Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​
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​What's Left In VLSI-Intel's $3B Patent Litigation

By Dani Kass

Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​

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Mayweather Sues Showtime Over Missing Earnings

By Tom Lotshaw

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. hit Showtime Networks Inc. with a lawsuit accusing the company of helping a former manager defraud him, with at least $340 million of fight earnings misappropriated or unaccounted for.

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NBA Star Tells Of Fury Over Ex-Morgan Stanley Pal's Fraud

By Stewart Bishop

A former Houston Rockets player on Wednesday testified that he and his former Morgan Stanley investment adviser were the best of friends before he learned of what prosecutors say was a scheme to bilk NBA clients for millions of dollars, and taunted his former financial guru in anger after learning of his arrest.

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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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LEGAL ETHICS & MALPRACTICE

Fla. Court Affirms Win For Law Firm In $10M Malpractice Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida appeals court Wednesday affirmed a win for Conrad & Scherer LLP in a suit accusing the law firm of improperly withdrawing at a critical point in a lawsuit against its clients' business partner over the acquisition of a hotel.

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

FTC Defends Case Over Zillow-Redfin Rental Ads Pact

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is defending its antitrust case challenging a partnership between Zillow Group Inc. and Redfin Corp., telling a Virginia federal court the pact is a clear agreement between the companies to not compete for rental housing advertisements.

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INSURANCE

Insurer Seeks Exit From Ga. Cemetery Misplaced Body Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

An insurer said it has no duty to defend an Atlanta cemetery from a suit by a woman alleging the cemetery failed to bury her husband in the proper plot, telling a Georgia federal court that notice of the incident was untimely.

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PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

TMX Wants $52M Penalty From Pa. Banking Regulators Axed

By Katryna Perera

A TitleMax affiliate urged a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel on Wednesday to strike down a $52 million penalty that state banking regulators have lodged against it over alleged usury law violations, arguing that the disputed loans it provided to state residents were neither negotiated nor made in the Keystone State.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

IBM Seeks Texas Enforcement Of $24M UK Contract Ruling

By José Luis Martínez

A British subsidiary of IBM asked a Texas federal court to enforce a $24.6 million English judgment against Houston-based software entrepreneur John Jay Moores, seeking to collect court-ordered litigation costs awarded after Moores was found to have breached IBM software licenses.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Infringement Immunity For NASA Contractor

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday endorsed a California federal judge's decision that a NASA contractor doesn't have to face a patent infringement suit from a pair of California men, given that its allegedly infringing use was authorized by the federal government.

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Gospel Singer Pleads To Drop Track Amid 'Messy' Label Fight

By Chart Riggall

A Grammy Award-winning gospel singer locked in a contract fight with his record label urged a Georgia federal judge Tuesday to reject the label's attempt to shut down the impending release of a solo track, arguing that halting his work could allow his career to "die on the vine."

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EMPLOYMENT

Fertility Clinic Says Doctors Lured Staff To New Practice

By Julie Manganis

The owners of a Massachusetts fertility clinic say three doctors left to start their own practice and repeatedly violated a non-solicitation agreement to "raid" its staff, according to a complaint filed in state court.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

Split NC Panel Rules Adviser Can't Arbitrate Fee Fight

By Hayley Fowler

An investment adviser who was fired can't arbitrate a fee fight with the company he hired to scrub his termination from public databases, a split North Carolina appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding the arbitration clause in his contract doesn't cover the company's claim for nonpayment.

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COMPETITION

Hartford HealthCare Must Provide Docs On $86M Takeovers

By Brian Steele

Hartford HealthCare Corp. must hand over internal documents detailing its $86.1 million acquisitions of two hospitals from bankrupt Prospect Medical to a group of plaintiffs who accuse the health system of trying to create a monopoly for inpatient hospital services, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled.

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CANNABIS

THC Acid Company Sues Hemp Grower Over Contract Breach

By Mike Curley

A Colorado tetrahydrocannabinolic acid product maker is suing its hemp-growing business partner, saying the grower breached their agreement by starting its own manufacturing and storage facility and blocked it from participating in $270 million federal litigation.

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PEOPLE

Eversheds Sutherland Hires Paul Hastings Trial Pro

By Grace Dixon

Eversheds Sutherland announced that it has added a partner to its litigation practice group, who joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP fresh off the heels of guiding Prologis Inc. through a three-month jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ankner & Levy

Arete Law Group

Barnes & Thornburg

Bloch & White

Bradley Arant

Broderick Law Group

Chartwell Law

Cleary Gottlieb

Cole Scott & Kissane

Conrad & Scherer

Cranfill Sumner

Cravath Swaine

Dalton & Associates PA

Danya Perry Law

Eversheds Sutherland

Fairmark Partners LLP

Feldman & Associates PLLC

Freeman Mathis

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Gordon Rees

Hamilton Stephens Steele & Martin

Koffsky Schwalb

Kroger Gardis

Latham & Watkins

Mancini Shenk

Manning Gross

Maschoff Brennan

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

Miller & Chevalier

MoloLamken

Mulliken Weiner

Munger Tolles

Murphy Ball Stratton

Parsons Lee

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perlman Bajandas

Quarles & Brady

Quinn Emanuel

Ramey LLP

Reed Smith

Samini Block

Scott&Scott

Sheppard Mullin

Shinder Cantor

Shipman & Goodwin

Silver Golub

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Todd & Weld

Troutman

Wiggin & Dana

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3G Capital

AeroVironment Inc.

American Bar Association

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Barron's

Bayer AG

Boston IVF

Cash America International, Inc.

Chamber of Progress

Chevron Corp.

CoStar Group Inc.

Dallas Mavericks Inc.

Deel Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Finjan Holdings Inc.

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman

Google LLC

Hartford HealthCare Corp.

Intel Corp.

International Business Machines Corp.

Jana Partners LLC

Major League Baseball Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

Memphis Grizzlies

Morgan Stanley

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Basketball Association Inc.

Noble Energy Inc.

Outliers Inc.

Overstock.com Inc.

Pershing Square Capital Management LP

Portland Trail Blazers

Prologis Inc.

Prospect Medical Holdings Inc.

Red Hat Inc.

Renesas Electronics Corp.

Renewable Energy Group Inc.

RentPath LLC

SABMiller

Showtime Networks Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

State Bar of Texas

TMX Finance Family of Cos.

The Kraft Heinz Co.

The New York Times Co.

TitleMax

Toshiba Corp.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

Unilever PLC

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

Walmart Inc.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

Yale New Haven Health

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arizona Attorney General's Office

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Connecticut Insurance Department

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Los Angeles Superior Court

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Minnesota

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Virginia Attorney General's Office

Washington Attorney General's Office