Analysis

Iran War Disruption Could Spur Future Energy Dealmaking

By Al Barbarino

The ongoing war in Iran is rattling global energy markets and clouding the outlook for mergers and acquisitions in the short term, but attorneys say deal opportunities are likely to emerge over time across oil, liquefied natural gas and renewable power.

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Analysis

Clean Energy Tax Credits Could Gain Ground In Tax Planning

By Kat Lucero

Discounted pricing and risk-limiting contracts are driving large companies to buy clean energy tax credits to lower their IRS bills, a move experts said could become standard in corporate tax planning.

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Analysis

AI Boom Lifts Q1 M&A Values, As Attys Eye Wider Rebound

By Al Barbarino

Artificial intelligence-driven megadeals fueled a jump in first-quarter global mergers and acquisitions value, but lagging middle-market and private equity activity weighed on deal volume, as attorneys cautiously anticipate a broader rebound.

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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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Brief

ITC Finds Algerian Rebar Harming US Industry, Duty To Come

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. International Trade Commission on Friday found imports of Algerian steel rebar are harming U.S. industry, setting up the U.S. Department of Commerce to install an antidumping duty order.

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Analysis

Iran War's Trade Fallout Likely To Spread Beyond Oil, Fertilizer

By Dylan Moroses

The war in Iran has already shocked oil and gas prices worldwide and stakeholders expect further U.S. trade consequences related to the conflict including supply chain constraints, cost increases across a variety of goods, and industries and new geopolitical responses as the conflict continues.

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Groups Sue To Block Drilling Near Lakota Sacred Site

By Crystal Owens

A group of Indigenous rights and conservation nonprofits is asking a South Dakota federal court to vacate the government's decision to greenlight an exploratory drilling project within the Black Hills National Forest, arguing it will directly impact a sacred Lakota site used by countless generations.

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Oil Co. Says Investor Misused Data To Seize $71M Project

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas oil company said a would-be funding partner didn't abide by its $71 million contract to help develop a New Mexico project, instead using confidential information to gain leverage and mislead the company into giving up control of the project.

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9th Circ. Upholds Biden Ariz. National Monument Proclamation

By Crystal Owens

A Ninth Circuit panel has upheld a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to former President Joe Biden's proclamation that established an Indigenous site in the Grand Canyon region as a national monument, saying that any claims of economic harm stemming from future higher energy costs are too speculative.

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3rd Circ. Preview: Arbitration Limits, Power Plant Safety

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit in April is set to examine the limits of an arbitrator's authority to change awards once they've been made, potentially defining the restraints of commercial arbitration rules and when rulings can be revisited.

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Cross River Bank Beats Suit Over Alleged Solar Loan Scheme

By Sydney Price

New Jersey-based Cross River Bank has, for now, escaped a proposed class action from an investor in solar technology company Sunlight Financial who accused the bank of overlending to risky borrowers in Sunlight's solar loan program as its financial partner.

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Spain Seeks Pause On $47M Award Enforcement Efforts

By Caroline Simson

Spain has urged a D.C. federal court to pause efforts by a creditor to enforce a roughly $47 million arbitral award against it and to quash subpoenas issued to its outside counsel, pointing to its pending certiorari petition in a related matter that raises "serious legal questions."

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Barnes & Thornburg Snags PFAS Expert From Venable

By Gina Kim

Barnes & Thornburg LLP is beefing up its product liability and mass torts practice with the addition of a Venable LLP partner known for representing and counseling companies in environmental and toxic tort-related matters, including issues involving so-called forever chemicals, the firm announced Thursday.

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Simpson Thacher Slated To Launch Singapore Office

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has announced it is opening a new office in Singapore that will focus on advising sponsors on matters such as private equity, funds, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, energy and infrastructure, and digital infrastructure matters.

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Dubai Ruling Delineates Standard For Foreign Arbitration Aid

By delineating the limits of its jurisdiction with clarity, in the recent Orabelle v. Orzenia decision, the Court of First Instance of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts enhances predictability and reinforces the court's standing as a forum combining international openness with strict adherence to statutory constraints, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn.

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Parsing Rule 12(c) Motion Overuse In Securities Class Actions

Defendants in securities class actions have more frequently been filing motions for judgment on the pleadings following the denial of motions to dismiss, but courts have recently demonstrated an increasing willingness to reject these previously rare motions, finding them transparent attempts to relitigate already-decided issues, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

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ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak

By Tracey Read

The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

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Brief

Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

By Courtney Buble

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

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6th Circ. Axes Atty For 'Inexcusable' AI 'Transgressions'

By Rae Ann Varona

An attorney committed "inexcusable transgressions" by relying on Westlaw's internal CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform for appellate filings and by failing to catch erroneous AI-generated content, the Sixth Circuit said Friday and removed the lawyer from further representing a man who pled guilty to drug trafficking charges.

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Analysis

'Political' Deals Pit DOJ Against State AGs, And Not Just Dems

By Bryan Koenig

Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."

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Florida Gov., AG Face Criticism For Judge Impeachment Push

By Rose Krebs

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier faced pushback this week from some in the state's legal community for calling for the impeachment of a judge for releasing a man who went on to allegedly kill his five-year-old stepdaughter, with critics blasting those calls as being politically motivated and "unethical."

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Analysis

DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Policy May Eclipse SDNY's

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice has put to use for the first time its new corporate enforcement policy of declining prosecutions when companies self-report potential criminal violations, but experts say the new, department-wide initiative has rendered a more business-friendly approach by the Southern District of New York moot.

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Ex-DOJ Official Wants Epstein-Talk Suit Kept In District Court

By Emily Sawicki

A former U.S. Department of Justice acting deputy chief who was fired last year after a hidden-camera video of him discussing the Epstein files was posted online has told a D.C. federal judge his due process case must survive in district court because the Trump administration now controls federal oversight agencies.

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Trump Seeks 13% Boost In DOJ Funding

By Courtney Bublé

The White House budget request for fiscal 2027, released on Friday, seeks $40.8 billion in discretionary funds for the U.S. Department of Justice, a 13% increase from the current year level.

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Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

By Jon Hill

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.

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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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