sale to Willis Towers Watson PLC.

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Sandoz Still Can't Escape Generics Claims From GM, Others

By Lauren Berg

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday declined to rethink her decision forcing Sandoz's Swiss parent company to face generic-drug price-fixing claims from major employers like American Airlines Inc. and General Motors LLC, saying the pharmaceutical company "has no new evidence" backing up its argument that the court lacks personal jurisdiction.

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Capitalizing On Increased Retail Access To Alternative Assets

The recent extension of co-investment relief to open-end funds represents the latest regulatory action aimed at providing retail investors with meaningful private market opportunities — a trend that means alternative asset managers should develop and deploy a retail strategy to capture this emerging capital source, say attorneys at Willkie.

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Series

Moshing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Entering a mosh pit is much like entering the practice of law — it is difficult, you have to know both the written and unwritten rules, and conduct yourself according to the expectations of each community, says Christopher Deubert at Constangy Brooks.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Michelle Mone sued by PPE Medpro, Broadfield Law sued by the founders of an international aid company, and litigation funder Fortress bring a claim against Edwin Coe and businesses the law firm represented in a cartel claim.

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Chicago IP Duo Leave Winston & Strawn For King & Spalding

By Tracey Read

King & Spalding LLP has added two more Winston & Strawn LLP partners who will reunite with 15 former colleagues who joined the firm earlier this year.

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Q&A

This Pride Month, LGBTQ+ Bar Leader Talks Community, Hope

By Emma Cueto

In 2026, the LGBTQ+ Bar is focused on expanding programs, especially those focused on law students and younger attorneys, and building up community ties at a time of growing legal threats to LGBTQ people.

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Insurer Says NJ Atty Sank Coverage By Not Cooperating

By Christine DeRosa

Hanover Insurance Co. has asked a New Jersey federal court for a declaratory judgment finding that it doesn't have to defend an attorney and his firm in a suit over a real estate deal gone wrong, telling the court that the attorney refuses to cooperate with the firm it hired to defend him in the underlying suit.

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Trump Reportedly Mulls FCC Attorney For DOJ Antitrust Chief

By Matthew Perlman

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to nominate the Federal Communications Commission's general counsel to serve as the top antitrust official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Stays Jackson Walker RICO Suit Over Sorrento Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

A California federal judge has paused Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders' litigation after a Texas bankruptcy court ruled they lacked standing to pursue racketeering claims over a former Jackson Walker attorney's relationship with the judge who initially oversaw the biotech company's Chapter 11.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A Connecticut federal judge told attorneys to challenge clients who demand use of generative artificial intelligence tools to conduct legal research, and a Kansas federal judge blocked a state law imposing requirements on proxy advisers' voting recommendations. These were among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Scientologists Want 'Ignored' Boies Schiller AI Errors Review

By Emily Sawicki

The Church of Scientology has asked the California Supreme Court to review an appellate order that didn't impose sanctions on Boies Schiller Flexner LLP for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors in a harassment and retaliation suit pending against the church.

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High Court To Issue Big Decisions In Term's Final Days

By Katie Buehler

As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the final days of its term, the justices still have several major decisions to issue, including some concerning birthright citizenship, the president's power to remove independent agency officials, transgender athletes and election rules. 

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Clement & Murphy PLLC, Covington & Burling LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Monsanto a win in its long-running battle over the labeling of alleged cancer risks of its bestselling weedkiller Roundup.

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Homebuilder Says Colo. Atty Took Its Info To Adversary Firm

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado lawyer who represented a homebuilding company for more than a decade stole tens of thousands of the company's files when he went to work for a law firm that is a regular adversary to the homebuilder, the company alleged in Colorado state court. 

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King & Spalding Insists On Fraud Suit Pause Amid 'Conflicts'

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP has urged a Connecticut state court to keep its involvement in a $300 million fraud lawsuit on hold while it challenges the denial of its attorneys' withdrawal from representing several individual defendants, citing "serious, nonwaivable conflicts of interest" that will prevent the firm from proceeding.

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PACER Fees Will Rise To Fund Cyber Defense Upgrades

By Bonnie Eslinger

The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.

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Analysis

Bosch DOJ Declination Shows Benefits Of Early Self-Reporting

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to prosecute German technology company Bosch for exporting products to a sanctioned Chinese company signals to businesses that prompt self-reporting to the government can help them secure a declination even for serious national security offenses.

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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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Messner Reeves Says $8.3M Fraud Suit Repeats Utah Case

By Zach Dupont

Colorado law firm Messner Reeves LLP has claimed in federal court that a lawsuit accusing it of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme should be dismissed because the plaintiffs' Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims were dismissed by another court with prejudice.

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