Google Will Seek To Pause Ad Tech Case For DOJ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

Google will ask a New York federal court to pause a scheduled April trial in the private antitrust litigation over its advertising placement technology while it appeals a loss in a similar case from the U.S. Department of Justice in Virginia.

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Feds Say Co. Skirted Rules To Buy, Resell 7K Beyonce Tickets

By Lauren Berg

A California technology company has for years used unlawful tactics to buy up millions of tickets to popular events and concerts, including Beyonce's 2023 Renaissance tour, to resell them and rake in millions of dollars, the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice alleged Thursday.

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Trump Admin Urges High Court To Curb APA Rule Vacatur

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the Administrative Procedure Act allows federal judges to universally vacate agency rules in what could be a major test of the judiciary's authority to check executive agency power.

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Fighters Resist Funding Inquiry In UFC Wage Antitrust Case

By Alex Lawson

A group of MMA fighters suing the UFC over alleged wage-fixing are resisting the organization's attempt to obtain information about the fighters' litigation funding, casting the effort as a distraction from their lawsuit.

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Gov't May Look Into Sky's £1.6B ITV Buy Over Public Interest

By Najiyya Budaly

The culture secretary said Thursday she is "minded to intervene" in media giant Sky Group's £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) deal for the broadcast and streaming division of ITV to safeguard the public interest.

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Ex-Racing Director Says Deleted Texts Don't Merit Sanctions

By Hayley Fowler

The former competition director for NASCAR superteam Joe Gibbs Racing LLC said his "candor" should save him from sanctions after he admitted to deleting text messages with the owner of a rival team before his old employer sued him for trade secrets theft.

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Medical AI Platforms Report Settlement Amid Discovery Battle

By Julie Manganis

Medical artificial intelligence startup OpenEvidence and competitors Doximity Inc. and Pathway Medical Inc. told a Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday that they have reached a settlement in principle to resolve a contentious lawsuit and counterclaim.

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No Sanctions Over Lost Evidence In Tax Software Dispute

By Jack McLoone

A Pennsylvania federal court won't sanction tax software company Avalara Inc. for destroying evidence in an employee poaching suit brought by a rival, as the judge adopted a special master's findings that the rival couldn't show the missing evidence harmed its case.

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Dish, Disney Working On Deal In Sling TV Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Dish Network told a New York federal court that settlement discussions are in progress for Walt Disney Co.'s breach of contract suit that challenged the satellite provider's short-term Sling TV passes and spurred Dish to lodge antitrust counterclaims over Disney's carriage licensing deals.

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Dems Want FTC To Investigate Online Homebuying Industry

By Isaac Monterose

Democratic U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren asked the Federal Trade Commission Thursday to conduct an antitrust investigation into the "anticompetitive and deceptive practices" of the country's online homebuying industry, saying that the FTC needs to employ "every enforcement tool available to restore competition to the entire online real estate marketplace."

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Parsing The Latest Signals On FTC Section 5 Enforcement

Federal Trade Commission cases brought over the last several years and Commissioner Mark Meador’s recent call for stand-alone Section 5 enforcement suggest businesses should prepare for continued scrutiny of conduct beyond traditional antitrust violations, particularly in essential goods, technology and labor markets, say attorneys at Axinn.

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Clippers Salary Cap Probe Offers Investigation Tips For Cos.

The NBA's recent investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers circumvented salary cap rules offers an unusually detailed look at how a significant organizational probe was conducted and how its findings were presented, offering practical lessons for companies conducting their own investigations, say attorneys at Wiley.

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Mayer Brown Lands 2 Sheppard FDA Partners

By Tracey Read

Mayer Brown LLP has bolstered its life sciences capabilities with two former Sheppard partners, including that firm's former U.S. Food and Drug Administration practice leader.

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Greenberg Traurig Hires Sidley Private Funds Atty In Chicago

By Jack Rodgers

Greenberg Traurig LLP has hired a former Sidley Austin LLP counsel, who spent nearly a decade before her last law firm position working with Balyasny Asset Management in a range of related legal roles, the firm recently announced.

