NLRB To Get Quorum, GC As Senate Confirms Trump Picks

By Braden Campbell

The National Labor Relations Board is set to end 2025 with a quorum after the U.S. Senate confirmed the president's nominees to two board vacancies and the agency's open general counsel post as part of a bloc of picks for jobs across the government.

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Mamdani Taps Ex-Biden DOL Chief For 'Economic Justice' Job

By Lauren Berg

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Friday named Julie Su, acting labor secretary during the Biden administration, to serve as the city's first deputy mayor for economic justice, a move that was welcomed by labor unions.

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2nd Circ. Reverses NLRB Loss In Parking Co. Injunction Bid

By Braden Campbell

The Second Circuit ordered a parking company Friday to rehire and negotiate with workers it canned when it took over the parking contract they labored under, granting the National Labor Relations Board an injunction and faulting the trial court for its purportedly shallow analysis in an initial denial.

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Ill. Judge Affirms $2.6M Verdict For Fired Court Clerk Workers

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has refused to order a new trial or alter a roughly $2.6 million damages award after a jury sided with three former employees of the Lake County Circuit Court Clerk's Office who claimed they were fired by the new clerk for campaigning for the incumbent she defeated in the 2016 election.

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Rail Giants Pitch $85B Deal To Transportation Regulators

By Matthew Perlman

Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. submitted the required application for their planned $85 billion merger on Friday, telling regulators the rail networks have few overlaps and that a combined system will allow freight to move faster and more efficiently across the country.

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Feature

The 6 Biggest Rulings By Massachusetts' Top Court In 2025

By Chris Villani

Massachusetts' top court rejected a novel double jeopardy claim in a headline-grabbing murder case, revived claims against Harvard over a "ghoulish" scheme, and said a Snapchat Bitmoji could show police bias, among other significant rulings this year.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: NLRB Quorum Back, 2025 In Rulings

By Emily Brill

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with features on the new direction of the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor and the biggest employment rulings of 2025.

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Ill. County Prevails In Hospital Worker's COVID Vax Bias Suit

By Vin Gurrieri

Cook County, Illinois, on Friday defeated a federal religious discrimination lawsuit by a Christian employee in its hospital system who alleged she was booted from her job after being denied an exemption from a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy.

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Wells Fargo Sued By Ex-Exec Over 'Fake' Diversity Interviews

By Katryna Perera

A former Wells Fargo executive has filed suit in California federal court, accusing the bank of systemic racial discrimination against Black employees and customers and alleging that he was retaliated against for challenging these practices.

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Mich. IT Co. Settles DOJ Probe Into Bias Against U.S. Workers

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division reached a settlement with a Michigan IT recruitment and staffing services provider after investigating whether it discriminated against U.S. workers by seeking only people with temporary employment-based visas.

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Hospital Knocks Discharge Claim From EEOC Sex Bias Suit

By Anne Cullen

An Arkansas federal judge agreed to cut the constructive discharge allegation from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging two doctors at an Arkansas hospital refused to let a male medical assistant help with childbirth, noting that the worker assisted with other deliveries.

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Loan Co. Strikes $750K Deal To End EEOC Disability Bias Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a loan company have asked a Georgia federal court to approve a $750,000 deal to end a suit alleging it fired an employee who asked for time off to recover from two major heart attacks.

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Brief

Trump Admin Appeals Harvard Win In $2B Fund Freeze Case

By Chris Villani

The Trump administration will ask the First Circuit to overturn a federal judge's ruling that prevented the government from withholding $2.2 billion in federal grants from Harvard University over concerns about antisemitism on campus.

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NLRB Prosecutors Drop Challenge To SpaceX Severance Pact

By Emily Brill

National Labor Relations Board prosecutors have dropped a challenge to SpaceX's severance agreement that spurred a fight over the agency's constitutionality, telling a Texas federal judge that "further proceedings would not effectuate the purposes of the National Labor Relations Act."

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Court Nixes Labor Requirements From Army Corps Contract

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims granted a construction company's request to strike negotiated labor prices and work terms from a hurricane-mitigation contract with the Army Corps of Engineers, finding the requirements were unrelated to the project's needs.

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Geico Agents Secure Some Discovery In Misclassification Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Geico must produce more information related to a retaliation claim and the authenticity and completeness of its retirement and welfare plans in a suit lodged by former agents alleging the insurer denied them benefits by misclassifying them as independent contractors, an Ohio federal judge ruled.

