McDermott Backs The LegalTech Fund's Next Industry Big Bet

By Steven Lerner

The LegalTech Fund closed its second fund on Monday at $110 million, with BigLaw firm McDermott Will & Schulte LLP reinvesting $10 million after backing the first fund years ago.

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Tesla Wins Bid To Unwind Class In Race Harassment Suit

By Grace Elletson

A California judge said a class of thousands of Black workers should be disbanded in a suit alleging rampant racist harassment at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, after the workers' lawyers faced difficulty in securing witness testimony and asked the court for a new trial plan. 

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Uber's Fraud Claims Against LA Firms Is 'Fantasy,' Court Told

By Rose Krebs

Two Los Angeles personal injury firms are asking a California federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging Uber is being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents, with one of them calling the purported scheme a "mere fantasy."

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NetChoice Sues Virginia To Stop Social Media Limits For Kids

By Bonnie Eslinger

A trade group representing Facebook, X and other tech companies on Monday sued the state of Virginia over a new law that limits children's access to social media, its latest lawsuit against state government efforts to reduce online harm to minors.

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Salesforce, Clients Accused Of Ignoring Data Breach Scheme

By Joyce Hanson

Credit bureau TransUnion, airline Qantas and luxury goods seller Louis Vuitton — all clients of software company Salesforce Inc. — failed to adequately protect millions of users' data from a July "hub-and-spoke" data breach, a class action filed in California federal court claims.

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Engineer Gets 46 Months For Stealing Tech To Aid China

By Craig Clough

An engineer was sentenced by a California federal judge to 46 months in prison for stealing trade secrets regarding nuclear missile detection used by the government and planning to send it to the People's Republic of China, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday.

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MVP: Cahill Gordon's Joel Kurtzberg

By Theresa Schliep

Joel Kurtzberg of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP secured significant victories on behalf of companies like X Corp. and Grubhub in cases challenging state measures that address online speech, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Technology MVPs.

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FCC Declares US Backing For Chief Of Int'l Telecom Body

By Christopher Cole

Ahead of next year's elections for leadership posts at the international telecom treaty-making body, U.S. officials are making clear their support for the current chief and are promoting "market-driven" policies for use of radio spectrum.

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USTelecom To Ask FCC For Slash In Permit Hurdles

By Christopher Cole

The telecom industry's main lobbying group wants the Federal Communications Commission to knock down what it views as regulatory barriers to building permits, just as U.S. House lawmakers consider a wave of bills to change permitting laws.

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Justices Won't Decide If PTAB Can Review Expired Patents

By Dani Kass

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has the authority to review expired patents.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Patent Owner's PTAB Win In Samsung Fight

By Adam Lidgett

A split Federal Circuit panel refused to revive Samsung's challenge to a pair of patents covering a way of navigating through data on an electronic device, shooting down the electronics giant's challenge to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that it forfeited a key argument.

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DOJ Defends HPE Merger Deal As 'Prudent Compromise'

By Bryan Koenig

The Justice Department told a California federal judge to pay no heed to the "politicians and advocacy groups" opposing the controversial settlement clearing Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, arguing their concerns about improper lobbying influence are outside the scope of the court's review.

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Micron Tells Fed. Circ. $445M Netlist Verdict Was 'Overreach'

By Adam Lidgett

Micron wants the Federal Circuit to undo a Texas federal jury's finding that it owes $445 million for infringing Netlist computer memory patents, saying the verdict came "from overreach at every turn."

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PTAB Upholds Some Dish Network-Challenged Patent Claims

By Elliot Weld

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said Dish Network had successfully shown 13 claims in a patent held by Entropic Communications were unpatentable but four other claims could stand, after being ordered by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires to take a second look at the claims.

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Telehealth Co. Hims Sued Over College Student's Suicide

By Emily Field

The family of a Washington State University student who died by suicide have sued telehealth company Hims & Hers Health Inc. in Washington state court, alleging their son was negligently prescribed an antidepressant known to carry a risk of suicide in adolescents despite his history of self-harm.

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X Asks 9th Circ. To Let It Litigate Media Matters Suit In Ireland

By Dorothy Atkins

X Corp. urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to scrap an injunction blocking it from continuing to litigate its Irish-law defamation case against Media Matters in Ireland, arguing that the left-leaning watchdog waited too long to invoke a California forum-selection clause in X Corp.'s terms of service.

