2 Firms To Lead Skechers Investor Suit Over $9.4B 3G Deal

By Sydney Price

Saxena White PA and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP's client will lead a suit in Delaware Chancery Court alleging Skechers' founder and family used their majority voting power to push through the company's $9.4 billion take-private sale to private equity giant 3G Capital.

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Latham-Led Veritas Capital Selling Epiq Solutions For $1.1B

By Al Barbarino

Latham & Watkins LLP-advised Veritas Capital announced Monday that it has agreed to sell Epiq Design Solutions to Polsinelli PC-advised TTM Technologies for $1.1 billion.

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FTC Gets $725M Liquid Nails Deal Blocked

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has sided with the Federal Trade Commission and blocked Loctite maker Henkel's planned $725 million acquisition of fellow construction adhesive brand Liquid Nails, following a bench trial in Manhattan last month.

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Rising Star: Sullivan & Cromwell's Amy Dreisiger

By Alison Knezevich

Amy Dreisiger of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has advised financial giants on multibillion-dollar deals and fundraisings, including Apollo on its partnership with Citi to launch a $25 billion private credit direct lending program and Goldman Sachs Asset Management on the formation of its $3.5 billion real estate equity fund, earning her a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Electric Co. Can't Undo Class Status In ESOP Fight

By Grace Elletson

An Arizona federal judge refused to scrap class certification for a group of workers who claimed an electrical contractor failed to properly invest millions of dollars in its employee stock ownership plan, finding the plan participants at the helm of the case are fit to lead the suit.

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Clifford Chance Pushes To Send Clawback Suit To Arbitration

By Ryan Boysen

Clifford Chance LLP wants a high-profile partner pay dispute sent to arbitration, accusing two ex-partners who claim they're facing a $6 million clawback demand of "gamesmanship" by filing suit in New York federal court.

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Chicago Pot Co. Recast $2M Investment As Gift, Suit Claims

By Jonathan Capriel

Two Ohio investors claimed they were duped into sinking nearly $2 million on a Chicago dispensary under the promise that they would be partial owners, only to learn that their Illinois-based business partners would later recast the investments as gifts, according to a lawsuit filed in Ohio federal court.

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Law Firms See Revenue, Demand Grow In First Half Of 2026

By Anna Sanders

Despite rising expenses driven by artificial intelligence and return to office mandates, the legal industry is performing well in 2026, with U.S. law firms recording a double-digit jump in revenue and strong growth in demand so far this year, according to new survey results from Citi Global Wealth at Work's Law Firm Group.

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Morgan & Morgan Sues Fla. Bar Over Celebrity Ad Ban

By Carolina Bolado

Personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA has sued the Florida Bar, claiming a bar rule that bans any use of a celebrity's voice or image in lawyer advertising violates the First Amendment.

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3 NY Injury Firms Get Uber's RICO Suit Tossed

By Lauren Berg

A New York federal judge threw out Uber Technologies Inc.'s lawsuit accusing three personal injury law firms of conspiring with physicians and exploiting passengers to pursue fake or exaggerated injury claims in order to strongarm settlement payouts from the ride-hailing giant.

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Nussbaum-Linked Firms' Ch. 11s Tossed For Bad Faith

By Ben Zigterman

A New York bankruptcy judge has dismissed the Chapter 11 cases of two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum, finding their petitions were filed in bad faith and that the cases instead belonged in an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Chattah Can't Serve As Acting Nevada US Atty, 9th Circ. Says

By Emma Cueto

The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court ruling that Nevada's top prosecutor was not put in place lawfully and was barred from overseeing the criminal cases giving rise to the appeal, the latest state where courts have shut down attempts by the Trump administration to fill U.S. attorney vacancies without Senate confirmation.

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NYCBA Cautions Against Recording Nonclient Calls

By Emily Sawicki

New York City attorneys who have been granted permission may ethically use artificial intelligence to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with nonclients, according to the latest ethics guidance by the New York City Bar Association Monday, which added that just because they can doesn't mean they should.

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