Law360 Names 2026's Top Attorneys Under 40

Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

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Reddit AI Data Scraping Case Mostly Survives Dismissal

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday largely declined to dismiss Reddit's suit accusing SerpApi of illegally scraping its content to be sold to Perplexity for training its artificial intelligence models.

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Suit Says 'Hidden' AI Notetaker Trains Model On Meetings

By Jonathan Capriel

Granola, a provider of AI-powered notetaking services, faces a wiretapping lawsuit in California federal court claiming its software secretly records virtual meeting conversations without the knowledge or consent of those there, using the data collected to train artificial intelligence models,

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Parents Sue Meta, TikTok, Others Over Children's Suicides

By Emily Field

Parents of four children who died by suicide after heavy use of social media platforms are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and others in Delaware state court alleging that they pushed features that promoted self-harm and stole their loved ones' childhoods.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen George Michael's estate bring an intellectual property claim against the late star's friend over footage shared online, collapsed law firm Axiom Ince sue the U.K. branch of State Bank of India and Ryanair face a group claim from 262 people. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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9th Circ. Seeks Nev. High Court Input In Live Nation Class Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

The Ninth Circuit Friday sought the Nevada Supreme Court's input on a proposed class action against Live Nation, certifying a question about whether an arbitration agreement is void under Nevada law if "the drafter reserves the unilateral right to modify the entire agreement 'at any time' without notice."

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DHS Adds Over 40 Cos. To Forced Labor Import Ban List

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security added 43 new entities to its blacklist of companies from which goods are banned from entering the U.S. due to their presumed use of forced labor, according to a notice published Friday.

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NJ AI Limits, Microbets, Greenhouse Gasses: Midyear Report

By George Woolston

In addition to mulling newly minted Gov. Mikie Sherrill's first budget proposal, New Jersey lawmakers have spent the first half of 2026 tackling buzzy topics like artificial intelligence and perennial issues like greenhouse gasses.

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Broadcast Workers Blast FCC Plan To Nix TV Ownership Cap

By Christopher Cole

A broadcast workers' union urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap a plan by agency chief Brendan Carr to lift the 39% national cap on TV station chains' audience reach, saying the proposal threatens local news operations.

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NTIA Tees Up 4.4 GHz Band For Commercial Wireless Use

By Christopher Cole

A federal plan would reinvigorate the 4.4 gigahertz airwaves for possible use in 6G wireless development, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday.

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Anthropic Says Authors' New AI Copyright Claims Fall Flat

By Adam Lidgett

Anthropic says that a three-year statute of limitations bars the amended copyright claims of a group of authors who opted out of the $1.5 million settlement the artificial intelligence company reached in a suit claiming it pirated writers' works to train its flagship product, Claude.

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Insulet Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Revive $59M Trade Secret Win

By Elliot Weld

Insulin product developer Insulet Corp. has asked the full Federal Circuit to hear its arguments for reinstating a jury's $59.4 million trade secret theft verdict against EOFlow Co. Ltd., saying a split panel decision overturning the award reached a timeliness issue that was not mentioned by either party.

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Fed. Circ. Says Leica's Filtered Light Skirts U. Mich. Patent

By Susan Smiley

In a dispute centered on how laser light is used in fluorescence technology, a unanimous Federal Circuit panel said on Friday that Leica Microsystems did not infringe on a University of Michigan patent, affirming the decision of a federal court in California.

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Musk Wants 9th Circ. To Weigh Twitter Investor Trial Loss

By Sydney Price

Elon Musk wants the Ninth Circuit to review two orders entered in a securities case in California federal court accusing him of defrauding Twitter shareholders, according to a notice of appeal.

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WorldQuant Ex-CEO Contests AI Co.'s Bank Demands

By Brian Steele

The former CEO of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC has fired back at the company's vexatious litigation case against him, filing a counterclaim that accuses the AI-driven business solutions provider of abusing the legal system by pursuing unnecessary post-judgment discovery in a prior case.

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Meta Says AI Voice Suit Rests On Speculation, Not Facts

By Celeste Bott

Meta sought to throw out a proposed class action claiming it flouted Illinois' biometric privacy law when it used the voices of journalists and voice actors to train their artificial intelligence models, arguing the suit is little more than "professional anxiety" over AI "in search of a cause of action."

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NBA Lets Google's Trackers Intercept User Data, Suit Says

By Gina Kim

The NBA misleads users about their digital privacy by displaying a pop-up banner on its platform that purportedly enables them to opt out of tracking cookies, which, in reality, do nothing to stop trackers that don't rely on cookies, according to a proposed class action recently removed to a California federal court.

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Ex-Symplicity Founder Challenges Sale Structure In Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

The founder of student software company Symplicity has sued H.I.G. Capital affiliates, Goldman Sachs lending entities, Crestline Specialty Lending and software buyer Volaris Group in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging they structured the company's sale to strip away his contractual rights and leave him with no recovery on more than $21 million in debt and equity-related interests.

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Thermo Fisher Says Ex-VP Took 'Know-How' To Rival

By Holly DeMuth

A former Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. executive broke a noncompete agreement when she left for a position that will make her responsible for building a rival firm's sterile manufacturing business in direct competition with her old company, according to a case removed to North Carolina federal court Friday.

