Nippon Tells 9th Circ. Not To Revive US Steel Merger Case

By Bryan Koenig

Nippon Steel urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday not to revive a consumer lawsuit challenging its now-completed purchase of U.S. Steel Corp., arguing the district court rightly found the plaintiffs too far removed from the steel market to allege higher prices when buying steel-containing products.

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SEC Sues LSU Over Efforts To Put Ex-NFL Players On Roster

By Alex Lawson

The Southeastern Conference sued Louisiana State University in Alabama federal court Thursday, asking a judge to affirm the conference's right to impose penalties against the school if it decides to place players who had previously appeared in NFL preseason games on its roster.

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Paramount-Warner Bros. Investor Loses Bid To Expedite Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday denied a Paramount Skydance Corp. stockholder's bid to fast-track derivative litigation seeking to halt the company's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, finding that the investor had not shown a sufficient basis for rushing the case toward trial.

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Apple Hit With £2B UK Claim Over App Tracking Rules

By Robbie Kalus

Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) collective action brought on behalf of thousands of developers who claim the technology giant "abused its power" when it changed the rules on how apps seek permission to use users' data.

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Samsung, Other Chipmakers Want Price-Fixing Suit Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix have urged a California federal court to toss a proposed class action accusing the chipmakers of conspiring to fix the supply and prices of dynamic random access memory, saying the suit was a "repackaged version" of a previous conspiracy suit against them that the Ninth Circuit rejected.

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CFTC Says CME Perps Fight Is 'Much Ado About Nothing'

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission told a D.C. federal judge that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's suit over the agency's approval of Kalshi's bitcoin perpetual futures contract is "much ado about nothing" since the derivatives exchange is free to list its own version of the product.

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Philly Firm Says Recent Discovery Dooms Uber's RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to dismiss Uber's complaint accusing it of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to inflate settlements, claiming it learned through discovery that the company has not been damaged by the payouts.

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Altria Loses Constitutional Challenge To ITC Patent Cases

By Ryan Davis

A Virginia federal judge on Thursday shut down a suit by Altria claiming that U.S. International Trade Commission patent proceedings are unconstitutional, rejecting Altria's bid to halt an ITC vape patent case against it brought by Juul and granting summary judgment to the commission.

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Most Of Corteva's IP Claims Against Inari Move Along

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal court Thursday kept most claims alive in a case over seed intellectual property brought by Corteva Agriscience ahead of a trial set to begin later this month.

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Dutch Software Co. Asks Justices To Halt TM Trial

By Hayley Fowler

A Dutch software company has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a rapidly approaching trial in a trademark dispute with an American rival while it petitions for review of an injunction and contempt order that it said threaten to taint the entire proceedings.

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Cooley Trial Partner Joins King & Spalding In NY

By Adrian Cruz

King & Spalding LLP said Thursday it has added a veteran trial attorney with over two decades of experience to its business litigation practice as a New York-based partner from Cooley LLP.

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Deal Termination Lessons From Verisk Merger Review Ruling

The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent ruling that Verisk Analytics forfeited its right to terminate a deal that was facing a second information request from the Federal Trade Commission illustrates the danger of information gaps between client and counsel and the risks of "willful conduct" language in merger agreements, say attorneys at HSF Kramer.

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Prepping Health Businesses For Sale In A Data-Driven Market

In a thinner market for healthcare transactions, with both regulators and buyers using artificial intelligence to inspect data in great detail, the margin for error in sellers' financials and legal diligence has narrowed, requiring more proactive compliance efforts, says Cody Dumas at FBFK Law.

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Series

Ballet Makes Me A Better Lawyer

A lifetime of learning and performing ballet taught me that success — whether in dance or practicing law — comes only through hours of thorough preparation, boundless energy and relentless effort, says Sharon Katz-Pearlman at Greenberg Traurig.

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Quinn Emanuel, McDermott Hit By Data Breaches

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte LLP both recently suffered data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents law firms in the U.S. have suffered in 2026.

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Analysis

Boutique Firms Emerge As Trump Admin's 'Achilles' Heel'

By Phillip Bantz

Less fearful of retribution than some of their BigLaw counterparts, small law firms are taking on an outsize role handling cases seen as adversarial to the Trump administration.

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Interview

Federal Judge Warns Threats Imperil Judicial Independence

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom of the Southern District of Florida told Law360 that judges and members of the bar need to educate the public on the judiciary's important role in American democracy to combat increasing threats, speaking following the release of two reports this week that warn of safety concerns for judges and that defiance of court orders is undermining the federal judiciary's independence.

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Husch Blackwell Gets Early Win In Ex-Partner's 401(k) Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A Missouri federal court granted Husch Blackwell LLP an early win over a former employee's proposed class action alleging the firm illegally withheld retirement contributions and mismanaged its employee 401(k) plan, finding the ex-partner couldn't prove violations of federal benefits law.

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Former Girardi Keese CFO Drops Appeal Of 5-Year Fraud Term

By Emily Sawicki

The Seventh Circuit has granted onetime Girardi Keese financial chief Christopher Kamon's request to drop the appeal he lodged fighting an Illinois federal judge's order adding five concurrent years onto the 10 he is already serving for his role helping Tom Girardi, the head of the firm, steal millions from plane crash clients who settled cases in Chicago.

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Pirro Urges House Ethics Panel To Refer Crime Claims To DOJ

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has told the House Ethics Committee that as cases involving criminal misconduct come before it, her office should be involved too.

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Fox Rothschild Says Adult Day Care Suit Rehashes Claims

By Rose Krebs

Fox Rothschild LLP is urging a New Jersey state court to toss claims against the firm and one of its attorneys in a complaint related to the firm's prosecution of a fraudulent loan lawsuit that led to a $65,000 sanction against the firm.

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