Judge Pans Uber's 'Nonstop' Discovery Violation In FTC Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.

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Challengers Of Trump's 'Slush Fund' Want Proof Plan Is Dead

By Lauren Berg

Plaintiffs challenging what they call President Donald Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "slush fund" in Virginia and Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday expressed doubt that the administration's plan to pay victims of "lawfare and weaponization" is truly "not moving forward" as the acting attorney general has claimed.

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EU Orders Meta To Give Rival Chatbots Free WhatsApp Access

By Matthew Perlman

European enforcers ordered Meta Platforms to give rival artificial intelligence chatbots free access to WhatsApp amid an antitrust investigation into the messaging service, despite Meta taking steps to provide access for a fee after previously blocking rival assistants.

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Former XAI Engineer Says He Was Fired Over Safety Warnings

By Lauren Berg

A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI claims he was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about safety, discriminatory bias and other risks associated with the artificial intelligence company's chatbot Grok, according to a lawsuit lodged Tuesday in California state court.

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Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

By Allison Grande

Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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Emergency Alert Systems Set For FCC Cybersecurity Revamp

By Christopher Cole

The nation's emergency alert services would see cybersecurity upgrades under a new plan put forward this month at the Federal Communications Commission.

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FCC Looks To Spur Submarine Cables With New Security Reg

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission will start presuming that submarine cable applications that meet certain qualifications don't have to be referred to the executive branch for national security reviews, if the agency votes yes later this month on the order it'll have before it.

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Fiber Internet Co. Failed Customers In Data Breach, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A Denver-based fiber internet provider failed to protect customers' sensitive personal information in a cyberattack and waited five months to notify those affected, a customer said in a suit filed in Colorado federal court.

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Arby's Owner Must Face Trimmed Data Tracking Opt-Out Suit

By Gina Kim

A California federal judge on Monday trimmed some privacy claims in a suit alleging Arby's', Jimmy John's', Dunkin's and Sonic's website cookie banners falsely promise to remove trackers but allowed the plaintiffs' fraud claims to proceed, finding it's enough for them to plead they declined cookies but were tracked anyway.

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Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

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Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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