Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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V&E, Latham Steer Mitsubishi's $7.5B Foray Into US Shale Biz

By Al Barbarino

Mitsubishi Corp. said Friday it has agreed to buy shale gas producer Aethon in a transaction valued at about $7.53 billion, including debt, marking the Japanese trading company's entry into the U.S. shale gas business.

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Fed. Circ. Says Part Of Sunoco Butane Blending Patent Invalid

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday ruled that claims in one of Sunoco's gasoline blending patents that Magellan Midstream was found to have infringed were not eligible for patent protection in the first place, but found the rest of the claims at issue passed muster.

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White House Backs State Govs In Push For PJM Changes

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration on Friday joined an effort by 13 state governors to force the nation's largest regional grid operator, PJM Interconnection, to fix the issue of escalating power prices amid data center-fueled increases in electricity demand.

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Chancery Won't Force Restart Of Calif. Plant Conversion Work

By Jeff Montgomery

Branding the proceeding "a big waste of our time," a Delaware vice chancellor denied on Friday a bid to preliminarily enjoin Air Products and Chemicals Inc. from terminating an agreement on the conversion of a Paramount, California, asphalt plant into a factory to make biofuel for aircraft.

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China, Canada Agree To Lower Tariffs On EVs, Food

By Dylan Moroses

Canada will drastically cut a 100% tariff on nearly 50,000 imported Chinese electric vehicles and expects China to lower tariffs on canola, lobsters, crabs and peas, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday in a news release.

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Jury Convicts Contractor In $4.5M Navy Fuel Fraud

By Elaine Briseño

A West Palm Beach jury has found a fuel supplier guilty of 34 felony counts including wire fraud, money laundering and forgery for his role in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense of more than $4.5 million.

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Offshore Wind's Winning Streak Hits 3 With Dominion Restart

By Keith Goldberg

A federal judge on Friday allowed Dominion Energy to resume work on a wind farm off the Virginia coast, handing the Trump administration its third defeat in five days over its efforts to halt offshore wind projects under construction.

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Vineyard Wind Asks Court To Let It Finish $4.5B Mass. Project

By Julie Manganis

Vineyard Wind has filed a suit in Massachusetts federal court urging a judge to let it finish work on a $4.5 billion, 800 megawatt offshore wind energy project that was due to be completed by the end of March before being halted by the Trump administration.

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Drilling Down Into The Uncertain Future Of Venezuelan Energy

Several key issues will inform whether, when and how U.S. businesses enter, reenter or expand operations in Venezuela — including sanctions relief, economic incentives, resolution of past expropriations, questions about the country's political outlook, and broader trends and conditions in the global energy market, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Decoding Arbitral Disputes: EU Law And Treaty Arbitration

A recent Singapore court ruling in DNZ v. DOA upholding an arbitration award against Poland constitutes a significant affirmation of the autonomy of international arbitration from regional constitutional orders when disputes are adjudicated outside those orders, says Josep Galvez of 4-5 Gray's Inn.

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Analysis

In First Year, Trump Lost Most Cases But Often Won Appeals

By Cara Bayles

In the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, his administration lost in court nearly twice as often as it won, but its success rate increased when it appealed, according to a Law360 review of more than 400 lawsuits.

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Kirkland, Ex-Judge Hit With Class Action Over Texas Romance

By Hilary Russ

An investment firm is suing Kirkland & Ellis LLP, an ex-judge, two other law firms and a lawyer for allegedly fomenting "mass corruption" in Houston's bankruptcy court and colluding to enrich themselves by controlling the outcome of large Chapter 11 cases.

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Womble Bond Expands With 36-Person McGlinchey Team

By Tracey Read

Womble Bond Dickinson announced Friday it has added a 36-member consumer financial services team from the shuttering McGlinchey Stafford PLLC and is opening two new offices in Albany, New York, and Cleveland.

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Roundup

Up Next At High Court: Fed Firing & Gun 'Vampire Rules'

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court will begin a short argument week Tuesday, during which the justices will consider President Donald Trump's authority to fire a Democratic Federal Reserve governor over allegations of mortgage fraud, as well as the ability for states to presumptively bar gun owners from carrying firearms onto private property open to the public unless the property owner explicitly allows it. 

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Supreme Court Hacker Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Charge

By Jared Foretek

A 24-year-old Tennessee man pled guilty Friday to a single misdemeanor charge for hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's filing system and several other government networks, admitting that he "intentionally accessed a computer without authorization" on 25 different days in 2023.

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Watchdog Urges Blanche To Exit Trump Records Role

By Courtney Bublé

A watchdog organization is calling on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to step aside as President Donald Trump's proxy for records from his first term as they become available next week, saying he has a conflict of interest.

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Maurene Comey Fights DOJ Bid To Toss Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey has urged a New York federal court to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to dismiss her firing suit, arguing her claims belong before the district court and not under the jurisdiction of a non-independent board now controlled by the president.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London saw the David Lloyd gym chain file an intellectual property claim against its founder, security company Primekings reignite a long-running dispute with the former owners of an acquired business, and a pair of Belizean developers sue a finance executive they say shut them out of a cruise port project.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week, U.S. House lawmakers approved a bill that would restrict how retirement plan managers can consider environmental, social and governance issues when picking investments.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sher Tremonte LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld a ruling requiring Getty Images to pay out nearly $88 million to investors who said they were blocked from purchasing shares in the company once it became public.

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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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