Russia Can't Duck $5B Ukraine Energy Co. Award Suit

By Caroline Simson

Russia must face litigation filed by Ukrainian energy companies to enforce a $5 billion arbitral award against Moscow, a D.C. federal judge concluded Monday after rejecting the country's argument that there was no underlying arbitration agreement.

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Treasury Seeks To Expand Curbs On AI And Biotech Deals

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Treasury Department is looking to expand its security program for foreign-based investments to cover new technologies and countries of concern, proposing rules that would prohibit certain investments in artificial intelligence and biotechnologies while also creating new exceptions for the program.

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USPTO Chief Says China Ties Sink Fastener Patent Challenge

By Adam Lidgett

The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said a patent challenger's ties to the Chinese government were the reason he had shot down a petition that sought to invalidate a Howmet Aerospace patent on a type of fastener.

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Mozambicans Can Stay Anonymous In $4.7B Ex-Im LNG Fight

By Jack McLoone

A group of Mozambicans can use pseudonyms in their challenge of a $4.7 billion Export-Import Bank of the U.S. loan to a natural gas project in Mozambique, a D.C. federal judge ruled, granting them protection they say they need from violent government retaliation.

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Kirkland, Gibson Dunn Steer Merger Forming $50B Gas Co.

By Nate Beck

EQT Corp. said Monday that it plans to acquire Range Resources Corp. for $13 billion, creating a natural gas company valued at more than $50 billion in a transaction steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

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Trump Plans To Nominate SC Governor's Counsel To Bench

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump plans to nominate William Grayson Lambert, chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, for a judgeship on the District of South Carolina.

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Brief

Justices Won't Nix Stay In La. Coastal Damages Suit

By Craig Clough

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Louisiana's emergency request to erase a Fifth Circuit stay that prevented one of its parishes from litigating coastal damage claims against an oil and gas company in state court.

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DOJ Says US Can Ax NAACP Suit Over X.AI Pollution

By Madeline Lyskawa

The federal government continued to argue that it can dismiss a NAACP citizen suit alleging X.AI Corp. unlawfully installed dozens of polluting gas turbines to power a data center days after a Mississippi federal judge found no support for such an assertion.

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Mawson Creditor Says $1.5M Bond Defeats Contempt Bid

By Jarek Rutz

An Australian creditor that helped force cryptocurrency miner Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. into bankruptcy has urged the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to reject the company's bid to hold it in contempt and fine it $10,000 a day, arguing another creditor has already posted the full $1.5 million bond required by the court.

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Pomerantz Attys Accused Of Overbilling For Hawaii Utility Suit

By Gautama Mehta

A California federal judge approved a $47.7 million settlement between Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. and its investors, but reduced the attorney fees by nearly $5 million, saying the investors' counsel had "wildly overinflated" their hours billed on the case.

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Mexican Builder Says CFE $26M Award Feud Isn't Over Yet

By Caroline Simson

A Mexico City company with ties to the Spanish construction giant OHLA is urging a New York federal judge to reconsider her decision this month to dismiss as moot the company's bid to enforce sums not yet paid under a $26 million arbitral award it won against Mexico's state-owned electricity utility.

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Colo. Wind Tower Maker Shorted Workers On OT, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

A wind turbine tower manufacturer has been accused in Colorado federal court of shaving minutes off factory workers' paid time by rounding their clock-in times, leaving them without overtime pay for work they did before their 12-hour shifts started.

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Amazon Seeks Atty Emails Over Alleged Solar Asset Fraud

By Ben Adlin

Amazon Energy LLC asked a Washington state judge Friday to review emails between two law firms and their clients, claiming the communications aren't subject to attorney-client privilege because they outline a fraudulent scheme to scuttle two solar power deals with Amazon and secure more lucrative contracts.

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Brief

Conn. Town Appeals Loss In $11M Quarry Deal Coverage Case

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut town will challenge a federal judge's ruling that several insurers are free of any coverage obligations for an $11 million settlement over the politically motivated shutdown of a local quarry, court records show.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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Weil PE Pro Declines Executive Partner Seat Amid Turmoil

By Marialuisa Taddia

Ramona Y. Nee has decided not to become executive partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, days after merger talks with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP ended and amid departures on both sides of the Atlantic, sources close to the firm told Law360 Monday.

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Analysis

Whistleblower 'Gold Rush' Might Strain DOJ, Experts Warn

By Phillip Bantz

A new federal program offering cash for tips that result in criminal fraud charges is poised to set off a whistleblower "gold rush" that could uncover more fraudsters, but might also invite a high number of low-quality claims that burden businesses and strain limited U.S. Department of Justice resources, experts say.

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Morgan & Morgan Can't Pursue Ad Ban Suit, Fla. Bar Says

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Bar has pushed back against Morgan & Morgan PA's lawsuit alleging that a rule banning the use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment, arguing that the personal injury giant lacks standing to bring the case.

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Burns & Levinson Malpractice Claims Revived On Appeal

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday reinstated legal malpractice claims brought by a youth soccer league against defunct Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP alleging a firm partner failed to provide a heads-up about a federal visa fraud investigation.

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Feature

Dugout Divided: Foley & Lardner Clients Clash In World Series

By Chris Villani

The World Series matchup between Foley & Lardner LLP clients, the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays, has pitted partners against one another as the firm enjoys a good-natured intrasquad rivalry during the Fall Classic.

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Former Willkie Partner, Wife Owe $14.5M Tax Debt, Gov't Says

By Zak Kostro

A former Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner and his wife owe the U.S. more than $14.5 million in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, according to a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that seeks to enforce federal tax liens against their New York home to settle the debt.

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Scholar Warns AI Pitfalls Can Go Beyond Hallucinations

By Andrea Keckley

The number of court cases around the world involving AI-generated errors fell in both the second and third quarters of 2026, according to new research by a legal scholar who recently warned that the risks of using artificial intelligence in litigation now go beyond so-called hallucinations.

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Maurene Comey Illegally Fired, Entitled To Pay, Judge Holds

By Pete Brush

Former New York federal prosecutor Maurene Comey was unlawfully fired by President Donald Trump's administration, a federal judge in Manhattan held Monday, granting back pay and potentially legal fees to the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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