Analysis

How The Iran War Has Snarled Global Oil & Gas Shipping

By Keith Goldberg

The Iran war has effectively closed a key global shipping lane for oil and gas, and the resulting logjam is causing major headaches for companies responsible for transporting oil and gas from the Middle East to global markets.

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Texas Justices Overturn $26M Equinor Verdict

By José Luis Martínez

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday overturned a $26 million judgment against Equinor Energy LP, undoing a jury's finding that it violated an exclusivity clause in a contract to supply water for fracking.

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Attys, Chamber Group Propose Disclosure Of Litigation Funders

By Elliot Weld

Lawyers for Civil Justice and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform have suggested an amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that would require disclosing when third parties are funding civil litigation.

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J&J Unit Says Ex-Director Misappropriated Trade Secrets

By Elliot Weld

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has accused a former associate director of downloading over 7,000 files worth of confidential information prior to her resignation and using it to start her own competing company.

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Baldoni Atty Avoids Sanctions For Blake Lively Comments

By Pete Brush

A lawyer for Justin Baldoni will not face sanctions for public comments critical of Blake Lively because they came long enough ago that they are unlikely to influence the feuding Hollywood stars' upcoming trial, a Manhattan federal judge held Friday.

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Calif. Panel Revives Atty Lien Fight In Personal Injury Case

By Gina Kim

California appellate justices revived a declaratory action filed by a Sacramento lawyer against his clients and their prior counsel over their respective rights to settlement proceeds in a personal injury case, ruling Friday that the action was a proper way to simultaneously enforce the lawyer's lien and resolve everyone's settlement claims.

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Walmart Says Pa. Store Didn't Break Grocery Sales Agreement

By Matthew Santoni

Walmart wants to throw out a neighboring property owner's claim that a Pittsburgh-area store breached the terms of a nearly 30-year-old easement agreement, arguing a lawsuit's allegation that it had been in violation of an agreement not to compete on grocery sales for years was too vague and too late.

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Solar Developer Sues In Del. Over $56.7M Earnout Dispute

By Jarek Rutz

A solar developer and its founder have filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing Pivot Energy Inc. and two executives of deliberately sabotaging a joint venture to avoid tens of millions of dollars in earnout payments tied to community solar projects.

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Analysis

4th Circ. Genworth Ruling Raises Bar For ERISA Class Actions

By Kellie Mejdrich

A recent Fourth Circuit decision in a suit challenging Genworth Financial Inc.'s inclusion of target-date fund investments as employee retirement plan options will make it tougher to certify similar class actions and could have a ripple effect in a broader range of cases, experts told Law360.

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Judge Tosses Ga. Firm's Insurance Fight With State Farm

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has tossed an auto insurance dispute between a personal injury law firm and State Farm, agreeing with the insurer's defense that the suit "simply was filed almost three years too late."

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ROSS Says Anthropic Case Supports 3rd Circ. IP Appeal

By Adam Lidgett

An artificial-intelligence-based legal search engine appealing a finding that its use of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes did not constitute fair use has pointed to arguments in a separate case it says supports the idea that AI training is connected to national security.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

In London, Estée Lauder accused Jo Malone's founder of intellectual property infringement, the wife of an Iranian businessman linked to a £75 million fraud sued several Iranian oil companies, HSBC sued U.S. property tycoon Michael Fuchs, and Charles Russell Speechlys brought a claim against a United Arab Emirates company it once represented in an international arbitration.

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Vegas Paper Gets Temporary Reprieve After High Court Denial

By Matthew Perlman

A Las Vegas federal court has temporarily blocked the Las Vegas Review-Journal from ceasing to print and distribute rival daily newspaper the Sun, despite an appeals court invalidating the publications' long-standing joint operating agreement last year.

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Ga. Appeals Court Revises Alter Ego Rulings In $900K Case

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia appeals court broke from prior rulings and held that state law recognizes the horizontal alter ego theory of liability between sibling companies, upholding a roughly $900,000 verdict against two related turf installation companies involved in a contract dispute with their supplier.

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PE Firm Seeks To Block Calif. Suit Over $17.5M Deal

By Jarek Rutz

A private equity investment firm has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to block two former sellers of behavioral health facilities from pursuing a parallel lawsuit in California, arguing that the claims violate contractual provisions requiring any related disputes to be litigated in Delaware.

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6th Circ.: Mich. Island Can Regulate Ferry Fares, Not Parking

By Melanie Dorsey

The Sixth Circuit has partly lifted a lower court order blocking a northern Michigan island from enforcing a new ferry ordinance, ruling the city can regulate ferry rates while the case proceeds but likely cannot control parking prices at mainland parking lots.

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Dorsey Defends Twitter Bot Count In Trial Over Musk Takeover

By Bonnie Eslinger

Ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stood by 2022 company statements that bots made up less than 5% of accounts on the platform during video depositions shown Friday in a California federal trial over investor claims that Elon Musk deliberately tanked the company's stock with misstatements about fake accounts to renegotiate the $44 billion deal.