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Ohio Asks To Revive Google Common Carrier Case

By Matthew Perlman

The Ohio Attorney General's Office told a state appeals court that Google's search engine meets all the requirements to be declared a common carrier, arguing that a lower court misapplied the law by failing to see information as a good that can be transported.

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NC Hospital Data Sharing Class Gets $2.45M Deal, $750K Fee

By Abigail Harrison

A North Carolina Business Court judge gave final approval Monday to a $2.45 million class action settlement for almost half a million patients who accused a health system of sharing sensitive information with Meta Platforms Inc., with class counsel securing $750,000 in attorney fees.

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Mobix Sues SPAC Backers Over Alleged $30M Funding Failure

By Jarek Rutz

A California-based semiconductor-technology company has sued its former special purpose acquisition company sponsor, affiliated investment groups and their chief executive in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of creating a scheme of false funding assurances that left the company undercapitalized when it entered the public markets in 2023.

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Online Star Defends Actions In Megan Thee Stallion Scandal

By Carolina Bolado

Online personality Milagro "Mobz World" Cooper deflected blame for drawing attention to a deepfake porn video of rapper Megan Thee Stallion, saying she did not know it was fake as she took the stand Monday in Miami in the defamation trial against her.

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Russia-Tied Payments Co. Escapes Investor Suit For Good

By Emilie Ruscoe

Payments company Qiwi PLC no longer faces investor claims it hid its noncompliance with Russian financial regulation and hurt investors when the company disclosed that a Russian central bank audit had led to a fine and certain payments restrictions.

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Ky. Fights To Keep Its RealPage Battle In Play

By Grace Dixon

Kentucky pushed back against several landlords' bid to escape an antitrust suit naming them alongside property management software company RealPage Inc., arguing in federal court that it provided direct evidence supporting its allegation of a conspiracy between the parties.

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Senior Home Referral Site Must Face False Ad Claims

By Chart Riggall

A senior living placement site must face a false advertising suit filed by a Georgia assisted living home alleging the platform runs on a pay-to-play model, as a federal judge said he wasn't buying Caring.com's defense that its advertising was innocuous "puffery."

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court last week had a dense slate of fiduciary duty battles, merger-process challenges, post-bankruptcy fights and a series of cases probing the limits of fraud pleading, credible-basis inspections and board-level disclosure duties.

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Kirkland-Led Satellite Firm York Space Systems Files IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Space and defense company York Space Systems on Monday filed plans to launch its initial public offering, a move that comes as the IPO pipeline is expected to gain more traction now that the historically long government shutdown has ended and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff are back to work.

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SAP Proposes Fixes Amid EU Antitrust Probe

By Matthew Perlman

German software giant SAP has offered a set of commitments to European enforcers who raised concerns over maintenance and support services for the company's business management software.

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Akin Adds 'Luminary' False Claims Attorney From DOJ In DC

By Jack Rodgers

With a record number of whistleblower qui tam cases filed last year, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is the latest Washington, D.C., firm to boost its False Claims Act bench, hiring a former assistant director from the Commercial Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division.

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Stadium Security Takeaways Amid Gaps In Drone Regulation

As the risk of drones to sports stadium security grows, legal practitioners in the industry should focus on the need for rapid deployment of emergency services, crowd control, communications, strong organizational structure, and engagement across local, state and federal authorities, says Jennifer Daskal at Venable.

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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Dynamic Databases

Several recent federal court decisions illustrate how parties continue to grapple with the discovery of data in dynamic databases, so counsel involved in these disputes must consider how structured data should be produced consistent with the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Perkins Coie's Trump Fight Doesn't Scare Off UK Suitor

By Chris Villani

Perkins Coie LLP's ongoing fight with the Trump administration did not deter a proposed combination with British law firm Ashurst, signaling that the legal community is not worried about fallout from the president's suspension of the firm's security clearances.

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Judge Upholds NY Law Blocking ICE Courthouse Arrests

By Andrea Keckley

New York beat back a federal lawsuit challenging the state's policy barring immigration officials from arresting people near its courthouses, after a federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's preemption claims.

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Conn. Atty Fined $500 For AI-Generated Errors In Wage Suit

By Emily Sawicki

In an order that noted an attorney's remorse, a Connecticut federal judge sanctioned a solo practitioner $500 this week for submitting a brief packed with false, AI-generated case citations, finding the fake authorities wasted court resources, risked misleading a pro se litigant and undermined trust in the judicial system.

