Analysis

How AI's Power Surge Is Rewriting Energy Deal Strategy

By Al Barbarino

The surge in electricity demand from artificial intelligence and data centers is redrawing the U.S. energy investment map, tilting capital back toward natural gas even as global dealmakers continue to deploy billions into renewable platforms.

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FERC Can't Justify Nixing Grid-Planning Change, DC Circ. Told

By Keith Goldberg

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission failed to justify its rejection of a PJM Interconnection plan to make grid-planning decisions without the approval of the regional grid operator's members committee, transmission owners told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday.

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Chuckwalla Case To Stay In Michigan As Tribes Join Fight

By Joyce Hanson

A Michigan federal judge has decided that transferring a miner's case challenging the establishment of the Chuckwalla National Monument out of her court is "not inappropriate," while also ruling that a slew of tribal nations and environmental groups may intervene in the lawsuit.

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Kids Ask Alaska Justices To Revive LNG Project Climate Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

Eight young Alaskans urged the state's justices to revive litigation seeking to block the only permitted liquefied natural gas export project on the nation's Pacific coast, arguing they've sufficiently alleged the project's scale would cause "a colossal level of climate pollution" harming their constitutional rights to public trust resources.

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Anadarko Gets 5th Circ. To Bless Coverage Win, Not Damages

By Spencer Brewer

The Fifth Circuit agreed with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. that it can compel a contractor to pay for its legal defense in a fraud suit, but said Wednesday the lower court went too far in finding the contractor owed a duty to pay for certain damages categories.

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BLM, Energy, FERC Nominees Clear Senate Committee

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday approved former New Mexico Republican Congressman Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management by an 11-9 vote, advancing that nominee to the full Senate for consideration in addition to two others.

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Baker Hughes Accused Of Ignoring Judge's Arbitration Order

By Caroline Simson

A contractor embroiled in a $1.36 million dispute over a Saudi Arabian oil and gas project is urging a Louisiana federal judge to sanction a Baker Hughes unit for its "repeated and blatant" violations of his order to arbitrate the dispute before the Dubai International Arbitration Centre.

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Nine Energy Gets OK On Ch. 11 Plan To Cut $320M Debt

By Alex Wittenberg

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday signed off on oil services company Nine Energy's Chapter 11 plan, allowing the debtor to trim $320 million in debt and emerge from bankruptcy just over a month after launching its case.

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Enviro Groups Fight Montana Mine Expansion Approval

By Crystal Owens

Conservation groups are looking to vacate the federal government's approval of operation expansion plans for a Montana coal mine at the center of years worth of past litigation, telling a federal court that the agencies "make a mockery of the required environmental review process."

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What's Changed In Army Corps' Reissued Nationwide Permits

The final rule recently issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, renewing and revising nationwide permits for projects covered by Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, makes measured adjustments rather than sweeping revisions, addressing key operational and compliance concerns while maintaining the existing framework, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.

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Parsing Clarifications On Foreign Entity Rules For Tax Credits

Recent U.S. Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department guidance answers taxpayer questions on several key foreign entity rules under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, but questions remain over transactions with companies that have ties to covered nations such as Iran, say attorneys at Cleary.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: In Court, It's About Storytelling

Law school provides doctrine, cases and hypotheticals, but when lawyers step into the courtroom, they must learn the importance of clarity, credibility, memorability and preparation — in other words, how to tell simple, effective stories, say Nicholas Steverson and Danielle Trujillo at Wheeler Trigg, and Lisa DeCaro at Courtroom Performance.

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Judge Questions DOJ Stance In ABA's Intimidation Suit

By Jared Foretek

A Susman Godfrey LLP attorney told a district judge that the Trump administration's recent double-reversal on its executive orders targeting law firms proved that attorneys fighting government action face a real and ongoing threat and urged the judge not to toss a suit from his client, the American Bar Association, to end the "Intimidation Policy."

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DOJ Seeks Power To Block State Bar Probes Of Agency Attys

By Jake Maher

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to pause and review state-level ethics complaints against its attorneys to combat what the agency called "weaponization" of ethics processes, a proposal that drew concerns from ethics scholars for overstepping states' authorities.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

If this month's circuit calendars were a March Madness bracket, we'd struggle to pick the top-seeded showdown. Big Pharma against the False Claims Act, or big business against President Donald Trump's visa fees? A big bank's view of "human life wagers," or en banc review in a State Farm class action?

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Bondi Subpoenaed To Testify On DOJ's Epstein Investigation

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into deceased child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with five Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to compel Bondi's testimony.

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Analysis

Trump's FCA Expansion Plan Heightens Compliance Risk

By Sarah Jarvis

In light of the Trump administration's record False Claims Act enforcement haul, companies should be especially mindful of a planned expansion in the scope of enforcement and the false compliance certification risks that may bring, attorneys say.

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SEC, PCAOB Auditor Enforcement Plummeted In 2025

By Sarah Jarvis

Both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board saw decreases in accounting and auditing enforcement activity in 2025, including sharp decreases in SEC settlements and PCAOB fines for auditing actions.

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Comey, James Urge 4th Circ. To Reject Indictment Revival Bid

By Emily Sawicki

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James have urged the Fourth Circuit not to revive criminal indictments filed against them last year in the Eastern District of Virginia, arguing they were fatally flawed because they were brought by a federal prosecutor who was not lawfully in that position.

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Appeals Panel Debates NJ's Duty In Prosecutor Ethics Case

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Wednesday weighed whether it was in the state's best interest to represent an assistant prosecutor in an ethics proceeding, questioning how a prosecutor is different from any other attorney called before the disciplinary board.

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