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States To Head Live Nation Antitrust Trial After Feds Settle

By Stewart Bishop

Over two dozen states and the District of Columbia are forging ahead with monopolization claims against Live Nation in Manhattan federal court after the federal government unexpectedly agreed to settle with the live entertainment giant after a week of trial.

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Adobe Inks $150M Deal In DOJ Suit Over App Subscriptions

By Ben Adlin

Adobe Inc. will pay $75 million in civil penalties and offer customers $75 million in free services under a tentative deal to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit over the company's software subscription practices, including an early termination fee that prosecutors had described as "a bit like heroin" for the company.

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Section 122 Tariffs Show Shift In Strategy, Not Trade Policy

By imposing temporary tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act as a stopgap measure while it pivots to less transitory statutory authorities, the Trump administration sent a clear message that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Learning Resources v. Trump, invalidating duties imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, will not precipitate a change in policy direction, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.

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'Swinging Dicks' Dissent Stirs Uproar Across 9th Circ. Bench

By Jeff Overley

A raunchy dissent in litigation over transgender spa patrons prompted dozens of Ninth Circuit judges to denounce the "vulgar barroom talk" of a colleague, who returned fire by ridiculing his peers for adopting the "fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun."

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Atty Who Sought Trump Pardons Accused Of Extorting Client

By Stewart Bishop

A South Carolina attorney and lobbyist who has billed himself as a fixer for prisoners seeking clemency from President Donald Trump made an appearance in Brooklyn federal court Saturday on newly unsealed charges that he tried to extort a client for over half a million dollars.

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Life Sciences Partner Hiring Up Amid Regulatory Scrutiny

By Aebra Coe

Large law firms' partner additions in life sciences rose slightly across five geographic markets between 2024 and 2025, with several factors including increased regulatory scrutiny driving new additions, according to an analysis by intelligence platform Macrae+.

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Judge Denies US Atty's Recusal Call Over Conflict Concerns

By Rose Krebs

Calling it "procedurally improper, untimely, and lacking merit," a federal judge on Friday nixed a demand from Minnesota's U.S. attorney for the judge to step aside from a habeas case related to the government's immigration enforcement operation since his wife is pursuing litigation over the crackdown as the state's solicitor general.

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NY Republicans Say Chief State Judge Crossed Ethics Line

By Emily Sawicki

Republican legislators on the judiciary committees of the New York state Senate and Assembly have brought a misconduct complaint against New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson over statements the judge made at a symposium in support of proposed legislation to reform minimum sentencing guidelines that they believed violated judicial conduct rules on impartiality.

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Immigration Watchdog Sues DOJ Over Secret Court Hearings

By Adrian Cruz

A Minnesota-based human rights nonprofit has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in D.C. federal court over its decision to restrict public access to proceedings at St. Paul's Fort Snelling Immigration Court.

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Ariz. Judicial Council OKs ABS Rules Despite Bar Concerns

By Rachel Rippetoe

Arizona's Judicial Council approved some new restrictions on out-of-state operations for non-attorney-owned law firms allowed to operate under the state's licensure program, despite the Arizona state bar's concerns that the new rules aren't stringent enough.

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Reed Smith Is Ignoring Expanded Back Pay Window, Atty Says

By George Woolston

A former Reed Smith LLP attorney who claimed she was unlawfully underpaid told a New Jersey state court on Friday that the firm's bid to limit the window of time for which she's seeking damages is an attempt to roll the case back in time.

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Q&A

She Has A Point: Finnegan's Cora Holt

By Theresa Schliep

Cora Holt, a partner at Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner LLP in Washington, D.C., has a "do your job" attitude and "getting the stuff done" approach to litigation that earned plaudits from Kassie Helm, co-chair of Dechert LLP, who praised Holt for her work as part of a Law360 series celebrating women litigators.

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Q&A

NC Judge Brings Military Roots, Not Politics, To Biz Bench

By Abigail Harrison

The North Carolina Business Court added decade-long Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley to its bench this month. In an interview, Judge Shirley told Law360 how time as an attorney in the U.S. military helped make him a thorough and punctual jurist, and expanded on his interest in keeping partisan politics out of the judiciary. 

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Esquire's $348M Signature Deal Bolsters Litigation Platform

By Al Barbarino

Esquire Financial Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the parent company of Signature Bank in a roughly $348.4 million deal that Esquire said will help expand its Chicago-area commercial banking presence and support growth of its litigation banking platform.

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GSA Pans Giving 'Unelected Judiciary' Sway Over Property

By Courtney Bublé

The federal government's landlord told the federal judiciary it is "ill equipped" to have direct authority to maintain its buildings.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP and Clement & Murphy PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated an over $600 million judgment involving the maker of Norton antivirus software for infringing Columbia University patents.

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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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