President Donald Trump delayed for three days 50% tariffs on select Canadian goods scheduled to take effect Wednesday in an effort to strike a deal with the Canadian government, he said late Tuesday evening.
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Trump Delays Canada Tariffs, Says Deal Imminent

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump delayed for three days 50% tariffs on select Canadian goods scheduled to take effect Wednesday in an effort to strike a deal with the Canadian government, he said late Tuesday evening.

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Trade Court Judge Mulls Class Cert. For IEEPA Refunds

By Jack McLoone

A U.S. Court of International Trade judge on Wednesday didn't commit to certifying a class of importers who paid tariffs under President Donald Trump's struck-down global regime, though the option seemed to intrigue him.

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Expedia Offered Illegal Bookings On Cuban Island, Jurors Told

By Carolina Bolado

Expedia illegally trafficked in an island off the coast of Cuba and a hotel by offering reservations to tourists on its site, two Cuban-Americans who claim ownership in the properties told jurors Wednesday at the start of trial.

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LITIGATION

Trade Court Rejects Bahrain Importer's FTA Theory

By Dylan Moroses

Film imported from Bahrain cannot qualify for preferential tariff treatment under a free trade agreement because the importer failed to meet its requirements, and those of the law underlying the deal, according to a U.S. Court of International Trade opinion published Wednesday.

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DC Circ. Won't Block Loan For Mozambique LNG Project

By Tom Lotshaw

A D.C. Circuit panel denied an environmental group's push to block $4.7 billion in financing the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved for a TotalEnergies EP liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, finding the group unlikely to prevail in its challenge.

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PEOPLE

Clark Hill Adds 3-Atty International Trade Team From Crowell

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Clark Hill PLC announced on Wednesday that it had bolstered its international law, trade and transaction practice with the addition of three Crowell & Moring LLP lawyers who have worked together for more than 20 years.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

6 Key Takeaways From CFIUS Annual Report

Attorneys at Simpson Thacher review highlights from the annual report of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., released to Congress this month, including the launch of the American First Investment Policy and the Known Investor Pilot Program, and the agency's continued focus on enforcement despite its resource constraints.

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The Divergent Approaches In US, EU Forced Labor Standards

Forced labor guidance documents recently issued by the U.S. and the European Union have meaningful differences, with the U.S. taking a documentary approach to compliance and the EU emphasizing human rights risks as a governance challenge, but one model will likely exert greater influence, say attorneys at Steptoe.

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Rethinking Corporate Travel Rules After Device Search Cases

A recent New York federal court decision approving a warrantless seizure and search of company laptops and a pending Georgia federal court criminal case over a phone's data deletion underscore how little protection corporate personnel have at the border, necessitating a review of corporate travel programs, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Surviving A Long Trial

Most of law school trial advocacy is geared toward the sprint of trying a short case, but beyond managing a cross-examination or closing argument, effectively handling the marathon of a lengthy trial requires the ability to maintain composure, organization and credibility with the jury, says Mihir Elchuri at Hirschler.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

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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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Meta Atty 'Absolutely Wrong' On Client Privilege, Judge Warns

By Dorothy Atkins

With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.

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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Ashurst Perkins

Barnes Richardson

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Buzbee Law Firm

Clark Hill

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

Downtown LA Law Group

Gibson Dunn

Girardi & Keese

Hirschler

Horvitz & Levy

Hueston Hennigan

Larson LLP

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of Jacob Emrani

Lieff Cabraser

Maderal Byrne

Miller Waxler

Quinn Emanuel

Rivero Mestre

Scott Douglass

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Steptoe LLP

Susman Godfrey

Tidrick Law Firm

Wilkinson Stekloff

Winston Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Apple Inc.

Boyer Co.

Burke Inc.

CoStar Group Inc.

Expedia Group Inc.

Friedman LLP

Harvard University

Hotels.com

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

LoopNet Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

State Bar of California

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

California Supreme Court

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

European Commission

European Union

Export-Import Bank of the United States

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Los Angeles Superior Court

North Dakota Attorney General's Office

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Supreme Court of Missouri

U.S. Army

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota

World Trade Organization