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Verizon Asks EDTX Judge To Overturn $190M Patent Verdict

By Adam Lidgett

Verizon Wireless wants a Texas federal judge to overrule a jury's verdict that it owed $190 million for infringing a patent covering a way for cellphone calls to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

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Shopify Must Face Revived California Data Privacy Suit

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge has refused to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Shopify of secretly collecting California consumers' personal and payment information through its online checkout platform without their consent, finding the plaintiff plausibly alleged the company knowingly designed its system to gather that data.

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AV Operator Says Mapping Co. Didn't Pay For Meetings, Travel

By MJ Koo

A former autonomous vehicle operator has sued a New Jersey mapping and technology company in federal court, alleging the company failed to pay workers for mandatory post-shift meetings, excluded the first hour of workday travel from compensation and delayed overtime premium payments.

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Bankrupt Swiss Rival Drops Expedia Antitrust Claims

By Matthew Perlman

A rival hotel booking website dropped its case in Washington federal court accusing Expedia of driving it out of business by using its control over Trivago to change the price comparison site's auction process for the placement of listings.

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Energy Co. Hid Reliance On Chinese Raw Materials, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

Bloom Energy Corp. has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging the renewable energy company and its top brass misled shareholders by understating the extent to which it depended on Chinese scandium, a critical raw material used in its fuel cells.

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District Judge Halts Overlapping Valve Arbitration Fee Suit

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Washington federal court has paused a proposed class action from gamers seeking nearly $21 million in arbitration fees from Valve as the company appeals an order in another case declining to stop arbitrations against it.

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Peloton Hit With $20.5M Verdict In NEC Streaming Patent Trial

By Lauren Berg

Peloton Interactive Inc.'s content streaming services infringe one of NEC Corp.'s streaming patents, a Delaware federal jury determined Friday, awarding the Japanese electronics giant more than $20 million in damages.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Latham, Matheson, S&C, Weil

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, DCC Energy PLC backs a takeover offer from investment firm KKR and Energy Capital Partners, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange acquires MarketAxess Holdings Inc., and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC buys professional services adviser CBIZ Inc.

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Don't Miss It: Davis Polk, Goodwin Steer Hot Deals

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals. Here, Law360 recaps the ones you may have missed, including transactions helmed by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP.

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Eric Trump-Backed Space Tech To Go Public Via $638M Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Eric Trump-backed space technology company Space-Eyes Inc. on Friday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company McKinley Acquisition Corp. in a deal that boasts an equity valuation of $638 million.

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Hotel Booking Cos. Ink $1.1M Deal To End Wash. AG's Suit

By Ben Adlin

Hotel booking companies Lexyl Technologies LLC and Bookonline.com LLC agreed to pay nearly $1.1 million to resolve claims from Washington's attorney general that the platforms deceptively added a "refund protection fee" to users' reservations, according to a settlement announced Friday.

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Tips For Issuers Left In Lurch Without Genius Act Final Rules

The compliance runway envisioned by the Genius Act is steadily shrinking after regulators failed to finalize all the required implementing regulations by July 18, so stablecoin issuers should begin implementing "no-regrets" compliance measures and securing outside vendors before the law takes full effect in January, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

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Calif. Wiretap Ruling May Reshape Pixel Tracking Litigation

The recent dismissal of a proposed class action accusing Blue Shield of California of violating the federal Wiretap Act highlights the gap between legacy wiretap laws and modern browser architecture, and the tendency of pixel tracking complaints to oversimplify or mischaracterize how browsers work, says Phil Richards at ThreatHandle Consulting.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two Texas personal injury firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work securing a $604 million verdict against a freight broker and logistics company for their roles in a deadly 2021 highway collision.

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Goldstein Launches Appeal Of Tax, Mortgage Fraud Case

By Jared Foretek

Imprisoned SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein is formally launching a Fourth Circuit appeal challenging his 12 convictions for tax and mortgage fraud, as well as his six-year prison sentence and the $3.1 million restitution judgment against him, according to a new filing from his attorneys.

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Judges Rip DHS GC's 'Worst' Posts As Intimidation Campaign

By Jake Maher

Sitting federal judges on Friday blasted the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "painting a target" on judges' backs in a recent series of social media posts attacking judges who ruled against the Trump administration in immigration cases and called on him to take them down.

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NY Public Defense Org. Denies Union's ULP Claims

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem's leadership on Friday denied allegations from the union representing its more than 100 employees that it has offered unlawful incentives to break its ongoing strike.

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Hub Hires: Pierson Ferdinand, Biogen, FisherBroyles

By Chris Villani

While not as sizzling as the temperatures or the Red Sox, the Boston legal market remained hot through the month of July, with Hogan Lovells Cadwalader adding a mergers and acquisitions partner, Pierson Ferdinand snagging a veteran litigator and Foley & Lardner hiring a finance attorney.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

There has been a wave of cases alleging employers and their insurance brokers violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and experts say this marks an increasing litigation trend. In the meantime, the American Bar Association is eyeing the elimination of the first of multiple diversity-related law school standards. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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