Analysis

Sales Catalog Key For Trump's New Arms Sale Strategy

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Trump administration's move to use international arms sales to boost domestic production capacity for weapons and defensive technologies could be lucrative for both traditional and nontraditional defense companies, so long as they make it onto a new sales catalog.

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Analysis

Fuel Credit Regs Clear Clouds Over Middleman Sales

By Kat Lucero

The U.S. Treasury Department's move to allow domestic clean fuel producers selling to intermediaries to qualify for the production tax credit under newly released proposed rules recognizes the industry's commercial realities and clears up uncertainty that had been hindering the market, practitioners said.

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Analysis

100% 'Buy America' Push May Stall EV Charging Supply Chain

By Linda Chiem

A Trump administration proposal that only electric-vehicle charging stations built with 100% American-made components be eligible for federal funds would create compliance land mines and costly logjams in project planning, potentially stalling future investments in the U.S. electric-vehicle supply chain, many experts say.

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International Trade Group Of The Year: Husch Blackwell

By Jack McLoone

Husch Blackwell LLP helped its clients successfully navigate numerous levels of the U.S.'s international trade apparatus — securing reversal of a country-of-origin designation, of overbroad duties against goods from 15 countries, and of a Department of Commerce ruling worth more than $4 million annually — earning a spot among the 2025 Law360 International Trade Groups of the Year.

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US Opens Door For Venezuela Oil & Gas Development Work

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration Friday authorized energy companies to pursue new oil and gas development opportunities in Venezuela, though the U.S. Department of Treasury will still have to sign off on any proposed deals.

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FinCEN Eases Beneficial Owner ID Rules For Banks

By Natalie Olivo

The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced Friday that banks are excepted from certain aspects of the agency's customer due diligence rules, including the requirement to repeatedly identify the beneficial owners of existing corporate account holders.

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FCC Pulls Equipment Lab Status From 4 Chinese Cos.

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Friday it will no longer certify equipment labs run by four Chinese technology companies and opened formal action against a fifth to eventually revoke its accredited status.

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Brief

EU Announces Duties Against Korean, Taiwanese Plastics

By Jack McLoone

Imports of a plastic with a wide range of uses from South Korea and Taiwan into the European Union and an amino acid imported from China were hit with antidumping duties Friday, the European Commission announced.

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Brief

Canadian, Indian Citric Acid Facing US Duty Probes

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened investigations into imports of citric acid and citrate salt from Canada and India to the U.S. that may be benefiting from foreign subsidies and being sold at less than fair value, it announced Friday.

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Brief

Commerce Finds Chinese Anodes Being Subsidized, Dumped

By Jack McLoone

Anode materials imported into the U.S. from China are facing significant anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders after the U.S. Department of Commerce determined they are being subsidized and sold at less than fair value, it said Friday.

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ITC Reinstates Patent Claims Against Chinese Resin Importer

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. International Trade Commission has reversed an administrative law judge's decision finding that a Chinese company was not importing fluoride resin products in a way that would infringe patents held by chemical company Syensqo.

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Albright Stresses IP Sovereignty In Allowing BMW Injunction

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has defended BMW's right to a jury trial and the importance of having the U.S. adjudicate its own patents in a Friday opinion explaining why he'd barred Onesta IP from suing BMW in Germany over U.S. patents.

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Duane Morris Adds Cross-Border Real Estate Pro In Dallas

By Grace Dixon

Duane Morris LLP announced that the firm has added a cross-border real estate pro from Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP to the firm's Dallas office, noting that the newest partner is licensed to practice in both Texas and Mexico.

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Series

Judges On AI: Practical Use Cases In Chambers

U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Goddard in the Southern District of California discusses how she uses generative artificial intelligence tools in chambers to make work more efficient and effective — from editing jury instructions for clarity to summarizing key documents.

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Talc MDL Law Firm Accuses Litigation Funders Of Case Piracy

By Ryan Boysen

A leading plaintiffs law firm in the multibillion-dollar litigation over Johnson & Johnson's tainted talcum powder has alleged in Mississippi federal court three investment firms loaned it "tens of millions" of dollars under false pretenses in a "loan-to-own" scheme.

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Bogus Citations Show 'Lack Of Respect' For Legal Profession

By Lynn LaRowe

In recommending $10,000 in sanctions for a lawyer who submitted multiple briefs with nonexistent or misrepresented citations, a federal judge in Indiana lamented that the blunders show a "lack of respect for the profession."

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Analysis

How Attorneys Are Handling A Patent Review 'Sea Change'

By Ryan Davis

Major changes to the America Invents Act patent review system over the past year have put limits on challenges, requiring patent challengers and owners to rethink their strategies. Here's how attorneys on both sides are calibrating their arguments to have the best chance of success in the new landscape.

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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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RFK Jr. Taps Ex-Jones Day Atty For FDA Senior Counselor

By Hailey Konnath

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named a former Jones Day partner as one of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's senior counselors, according to an announcement.

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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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Brief

Indiana AG Declines To Intervene 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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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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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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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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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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