News Orgs Urge 1st Circ. To Reject Lobster Industry Libel Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

The New York Times, The Atlantic and other national news media organizations have asked the First Circuit to sink a defamation suit by lobster fishermen over a conservation group's warning not to eat lobster because of the purported impact on an endangered whale species.

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Nicklaus Golf Co. Gets $50M Baseline Bid For Licensing Biz

By Rick Archer

A $50 million offer from brand manager Iconix International will be the baseline bid for a Chapter 11 auction of licensing rights for golf legend Jack Nicklaus' name, rights holder GBI Services has told a Delaware bankruptcy judge.

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OpenAI Rips Bid For Exec's Personal Journal In IP Litigation

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to reject a demand by authors and newspapers for the OpenAI president's "personal journal" in their copyright litigation, arguing the request is unwarranted and a "severe invasion of privacy," even if excerpts were recently revealed in OpenAI's separate litigation with Elon Musk.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Meta Must Redo User Engagement Data In Mental Health MDL

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their effect on youth mental health ordered Meta to provide plaintiffs with updated data on the amount of time users spend on Instagram and Facebook, after state attorneys general argued Meta had skewed the times downward.

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Trump Admin Finalizes Rule Facilitating Federal Worker Firings

By Tim Ryan

The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last year that could affect 50,000 employees at federal agencies.

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CORRECTED: Ex-Worker Says Goldstein Offered Crypto, Gifts As IRS Probed

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm who resigned after the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the firm said that the SCOTUSblog founder suddenly began offering her bitcoin, payment from case settlements and potential student loan relief after federal agents visited the office. Correction: An earlier version of this story, which was published January 29, mischaracterized the testimony of Special Agent Quoc Tuan Nguyen. Special Agent Nguyen addressed the dates in metadata that were altered in the course of the document production and did not allege Goldstein engaged in misconduct regarding the emails.

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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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4 Firms Build Genius Sports' $1.2B Legend Acquisition

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Sports data, technology and broadcast partner Genius Sports Ltd. unveiled plans Thursday to acquire digital sports and gaming network Legend in a $1.2 billion deal that was built by four law firms.

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Deals Rumor Mill

Anthropic Plans $350B Tender Offer, And Other Rumors

By Al Barbarino

A slew of twists and turns in artificial intelligence deals developed over the past week, as one report indicated Anthropic is planning a $350 billion tender offer while another said that Nvidia's $100 billion agreement with OpenAI may be on ice. As the federal government negotiated with Minnesota officials to draw down the number of ICE agents in the state, at least one foreign firm was said to have decided to sell a division that does business with the controversial agency.

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Gospel Singer's Contested Song Gets Judge's Blessing

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge said Thursday that she will allow a Grammy-award winning gospel artist to release new music Friday over the objections of his label, which tried to block the release with a court order over claims that it would violate his record deal.

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Mariah Carey Wants $1M After Winning 'Frivolous' Xmas Suit

By Ivan Moreno

Mariah Carey and co-defendants who beat accusations that her holiday hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" copied an earlier song of the same name have asked a California federal judge to order the plaintiffs to pay nearly $1 million in legal fees, arguing their complaint was frivolous from the start.

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Meta Latest To Be Accused Of YouTube Data Scraping For AI

By Elliot Weld

Three YouTube personalities have filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc., accusing it of circumventing YouTube's technological protections to bulk-download video content to be used in training artificial intelligence.

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Florida AG Forms Unit Focused On Foreign Data Sharing

By David Minsky

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Thursday that his office will expand its role in protecting consumer data privacy with the creation of a first-of-its-kind division that focuses on combating threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign entities operating in the state.

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After Halting Texas App Store Law, Tech Group Targets Utah

By Allison Grande

A tech industry trade group took aim Thursday at a Utah law that requires app stores to verify users' ages and block minors from downloads and purchases without parental consent, filing a lawsuit seeking to strike down the law after a federal judge blocked a similar measure in Texas. 

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TikTok Urges NC Justices To Toss State's Addictive App Suit

By Abigail Harrison

The North Carolina attorney general can't haul California-based TikTok Inc. and its now-minority Chinese owner ByteDance Inc. into state court to hash out addictive app and deceptive marketing claims solely because the online platform can be accessed in the Tar Heel State, the companies have told North Carolina's highest court.

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Apple Avoids Heightened EU Rules For Ads, Maps

By Bryan Koenig

The European Commission announced Thursday that Apple's Ads and Maps features aren't used enough in the European Union to warrant imposing interoperability and other obligations foisted on other services from Apple and other major technology companies deemed "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act.

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DOJ Urges Court To Reject Live Nation's View Of Meta Ruling

By Matthew Perlman

Enforcers told a New York federal court to reject Live Nation's interpretation of a ruling in an antitrust case against Meta Platforms, saying that claims against the live entertainment giant do not have to accuse it of charging different venues different prices.

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MLB Star's Assistant Strikes Out In Agent Fraud Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a suit by the personal assistant of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. accusing the Major League Baseball star's agents of swindling him out of commissions, finding that the oral employment agreement he cited is not enforceable.

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Q&A

6 Questions For Incompas CEO Chip Pickering

By Christopher Cole

The surge of artificial intelligence and tech-driven communications has Incompas CEO Chip Pickering leading an expanded mission, widening the broadband infrastructure trade group's focus to the energy sector for its role in advanced telecom networks.

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FCC Deploys Rapid Response To Va. Utility Pole Dispute

By Christopher Cole

A Federal Communications Commission order resolving what could have been a protracted fight in Virginia over utility pole upgrades for broadband service demonstrates how a new federal procedure will clear up pole disputes faster, the FCC said Thursday.

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Bipartisan Enforcement Is Rising In Consumer Finance

Activity over the past year suggests a bipartisan state enforcement wave is rippling across the consumer finance industry, which follows a blueprint set out by former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, who notably now leads a Democratic Attorneys General Association working group, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.

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Series

Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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