Analysis

Why Big Tech Gets Advisory Juries In 'Socially Explosive' Suits

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.

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Jury Clears Boeing In LOT Polish Airlines' 737 Fraud Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal jury on Friday cleared Boeing of fraud allegations in LOT Polish Airlines' $153 million lawsuit claiming the aerospace giant misrepresented the safety of the 737 Max in order to sell leases on the jets, which were later grounded globally after two deadly crashes.

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Fed. Circ. Restores $82M Award Against Ford In IP Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Federal Circuit on Friday reinstated a jury's $82.3 million contract award to Versata Software Inc. against Ford Motor Co. and ordered a new trial on trade secret damages, finding in a precedential decision that the lower court improperly limited available damages theories.

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States Seek Ticketmaster Sale As Live Nation Wants New Trial

By Matthew Santoni

State enforcers say they want a federal court to split up Live Nation and Ticketmaster following a New York federal jury verdict that Live Nation had harmed competition by monopolizing ticket sales for large concert venues, even as the concert promotion giant sought to undo the verdict against it or to be granted a new trial.

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SEC Says Foot Locker Contracts Hampered Whistleblowers

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday fined Foot Locker Inc. for allegedly requiring some top-level staff to sign agreements discouraging them from blowing the whistle against the retailer.

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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

By Rachel Rippetoe

This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

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Port Authority's Immunity Bid Fails In Pier Project Row Appeal

By Brian Steele

The Connecticut Port Authority cannot assert sovereign immunity to dodge a subcontractor's lawsuit over unpaid work on a pier project because it is not an "arm of the state," an appellate panel found Friday.

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Conn. Mall The SoNo Collection Hit With Foreclosure Suit

By Clara Geoghegan

Norwalk, Connecticut-based shopping mall The SoNo Collection, which is part of national retail real estate giant GGP, is facing state foreclosure and receiver proceedings after defaulting on a $245 million loan.

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Construction Co. Says Denver Zoo Owes $250K For Exhibit

By Zach Dupont

A Texas-based company which manufactures complex filtration systems told a Colorado state court that the Denver Zoological Foundation Inc., a contractor and an insurer owe just over $250,000, according to the complaint.

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Menzies Says $35M NYC Property Is Fair Game For $7.6M Award

By Isaac Monterose

A U.K. aviation services company's subsidiary that's seeking compensation for the more than $7.6 million arbitral award that it won by default against the Republic of Niger told a New York federal court that the African country's $35 million New York City property isn't exempt from being used to satisfy the award.

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Mich. Man Says Township Razed Church Amid Rehab Project

By Susan Smiley

A West Michigan man has asked a Michigan federal judge to deny the Charter Township of Trowbridge's motion to dismiss his suit alleging the township demolished a historic church he owned and was in the midst of rehabbing.

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Chevron Loses Bid To Pause $24M Venezuela Oil Suit

By Caroline Simson

A Texas federal judge has denied Chevron's bid to pause a Venezuelan oil services provider's $24 million lawsuit over alleged unpaid invoices for arbitration and has instead allowed several claims to proceed in court, saying Chevron has already spent too much time litigating the matter.

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OpenAI Must Produce Musk Case Depos In NY Copyright MDL

By Elliot Weld

OpenAI was ordered to turn over deposition testimony from three executives that was taken in the course of Elon Musk's California case challenging the company's conversion into a for-profit entity to a group of authors and news organizations suing over the alleged use of copyrighted content to train artificial intelligence models.

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Meat Co. Says It Lost $1.2M Through Trade Secrets Theft

By Rachel Konieczny

A Denver-based natural meat processor claimed in Colorado federal court that its former sales contractor and a California beef exporter conspired to steal its trade secrets and diverted more than $1.2 million in customer revenue to the exporter.

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Sills Cummis, Ex-Rock Musician Manager Ink Pretrial Deal

By George Woolston

Sills Cummis & Gross PC and the former manager of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee suing the firm over malpractice claims have reached a deal just days before the case was set to go to trial, according to a letter filed in New Jersey state court.

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USI Says Ex-Producer Took Clients To Rival Brokerage

By Brian Steele

A former producer at the insurance brokerage giant USI has breached his employment agreement by siphoning clients for his own competing company, according to a federal contract suit filed in Connecticut.

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Latest HVAC Suit Says Price Hikes Were Coordinated

By Susan Smiley

Seven HVAC companies, including Rheem, Trane, Carrier and Lennox, engaged in price-fixing and inventory manipulation using the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover, Arkansas-based HVAC contractor Reliance Heating and Cooling alleged in a civil antitrust suit filed in Michigan federal court Friday.

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NC Accuses Electric-Car Maker Of Deserting Plan For EV Plant

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina is suing an electric car company that accepted public grant money to build a manufacturing plant in the state after it allegedly bailed on the deal, saying the company hasn't even started construction despite initially promising to have the facility running this year.

