Carradine Family Says UCLA Ignored Suicide Watch Rules

By Craig Clough

The family of Robert Carradine sued the Regents of the University of California Friday in Los Angeles court, alleging the actor's death from a suicide attempt while in a UCLA facility came because staff ignored several key policies about patients on suicide watch.

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Mich. Estate Can Seek Damages For Lost Caregiving Services

By Melanie Dorsey

The estate of a woman who died after allegedly suffering complications from improperly managed blood-thinner treatment may seek damages for the household and caregiving services she would have provided to her husband, a Michigan appellate panel ruled Thursday.

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KKR Buying Medicover's India Business In $1.4B Deal

By Al Barbarino

Global investment firm KKR has agreed to acquire Medicover Hospitals India, Swedish healthcare provider Medicover AB's Indian hospital operations business, in a transaction that values the platform at about €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion).

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SEC Walks Away From Novel Insider Trading Case

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Terren Peizer on Friday, walking away from a novel insider trading case accusing the convicted Ontrak Inc. founder of avoiding $12.7 million in losses by shedding stock after he learned that the company's biggest client was cutting ties.

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NJ Panel Says Arbitrators Don't Have To Disclose Remote Ties

By George Woolston

A New Jersey appellate panel on Friday rejected a former hospital employee's argument that an arbitrator's prior role as corporate counsel for a hospital her attorney had previously sued created a conflict of interest, ruling that such remote relationships don't create a conflict.

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VA To Test Psilocybin For Veterans With Severe Depression

By Jonathan Capriel

Former military service members in five U.S. cities will have an opportunity to treat their depression with psilocybin through a clinical trial being run by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, according to an agency announcement.

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Texas Docs Can't Exit Patient's Hernia Surgery Death Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

A Texas appellate court has refused to toss a suit accusing two doctors of causing a hernia surgery patient's death, finding that the plaintiff submitted an expert report that met the "low threshold" required under the state's medical malpractice statute.

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Fired Doc, Fla. Hospital Strike Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida doctor has settled an age discrimination suit against a hospital that he claimed abruptly pulled a contract renewal and replaced him with a much younger doctor.

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Glenmark's $29.6M Generics Price-Fixing Deal Gets 1st OK

By Susan Smiley

A Connecticut federal court on Thursday gave a preliminary OK to a settlement between a coalition of 48 states and territories and drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. that would pay out more than $29.6 million in restitution to eligible consumers and the coalition.

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ERISA Recap: 6 Important Rulings From July

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Ninth Circuit rejected a fund manager's bid to force a 401(k) suit into arbitration, a district court tossed a pension de-risking suit, and the D.C. Circuit unraveled a union pension fund's $13 million withdrawal liability win.

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Taco Bell, Taylor Farms Sued Over Tainted Lettuce

By Emily Field

A Florida consumer hit Taco Bell and Taylor Farms with a proposed class action Thursday over the ongoing cyclospora outbreak caused by contaminated lettuce, which so far has affected thousands of people in multiple states and been linked to two deaths.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sue 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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Cooley Leads 2 Biotech Firms Pricing IPOs Totaling $496M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Two biotechnology firms began trading publicly Friday after raising a combined $496 million in their initial public offerings, with Cooley LLP advising both companies and Latham & Watkins LLP advising both underwriters.

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Taxation With Representation: Slaughter And May, Covington

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, U.K. real estate investment trust Segro's board agrees to a share offer from U.S. rival Prologis with a partial cash alternative, Curium acquires fellow radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings Inc., and investment firm KKR buys medical device company Integer Holdings Corp.

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Bank Seeks Ch. 11 Interest In Inspired Healthcare Bankruptcy

By Clara Geoghegan

Pinnacle Bank has asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to allow claims for at least $1.6 million in post-petition interest and fees in Inspired Healthcare Capital Holdings LLC's bankruptcy, saying its loans are oversecured based on stalking horse offers for the senior living facility investor's properties.

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Opinion

2nd Circ. Tylenol Ruling Misapplies Daubert Gatekeeping

The Second Circuit's recent ruling in Rutledge v. Walgreen Co., holding that a lower court should not have excluded experts alleging links between prenatal acetaminophen use and autism, threatens to swallow the Daubert standard by limiting courts' consideration of scientific consensus in assessing reliability of expert testimony, say attorneys at Benesch.

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5 Antitrust Lessons On Bundled Discounts After Medtronic

The recent California federal court decision upholding a $381.7 million verdict against Medtronic offers practitioners a clearer road map for navigating bundled discount claims under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, and the practical implications are substantial, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

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Lessons From 5 Months Of DOJ Corporate Policy Deals

Recent declinations and prosecution agreements between the U.S. Department of Justice and corporations since the March unveiling of the corporate enforcement and voluntary disclosure policy provide takeaways for management considering how to respond to corporate misconduct, says Brendan Quigley at Baker Botts.

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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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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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