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Missouri Federal Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. District Judge Douglas Harpool of the Western District of Missouri has given notice he will take senior status upon the confirmation of state Judge Megan Benton, whose nomination to the federal bench President Donald Trump announced Friday.

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Republican Senators Seek Judge Boasberg's Suspension

By Courtney Bublé

Six Republican senators, three of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, are asking that Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the District of Columbia be administratively suspended while Congress considers his impeachment.

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Sanctioned Atty Convinces Mo. Court Errors Not Caused By AI

By Emily Sawicki

A Missouri federal judge sanctioned former counsel for Liberty Mutual Personal Insurance Co. Monday for including citation errors in a motion this fall, finding that, although the attorney likely inserted the errors herself without the use of AI software, "such carelessness, exacerbated by a lack of internal guardrails, is entirely unacceptable."

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Ex-Dechert Moscow Office MP Joins BCLP's DC Office

By Jack Rodgers

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP has hired the one-time managing partner of Dechert LLP's Moscow office, whose practice focuses on advising corporations, banks, investment funds and other clients on mergers and acquisitions matters, cross-border transactions and matters related to emerging markets, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Non-Law Firm Lobby Shops Overtake BigLaw In Trump Era

By Alison Knezevich

Law firms have been K Street's top earners in recent years, but some non-law firm lobbying shops, including Trump-connected Ballard Partners, have surpassed major legal industry players in 2025 as clients seek access to the White House in a year of upheaval.

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Latino Atty Drops Bias, Retaliation Suit Against Va. Law Firm

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Latino former managing partner for an employee-side law firm told a Maryland federal court Tuesday that he agreed to end his lawsuit claiming he was fired for flagging bias and advocating to raise a Black attorney's pay.

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Clifford Chance Adds Day Pitney Energy Pro In DC

By Christine DeRosa

Clifford Chance LLP has grown its energy regulatory and markets practice in the nation's capital with the addition of a veteran attorney from Day Pitney LLP.

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NY AG James Blasts 'Outrageous Conduct' Behind Indictment

By Adrian Cruz

New York Attorney General Letitia A. James has told a Virginia federal court to dismiss the U.S. government's indictment of her, calling it "patently unconstitutional" and "outrageous conduct."

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McGuireWoods Is Delaying Defamation Case, NC Justices Told

By Hayley Fowler

The former CEO of a managed care organization who alleges McGuireWoods and one of its ex-partners defamed him during a press conference more than seven years ago has told North Carolina's top court not to take up the case, panning their petition as yet another stalling tactic.

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Law Firms Being Tested With Associate Performance Reviews

By Tracey Read

Eighty-three percent of U.S. and Canadian associates receive a yearly annual review, but there is room for improvement in how law firms evaluate their attorneys' performance, according to a new study.

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Trump Asks 11th Circ. For Redo On Clinton, DNC RICO Claims

By David Minsky

President Donald Trump urged the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to revive his Florida federal lawsuit alleging a racketeering conspiracy between Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee to thwart his 2016 presidential campaign with false Russian collusion evidence, saying the complaint was tossed without giving him another chance to replead.

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Rumble Alerts 9th Circ. To Recusal Bid Over Google Ties

By Emily Sawicki

Days after Rumble asked a California federal judge to consider recusal in the event the Ninth Circuit revives its antitrust lawsuit against Google, the video-sharing site flagged its recusal bid to the Ninth Circuit itself, filing a motion for judicial notice of the district court judge's friendship with Google's top in-house litigation chief.

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1st Circ. May Nix Trump Funding Freeze In 'Weird' Case

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Tuesday hinted that a federal judge may have been in bounds when blocking the Trump administration from withholding certain funds for states, expressing skepticism that the judge's order was improper or overly broad.

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Atty Asks 5th Circ. To Address Outlying Matters In TM Case

By Elliot Weld

An attorney locked in a trademark battle with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP asked the Fifth Circuit to address the case again Tuesday, saying it did not get to several outstanding issues that will affect the case in district court when it vacated the firm's $1 million damages award against him.

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Asst. Gets New Try At Religious Bias Suit Over Wash. Vax Rule

By Ben Adlin

A divided Washington state appeals court panel said Tuesday a lower court was wrong to dismiss a legal assistant's lawsuit accusing the Washington State Attorney General's Office of wrongfully refusing her request for a religious accommodation to the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, reopening the suit.

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