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From TikTok To The Courtroom, The Rise Of Lawfluencers

By Chris Villani

A growing group of legal influencers with huge followings say social media use is helping them expand their practices along with their brands and offering marketing lessons that even BigLaw can learn from.

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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.

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Full 1st Circ. To Review Cop's Suspension For Facebook Post

By Carolyn Muyskens

The full First Circuit has agreed to review a Massachusetts police officer's suspension for making disparaging comments about George Floyd on a personal Facebook page, setting aside an opinion in the police department's favor and teeing up an appeal focused on the speech rights of government employees.

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Trump Sues IRS, Treasury For $10B Over Tax Doc Leak

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump is seeking at least $10 billion in damages in a new lawsuit filed Thursday in Miami federal court that accuses the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of the Treasury of failing to prevent a former IRS contractor from leaking Trump's tax returns to news outlets.

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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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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Streaming IP Suit Against Hulu

By Dani Kass

A California federal judge was right to free Hulu LLC from allegations that it infringed Sound View Innovations LLC's streaming patent, the Federal Circuit determined Thursday.

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Valve Scores Partial Win As Its Patent Troll Claims Near Trial

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge found Wednesday that inventor Leigh Rothschild breached an intellectual property licensing deal by leveling bogus infringement claims against Valve Corp. in 2022 but left other key questions for jurors to consider when the video game company's patent trolling case heads to trial next month.

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Fitness App Must Face Trimmed Suit Over Tracking Cookies

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge cut several wiretap and fraud claims from a proposed class action accusing MyFitnessPal of allowing third parties to track the browsing activities of website visitors who rejected the use of tracking cookies while allowing the plaintiffs to proceed with invasion of privacy and two other allegations.

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PubMatic Fails To Score Complete Dismissal Of Privacy Suit

By Corey Rothauser

A California federal judge has largely refused to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. of secretly tracking internet users across the web and selling their data, with the judge allowing most privacy and wiretapping claims to move forward.

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Boies Schiller Hits Meta With Arbitration Bids Over Addiction

By Hailey Konnath

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP on Thursday filed nine arbitration demands against Meta Platforms Inc. on behalf of young Instagram users, claiming that the social media company's products are harmful and intentionally designed to hook young people.

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Apple Dodges Users' Deposition In Google Antitrust Case

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge has quashed a Christmas Eve deposition subpoena that sought information from Apple Inc. concerning dealings with Google LLC, saying users who accused Google of suppressing rival search engines through anticompetitive deals had no valid reason for the subpoena.

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Trump SPAC Fights Chancery's $25K Daily Sanction Ruling

By Katryna Perera

The blank check company that took Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. public last year says it has been "unfairly trapped in a procedural morass" after a Delaware Chancery Court magistrate held the company in contempt and ordered it to pay sanctions over its refusal to pay an over $2 million legal fee advancement bill.

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Feds OK Expansion To Boost Techs In 6 GHz Airwaves

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday agreed to new rules expanding use of the 6 gigahertz spectrum band, mainly to drive the growth of devices using the Internet of Things and virtual and augmented reality.

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FCC To Collect More Info On Cos.' Ties With US Adversaries

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require companies seeking telecommunications approvals to attest in writing if they are owned or controlled by foreign adversaries in a bid to increase national security in the media and telecom industries.

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Brief

FCC's Carr Says More Plans To 'Delete' Regs On Way Soon

By Christopher Cole

The chief of the Federal Communications Commission says more rounds of his "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative to scale back what he views as obsolete telecom rules will be coming up soon.

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Series

Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

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FTC Warns 42 Law Firms Of DEI 'Anticompetitive Collusion'

By Sarah Jarvis

The Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that it has sent warning letters to 42 major law firms for their purported participation in an outside diversity, equity and inclusion program, alleging their participation could constitute anticompetitive collusion.

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Analysis

Real Estate Attys 'Not Going In Blind' Amid Data Center Boom

By Chris Villani

The explosion of artificial intelligence has created a sharp demand for new data centers with no signs of slowing down, posing challenges that have some real estate attorneys turning to well-worn playbooks from other industries.

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Susman Faces Suit After Ex-Client's Arbitration Loss

By Adam Lidgett

Susman Godfrey LLP and a litigation funding business were hit with a lawsuit in Texas state court by an Irish patent litigation business that is challenging the outcome of an arbitration proceeding putting it on the hook for more than $37.8 million.

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Attys Rip Judge-Shopping Sanctions As Bid To 'Rewrite' Rules

By Jake Maher

Two Alabama attorneys who were sanctioned for allegedly judge shopping in a civil rights case urged the Eleventh Circuit to toss the sanctions Friday, arguing the judges accusing them were seeking to "rewrite" the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

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Brief

Bill Regulating Attorney AI Use Passes California Senate

By Emily Sawicki

A proposed California law that would regulate attorneys and arbitrators' use of generative artificial intelligence statewide has headed to the Assembly after the state Senate unanimously approved the measure.

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Colo. Firm Hit With Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado law firm failed to properly care for the personal information of clients and their customers and did not provide adequate notice of a February 2025 data breach, according to a proposed class action in state court.

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Litigation Funder Suit Against Janus Henderson Can Proceed

By Ryan Boysen

A lawsuit that claims a Janus Henderson Group subsidiary schemed to take over a mass torts litigation funder can go forward, after a Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled the funder's case was compelling enough to survive a motion to dismiss.

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House To Vote On Reform Of Court Nondisclosure Orders

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., fumed at the House on Friday for trying to undo a provision that allows him and other senators investigated by special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages and held up the government funding vote as a result. But a bill the House is poised to take up next week could alleviate some of his concerns.

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9th Circ. Says DOJ Can Withhold VW Grand Jury Records

By Emily Field

The Ninth Circuit on Friday held that the U.S. Department of Justice couldn't be forced to hand over about 6 million Volkswagen documents that were part of a Jones Day investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal, as the government obtained them through a grand jury subpoena.

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Analysis

The Message From Delaware Courts: Change Is Coming

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's Supreme Court delivered a reminder to the state's corporation law ecosystem recently with a reversal of a Court of Chancery decision invalidating a 7-year-old stockholder agreement that granted broad corporate powers to investment bank Moelis & Co.'s founder.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London saw collapsed solar bonds company Rockfire Capital sue the Royal Bank of Scotland, e-ticket platform Eventbrite target the owners of Salford Red Devils rugby club over an alleged contract breach, and Scottish distiller William Grant & Sons square off against a former MP in a trademark tussle tied to its Glenfiddich whisky. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

When Minnesota-based companies publicly called for de-escalation after two fatal shootings by federal ICE agents, the nation saw how CEOs and their general counsel can step up amid controversy. And a new study shows that white collar offenders received more than half of all recent pardons. These are some of 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

Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. Circuit panel revived a lawsuit that accuses pharmaceutical companies of aiding a Hezbollah-linked militia's terrorism in Iraq.

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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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