Michael Bay Says GM Stole His Cadillac Super Bowl Ad Ideas

By Bonnie Eslinger

Hollywood blockbuster director Michael Bay has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against General Motors and others in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming the auto giant ripped off his ideas for its Cadillac Formula 1 Super Bowl commercial.

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Ex-Morgan Stanley Pro Scorns Key NBA Witness In Fraud Trial

By Stewart Bishop

Counsel for an ex-Morgan Stanley investment adviser accused of defrauding pro athletes out of millions of dollars leaned hard on former NBA player Chandler Parsons in cross-examination after he testified against his onetime friend and go-to money man as the defense sought to discredit one of the government's key witnesses.

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6th Circ. Revives Drexel's Herbicide Contract Beef With Gowan

By Hailey Konnath

The Sixth Circuit on Monday held that a Tennessee federal court misinterpreted a profit-sharing agreement resolving an herbicide product registration dispute between Drexel Chemical Co. and Gowan Co. LLC, siding with Drexel on when the agreement terminated and reviving Drexel's suit over it.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's chancellor has rejected a bid for dismissal of a derivative suit accusing Coinbase Global Inc. insiders of massively unloading shares ahead of a steep stock drop, stressing a special litigation committee's failure to meet independence standards.

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Coal Exec Knew Egyptian Broker Paid Bribes, Jury Told

By Matthew Santoni

A former coal executive knew his Egyptian broker was passing along part of his commissions as bribes in exchange for $143 million in contracts, according to prosecutors' opening arguments Monday in his Pennsylvania jury trial for allegedly violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — while his attorneys said he was simply in the dark.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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10th Circ. Ends Civil Rights Suit, Sanctions Atty For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A self-represented Maryland attorney could not revive her $15 million racial discrimination suit against Denver-based Frontier Airlines after a Tenth Circuit panel found the district court had not erred in its dismissal, in a ruling that also sanctioned the lawyer for misusing generative artificial intelligence.

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Pullman & Comley Says Lender Can't Sue Over $16.2M Deal

By Aaron Keller

Pullman & Comley LLC on Monday said a Connecticut judge lacks jurisdiction to hear legal malpractice and related claims from a lender that loaned $16.2 million to the corporate arm of a municipal housing authority, arguing the housing entity, not the lender, was its only client.

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Afni Faces Class Action Over Alleged Misleading Claim Letters

By Rachel Riley

Debt collector Afni Inc. has been accused of trying to dupe people into paying "unadjudicated" damage demands by sending auto crash claim letters disguised as collection notices, according to a proposed class action that the Illinois-based company removed to Seattle federal court on Friday.

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Jury Seated For Texas Business Court's First Trial

By José Luis Martínez

The first-ever jury in the Texas Business Court was seated Monday evening, setting the stage for a trial in which an investor seeks to enforce his purported ownership in an oil export terminal project on the Gulf Coast.

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Colo. Judge Denies Tenant's Bid To Reinstate Airport Lease

By Rachel Konieczny

A federal judge declined to reinstate a lease terminated by the city of Pueblo, Colorado, over the construction and management of hangars at the Pueblo Memorial Airport, denying a tenant's request for a preliminary injunction.

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9th Circ. Sides With Forest Service In $33M Ore. Wildfire Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Ninth Circuit panel Monday threw out a lawsuit from two Oregon lumber companies that accused the U.S. Forest Service of bungling its response to a 2020 wildfire in the Willamette National Forest, ruling that the agency can't be sued because it was acting within its discretion.

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NY Judge OKs $4M Bond While Wind Farm Case Is Appealed

By Joyce Hanson

A New York federal judge has stayed the enforcement of a judgment favoring a Chinese company against Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank in a wind farm dispute as the Vietnamese bank appeals an earlier order, also approving a $4 million bond tendered with OCB's motion to stay.

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Insurers Sued Over Nix Of $4M Coverage In Competition Fight

By Mark Payne

A Florida luxury vehicle company locked in a lawsuit with a competitor alleging deceptive trade practices was wrongfully denied insurance coverage under a directors and officers policy, forcing the auto company to fork out more than $4 million in defense costs, it told a Florida federal court. 

