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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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