A Georgia appellate panel threw out a $113 million judgment Thursday awarded to a construction worker who was struck by a passing car, ordering a new trial after finding that vague instructions may have caused the jury to double-count its attorney fee award.
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Ga. Panel Says Jury Confusion Perhaps Caused $113M Verdict

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia appellate panel threw out a $113 million judgment Thursday awarded to a construction worker who was struck by a passing car, ordering a new trial after finding that vague instructions may have caused the jury to double-count its attorney fee award.

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McKesson Freed From Opioid Death Suit By Ga. Panel

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia Court of Appeals said Thursday that drug distributor McKesson should have been freed from a suit attempting to hold it liable for a man's opioid overdose death, saying that a trial court applied the wrong statute of limitations to what was, at its core, a personal injury claim.

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2nd Circ. Seems Wary Of Restarting Norfolk Derailment Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit appeared skeptical Thursday of investors' bid to revive a proposed class action against Norfolk Southern alleging that the company botched disclosures about how an efficiency plan might cause derailments, as judges seemed open to a lower court's interpretation that railroad statements about safety were puffery.

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Fulton DA Willis Fights $17M Fee Bid In Trump Case

By Kelcey Caulder

The Georgia district attorney who charged President Donald Trump and his allies with election interference and was later disqualified from the case protested the nearly $17 million in legal fees they recently requested, taking aim at a new state law that allows them to seek the costs.

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Analysis

IP Firms Are Navigating AI Era With Range Of Guardrails

By Elliot Weld

Intellectual property law firms are taking various approaches to implementing artificial intelligence into their professional routines, with some developing their own tools, others limiting what external AI platforms that lawyers can access and one firm saying it has banned attorneys from using AI to draft legal briefs.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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POLICY & REGULATION

GOP Lawmakers Probe CalPERS's 'Radical' ESG Investments

By Kelcey Caulder

The chair of the House Education and Workforce Committee and two other Republican lawmakers sent a letter Thursday to California's largest public pension fund, demanding information on whether it prioritized "radical left-wing causes" over protecting retirement savers.

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LITIGATION

InterDigital Says TCL, Hisense TVs Infringe Video Patents

By Jack McLoone

American firm InterDigital Inc. accused Chinese TV manufacturers Hisense Co. Ltd. and TCL Technology Group Corp. of selling televisions that infringe its video coding patents in separate federal district court suits as part of a worldwide litigation effort against the two companies.

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Ex-Pharma Exec Fights AGs' Quick Win Bid In Antitrust Case

By George Woolston

A former pharmaceutical marketing executive urged a Connecticut federal court to reject summary judgment sought against him by state attorneys general pursuing wider price-fixing litigation against most of the generic drug industry, arguing key cooperating witnesses' questionable credibility makes a trial necessary.

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ELEVENTH CIRCUIT

11th Circ. Upholds Arbitration Order In Hospital-Union Row

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed an order sending 17 HCA Florida hospitals to arbitration to resolve a Service Employees International Union affiliate's grievances about legal fees tied to a dues deduction dispute.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Trail Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Navigating the muddy, root-filled path of trail marathons and ultramarathons provides fertile training ground for my high-stakes fractional general counsel work, teaching me to slow down my mind when the terrain shifts, sharpen my focus and trust my training, says Eric Proos at Next Era Legal.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen a former U.S. defense contractor convicted of tax evasion face legal action, French football club Olympique Lyonnais sued following a $97 million ruling against its owner John Textor, consulting giant Kroll targeted by a South African airline, and H&M hit with a claim alleging it copied protected sunglasses designs. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

WilmerHale and Gillam & Smith LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Texas federal jury cleared Apple of infringement claims over patents covering 4G wireless technology, in a case that previously led to jury verdicts of $506 million and $300 million.

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Brief

Indiana AG Declines Intervention In Posner Wage Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Indiana's attorney general has declined to intervene in a pro se plaintiff's suit seeking to revive $170,000 in wage claims against retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner, finding the case did not pose a "substantial" constitutional challenge to a state statute mandating that delayed contracts must be written and signed to be enforced.

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Louisiana Atty Takes Responsibility For AI Usage Snafu

By Christine DeRosa

After facing the threat of sanctions alongside three of his co-counsel, a Louisiana attorney told a federal judge that he was solely responsible for an error-riddled brief written with the assistance of artificial intelligence. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Taking heat from Republican senators over not notifying members of Congress about subpoenas for their phone records, Verizon's general counsel has pledged that in the future, the company will fight gag orders requiring it to keep silent. And taking heat from shareholders and colleagues over her ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Goldman Sachs' chief legal officer has agreed to leave the firm in June.