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Insurer Fights To Keep Wrongful Death Coverage Suit Alive

By Hope Patti

A Liberty Mutual unit should be able to proceed with its suit over coverage for a healthcare company facing eight wrongful death actions, the insurer told a Texas federal court, saying the present action is the only one in which the question of coverage is presently and properly joined.

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State Street Says Kronos Data Breach Cost It $27.6M

By Julie Manganis

Human resources software provider UKG Kronos has failed to adequately address a 2021 data breach that left State Street Bank without access and put it at legal risk in multiple countries, the financial services company said in a $27.6 million lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court.

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Production Co. Fights To Keep Film Credits Suit In Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Monday pondered whether she still has authority to hear a dispute over a 2024 Maltese-shot war action film, after both sides agreed that the case's remaining claims now center solely on money damages rather than equitable relief.

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9th Circ. Backs Comerica's Escape From Investor Suit

By Sydney Price

The Ninth Circuit backed Comerica's win in an investor dispute led by a pension fund accusing the bank of misleading investors about its oversight of a U.S. Department of the Treasury contract, concluding a California federal judge was right to permanently toss the case for failure to state a claim.

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Crypto Investor's $16M Case Ousted From Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday dismissed a cryptocurrency investor's lawsuit accusing a group of crypto entities and insiders of engineering a $16 million "pump and dump" scheme, ruling the claims were not properly brought in equity and belong, if anywhere, in the Delaware Superior Court instead.

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Tribal Corp. Says Colorado Consultant Misused Trade Secrets

By Crystal Owens

An Alaskan tribal corporation is suing a Colorado consultant and her firm, alleging that she used its trade secret information to attempt to lure government contracting clients away by publicly advertising the data and claiming it as her own.

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Tips For Financial Advisers Facing TRO From Former Firm

The Eighth Circuit's recent decision in Choreo v. Lors, overturning a lower court's sweeping injunction after financial advisers moved to a new firm, gives advisers new strategies to fight restraining orders from their old firms, such as focusing on whether the alleged irreparable harm is calculable, say attorneys at Kutak Rock.

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Nixon Peabody Elevates Controller To CFO Role

By Andrea Keckley

Nixon Peabody LLP has chosen its controller to serve as its next chief financial officer, the firm has announced.

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Senate Confirms Burrows As DOJ Policy Chief

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Kirkland Joins Growing Number Of Firms Launching In Tenn.

By Andrea Keckley

Kirkland & Ellis is joining a long line of firms setting their sights on Tennessee, announcing Tuesday that it would set up shop in Nashville with a team of former Butler & Snow LLP and King & Spalding LLP litigators.

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Norton Rose Hires Cooley Life Sciences Duo In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Norton Rose Fulbright has hired two life sciences attorneys from Cooley LLP in Washington, D.C., who focus on biotech and pharmaceutical intellectual property matters, in a move the firm said is an investment in IP as a core practice.

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DOJ Pushes To Revive Comey, James Indictments

By Emily Sawicki

Criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were brought under a validly serving interim U.S. attorney and, therefore, never should have been dismissed, the U.S. Department of Justice argued in its opening brief in its consolidated appeal before the Fourth Circuit.

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Paul Hastings Lands 8 More Attys For New Charlotte Office

By Tracey Read

A second group of fund finance lawyers has joined Paul Hastings LLP's new Charlotte, North Carolina, office from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, Haynes Boone and Mayer Brown LLP.

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Axiom Closes Ariz. Law Firm Amid Suit Alleging PE Control

By Ryan Boysen

Legal staffing and services provider Axiom received approval Tuesday to shutter its Arizona law firm subsidiary, while a pending lawsuit claims the experiment was tainted by Axiom's private equity backer putting "revenue over ethics."

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Suit Claims Atty Wrongly Sought Guardian Ad Litem For Client

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado family lawyer and his law firm engaged in legal malpractice during the representation of a client and disclosed confidential information about the client without his consent, the former client has alleged in Colorado state court.

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Ex-McDermott Atty Fights 'Harassing' Subpoena In Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Black attorney accusing McDermott Will & Schulte LLP of firing her for calling out racial bias has urged an Illinois federal court to reject the firm's bid to get employment records from her previous employer, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, saying the request serves no other purpose than to harass her.

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