An Oregon federal judge on Thursday halted the U.S. Department of Defense's freeze of wind projects, finding renewable energy groups and environmental nonprofits are likely to succeed in showing the agency violated deadlines for reviewing the projects' impact on military readiness.
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TOP NEWS

Ore. Judge Says DOD Wind Project Blockage Was Unlawful

By Madeline Lyskawa

An Oregon federal judge on Thursday halted the U.S. Department of Defense's freeze of wind projects, finding renewable energy groups and environmental nonprofits are likely to succeed in showing the agency violated deadlines for reviewing the projects' impact on military readiness.

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Trump Admin Pays RWE $1.2B To Drop Offshore Wind Leases

By Hailey Konnath

Germany-based RWE has agreed to give up its offshore wind leases off the coasts of New York, California and Louisiana in exchange for a $1.2 billion payment from President Donald Trump's administration, the latest in a string of payments from the government targeting wind energy.

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Ex-Goldman Exec Convicted Of Ghana Bribery Plot

By Stewart Bishop

A former Goldman Sachs executive director was convicted Thursday for his role in what Brooklyn federal prosecutors say was a wide-ranging conspiracy to bribe Ghanaian officials in support of a Turkish energy company's push to obtain a lucrative power plant contract as the West African nation was reeling from an electricity crisis.

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DOE Can't Force FOIA Filers To Reaffirm Old Requests

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Energy's requirement that Freedom of Information Act filers confirm their interest in pending requests filed before October 2024 within 30 days or face closure, ruling that the policy was never authorized in the FOIA statute.

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POLICY & REGULATION

China Announces Trade Countermeasures After US Actions

By Dylan Moroses

China's government will strengthen export controls on drones and their components as well as suspend coordinated inspections with U.S. officials and start new investigations into American businesses as countermeasures in response to recent U.S. actions implicating Chinese companies.

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OIL AND GAS

GOP Senators Float Repeal Of Calif. Vehicle Emissions Rules

By Linda Chiem

Four Republican senators on Thursday proposed revoking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency waivers granted to California for vehicle emissions regulations that have been in place for over a decade, following through on the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Golden State's authority to set stricter tailpipe emissions standards.

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UTILITIES AND POWER

Energy Co. Says Russia Can't Relitigate $219M Crimea Award

By Corey Rothauser

Ukrainian energy supplier DTEK Krymenergo urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Wednesday to enforce a $219 million arbitral award against Russia, arguing that the country is improperly repackaging a treaty interpretation claim that the D.C. Circuit has already rejected.

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Ute Tribe Says Ex-Energy Manager Can't Evade Tribal Review

By Crystal Owens

A tribe in Utah is asking the Tenth Circuit to deny a former energy manager's bid to have a 13-year breach of contract dispute heard before a federal court, arguing that because of his "delay tactics," a trial in Ute Indian Tribal Courts has not concluded.

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RENEWABLES

Spain To Seek 2nd Chance In Award Enforcement Cases

By Caroline Simson

Spain will continue fighting the enforcement of hundreds of millions of euros worth of arbitral awards against it despite the U.S. Supreme Court denying its certiorari bid in a series of parallel cases, focusing on issues raised by the Trump administration in those cases.

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Suit Against Ex-Lumio Execs Will Stay In Delaware

By Rick Archer

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday denied a request by former executives of solar panel provider Lumio Holdings to transfer a suit against them by the company's liquidating trustee to a Utah court.

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NUCLEAR

Judge Tosses Nuclear Power Wage-Fixing Case, For Now

By Matthew Perlman

A Maryland federal court tossed a proposed class action accusing nuclear energy producers including Constellation Energy, DTE Energy and Duke Energy of fixing wages, after finding the claims came too late.

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PEOPLE

Akin Brings On 2 Mayer Brown Energy Attys In Chicago

By Tracey Read

Two former Mayer Brown LLP energy and infrastructure attorneys have moved to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's fast-growing Chicago office, the firm announced Wednesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What Cos. Must Know About EPA Water Monitoring Proposal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's newly proposed rule that would require public water systems to monitor for 30 unregulated drinking water contaminants does not impose new obligations on companies, but the data collected could affect future policy, investigations and litigation, says Ayodeji Ayolola at Gordon Rees.

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Series

Being A Sommelier Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Being a sommelier has quietly shaped how I practice law by changing the way I think, communicate and connect with people, and offers a constant reminder that expertise is about making your knowledge useful and accessible to others, says Kara Du at Sheppard.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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HSF Kramer, Taft Hit By Data Breaches

By Craig Clough

Herbert ‌Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP recently reported data breaches to state regulators, adding to the dozens of breaches law firms in the U.S. have suffered in 2026. 

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Legal Services Hiring Is 'Firing On All Cylinders,' Recruiter Says

By Tracey Read

The legal sector saw job gains for the fourth month in a row, adding 1,000 positions in July, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Financial Market Bolsters ABA Budget Amid Member Decline

By Emily Sawicki

A booming stock market has buoyed the overall net assets for the American Bar Association, keeping the organization's balance sheet in the black following the Trump administration's cancellation last year of millions of dollars in grants. 