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Colorado Atty Delayed Filing, Gave Faulty Advice, Suit Says

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado attorney waited nearly five years to file a lawsuit on behalf of two clients and provided faulty advice, the former clients alleged Thursday in a malpractice lawsuit in state court.

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'Acqui-Hires' In AI Drawing Antitrust Scrutiny, Tech Attys Say

By Bonnie Eslinger

Attorneys with Nvidia, Google and Uber took the stage at a conference hosted Thursday by Baker McKenzie to discuss emerging trends in antitrust enforcement, including how booming AI investment has produced new regulatory scrutiny of "acqui-hires," in which large companies acquire startups primarily to hire their teams.

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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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6th Circ. Says Ch. 13 Motion Came 84 Minutes Too Late

By Vince Sullivan

A 2-1 split panel of the Sixth Circuit affirmed two lower court rulings from Michigan federal judges denying a Chapter 13 debtor's motion to dismiss his bankruptcy case because the request came 84 minutes after a bankruptcy court converted the case to a Chapter 7.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Alston & Bird

ArentFox Schiff

Baker Donelson

Baker McKenzie

Barclay Damon

Beasley Allen

Ben Crump Law

Bondurant Mixson

Bradley Arant

Brockstedt Mandalas

Brodhead Law LLC

Buether Joe

CMS Cameron McKenna

Caldwell Carlson

Clyde & Co

Conyers Dill

Covington & Burling

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Dacus Law Firm

Dean Omar

Dentons

DiCello Levitt

Eichhorn & Eichhorn

Faegre Drinker

Fenchurch Law

Finnegan

FordHarrison

Gage Spencer & Fleming

Garland Samuel & Loeb

Gibbs Mura

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Gowling WLG

Greenberg Traurig

Griffin Durham

HJV Car Accident Personal Injury Lawyers

Hacker Stephens

Harding Law Firm LLC

Harrison Goddard Foote

Hogan Lovells

Homburger AG

Howes Percival

Jones Fussell

Keoghs LLP

Kessler Topaz

Kilpatrick Townsend

Kirkland & Ellis

Knobbe Martens

LK Law Pty Ltd

Labaton Keller

Lando & Anastasi

Latham & Watkins

Lenz & Staehelin

Levin Sedran

Lieff Cabraser

Liskow & Lewis

Maloy Jenkins

Mayer Brown

MoloLamken

Morgan Lewis

Motley Rice

Nabarro LLP

Oles Law Group

Osborne Clarke

Penningtons Manches

Perkins Coie

Phillips Richard

Pierson Law LLC

Quinn Emanuel

Reynolds Porter

Riess LeMieux

Seeger Weiss

Shapiro Arato

Sharp Law LLP

Sherin & Lodgen

Skadden Arps

Smith Gambrell

Sterne Kessler

Sullivan & Cromwell

Swift Currie

Tate Law Group LLC

Taylor Rose

Thompsons Solicitors

Trethowans LLP

Trowers & Hamlins

Tycko & Zavareei

Vincents Solicitors

Wagstaff & Cartmell

Walker Morris LLP

Ward Hadaway

Webb Daniel Friedlander

White & Case

WilmerHale

Yetter Coleman

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Bar Association

American International Group Inc.

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Aux

Barclays PLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

British Broadcasting Corp.

ByteDance Ltd.

Google LLC

H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB

HTC Corporation

Hisense Co. Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

InterDigital Inc.

International Business Machines Corp.

Investments Ltd.

J Sainsbury PLC

Johnson & Johnson

Kyndryl Holdings Inc.

Laing O'Rourke

Leidos Holdings Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyd's America Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

McKesson Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

Navy Federal Credit Union

Netflix Inc.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

PPG Industries Inc.

Sandoz International GmbH

Service Employees International Union

Sling TV LLC

Snap Inc.

State Bar of California

TCL Technology Group Corp.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Hershey Co.

The Home Depot Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Transocean Ltd.

UBS Group AG

Uber Technologies Inc.

Valaris

Verizon Communications Inc.

Vodafone Group PLC

W.R. Berkley Corp.

W.R. Grace & Co.

Walmart Inc.

YouTube Inc.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Public Employees' Retirement System

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Union

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

Indiana Attorney General's Office

National Labor Relations Board

Superior Court of Fulton County

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

Unified Patent Court