Chicken Cos. Face Injunction, Small Fines For Pollution

By Cara Salvatore

A federal judge hit Tyson Foods, Cargill and other poultry companies with a permanent injunction nearly 16 years after trial for polluting Oklahoma waters with chicken waste, but imposed only a tiny fraction of the $100 million in penalties requested by the state.

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2nd Circ. Says Arb. Exemption Covers Pacts Between Cos.

By Irene Spezzamonte

The contracts used by two food distributors who created their own entities to work for a food service business fall under the Federal Arbitration Act carveout, the Second Circuit ruled Monday, nixing a Connecticut federal court's decision that sent their misclassification case to arbitration.

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Nev. Dental Group Strikes $3.3M Deal In Data Breach Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

A Nevada-based dental practice agreed on Friday to pay $3.3 million to resolve proposed class claims over a data breach that potentially affected over 1.2 million people, the plaintiffs said in a request to a federal court for preliminary approval of the deal.

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Colo. Atty Sued Again For Multimillion-Dollar Ferrari 'Scam'

By Rachel Konieczny

Two operators of a Wisconsin auto dealership filed a federal lawsuit Friday against a Colorado attorney and his firm, alleging the attorney failed to provide multiple customized Ferrari cars after the pair paid millions under a contract they say the lawyer breached.

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Life Insurer, Customers' $335K Deal OK'd In Data Breach Suit

By Hope Patti

A Connecticut federal court gave final approval to a deal requiring a life insurance and financial planning company to pay $335,000 to end claims over a 2023 data breach that potentially compromised its customers' personal information.

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Accent Translation Patent Claims Remain In Trade Secret Spat

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge has rejected a tech company's bid to dismiss patent claims from a competitor's trade secret lawsuit over accent translation technology, saying the motion was improper because it raised many of the same arguments it used in an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss other claims.

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Adeia Resolves Disney Patent Claims With Long-Term License

By Elliot Weld

Adeia Technologies Inc. said Monday that it had reached a long-term intellectual property license agreement with Disney that will resolve patent claims it brought against the entertainment giant.

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Sports Tech Co. Sues Ex-Major Leaguer Over Failed App Deal

By Alex Lawson

A technology company has sued MLB Network host Harold Reynolds in New Jersey federal court, alleging that the former All-Star sabotaged their agreement to build a youth sports app and lured the company into sharing trade secrets with a competitor.

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Ex-NBA Players' Adviser Can't Break Out Of Fraud Case

By David Steele

A former Morgan Stanley financial adviser will still have to face charges of defrauding three NBA players of more than $5 million in schemes involving three former co-defendants, a New York federal judge has ordered.

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New Class Action Claims CIBC, RBC Rigged Quantum Shares

By Katryna Perera

A Quantum Biopharma investor has filed a proposed class action against several major Canadian banks, accusing them of running a spoofing scheme for years that artificially drove down Quantum's stock price — flooding exchanges with fake sell orders to mislead the market and buy shares at deflated prices, costing ordinary shareholders millions.

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Brief

X Corp., Apple, OpenAI Hash Out Antitrust Suit Discovery

By Spencer Brewer

X Corp., Apple Inc. and OpenAI Inc. have agreed to run future disputes by a Texas federal judge regarding whether discovery in X's sprawling antitrust suit can be used in a separate suit targeting OpenAI in California.

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Brothers In Cannabis Venture Seek Early Win In Email Dustup

By Emilie Ruscoe

An attorney and his brother embroiled in a "messy" dispute over a soured cannabis venture are both seeking an early win on the attorney's claims that his privacy was violated when his work emails were handed to his brother.

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Nuclear Power Pitfalls And Opportunities To Watch For In 2026

Shepherding nuclear power projects to completion requires navigating more risks and obligations than almost any other infrastructure undertaking, but with the right strategies, states, developers, vendors and contractors can overcome these hurdles in 2026 and beyond, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

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2025 Calif. Banking Oversight Centered On Consumer Issues

The combination of statutory reform, registration mandates and enforcement activity in 2025 signals that California's financial regulatory landscape is focused on consumer protection, particularly in the areas of crypto kiosk fee practices, earned wage access providers and elder fraud, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Bonus Spotlight

Haynes Boone, Seward & Kissel Announce Year-End Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

Haynes Boone is handing its associates year-end and special bonuses in line with those offered by a significant portion of BigLaw this year, largely adhering to a bonus scale first put forward by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in November, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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Analysis

4 Legal Ethics Matters That Rocked 2025

By Emily Sawicki

This year, judges across the country grappled with attorneys' use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and prominent federal prosecutor battles dominated headlines in some of the top legal ethics matters of 2025.

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DOJ Challenges ABA's Standing In Law Firm Intimidation Suit

By Ryan Boysen

The Trump administration is not waging an intimidation campaign against U.S. law firms, the government said Friday, calling an American Bar Association lawsuit challenging its alleged "law firm intimidation policy" as total speculation that must be dismissed due to lack of standing.

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JPMorgan Rips Javice Attys' 'Absurd' Bills For Candy, Booze

By Dorothy Atkins

JPMorgan has unveiled new details in its ongoing legal fee fight with Charlie Javice, accusing the convicted financial aid startup founder's Quinn Emanuel defense counsel and other firms of billing for "absurd" and "outrageous" expenses, including specialty cocktails, cellulite butter, a Cookie Monster toy and $530 on gummy bears.

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Ex-CIA Director's Lawyers Accuse DOJ Of Judge Shopping

By Carolina Bolado

Former CIA Director John Brennan's attorneys asked the chief judge for the Southern District of Florida on Monday to block prosecutors from trying to steer any potential charges against him for investigating Russia's 2016 election interference to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom.

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Analysis

2025 Was A Policy Year Like No Other For Immigration Attys

By Britain Eakin

This year brought nonstop immigration policy whiplash as the Trump administration ramped up enforcement, triggering panic among employers about I-9 compliance in a landscape of constantly shifting adjudication and work authorization policies. Here, Law360 looks at how policy shifted attorney practice in 2025.

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Calif. Atty Slams 'Protectionist' ABS Fee-Sharing Ban

By Emily Sawicki

A California attorney has pushed back on opposition from California's attorney general and the state's bar association amid his efforts to block enforcement of a ban on fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys, arguing the new state law is a "protectionist act, in defiance of the constitution."

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LawFirms.com Beats LegalForce's TM Suit After Bench Trial

By Ivan Moreno

A California judge has concluded that a company that operates LawFirms.com did not infringe a law firm's trademarks for LegalForce, saying that during a four-day bench trial in October the court found "no one was actually confused or misled."

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Schumer Pushes Senate To Sue Over Epstein File Release

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a resolution on Monday that would direct the Senate to take legal action to force the Trump administration to fully comply with the law to release the files of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Analysis

As US Executions Decline, Florida Surges

By Brandon Lowrey

During Florida's 1994 gubernatorial race, Republican candidate Jeb Bush accused Democratic incumbent Lawton Chiles of being too soft on crime; Chiles' immediate predecessor, Bush pointed out, had signed almost 10 times as many death warrants as Chiles had.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's justices threw the Court of Chancery in reverse big time last week, rescinding a decision by the state's chancellor that last year effectively canceled tech tycoon Elon Musk's multi-year, then-$56 billion stock-based compensation package. It was a decision that lit up the court's relatively low-key, pre-holiday wind-up. It also highlighted the endless, 3D tug of war over Delaware-chartered companies and the interests of boards, officers, controllers, stockholders and the corporate bar.

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