A Pennsylvania appellate court has reversed the toss of a proposed class action accusing shoe retailer Clarks of violating the state's wiretap law by sharing website visitors' information with a third-party analytics provider, finding that it wasn't clear whether consumers had adequate notice of the company's data practices.
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Pa. Panel Revives Clarks Website Visitor's Wiretap Suit

By Allison Grande

A Pennsylvania appellate court has reversed the toss of a proposed class action accusing shoe retailer Clarks of violating the state's wiretap law by sharing website visitors' information with a third-party analytics provider, finding that it wasn't clear whether consumers had adequate notice of the company's data practices.

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Data-Scraping Co. Says Reddit Must Face Counterclaims

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A data-scraping company accused of acting like "would-be bank robbers" in taking in copyrighted data from Reddit that is then used to train AI said in a brief defending its antitrust counterclaims that the content in question actually belongs to Reddit users, and that Reddit anticompetitively restricts access to it.

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DOJ Tries For Third Case Against Comey, Alleging Doc Leak

By Lauren Berg

For the third time, the Trump administration has lobbed criminal charges against James Comey, this time accusing the former FBI director of disclosing sensitive national defense information in 2016, according to a complaint unsealed Monday in D.C. federal court.

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Apple, Microsoft Accused Of Infringing Cybersecurity Patents

By Elliot Weld

Tech giants Apple Inc. and Microsoft have each been sued in Texas federal court by a cybersecurity firm with claims of infringing two patents that cover the detection of memory corruption.

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Meta Docs Reveal Plan To Discredit Teen-Harm Critic Haidt

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta internally set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow" and "turn against" professor Jonathan Haidt, who has linked social media use to mental health decline, as it in-house rebuffed internal efforts to study social media's impact on teen health, according to recently unredacted documents filed publicly Friday.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Colo. AI Rules Face Calls For Longer Compliance Window

By Allison Grande

Business groups across the tech, banking and other industries pushed Colorado's attorney general Monday to revisit his proposed rules for the use of artificial intelligence to make consequential decisions and to fuel chatbots in order to address concerns such as their potential conflict with existing laws and the tight window for implementation.

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LITIGATION

NBCUniversal Sued Over Alleged Leak Of Employee Data

By Craig Clough

An NBCUniversal employee filed a proposed class action in New York federal court over the company's alleged "incompetent" security measures that led to a cybercriminal organization hacking sensitive personal records of around 35,000 workers.

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Google Says DOJ Overreaching With Proposed Antitrust Fixes

By Nadia Dreid

Google has told a D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers are trying to force it into unreasonable antitrust measures that go beyond what the court imagined when it handed down its remedies order in the monopolization suit.

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PEOPLE

Latham Adds California Privacy Agency's Enforcement Chief

By Rose Krebs

Latham & Watkins LLP announced Monday that it has brought on the head of enforcement for California's Privacy Protection Agency, who previously steered numerous high-profile enforcement actions related to state consumer privacy laws, to bolster its privacy and cyber practice.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Digging Into Dems' Letter On Subpoena Secrecy Demands

Lawmakers’ recent letter arguing that federal agencies’ use of boilerplate nondisclosure language in subpoenas pressures recipients into silence may lead to a significant overhaul of the current framework, but in the meantime, companies should review their rights and options, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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Tort Liability When AI Goes Rogue: Negligence Theory

If reasonable care in the use of artificial intelligence agents cannot eliminate the risk of third-party harm, then AI companies and users of AI agents must consider whether negligence theory provides an adequate framework for assessing harm caused by agents that go rogue, says Donald Hawthorne at Carter Ledyard.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Weil PE Pro Declines Executive Partner Seat Amid Turmoil

By Marialuisa Taddia

Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.

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Analysis

Whistleblower 'Gold Rush' Might Strain DOJ, Experts Warn

By Phillip Bantz

A new federal program offering cash for tips that result in criminal fraud charges is poised to set off a whistleblower "gold rush" that could uncover more fraudsters, but might also invite a high number of low-quality claims that burden businesses and strain limited U.S. Department of Justice resources, experts say.

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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.

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Burns & Levinson Malpractice Claims Revived On Appeal

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday reinstated legal malpractice claims brought by a youth soccer league against defunct Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP alleging a firm partner failed to provide a heads-up about a federal visa fraud investigation.

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Feature

Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series

By Chris Villani

The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.

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Former Willkie Partner, Wife Owe $14.5M Tax Debt, Gov't Says

By Zak Kostro

A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife owe the U.S. more than $14.5 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that seeks to enforce federal tax liens against their New York home to settle the debt.

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Trump Plans To Nominate SC Governor's Counsel To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Grayson Lambert, chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, for a judgeship on the District of South Carolina.

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Scholar Warns AI Pitfalls Can Go Beyond Hallucinations

By Andrea Keckley

The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.

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Maurene Comey Illegally Fired, Entitled To Pay, Judge Holds

By Pete Brush

Former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired by President Donald Trump's administration, a federal judge in Manhattan held Monday, granting back pay and potentially legal fees to the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Adams & Reese

Bartlit Beck

Buchanan Ingersoll

Burns & Levinson

Burr & Forman

Carmichael Ellis

Carter Ledyard

Clarick Gueron

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Dechert LLP

Eversheds Sutherland

Foley & Lardner

Freshfields

Gibbs Mura

Gupta Wessler

Hermes Law PC

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kirby McInerney

Kirkland & Ellis

Koskoff Koskoff

Krevolin & Horst

Latham & Watkins

Lieff Cabraser

Lynch Carpenter

McGuireWoods

McNair Law Firm

Morgan & Morgan PA

Motley Rice

Munger Tolles

Patterson Belknap

Paul Weiss

Pollack Solomon

Ropes & Gray

Sale & Weintraub

Sherin & Lodgen

Sidley Austin

Sullivan & Cromwell

Weil Gotshal

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

Wilson Sonsini

Wollmuth Maher

Woods Rogers

Yagman PLLC

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Activision Blizzard Inc.

Advent International Corp.

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

Anthropic PBC

Anywhere Real Estate Inc.

Apple Inc.

Atlanta Braves

C&S Wholesale Grocers

Canvas Credit Union

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Consolidated Rail Corp.

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Everyrealm

Glock Inc.

Google LLC

Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co.

Instagram Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

LinkedIn Corp.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Milwaukee Brewers

Mortgage Bankers Association

NBCUniversal Media LLC

New York University

New York Yankees

Nike Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

RE/MAX LLC

Reddit Inc.

Salesforce.com Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

ServiceTitan Inc.

Structure Therapeutics Inc.

Tampa Bay Rays

The Boeing Co.

The Florida Bar

The Kroger Co.

The New York Times Co.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Verisk Analytics Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Privacy Protection Agency

Colorado Attorney General's Office

Delaware Attorney General's Office

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Office of Justice Programs

Office of National Drug Control Policy

Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries

Small Business Administration

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget