Ex-Clients Say Gibbons Botched $35M Judgment Appeal

By Adrian Cruz

A group of former Gibbons PC clients has sued the firm in New Jersey state court for allegedly waiting too long to file an appeal of a $35 million judgment in an insurance company's suit against a real estate developer and others.

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Full DC Circ. Blocks EPA From Freezing Grants

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The D.C. Circuit on Wednesday reversed an order issued by a panel of its own judges and reinstated a federal district court's order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants designated for climate change projects.

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5th Circ. Judges Knock Biden NLRB For 'Gamesmanship'

By Braden Campbell

Four dissenting Fifth Circuit judges slammed the National Labor Relations Board's "political gamesmanship" Wednesday as the court declined to rethink a panel's decision to enforce a Biden-era board ruling that knocked Exxon for violations the Trump-era board rejected.

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Ex-Goldman Banker Can't Dodge Ghana Bribery Charges

By Stewart Bishop

A New York federal judge on Wednesday shot down a former Goldman Sachs banker's bid to escape charges over a purported scheme to bribe Ghanaian officials to greenlight a power plant deal, rejecting defense claims of improper sealing and speedy trial violations.

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Energy Dept. Orders Wash. Coal Plant To Remain Open

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered Washington's sole coal-fired power plant to remain open through March 2026, despite a state law that requires utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity by year's end.

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States, Groups Urge DC Circ. To Preserve EPA Soot Rule

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's request that the D.C. Circuit vacate a Biden-era soot rule is legally untenable and should be rejected, Democrat-led states and cities, along with health and environmental groups, told the court.

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Senate Sends $900B Defense Bill To Trump's Desk

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a $900.6 billion defense policy and budget bill for 2026, which includes a provision aimed at putting pressure on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to release unedited video of boat strikes carried out in international waters near Venezuela. 

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Trade Court Remands Pipe Fitting Duty Scope For 2nd Time

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. must better explain how it deemed certain products outside the scope of a 30-year-old antidumping duty order on Chinese pipe fittings for a second time, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled, finding the government's analysis insufficient.

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GAO Partly Backs DOD Contract Protest Because Of Redactions

By Ganesh Setty

Heavy redactions from the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency in natural gas contract proposals prevented the U.S. Government Accountability Office from assessing whether two bidders deserved their awards, the GAO said Wednesday as it partially sustained an Oklahoma natural gas supplier's protest.

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Brief

Convicted Oil Trader Will Appeal 15-Month FCPA Sentence

By Brian Steele

A former Freepoint Commodities LLC and Arcadia Fuels Ltd. oil trader has told a federal court that he intends to appeal his 15-month prison sentence and $300,000 fine after a jury found him guilty of bribing an official at Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

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Anker, Ugreen Near Peace In Mobile Power Bank Patent Suit

By Ben Adlin

Electronics-makers Anker and Ugreen have reached a tentative agreement to end Anker's intellectual property claims accusing its rival of infringing a patent for a mobile power bank and marketing "virtually identical" products to consumers.

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Repair Co. Not Owed Coverage For Damage Scheme Suits

By Hope Patti

A company that repairs tubular air heaters and its founder were not entitled to coverage for a criminal case and a civil suit alleging that they defrauded customers by deliberately damaging property in order to secure repair jobs, an Illinois federal court ruled.

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PG&E Electrical Transformer Bomber Gets 10 Years In Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge Wednesday sentenced a San Jose software engineer to 10 years in prison for willfully bombing Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical transformers using homemade explosives in late 2022 and early 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.

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Analysis

Biggest Colorado Cases Of 2025

By Rachel Konieczny

In 2025, a Colorado federal judge blocked U.S. immigration agents from conducting warrantless arrests in the state without determining probable cause. Elsewhere, Colorado's justices articulated for the first time the burden of proof required for plaintiffs bringing tort cases against public entities. And Xcel Energy agreed to pay $640 million to settle claims that it caused or contributed to the state's 2021 Marshall Fire. Here's a look at some of the biggest decisions and cases that affected the state this year.

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NC Panel Revives Part Of Solar Co. Ex-Atty's Sex Bias Suit

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina attorney can proceed with a piece of her lawsuit alleging a solar company discriminated against her based on sex while she served in a senior legal role, after a state appeals court revived one of her claims Wednesday.

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EV Battery Swapping Co. Enters Chapter 11 With Sale Plans

By Clara Geoghegan

Ample Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protections in Texas to sell its business, saying it wasn't able to raise enough money to commercially scale up its electric vehicle battery swapping stations.

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Nikola Founder's Suit Against CNBC Time-Barred, Panel Says

By George Woolston

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton's trade libel claims against CNBC and short‑seller Hindenburg Research are actually defamation claims and time-barred, a New Jersey appellate panel said in a decision tossing the suit and awarding the defendants attorney fees.

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Justices Asked To Hear $50M Zimbabwe Immunity Feud

By Caroline Simson

Two Mauritian mining companies are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve whether countries that agree to arbitrate an international dispute are also waiving their right to assert sovereign immunity in subsequent litigation to recognize a foreign judgment confirming an arbitral award.

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Zurich Owes $130M For Helene Damage, NC Mining Co. Says

By Hope Patti

A quartz mining company has sued a Zurich insurer to recover $130 million for property damage and business interruption losses stemming from Hurricane Helene, saying the insurer has stonewalled for over a year and improperly tried to limit coverage to $28 million.

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What Defense Teams Must Know About PFAS Testing Methods

Whether testing for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances produces results meaningful for litigation depends on the validity of the sampling methodology — so effectively defending these claims requires understanding the scientific and legal implications of different PFAS testing protocols, say attorneys at Hollingsworth.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practical Problem Solving

Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.

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Surveys, Awards & More: Law360's 2026 Editorial Calendar

Law360 publishes several award series throughout the year, including ones that highlight top-performing attorneys and practice groups. Here, find all you need to know about our awards and surveys, including due dates, FAQs, and the questions we'll ask so you can prepare ahead of time.

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Bonus Spotlight

Bonus News: Glenn Agre, Bursor & Fisher Reveal 2025 Levels

By Andrea Keckley

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP told its associates in a memo last week that it would be issuing year-end bonuses ranging from $15,000 to $115,000 and special bonuses ranging from $6,000 to $25,000 based on seniority, with the chance to receive premiums above the year-end bonuses based on "​​extraordinary dedication and/or performance."

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Jackson Walker Wants Settlements Heard Before Romance Trial

By Adrian Cruz

Following a Texas federal judge's decision to hold off on reviewing malpractice settlements with former bankruptcy clients, Jackson Walker LLP asked the court to reconsider, as the pending motions could save parties time and money.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To 2025's Most Memorable Moments

By Jeff Overley

Federal circuit courts in 2025 strained under a crush of Trump administration lawsuits, as judges directed animated language at litigants and even their fellow judges. And while the president only added a handful of appellate jurists, they had outsize impacts on circuit benches as they joined the cadre of conservatives seated in his first term.

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CFTC's Pham Will Head To Crypto Co. MoonPay After Exit

By Aislinn Keely

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's acting Chair Caroline Pham is set to join cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay as its top lawyer following her impending departure from the commission, MoonPay announced Wednesday.

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Sterne Kessler Draws Scolding, But No Sanctions Midtrial

By Elliot Weld

A Delaware federal judge said Wednesday she wasn't happy with the tone used by attorneys defending a radiopharmaceutical company from patent infringement claims and that she does not condone the attorneys' conduct in improperly contacting three inventors named in a patent at issue, but she declined to issue the severe sanction of kicking them off the case.

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Analysis

The Top Trademark Decisions Of 2025

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Supreme Court vacated a trademark infringement award that reached nearly $47 million and found nonparties couldn't be on the hook for the amount, while the Federal Circuit reproached a trademark tribunal for its handling of a man's attempt to register the F-word. Here are Law360's picks for the biggest trademark decisions of 2025.

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After Questioning Judge Nominee, Sen. Kennedy Wants More

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday pressed a judicial nominee for Indiana on statements he's made as an ordained elder on sexuality and marriage.

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Judge's Contact With 'Tiger King' Ex-Atty Won't Disqualify Him

By Ivan Moreno

A Tenth Circuit judge on a panel reviewing a copyright infringement claim against Netflix over a video clip included in its "Tiger King" docuseries can stay on the case after inadvertently contacting a former attorney for the plaintiffs, the parties told the appellate court in separate letters.

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Pentagon Must Justify JAG Firings Under New NDAA

By Courtney Bublé

Under the annual defense policy bill that was sent to the president's desk on Wednesday, the Pentagon will have to explain its firings of military lawyers — a provision that comes after the Trump administration controversially dismissed its top military lawyers at the beginning of the year.

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Feature

The Spiciest Quotes From Massachusetts Courts In 2025

By Chris Villani

Massachusetts courts were replete with high-stakes cases throughout the year, with memorable lines from lawyers and judges alike, including jabs, thoughtful reflections and one defendant "blinded by love."

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