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Settlement Co. Says $2.7M Fla. Lien Notices Were Defamatory

By Aaron Keller

Structured settlement broker Integrated Financial Settlements Inc. and three affiliates have sued Riverside Capital NY in Connecticut state court, accusing the company of defamation and interference with business expectations for telling third parties about a purportedly improper $2.7 million Florida lien connected to an ex-CEO's allegedly unauthorized loans.

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Corewell Health Faces Suit Over Alleged 'Fake' Medical Debt

By Melanie Dorsey

Corewell Health and debt collector DCM Services LLC tried to collect millions of dollars in medical bills that plaintiffs said were already paid through insurance and government programs, according to a proposed class action filed in Michigan federal court Friday. 

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Brief

Hospital Pulls $1M Medicare Suit Against UnitedHealthcare

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut hospital has dropped a lawsuit alleging UnitedHealthcare owed it more than $1 million after refusing to correct errors in Medicare Advantage cost calculations, state court records show.

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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 Napster sued by a music royalties company, White & Case LLP and Laytons LLP targeted in a claim by a property developer, a short-term lender pursue legal action against law firm Rainer Hughes and its former founding partner following his strike-off for money laundering offenses, and the administrators of London Bridging sue the founder of collapsed Market Financial Solutions. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Fox Rothschild Hires Real Estate Litigator In New York Office

By Nate Beck

Fox Rothschild said it has added a former Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP partner with a background in real estate litigation to its New York office.

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Fox Rothschild Attys Shot Outside NC Courthouse After Hearing

By Hayley Fowler

Two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys were shot Friday outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to police reports and a firm spokesperson.

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Survey Finds Legal Malpractice Claim Frequency Grew In 2025

By Andrea Keckley

Insurers reported an increase in the frequency of legal malpractice claims for the first time in several years amid concerns over issues like the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey by EPIC Law Firm Group.

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Prosecutors Seek $1.98M Forfeiture In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors are seeking a nearly $2 million forfeiture judgment against convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and asking a Maryland federal judge to turn the Supreme Court lawyer's Northwest D.C. home over to the government to pay it.

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Discipline Upheld For Fed. Judge Who Had Sex In Chambers

By Madison Arnold

The federal judiciary signed off Friday on a private reprimand for a district judge within the Eleventh Circuit for misconduct that included having an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer and sexual intercourse in their chambers within earshot of the judge's staff.

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Nelson Mullins Faces $2B Suits Over Alleged Conflicts

By Carolina Bolado

The former wives of two insurance mogul brothers have sued Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for $2 billion, claiming a partner there set up the couples' estates while quietly conspiring with the brothers to shield marital assets from the wives in the event of divorce.

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Ala. Atty Suspended Over 'Atrocious' Bid To Cover Up AI Use

By Rae Ann Varona

A federal judge has suspended an attorney from practicing in the Northern District of Alabama after the attorney deleted his ChatGPT account in a bid to cover up his use of the chatbot to write an erroneous brief, saying the court never imagined having to deal with such "atrocious conduct."

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DOJ Hid Grand Jury Misconduct In ICE Case, Ill. Judge Says

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge said Thursday her trust in U.S. Department of Justice attorneys had been "broken" after reviewing unredacted grand jury transcripts in a criminal case against anti-ICE protesters that revealed prosecutorial misconduct, shortly after which Chicago's top federal prosecutor moved to dismiss the charges.

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'Can't Just Make Up Names And Sue,' 7th Circ. Judge Says

By Anne Cullen

A Seventh Circuit judge rebuked a lawyer Friday for naming a "made up" entity, rather than the correct institution, in a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit against the Wisconsin Court System and a former judge, demanding the error be corrected immediately.

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UC Berkeley Law Adopts Sweeping Restrictions On AI Use

By Lynn LaRowe

The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has adopted a sweeping new policy that restricts the use of artificial intelligence by students, saying the measure aims to ensure "our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default."

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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says

By Emily Sawicki

Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.

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Exclusive

Fed. Judiciary Urged To Drop Unified Atty Admission Effort

By Jack Karp

The federal judiciary should scrap any proposal to do away with state bar admission requirements for U.S. district courts and create a national district court bar, according to a recent report finding it would undercut those courts' control over bar membership and that it lacks the necessary support.

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Analysis

Some Attys Say Remote Hearing Expansion Comes At A Cost

By Julie Manganis

A push in Massachusetts to expand the number of proceedings held via videoconference is raising concerns among some attorneys, who question if the time savings of remote hearings is outweighed by the hidden costs of lawyers and judges staring into a screen.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morrison Foerster LLP, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Dechert LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared OpenAI and executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of allegations that they breached the nonprofit's charitable trust by converting to a for-profit.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The role of artificial intelligence in law weaves in and out of this week's stories, with the most recent compelling action coming from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued an executive order to mobilize state agencies as AI layoffs begin to hit thousands of workers in his state.

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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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