The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday denied Albertsons Cos. Inc.'s bid to force The Kroger Co. to submit additional internal law firm communications in litigation over the companies' failed $24.6 billion merger, ruling that Kroger's waiver of attorney-client privilege does not extend to lawyers' brainstorming that was never communicated to the client.
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Del. Shields Kroger Lawyers' Brainstorming In Albertsons Suit

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday denied Albertsons Cos. Inc.'s bid to force The Kroger Co. to submit additional internal law firm communications in litigation over the companies' failed $24.6 billion merger, ruling that Kroger's waiver of attorney-client privilege does not extend to lawyers' brainstorming that was never communicated to the client.

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Judge Tosses Most Of Patent Suit Against Comcast, Peacock

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal court has tossed most of a suit accusing Comcast and its subsidiaries, NBCUniversal and Peacock TV, of offering video streaming and network monitoring services that infringe four patents, allowing one direct infringement claim over one patent to survive.

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ZipRecruiter Investor Challenges CEO's Control Gain

By Jarek Rutz

A ZipRecruiter Inc. stockholder has filed a proposed class action in Delaware Chancery Court accusing the company's directors of allowing CEO and co-founder Ian Siegel to obtain majority voting control without paying a control premium or compensating public investors.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Another Trump Order For Election Restrictions Blocked

By Julie Manganis

A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from implementing the president's March order to compile a federal list of eligible voters and to set new restrictions on the use of mail-in ballots in this fall's general election.

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COURT OF CHANCERY

Brokerage Workers Say $1.05B Sale Shortchanged Them

By Jarek Rutz

A proposed class action in Delaware Chancery Court alleges the founders and directors of insurance brokerage startup Newfront Insurance Holdings Inc. breached fiduciary duties by forcing employee shareholders to accept inferior merger consideration and restrictive employment conditions in the company's $1.05 billion sale to Willis Towers Watson PLC.

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BANKRUPTCY COURT

Spanish Broadcasting Gets Green Light For Ch. 11 Plan

By Emlyn Cameron

A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Thursday he will confirm Spanish-language radio station operator Spanish Broadcasting System's Chapter 11 plan once he gets the final draft of its plan documents, largely overruling an outstanding objection.

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THIRD CIRCUIT

3rd Circ. Vexed By Diabetic Worker's Atty, AI Issues

By Matthew Santoni

A Third Circuit panel questioned Thursday whether a hospital employee's disclosure of her diabetes was "too little, too late" to trigger an accommodation after she was written up for sleeping on the job — and whether her attorneys should be sanctioned for filing a minor motion that appeared to include AI-hallucinated citations.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Moshing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Entering a mosh pit is much like entering the practice of law — it is difficult, you have to know both the written and unwritten rules, and conduct yourself according to the expectations of each community, says Christopher Deubert at Constangy Brooks.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Michelle Mone sued by PPE Medpro, Broadfield Law sued by the founders of an international aid company, and litigation funder Fortress bring a claim against Edwin Coe and businesses the law firm represented in a cartel claim.

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Chicago IP Duo Leave Winston & Strawn For King & Spalding

By Tracey Read

King & Spalding LLP has added two more Winston & Strawn LLP partners who will reunite with 15 former colleagues who joined the firm earlier this year.

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Q&A

This Pride Month, LGBTQ+ Bar Leader Talks Community, Hope

By Emma Cueto

In 2026, the LGBTQ+ Bar is focused on expanding programs, especially those focused on law students and younger attorneys, and building up community ties at a time of growing legal threats to LGBTQ people.

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Insurer Says NJ Atty Sank Coverage By Not Cooperating

By Christine DeRosa

Hanover Insurance Co. has asked a New Jersey federal court for a declaratory judgment finding that it doesn't have to defend an attorney and his firm in a suit over a real estate deal gone wrong, telling the court that the attorney refuses to cooperate with the firm it hired to defend him in the underlying suit.

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Trump Reportedly Mulls FCC Attorney For DOJ Antitrust Chief

By Matthew Perlman

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to nominate the Federal Communications Commission's general counsel to serve as the top antitrust official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Stays Jackson Walker RICO Suit Over Sorrento Ch. 11

By Clara Geoghegan

A California federal judge has paused Sorrento Therapeutics shareholders' litigation after a Texas bankruptcy court ruled they lacked standing to pursue racketeering claims over a former Jackson Walker attorney's relationship with the judge who initially oversaw the biotech company's Chapter 11.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A Connecticut federal judge told attorneys to challenge clients who demand use of generative artificial intelligence tools to conduct legal research, and a Kansas federal judge blocked a state law imposing requirements on proxy advisers' voting recommendations. These were among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Scientologists Want 'Ignored' Boies Schiller AI Errors Review

By Emily Sawicki

The Church of Scientology has asked the California Supreme Court to review an appellate order that didn't impose sanctions on Boies Schiller Flexner LLP for filing a brief containing artificial intelligence-generated citation errors in a harassment and retaliation suit pending against the church.

