US Chamber Gets Expedited Appeal In $100,000 H-1B Fee Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

The D.C. Circuit on Monday fast-tracked the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's appeal of a ruling that a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions was within President Donald Trump's "broad authority" to restrict noncitizens' entry.

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2nd Circ. Gives Fired ConEd Atty New Shot At Bias Claim

By Grace Elletson

The Second Circuit revived Monday part of a former in-house Con Edison attorney's bias suit claiming she faced prejudice from her boss as an older woman, ruling the lower court may not have properly assessed a retaliation claim under New York City law's more liberal standards.

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Fed. Circ. Examines Timing Of $452M Trade Secrets Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Federal Circuit panel delved into the statute of limitations for trade secrets cases Monday, pressing an attorney for a South Korean company seeking to reverse a verdict that prompted a $452 million jury award to explain why the clock should start when a plaintiff suspects misappropriation rather than when it is actually discovered.

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Chancery Orders $25K Daily Sanction In Trump Media Dispute

By Jeff Montgomery

The blank-check company that took Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. public last year drew a $25,000 per-day sanction on Monday in Delaware's Court of Chancery after refusing an over $2 million legal fee advancement bill arising from litigation involving a former CEO in Florida.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of December

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the last month of 2025 included high-profile appointments at Apple, Berkshire Hathaway and LPL Financial. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from December.

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Airline Industry Group Challenges Michigan Sick Leave Law

By Katherine Smith

A national airline trade group is challenging a Michigan law requiring employers to provide workers with earned sick time, telling a Michigan federal court that the measure is preempted by federal law and weakens the airlines' collective bargaining agreements.

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Groups Urge FCC To Deny $6.2B Nexstar-Tegna Merger Deal

By Nadia Dreid

Public interest groups, labor organizations and satellite companies are asking the Federal Communications Commission not to grant TV station giant Nexstar's request to approve its $6.2 billion plan to merge with rival Tegna in a deal that would breach the agency's national ownership cap.

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Express Scripts Wants FTC Atty Views On Insulin Prices

By Matthew Perlman

Express Scripts is seeking to force an attorney from the Federal Trade Commission to sit for a deposition in the agency's case accusing pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices, saying the commission's own attorneys acknowledge that manufacturers cause higher prices.

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Chancery Rejects BankUnited's Employee Poaching Claims

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has denied BankUnited's attempt to block former executives and rival Customers Bank from recruiting employees and pursuing business in the title-services market, finding that the lender failed to show it was likely to win on any of its contract or fiduciary-duty claims.

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Ex-IBM Worker Fired At 61 Despite $7.8M In Sales, Court Told

By Abigail Harrison

A 61-year-old former International Business Machines Corp. sales specialist who worked under multimillion-dollar quotas said his abrupt firing was motivated not by poor performance but by the company's systemic age bias, according to a lawsuit filed in North Carolina federal court.

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Logistics Compliance Co. Seeks Order That It Owns Platform

By Elliot Weld

A Cleveland-based logistics compliance software firm has sued its former technology chief in Ohio federal court, looking to fend off claims that he owns the majority of the company's offerings.

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Md. Railway Distributor Exec Sued Over Alleged Asset Looting

By Katryna Perera

Chinese railway equipment manufacturer Anyang Railway Equipment Co. Ltd. has filed suit in Maryland federal court, claiming the sole executive and majority shareholder of a railway distribution company, in which Anyang is also a shareholder, looted corporate assets for personal gain and excluded Anyang from management decisions, among other things.

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Call Center Co. ESOP Managers Ink $8.75M Settlement Deal

By Kellie Mejdrich

A call center holding company's employee stock ownership plan managers, founders and other executives will fork over $8.75 million to end a dispute alleging the workers' ESOP was sold shares at an inflated price, according to the proposed deal filed in Pennsylvania federal court Monday.

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Aviation Co. Wants Rosen To Pay For 'Abusive' Legal Tactics

By Jessica Corso

An aerospace company that successfully defeated a securities fraud suit is now seeking to recoup $580,000 in legal fees from Rosen Law Firm PA as punishment for its alleged "abusive tactics" in pursuing the litigation.

