1st Circ. Affirms Ex-ADI Engineer's Trade Secrets Conviction

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit has affirmed a former Analog Devices Inc. engineer's trade secrets conviction, ruling that the indictment's reference to a specific microchip model did not preclude a guilty verdict based on his possession of schematics for its prototype.

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FCC's Carr Cheers Trump Order Curtailing State AI Laws

By Christopher Cole

Federal Communications Commission Chief Brendan Carr on Friday lauded a White House move to restrict states from passing "onerous" laws and regulations covering artificial intelligence.

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Fla. Says Roblox Failed To Protect Kids From Predators

By Carolina Bolado

Florida is the latest state to take aim at Roblox Corp., accusing the multibillion-dollar company in state court of deceiving parents about the safety of its popular online gaming platform and "knowingly facilitat[ing]" grooming and abuse of children by online predators.

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Roblox Child Abuse Cases Sent To Calif.

By Emily Field

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Friday sent cases alleging that children were groomed and exploited by sexual predators on Roblox's popular gaming platform to federal court in California, given the likelihood more claims will be brought.

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Alex Jones Atty's Pared-Down Suspension Upheld On Appeal

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut appeals court on Friday upheld the two-week suspension of former Alex Jones lawyer Norm Pattis, agreeing that a trial court judge was within her discretion to bench the attorney over his law firm's handling of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims' medical records.

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Wireless Group Calls For High Court Review Of FCC Fines

By Christopher Cole

The major wireless carriers' trade group on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Verizon's case against a $46 million privacy fine, saying the Seventh Amendment right to jury trial is too important to leave questions unanswered about its reach.

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Zappos Hit With Wiretapping Suit Over Meta Info Disclosure

By Elliot Weld

A customer of online shoe and apparel retailer Zappos.com sued the company claiming it allowed Meta to eavesdrop on customer activity despite representing that their information was being safeguarded.

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Reddit Fights Australia's Social Media Ban For Kids Under 16

By Allison Grande

Global online discussion forum Reddit on Thursday launched a legal challenge to Australia's first-of-its-kind law prohibiting children under 16 from creating accounts on nearly a dozen popular social media platforms, telling the country's top court that the measure illegally restrains minors' political communications and that there are "less restrictive" ways to protect kids online.

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Autonomous Vehicle Liability Trends To Watch In 2026

With autonomous vehicles increasingly making their own decisions, the liability landscape for AVs has changed over the past year — highlighting a number of important issues that companies and practitioners should keep a close eye on in 2026, says Farid Yaghoubtil at Downtown LA Law Group.

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Nonprofits Face Uncertainty Over Political Activity Rules

Two federal court decisions suggesting that the Internal Revenue Service's rules for 501(c)(4) organizations' political activity may be too vague to survive constitutional scrutiny leave nonprofit organizations caught between constitutional limits on government regulation of speech and tax limits on their exempt status, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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Opinion

Supreme Court Term Limits Would Carry Hidden Risk

While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

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Bonus Spotlight

Axinn Veltrop's Bonuses Reach Up To $240K

By Andrea Keckley

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP is giving out bonuses of up to $240,000 for its associates, according to an in-house memo seen by Law360 Pulse.

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Watchdog Sues White House For Records On Law Firm Deals

By Emily Sawicki

A Washington-based nonprofit watchdog has sued the Trump administration, seeking records related to deals BigLaw firms struck to provide an estimated nearly $1 billion worth of pro bono legal services to further the administration's priorities, following the president's executive orders to withhold security clearances and investigate the firms.

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Analysis

2025 Sees State Courts Diverge From Federal Criminal Norms

By Brandon Lowrey

Some of this year's most notable criminal appellate rulings homed in on differences between state and federal constitutional protections against the most serious punishments, with movement in Michigan, bucking the trend in Wyoming, and an ambiguous but potentially earthshaking decision out of Texas.

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US Atty Nominee For Wyo. Was Outside Capitol On Jan. 6

By Courtney Bublé

One of President Donald Trump's U.S. attorney nominees, who was on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, and recently told senators he still thinks "there were imperfections" in the 2020 election process, has been advanced toward Senate confirmation.

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Del. US Atty Resigns Citing 'Politics,' Successor Appointed

By Rose Krebs

The acting U.S. Attorney for Delaware said Friday that she is resigning, citing "a highly politicized, flawed blue-slip tradition" for nominees and saying she "fully" supports her first assistant, who has been appointed by a federal judge to succeed her.

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Dems Demand Release Of 2nd Jack Smith Report

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday demanding she release the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office the first time.

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DOJ Shake-Up Keeps Criminal Tax Meetings, Ex-Official Says

By Kat Lucero

The U.S. Department of Justice — despite recently eliminating its Tax Division as part of a broad restructuring — continues to meet with practitioners representing clients who may face federal criminal tax charges, the former division chief said Friday.

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Wash. Justices Retroactively Lower Bar Exam's Passing Score

By Ben Adlin

As Washington state is preparing to transition to a new bar exam, its Supreme Court has ordered a retroactive adjustment to the current exam's minimum passing score, making an estimated hundred-plus law school graduates who narrowly failed in recent years newly eligible for admission to practice law.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Shell hit with a climate change claim from 100 survivors of a typhoon in the Philippines, London Stock Exchange-listed Oxford Nanopore bring legal action against its co-founder, and the editors of Pink News sue the BBC for defamation following its investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at the news site.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to review the influence that proxy adviser firms have, and law firms saw a 9.8% increase in compensation expenses along with a similar increase in billable rates. ​These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit handed Epic Games Inc. a partial win by mostly affirming an injunction blocking Apple Inc. from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its systems.

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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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