The U.S. power industry is scrambling to make sense of President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order restricting imports of equipment used for the electricity grid, and attorneys say complying with the directive could ultimately make projects more expensive and take them longer to build.
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Analysis

Trump Foreign Equipment Order Perplexes Power Cos.

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. power industry is scrambling to make sense of President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order restricting imports of equipment used for the electricity grid, and attorneys say complying with the directive could ultimately make projects more expensive and take them longer to build.

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DOJ Ad Tech Judge Won't Break Up Google's Biz

By Bryan Koenig

A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday refused to break up Google's advertising placement technology business, opting instead to grant the U.S. Department of Justice a litany of behavioral fixes aimed at limiting the search giant's ability to boost itself and the ads running through its own servers over ads from rival ad tech providers.

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Dems Call Subpoenas' Secrecy Request 'Abuse Of Authority'

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Democratic lawmakers Sen. Ron Wyden, Ore., and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Wash., have called for an investigation into subpoenas issued from federal law enforcement to private companies that contain nondisclosure provisions and carry threats of legal consequences for noncompliance.

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Thomson Reuters Cyberattack Hits North American Courts

By Bonnie Eslinger

A recent cyberattack on Thomson Reuters' court management software affected files associated with court systems in 11 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada, and may have exposed sealed documents and individuals' personal information, according to a Wednesday announcement from the technology and information services company.

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POLICY & REGULATION

FCC Floats 'Scorecard' To Deal With Robocall Deluge

By Christopher Cole

As the flood of robocalls continues, Federal Communications Commission leaders are considering a "scorecard" to let consumers rate their voice service providers as to how effectively they are blocking unwanted calls.

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Hims & Hers Investor Sues Over FTC Privacy, Billing Claims

By Sydney Price

Telehealth company Hims & Hers Health Inc. was hit with a proposed securities class action accusing it of inflating its share prices by failing to disclose certain practices that led to a suit by the Federal Trade Commission accusing it of sharing customers' sensitive health information with big tech companies and using deceptive billing methods.

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ENFORCEMENT

Brief

14 Cos. Banned From US Networks Over Robocall Violations

By Nadia Dreid

More than a dozen voice service providers have been booted from U.S. networks after failing to follow Federal Communications Commission rules aimed at staunching the barrage of robocalls that assault Americans' phones every day.

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LITIGATION

Suit Alleges Athletico Gave Patient Data To Google Without OK

By Celeste Bott

Physical therapy provider Athletico Management LLC was sued in Illinois federal court Tuesday in a proposed class action claiming it shared patients' personal and health information with Google through tracking technology embedded in the Athletico website where they made their appointments.

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PayPal Lets Tech 'Invisibly' Track Venmo Users, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

PayPal misled users about third-party tracking technologies embedded in its payment platform Venmo and how their personal information was disclosed to third parties, according to a new suit filed in California federal court.

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Split 9th Circ. Curbs Foreign Asset Forfeiture Without Control

By Hailey Konnath

A split Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday held that courts must determine that they have, at the very least, constructive control over a foreign defendant's property to establish jurisdiction in a forfeiture case, pointing to the Fifth Amendment's due process clause.

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'Astonished' Homebuyer Says Atty Email Lapse Caused Hack

By Pete Brush

A New York City law firm has been ordered to provide internet security and login information to a homebuyer who claims she was left in "shock" when an impostor with access to her lawyer's email tricked her into wiring away over $730,000.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Scope Issues For Cos. To Consider Ahead Of Cyber Rules

As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency finalizes its proposed Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act rules, organizations can take steps to navigate the uncertainty that stems from inconsistent critical infrastructure sector definitions and overlapping sector boundaries, say attorneys at Wiley.

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AI Prompt-Injection Hacking Creates Emerging Legal Risks

Last month, the first decision sanctioning a prompt-injection attack aimed at a U.S. court highlights the risks that this tactic — attempting to manipulate artificial intelligence systems by hiding invisible instructions in a document — poses for trade secrets, patent prosecution and other areas, say attorneys at Kilpatrick.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashurst Perkins

Axinn

Aylstock Witkin

Baker Botts

Bursor & Fisher

Federman & Sherwood

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Freshfields

Gelber Schachter

Girardi & Keese

Glancy Prongay

Goodwin Procter

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kincaid Law PLLC

Kramer LLP

Law Offices of John C. Lemon

Lowell & Associates

Lowey Dannenberg

Mayer Brown

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Morgan Lewis

Moss & Moss LLP

Norton Rose

Orrick Herrington

Quinn Emanuel

Sanford Heisler

Susman Godfrey

Taft Stettinius

The Office of Craig C. Reilly

Treanor Devlin Brown

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abbott Laboratories

American Board of Trial Advocates

American Economic Liberties Project

Ameris Bancorp

Apple Inc.

BARBRI

BlackBerry Ltd.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

DuckDuckGo Inc.

Federal Bar Association

Google LLC

Hims & Hers Health Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Motorola Mobility LLC

Mozilla Corp.

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

UBS Group AG

Venmo LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Central Intelligence Agency

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania

New Jersey Court

New York Attorney General's Office

New York Supreme Court, New York County

North Dakota Supreme Court

Office of the Vermont Attorney General

Ohio Supreme Court

Transportation Security Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Energy

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 Eastern District of Virginia

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court