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Uber Sex Assault MDL Judge Won't Delay Bellwether Trial

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge on Monday denied Uber's request to postpone the first of some 20 bellwether trials in multidistrict litigation over passenger sexual assaults despite the company's assertion that the jury pool will be tainted by what it said was a plaintiffs' counsel advocacy group commercial saying Uber refused to make safety improvements.

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OpenAI Sued Again Over ChatGPT's Role In Murder-Suicide

By Y. Peter Kang

A second lawsuit has been filed against OpenAI accusing it of negligently designing its artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, which caused a man to murder his mother and commit suicide, according to the complaint in California federal court.

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Forum Clause Keeps Holtec Consultant's Suit In Ohio

By Matthew Santoni

Energy technology company Holtec International can't dismiss or move a former consultant's federal lawsuit from Ohio to New Jersey, after a judge ruled Monday that the doctrine of "forum non conveniens" generally doesn't apply to choosing between states, and the parties' contract had a valid forum selection clause choosing Ohio.

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Godfrey Shareholder Takes Real Estate Firm Irgens' GC Spot

By Nate Beck

Milwaukee real estate firm Irgens Partners LLC said Monday it has appointed a general counsel and chief administrative officer from the investment management practice group at Godfrey & Kahn SC.

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Pierson Ferdinand Adds 3 Partners In NYC Area, California

By Adrian Cruz

Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added three new partners in New York; Palo Alto, California; and Princeton, New Jersey, marking the 80th partner the fast-growing firm has hired since the start of 2025.

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Key Trends Shaping ESG And Sustainability Law In 2026

2025 saw a chaotic regulatory landscape and novel litigation around environmental, social and governance issues and sustainability — and 2026, while perhaps more predictable, will likely be no less challenging, with more lawsuits and a regulatory tug-of-war complicating compliance for global companies, say attorneys at Crowell.

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Preparing For Congressional Investigations In A Midterm Year

2026 will be a consequential year for congressional oversight as the upcoming midterm elections may yield bolder investigations and more aggressive state attorneys general coalitions, so companies should consider adopting risk management measures to get ahead of potential changes, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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How Bank M&A Prospects Brightened In 2025

Even with less-than-ideal macroeconomic conditions in 2025, federal banking regulators' shift away from procedural concerns to focus more on core financial risks boosted M&A in several key ways, including shorter review timelines and increased interest in de novo charters, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Average Quinn Emanuel Partner Payouts Rise To $9.5M

By Aebra Coe

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP saw a 10% uptick in its profits per equity partner in 2025, bringing the firm's average partner pay up over $9 million last year amid an active litigation market, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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Feature

His Client Got A Pro Se Suit. Then The AI Filings Started.

By Chris Villani

Employment attorneys say the increased use of AI by pro se plaintiffs has the potential to clog dockets, drag out cases and make litigation significantly more expensive.

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McGuireWoods Atty Fined Over Citation Errors In BoA Suit

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge has slapped a McGuireWoods LLP attorney with a $1,500 fine for using incorrect citations in a brief lodged in a recently dismissed mortgage suit against Bank of America.

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Quinn Emanuel Contempt In $600M Row Probed By Fed. Circ.

By Ryan Davis

A contempt finding against Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP that contributed to a more than $600 million patent judgment against the firm's former client NortonLifeLock was scrutinized by a Federal Circuit panel on Monday, with one judge saying the order appeared to be invalid.

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Wis. Judge Resigns After Conviction In ICE Arrest Case

By Jack Karp

A Wisconsin state judge has resigned from the bench after being convicted of felony obstruction for helping an unauthorized immigrant in her court evade arrest by federal immigration officers, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker confirmed to Law360 Monday.

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Federal Court Wrong Place For Judges' Suit, Justices Told

By Elaine Briseño

Federal immigration officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appellate decision that allowed immigration judges to hash out their spat over a newly created speech policy in district court instead of within the congressionally designated special review system.

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