A special master has said experts for the tens of thousands of women whose suits in New Jersey federal court allege that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused their ovarian cancer can testify at trial about the causal connection between their disease and use of the products.
A special master has said experts for the tens of thousands of women whose suits in New Jersey federal court allege that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused their ovarian cancer can testify at trial about the causal connection between their disease and use of the products.
A proposed class of businesses is asking a California federal court to give the go-ahead on a $436 million settlement with Toyota Industries Corp. and its material handling affiliates in a suit that alleged the company misled them on their forklift and construction engine emissions.
Teva Pharmaceuticals quickly ran afoul of a Georgia federal judge Wednesday in its first trial over alleged defects in its Paragard IUD, as the court chastised the drugmaker's attorneys over "very troubling" inconsistencies in their opening statements to jurors.
Imerys Talc, Cyprus Mines and some of their insurance carriers on Wednesday gave a preview of upcoming confirmation hearings on a joint Chapter 11 plan, with the talc companies arguing before a Delaware bankruptcy judge that the revised plan sufficiently protects insurer rights.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has asked President Donald Trump to commute an 11-year prison sentence she's been serving for defrauding investors with bogus blood-testing technology, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney.
The Texas attorney general launched what it characterized as a sweeping, multi-industry investigation into financial incentives for medical providers to recommend childhood vaccines, saying providers regularly dish out vaccines that "are not proven to be safe or necessary."
An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify a mining equipment parts supplier against claims that it sold counterfeit parts to a reseller, telling a Montana federal court that the underlying suit does not allege bodily injury or property damage caused by an occurrence.
A Hartford unit has reached a tentative deal with Costco to end claims that the insurer wrongfully refused defense coverage for a lawsuit by a customer allegedly hurt while trying to move a grill box at a California store, according to a Wednesday filing in Seattle federal court.
The federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to hold that federal law unequivocally shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims, throwing its support behind broker and logistics giant C.H. Robinson in a closely watched case.
A BP unit facing a proposed class action over oil refinery fumes urged a Washington federal judge to flush the suit, arguing that the plaintiffs' proposed class definition is flawed because individual residents would be affected differently based on wind direction, distance from the facility and other factors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's increased enforcement activity in 2025 was driven by artificial intelligence and a focus on foreign manufacturers, necessitating proactive compliance strategies for an environment that is increasingly reliant on data, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.
Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.
Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.
A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm recounted in court Wednesday that a U.S. Internal Revenue Service levy was placed on the SCOTUSblog founder's accounts, while a lawyer at another firm said Goldstein dodged repaying him for money invested in his poker-playing exploits.
A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.
The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.
The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.