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FTC Says Building Service Contractor Will End No-Hire Pacts

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is continuing to show interest in labor market issues, reaching a deal on Friday alongside New Jersey state enforcers that bars Adamas Amenity Services LLC from enforcing no-hire agreements with building owners.

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Chemical Co. Workers Stole Trade Secrets, Seattle Jury Says

By Rachel Riley

Three former employees of Silver Fern Chemical Inc. misused the Washington-based distributor's trade secrets when they took proprietary customer information to work for a rival business, a Seattle federal jury said in awarding the company $1.9 million for lost profits.

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Health, Legal Employers Face Unique Online Speech Hurdles

Employers in the legal and healthcare industries must consider distinctive ethical obligations and professional requirements when disciplining employees for social media posts, while anticipating an area of the law in flux as courts seek to balance speech rights and the workplace function, say attorneys at FordHarrison.

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A 6th Circ. Snapshot: 3 Cases That Defined 2025

With more than a thousand opinions issued this year, three rulings from the Sixth Circuit stood out for the impact they'll have on the practice of civil procedure, including a net neutrality decision, a class certification standards ruling and an opinion about vulgarity in school, say attorneys at Ice Miller.

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How Fractional GCs Can Manage Risks Of Engagement

As more organizations eliminate their in-house legal departments in favor of outsourcing legal work, fractional general counsel roles offer practitioners an engaging and flexible way to practice at a high level, but they can also present legal, ethical and operational risks that must be proactively managed, say attorneys at Boies Schiller.

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Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader's Divergent Paths Led To Deal

By Aebra Coe

The blockbuster combination between Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced this past week involves two law firms that have charted very different paths in recent years. Here, a look at what events led up to the firms joining together at the deal table.

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Analysis

More Pardon Seekers Going 'Straight To The White House'

By Phillip Bantz

A nonprofit's unusual plan to make a mass pardon request directly to the Trump administration highlights burgeoning optimism among white collar defendants about their chances of securing relief, and a recognition that the clearest path to clemency no longer runs through the traditional channels.

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4 Stories That Shaped Civil Rights, Access To Justice In 2025

By Marco Poggio

Civil rights and access to justice advocates faced mounting pressure in 2025, as President Donald Trump's return to office drove aggressive immigration enforcement, deep cuts to criminal justice funding, renewed Supreme Court scrutiny of the Voting Rights Act, and a steep increase in executions.

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Federal Courts Not Subject To FOIA, DC Judge Rules

By Jake Maher

The conservative litigation group America First Legal Foundation cannot demand documents from the federal Judicial Conference of the U.S. and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under the Freedom of Information Act because they are not executive agencies, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.

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Wis. Judge's Conviction In ICE Case Tees Up Legal Battle

By Ryan Boysen

The conviction of a Wisconsin state judge for obstructing ICE officers is just the start of what will likely be a long legal battle, with major questions over judicial immunity, the evidence at hand and the meaning of "corrupt" yet to be decided.

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Justices Let Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit Continue

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration has failed to show it will be irreparably harmed by a Fourth Circuit decision that revived immigration judges' lawsuit challenging restrictions on their ability to speak publicly.

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Florida Supreme Court Approves Limits For Non-Lawyer Roles

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court has signed off on a rule change to spell out that nonlawyers at a law firm cannot supervise the work of attorneys or perform policymaking duties that affect the practice of law.

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Keesal Young Drops Part Of Stradley Ronon Poaching Suit

By Madison Arnold

Keesal Young & Logan wants to drop part of its California state court lawsuit alleging Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP unlawfully recruited 10 of its attorneys.

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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 the designer of an 88-facet diamond bring a copyright claim against a luxury watch retailer, collapsed firm Axiom Ince bring legal action against the solicitors' watchdog, and the Post Office hit with compensation claims from two former branch managers over their wrongful convictions during the Horizon information technology scandal.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

In one of the stories in corporate legal news from the past week, almost half of the in-house legal professionals in a recent survey said they were either actively or passively seeking new jobs, citing stress, a struggle to build multidisciplinary teams and anxiety around artificial intelligence.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Five firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the D.C. Circuit reinstated an order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants for climate change projects.

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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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