Analysis

OpenAI Ouster About Governance, Not Bad Counsel, Pros Say

By Dorothy Atkins

Witness testimony offered during a recent high-profile jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit restructuring accused the artificial intelligence company's nonprofit board of following bad legal advice when it fired CEO Sam Altman in 2023, although experts say the incident was more likely the product of poor governance rather than lousy legal counsel.

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Del. Jury Awards AI Co. $23M In Trade Secret Case

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware state jury has awarded artificial intelligence software developer C3.ai $23.3 million in its suit accusing engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. of misappropriating its trade secrets.

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Discover Card 'Misclassification' Deal Worth Up To $1.2B OK'd

By Hailey Konnath

An Illinois federal judge Wednesday gave the final green light to a settlement under which Discover Financial Services will pay between $540 million and $1.2 billion to resolve class action allegations it misclassified certain credit card accounts.

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CoStar Hit With Antitrust Suit Alleging Data Monopoly

By Grace Dixon

A Washington, D.C., brokerage has filed a proposed class action against CoStar in federal court, alleging a decades-long anticompetitive scheme designed to maintain a monopoly over commercial real estate listing services and information services.

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Insurer Can't Nix Counterclaims In $1.8M Judgment Dispute

By Hope Patti

A North Carolina federal judge found that a life sciences company's insurer can't avoid counterclaims brought by a former patent holder asserting that the carrier must cover a $1.77 million judgment entered against the company's executives after they were accused of making misrepresentations about taking the company public.

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IQ Data Targets Ex-Renters For Bogus Debts, Tenant Says

By Rachel Riley

A former Washington state apartment renter has accused collections agency IQ Data International Inc. of trying to extract money from tenants after they move out for debts they do not owe, according to a proposed class action the company removed to Seattle federal court on Wednesday.

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CORRECTED: Asus Reaches Deal To End Some Wi-Fi Patent Suits

By Elliot Weld

Sisvel's patent pool has reached a deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus to license its standard essential pool of Wi-Fi multimode patents, resolving a swath of litigation but leaving at least one case pending in Texas federal court against an Asus subsidiary. 

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Flores Says NFL Retaliated After He Filed Discrimination Suit

By David Steele

Former NFL head coach Brian Flores has told a New York federal court that the league and Commissioner Roger Goodell are using its arbitration process as a means to retaliate against him for suing the league for hiring discrimination.

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Ex-MLB Star Reynolds Can't Dodge Sports Tech Co.'s Suit

By David Steele

A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday allowed a technology company's suit accusing former baseball star Harold Reynolds of breaking their agreement to create a youth sports app to continue, but passed on forcing their dispute into arbitration.

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Ex-Maisonette CFO Sues For Legal Fee Advancement

By Jarek Rutz

Former Maisonette Inc. Chief Financial Officer Myra Cortado has sued the online children's retailer in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to force the company to advance her legal fees in an underlying investor lawsuit accusing current and former executives of misconduct tied to a financing round.

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Zillow In FTC Case Says Redfin Debt Forced Noncompete Deal

By Nate Beck

Zillow has answered a complaint in Virginia federal court from federal authorities over a deal to pay Redfin $100 million to stop competing on multifamily listings, arguing that the syndication deal came as the smaller competitor faced no other path to increase its apartment listings and dig itself out of debt.

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Magna Unit Sues Mich. Firm Over $11M Ford Program Assets

By Melanie Dorsey

A division of Magna International Inc. has sued a Michigan automation company in federal court, accusing it of wrongfully holding more than $11 million in manufacturing assets, including dozens of industrial robots, after the cancellation of a Ford Motor Co. vehicle program.

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DOJ Activity Indicates Rising Antitrust Risk For Hospitals

Two civil actions filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against New York-Presbyterian Hospital and OhioHealth, both alleging that the hospital systems used their market power to stifle competition, highlight the government's growing scrutiny of barriers to lower-cost insurance options, say attorneys at Freshfields.

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Series

NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

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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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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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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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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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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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