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High Court To Issue Big Decisions In Term's Final Days

By Katie Buehler

As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the final days of its term, the justices still have several major decisions to issue, including some concerning birthright citizenship, the president's power to remove independent agency officials, transgender athletes and election rules. 

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Clement & Murphy PLLC, Covington & Burling LLP and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Monsanto a win in its long-running battle over the labeling of alleged cancer risks of its bestselling weedkiller Roundup.

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Homebuilder Says Colo. Atty Took Its Info To Adversary Firm

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado lawyer who represented a homebuilding company for more than a decade stole tens of thousands of the company's files when he went to work for a law firm that is a regular adversary to the homebuilder, the company alleged in Colorado state court. 

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King & Spalding Insists On Fraud Suit Pause Amid 'Conflicts'

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP has urged a Connecticut state court to keep its involvement in a $300 million fraud lawsuit on hold while it challenges the denial of its attorneys' withdrawal from representing several individual defendants, citing "serious, nonwaivable conflicts of interest" that will prevent the firm from proceeding.

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PACER Fees Will Rise To Fund Cyber Defense Upgrades

By Bonnie Eslinger

The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.

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Analysis

Bosch DOJ Declination Shows Benefits Of Early Self-Reporting

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to prosecute German technology company Bosch for exporting products to a sanctioned Chinese company signals to businesses that prompt self-reporting to the government can help them secure a declination even for serious national security offenses.

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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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Messner Reeves Says $8.3M Fraud Suit Repeats Utah Case

By Zach Dupont

Colorado law firm Messner Reeves LLP has claimed in federal court that a lawsuit accusing it of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme should be dismissed because the plaintiffs' Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims were dismissed by another court with prejudice.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Allegaert Berger

Andrews & Springer

Arnold & Porter

Ashby & Geddes

BC Law Group PC

Baker Botts

Bayard PA

Boies Schiller

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Chase Law & Associates

Cleary Gottlieb

Clement & Murphy

Clyde & Co

Cohen & Wolf

Constangy Brooks

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cowdery Murphy

DWF LLP

Davis Polk

Dechert LLP

Edwin Coe

Eversheds Sutherland

Farella Braun

Fenwick & West

Fields Kupka

Fladgate LLP

Fox Rothschild

Freedman Firm PC

Fried Frank

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Rees

Haddon Morgan

Haynes Boone

Healy LLC

Hearn & Fleener

Hogan Lovells

Holtzman Vogel

Horvitz & Levy

J.P. Ward & Associates

Jones Day

Kane Russell

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kutak Rock

Latham & Watkins

Lennon Murphy

Lewis Brisbois

Messner Reeves

Milbank LLP

Mishcon de Reya

MoloLamken

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Norton Rose

Pillsbury Winthrop

Quinn Emanuel

RM Law PC

Rahman Ravelli

Reed Smith

Reynolds Porter

Richards Layton

Riley Safer

Ross Aronstam

Selendy Gay

Shakespeare Martineau

Shook Hardy

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Simmons & Simmons

Spencer Fane

Stephens Scown

Stephenson Harwood

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Troutman

Venable LLP

Weil Gotshal

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

Winston Taylor

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

AirAsia Bhd.

Albertsons Cos. Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Arbitration Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Anthropic PBC

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

Aviva Investors Holdings Ltd.

Bayer AG

Bio-Techne Corp.

Boyer Co.

Century Communities Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Comcast Corp.

DAF Trucks NV

Daimler AG

Dubai International Financial Centre

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Emirates NBD Bank PJSC

Exxon Mobil Corp.

FTI Consulting Inc.

First Liberty Institute

Gerald Holdings LLC

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Google LLC

Haleon PLC

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

Institutional Venture Partners

International Business Machines Corp.

Kobalt Music Group Ltd.

Laing O'Rourke

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Michigan State University

Monsanto Co.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

Peacock TV

Rhapsody International Inc.

Robert Bosch GmbH

SEI Investments Co.

Scania

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Sorrento Therapeutics Inc.

SoundExchange Inc.

Spanish Broadcasting System, Inc.

StoneX Group Inc.

Techne Corp.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Kroger Co.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Wayfair LLC

West Penn Allegheny Health System Inc.

Willis Towers Watson PLC

Zillow Group Inc.

ZipRecruiter Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System

Bureau of Industry and Security

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Colorado Supreme Court

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Commission

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Election Commission

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

House of Lords of the United Kingdom

Kansas Attorney General's Office

Mississippi Secretary of State

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Social Security Administration

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)

United States District Court for the District of Colorado