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Analysis

Expect These Post-Midterm Probes If The Hill Changes Hands

By Phillip Bantz

The top investigative priorities of a potentially Democratic-controlled Congress are coming into sharper focus with the midterms weeks away and could impact an array of companies and individuals in technology, finance and energy, experts say.

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White & Case Taps 47 Partners In Largest US Class Since 2022

By Ashish Sareen

White & Case LLP has elevated 47 lawyers to its partnership, its largest promotion round since a record 59 lawyers became partners at the start of 2022.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Schlichter Bogard LLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the full Eleventh Circuit overturned decades-old precedent that took a strict view of when federal benefits law claims could be brought in court.

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Dems Press Kirkland Again For Details Of $125M Trump Deal

By Courtney Bublé

A trio of congressional Democrats once again accused Kirkland & Ellis LLP of subverting their oversight requests into the $125 million deal the firm cut with the Trump administration last year.

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Ex-Legal Tech Co. Exec Says Pregnancy Got Her Fired

By George Woolston

A legal technology company abruptly fired its director of partnerships after it learned she was pregnant, and has since withheld a nearly $40,000 bonus, according to a lawsuit lodged in New Jersey state court.

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Google Users' $85M Fee Ask Stalls Over 'Utterly Lacking' Bill

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Thursday rejected an $85 million attorney fee request following a $700 million settlement in a consumer-led case against Google, ruling that counsel's submitted billing records are "utterly lacking in information demonstrating what work was done and for what purpose," while granting leave to amend the request.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The top investigative priorities of a potentially Democratic-controlled Congress are coming into sharper focus with the midterms just weeks away and could impact companies in various sectors. In the meantime, one BigLaw firm formed a board to oversee the use of artificial intelligence and evaluate proposals from its practice groups and sectors. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Monopoly Allegations Test ABA's Role In Legal Education

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association is facing mounting claims that the council responsible for law school accreditation acts as a monopoly, an accusation levied amid a broader, politicized battle over the future of legal education.

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Brief

Cooley Reportedly Matches Milbank Pay Scale Starting In '27

By Matt Perez

Cooley LLP will reportedly increase U.S. associate base compensation in line with the pay scale set by Milbank LLP in June beginning on Jan. 1.

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Analysis

Could A Criminal Sentencing Case Upend Loper Bright?

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is concerned that a ruling instructing trial courts to defer to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's interpretation of federal sentencing guidelines could blow a "pretty big hole" in the court's recent rejection of deference doctrines. His colleagues, however, don't appear as perturbed.

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Google Class Attys Get $22.7M Despite Hourly Rate Rebuke

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge has approved Google's $68 million class action settlement to resolve a long-running privacy suit, including class counsel's requested $22.67 million fee award, commending the parties' hard work while also criticizing a plaintiffs attorney's "patently unreasonable" proposed $3,000 hourly rate.

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Survey Of Ill. Attys Reveals Mental Health Struggles, Stigma

By Celeste Bott

A survey of nearly 7,000 Illinois lawyers found roughly 20% rated their mental health as fair or poor, according to an Illinois Supreme Court commission report documenting the toll of workplace stress on the state's attorneys and judges, their alcohol and drug use, and barriers to getting them care.

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San Benito Foods Deal Gets Early OK, With Notice Concerns

By Jonathan Capriel

A California federal judge has given her initial blessing to a nearly $1 million deal that would end a Monterey Bay-area township's lawsuit against a tomato cannery that claimed the cannery's noxious odors diminished residents' property values.

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Balancing The Scales: Criminal Appeals, Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Second Circuit has been ordered to take another look at a murder-for-hire conviction in light of the high court's new miscarriage-of-justice exception for criminal appeal waivers, and the top courts in Pennsylvania and Michigan will look at the retroactivity of new sentencing rules. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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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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