This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

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Analysis

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

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TOP NEWS

9th Circ. Backs LA-Area Gas Appliance Nitrogen Oxide Ban

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit Thursday upheld a ban on the use of certain nitrogen oxide-emitting appliances in four Southern California counties, rejecting claims that the pollution control effort is preempted by federal law, as a dissenting judge contended this conclusion runs afoul of the court's own recent precedent.

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Corporate Veil Can't Block Claims In Kansas Pollution Suit

By Mike Curley

A Kansas federal judge won't throw out claims against the parent companies of a fertilizer and oil refinery company in a suit alleging their facilities polluted a nearby town, saying the complaint is enough to pierce the corporate veil and treat the parent companies as alter egos liable for their subsidiaries' conduct.

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TotalEnergies Sells Offshore Malaysia Assets For $350M

By Tom Fish

TotalEnergies said Thursday it has sold its minority stake in a Malaysian offshore gas project to Japan's Inpex Corp. for $350 million, as the French energy company continues to streamline its portfolio and concentrate on assets it operates.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Transportation Regulation To Watch: Midyear Report 2026

By Linda Chiem

Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.

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Brief

US Hits Algerian Steel Rebar With Countervailing Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce ordered a 72.94% countervailing duty against imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar into the country from Algeria on Thursday, following triple-digit antidumping duties issued earlier this year.

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Brief

Commerce Probes Thai Steel For Evasion Of China Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce said Thursday that it was looking into whether corrosion-resistant steel products completed in Thailand using products from China are circumventing duty orders against the Chinese products.

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OIL AND GAS

YPF Investors Fight Argentina Over Discovery In $16B Case

By Caroline Simson

As investors in Argentine oil and gas exploration company YPF SA gear up for a multibillion-dollar arbitration against Argentina, disputes still remain over exactly what discovery from a parallel proceeding in New York can be used in the arbitration.

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UTILITIES AND POWER

Ga. Court Revives Electrocution Suit Against Engineering Firm

By Y. Peter Kang

A Georgia appeals court on Thursday revived a lineman's electrocution injury suit against Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co., finding the engineering firm owed him a duty of care over its role coordinating power outage planning at a Georgia Power substation.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

Exxon Shareholders Were Right To Save New Voting Program

Following Exxon shareholders’ recent vote that rejected a bid to dismantle the company’s new retail voting program, other companies should replicate it as a way to lower the friction for shareholders who already vote with the board to keep doing so without wrestling a ballot every spring, says J.W. Verret at the Antonin Scalia Law School.

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Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

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Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

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Partnership Docs Sealed In Clifford Chance Clawback Spat

By Ryan Boysen

A federal judge has sealed the partnership agreements that two ex-Clifford Chance LLP practice group heads who jumped to Sidley Austin LLP included in their lawsuit challenging a nearly $6 million clawback demand, after Clifford Chance claimed the tactics put it at a competitive disadvantage. 

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Murdaugh Fights Clerk's Bid To Ax Jury-Tampering Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.

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DOJ Looks To Block ABA's Trump Adviser Subpoenas

By Jack Karp

The American Bar Association cannot demand documents and deposition testimony from a Trump adviser in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, since any communication between a presidential adviser and the chief executive is privileged, the government has told a New York federal court.

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Roc Nation Calls Out Alleged AI Citations In Fat Joe Case Brief

By Andrea Keckley

Roc Nation LLC has told a New York federal judge that plaintiff Terrance Dixon's opposition brief filed in a pending Rule 11 sanctions fight should be struck down in part because it includes what the company alleges are fabricated quotations attributed to real judicial decisions.

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Kasowitz Sued Over College Antisemitism Settlement Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "self-dealing and misappropriation."

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Split 5th Circ. Backs Bond Hearings For Immigrant Detainees

By Ganesh Setty

The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

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GOP Bill Would Cement DOJ Fraud Division In Federal Law

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of House Republicans are looking to put a congressional stamp of approval on the new fraud division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Says No To Amicus On Attorney Privilege In FTC Case

By Nadia Dreid

A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.

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Nadine Menendez's Attys Rebuked For Medical Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Immigration Council Inc.

Barnard College

Burford Capital LLC

Burns & McDonnell Inc.

CVR Energy Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cisco Systems Inc.

ClearList LLC

Cox Communications Inc.

Elite

Eton Park Capital Management LP

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Federalist Society

Glass Lewis & Co. LLC

Google LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

Inpex Corp.

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lawyers for Civil Justice

Liberty Media Corp.

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Monsanto Co.

New York City Bar Association

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Nucor Corp

Pacific Legal Foundation

Petronas

Pike Electric Corporation

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

ROC Nation LLC

Repsol SA

Rinnai America Corp.

Rock Creek Advisors LLC

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

SAE International

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Steel Dynamics Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The Southern Co. Inc.

Therapeutics Inc.

TotalEnergies SE

University of Virginia

Verizon Communications Inc.

YPF SA

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashurst Perkins

Blank Rome

Bondurant Mixson

Cannella Snyder

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Chance

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dorsey & Whitney

Drew Eckl

Duane Morris

Foley & Lardner

Friedman Kaplan

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Griffin Humphries

Hanson Bridgett

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Kasowitz LLP

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kneafsey Firm

Latham & Watkins

Lathrop GPM

Levine Lee

Loretta A. Preska

McGuireWoods

Morgan Lewis

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Redgrave LLP

Reed Smith

Reichman Jorgensen

Richard A. Harpootlian PA

Richards Layton

Robbins LLP

Seila Law

Shute Mihaly

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Strauss Borrelli

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

T. A. Blackburn Law PLLC

Tacopina Seigel

Trammell PC

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willson Jones

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Air Resources Board

California Department of Motor Vehicles

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Election Commission

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Georgia Court of Appeals

International Trade Commission

Louisiana Legislature

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

United States District Court for the District of Kansas