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New AI Policy At Columbia Law Permits Use Within Guardrails

By Andrea Keckley

Columbia Law School has issued a new policy on the use of artificial intelligence, permitting its use to "support learning" and "perform specific functions" while restricting its role in generating written work or coming up with original arguments and legal analyses.

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Senate Confirms Todd Blanche To Be AG

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 in the early hours of Saturday to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the permanent position.

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CoStar Fights CREXi Bid To Stay Suit Over Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Rose Krebs

CoStar is urging a California federal court to reject a bid by Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, to pause a copyright suit while CREXi asks the Ninth Circuit to undo the disqualification of its Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys, arguing the stay request is "unsupported by law."

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Nat'l Science Org. To Review Judiciary's Nixed Climate Chapter

By Jack Karp

The National Academy of Sciences will review the process used to develop a controversial chapter on climate science that has been removed from the federal judiciary's guide to scientific evidence, according to a Friday announcement.

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Summer's Last NYC Public Defender Strike Ends With Deal

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders union said it has struck a deal with the organization's management, ending the last public defender strike in New York City this summer.

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Trump Picks FCC Lawyer As Agency's 3rd Republican

By Christopher Cole

President Donald Trump on Friday picked Danielle Thumann Severs, an in-house lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission, to fill an open seat on the regulatory board.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said businesses with at least 50 employees, at least half of whom are H-1B or L-1 visa holders, must pay a biometric screening fee anytime they file an application to extend the workers' visas. In the meantime, a federal judge found that the former CEO of RTI Surgical Holdings misled investors by failing to disclose that the surgical implant company regularly shipped orders early to artificially inflate its quarterly revenues. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sued by a former client it advised on the proposed sale of a holding company and the continuation of litigation between pharma giants Merck Sharp & Dohme and Merck KGaA over rights to the Merck name in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Motley Rice LLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to create a $567 million abatement fund and take additional measures to protect its youngest users.

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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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AB Volvo

Accelerant

Akin's

Ameren Corp.

American Bar Association

Arizona Public Service Co.

Authentic Brands Group LLC

Barclays PLC

Bayer AG

Blue Shield of California

British Broadcasting Corp.

Brooklyn Defender Services

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CTIA

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Clayton Dubilier & Rice LLC

CoStar Group Inc.

Constellation Energy Corp.

Covidien PLC

DTE Energy Co.

Deutsche Telekom AG

Dominion Energy Inc.

DoorDash Inc.

Duke Energy Corp.

Entergy Corp.

Environmental Defense Fund Inc.

Euler Hermes Group SA

Financial Times Group Ltd.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Flex Ltd.

George Washington University

Google LLC

GrubHub Inc.

Hatch Henderson Fivel LLC

ICICI Bank Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

Invenergy LLC

Jack Daniel's Properties Inc.

Lantheus Holdings Inc.

Lex Machina Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Luminant Generation Co. LLC

Lumio HX Inc.

MS Amlin PLC

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Medtronic PLC

Merck KGaA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Academy of Sciences

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Association of Broadcasters

Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem

Network Rail Ltd.

NextEra Energy Inc.

PG&E Corp.

Pfizer Inc.

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc.

RSM US LLP

RTI Surgical

RWE AG

Reebok International Ltd.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

STP Nuclear Operating Co.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Southern California Edison Co.

Surgalign Holdings Inc.

The Bronx Defenders

The Catholic University of America

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Southern Co. Inc.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

TotalEnergies SE

Twitter Inc.

Uber Eats

United Auto Workers

Vimeo Inc.

Vistra Corp.

Volvo Car Corp.

Willis Lease Finance Corporation

Xcel Energy Inc.

Yelp Inc.

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Ashby & Geddes

Baker McKenzie

Ballard Spahr

Banner Witcoff

Berger Montague

Bird & Bird

Brodies LLP

Burges Salmon

CMS Cameron McKenna

Cahill Gordon

Cleary Gottlieb

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Curtis Mallet-Prevost

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DNL Zito

DWF LLP

Dickinson Wright

Faegre Drinker

Fieldfisher

Fish & Richardson

Fountain Court Chambers

Fried Frank

Garteiser Honea

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Gressley Kaplin

HSF Kramer

Hagens Berman

Handley Farah

Hecker Fink

Herschman Levison

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Isom Law Firm

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kingsley Napley

Kirkland & Ellis

Kirton McConkie

Knobbe Martens

Kramer LLP

Latham & Watkins

Levin Papantonio

Lewis Rice

Lewis Silkin

Lockridge Grindal

MSB Solicitors

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Michelman & Robinson

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Motley Rice

Nabarro LLP

Napthens Solicitors

Norton Rose

O'Melveny & Myers

Pillsbury Winthrop

Pitmans LLP

Potter Anderson

Quinn Emanuel

Rabicoff Law

Ramey LLP

Reynolds Porter

Ropes & Gray

Shakespeare Martineau

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Spencer Fane

Sullivan & Cromwell

TLT LLP

Taft Stettinius

Troutman

Watson Farley

Weil Gotshal

Wilkin Chapman Rollits

Wilkinson Barker

WilmerHale

Womble Bond

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California Air Resources Board

California Privacy Protection Agency

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Judicial Center

Financial Conduct Authority

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

New Mexico Department of Justice

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Tennessee Valley Authority

Transportation Security Administration

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

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Interior

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United Nations

Ute Indian Tribe