Michael Jordan Tells Jury He'd 'Never Jeopardize' NASCAR

By Hayley Fowler

From North Carolina, at 6'6", Michael Jordan took the stand Friday in his race team's antitrust trial against NASCAR, telling a jury that he would never jeopardize the sport but that the teams and their drivers deserve more credit from their sanctioning body.

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Supreme Court Halts Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Fourth Circuit decision reviving a free speech suit from an immigration judges union challenging a policy barring them from speaking publicly about immigration without approval.

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Pharma Co. Says Ex-Staff Used Secrets To Compete

By Abigail Harrison

Pharmaceutical supplier New Life Medicals (USA) Inc. told a North Carolina state court that a former warehouse manager, a freelance contractor and a business partner conspired to steal confidential information to form a competing venture only 10 miles away.

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Berry Grower Sues Norfolk Southern Over Drifting Weed Killer

By Kelcey Caulder

Toxic herbicides sprayed along sections of Norfolk Southern Railroad Co. track in Georgia are drifting into a commercial blueberry grower's adjacent property and damaging its crops, the grower said in a new federal suit. 

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Man Says Insurer Served Shooting Coverage Suit Too Late

By Hope Patti

The father of a mass shooter said his home insurer failed to serve him timely with a suit seeking to avoid coverage for an underlying action brought by the shooting victims and family members of decedents, telling a North Carolina federal court that the claims against him must be tossed.

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COVID Loss Insurance Suit Trimmed, But Eateries Can Refile

By Mark Payne

A North Carolina federal judge trimmed two of four claims in a COVID-related insurance coverage lawsuit filed by four restaurants against Cincinnati Insurance Co. after the insurer denied coverage for financial losses during the pandemic, but told the restaurants they could refile their complaint. 

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NC Restaurants Hit With DOL Suit Over Pooled Tips

By Abigail Harrison

Two North Carolina restaurants have, for four years, kept and pooled tips from front-of-house employees, while unlawfully distributing them to tip-ineligible, back-of-house employees in order to offset labor costs, the U.S. Department of Labor told a North Carolina federal court.

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BofA Says Northrop 401(k) Suit Toss Backs 4th Circ. Appeal

By Kellie Mejdrich

Bank of America urged a North Carolina federal court Friday to let it appeal an earlier decision denying dismissal of a proposed class action alleging forfeitures were misspent from workers' employee 401(k) plan, arguing a Virginia federal court's decision tossing similar claims against Northrop Grumman supported its bid.

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Judges Beat Ethics Suits For Dropping Retirement Post-Trump

By Jake Maher

A Fourth Circuit judge and two district court judges have defeated ethics complaints from a conservative legal organization alleging they improperly reversed their decisions to take senior status after President Donald Trump was elected.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Energy-Dependent Deals

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how energy scarcity is affecting data center deals.

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Justices Take On State Court Review Doctrine Case

By Gianna Ferrarin

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider whether an appellate court correctly invoked the doctrine blocking federal courts from reviewing state court judgments in a case concerning an involuntary hospital commitment.

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Brief

Mortgage Insurer's $650K ERISA Deal Clears First Hurdle

By Grace Elletson

A North Carolina federal judge gave the initial nod Friday to a $650,000 deal a mortgage insurance company reached with a worker to close a proposed class action claiming the business didn't do enough to prevent a retirement profit sharing plan from facing a $1.3 million loss.

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10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

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Bonus Spotlight

Katten Exceeds Market Bonus Scale, Orrick Matches

By Tracey Read

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined a select few law firms that have gone beyond the BigLaw norm for year-end and special bonuses.

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Immigration Lawyers Battle Burnout Amid Deportation Surge

By Daniel Connolly

As the Trump administration carries out a mass deportation campaign across the country, immigration attorneys faced with heavy demand and changing norms are feeling the impact of burnout and stress on their practices and emotions, they told Law360.

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Rosen Law Firm Sanctioned Over 'Frivolous' Investor Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

A Wisconsin federal judge has sanctioned The Rosen Law Firm PA for failing to conduct an adequate investigation before filing a "frivolous" securities complaint against an airline holding company.

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Utah Atty Avoids Monetary Sanction For 'Hallucinated' Cases

By Matt Perez

A Utah federal judge handling a trademark infringement matter has sanctioned an attorney for filing court documents with "hallucinated" cases, but instead of issuing a fine, the lawyer was ordered to read all the cases and authorities cited in the opinion and file a summary statement within 30 days.

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Feature

For NY Inmate, Jamaica's Violence Waits Outside Prison Walls

By Rachel Rippetoe

Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead.

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Fla. Court Upholds Atty Disqualification In $1M Estate Dispute

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court on Friday affirmed the disqualification of an attorney who abandoned his client and began representing his client's adversaries in a $1 million probate case, finding that he likely violated ethics rules regarding conflicts of interest.

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Fla. Judge OKs Release Of Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts

By Rae Ann Varona

A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from an investigation of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, citing a newly enacted law that the government said overrides a prohibition on disclosing the documents to the public.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

An SEC panel has asked the agency to adopt regulations that could standardize the way publicly traded companies report details about AI use. Meanwhile, the FCC approved AT&T's $1 billion UScellular deal after AT&T became the latest of the big three mobile carriers to agree to do away with diversity, equity and inclusion policies. 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

Gupta Wessler LLP and Block & Leviton LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eleventh Circuit revived a proposed class action against NextEra Energy Inc. that seeks to hold the energy company liable for a share price drop that followed political interference allegations involving a subsidiary.

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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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