Trump Cites US AI Lead In Shelving Cybersecurity Directive

By Allison Grande

President Donald Trump on Thursday abruptly delayed the planned signing of an executive order to tackle cybersecurity concerns surrounding emerging artificial intelligence models, saying he was worried the proposal to encourage developers to voluntarily share their systems with the government for pre-release testing would impede innovation. 

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Analysis

OpenAI Ouster About Governance, Not Bad Counsel, Pros Say

By Dorothy Atkins

Witness testimony offered during a recent high-profile jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit restructuring accused the artificial intelligence company's nonprofit board of following bad legal advice when it fired CEO Sam Altman in 2023, although experts say the incident was more likely the product of poor governance rather than lousy legal counsel.

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Meta, Others Settle Bellwether School Case Set For June Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta Platforms Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok Inc. and YouTube have each agreed to settle a bellwether school district's claims in social media addiction multidistrict litigation that were set for a six-week California federal jury trial beginning June 12, according to the Kentucky school district's counsel.

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Apple Wants Justices To Review Epic Games Contempt Order

By Hailey Konnath

Apple Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on exactly when and how civil contempt sanctions can be issued for violating a court order, arguing that the Ninth Circuit missed the mark by upholding such sanctions against Apple in its App Store battle with Epic Games.

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Del. Jury Awards AI Co. $23M In Trade Secret Case

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware state jury has awarded artificial intelligence software developer C3.ai $23.3 million in its suit accusing engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. of misappropriating its trade secrets.

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FTC Wins Partial Ruling On Doxo's Online Signup Practices

By Ben Adlin

Online bill pay service Doxo violated federal law by failing to disclose the terms of its doxoPLUS subscription before obtaining customers' payment information, a Washington federal judge ruled Thursday, granting the Federal Trade Commission a partial win in its suit accusing the company of duping consumers into paying hidden fees.

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Newsom Order Eyes Labor Protections Amid AI Growth

By Lauren Berg

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued what his office called a "first-in-the-nation" executive order aiming to shore up state labor policies in an effort to prepare workers and businesses in the event of mass workforce disruption caused by artificial intelligence.

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Analysis

BigLaw Deals Scandal Puts Boston Back On White Collar Map

By Chris Villani

A sweeping insider trading case involving information stolen from BigLaw firms shows a return to bread-and-butter white collar enforcement for Boston federal prosecutors and provides a morale lift in an office that has seen shifting priorities and staff turnover since the signature "Varsity Blues" takedown in 2019, veteran prosecutors told Law360.

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CORRECTED: Asus Reaches Deal To End Some Wi-Fi Patent Suits

By Elliot Weld

Sisvel's patent pool has reached a deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus to license its standard essential pool of Wi-Fi multimode patents, resolving a swath of litigation but leaving at least one case pending in Texas federal court against an Asus subsidiary. 

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NY Cautions Banks About Cyber Risks From Advanced AI

By Sarah Jarvis

New York's financial services regulator issued new guidance Thursday on the risks associated with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, urging firms to make sure their cybersecurity programs can promptly flag weaknesses that so-called frontier AI models can exploit, among other things.

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Instacart Can't Halt NYC Tip, Wage Laws On 2nd Circ. Appeal

By Benjamin Morse

A Second Circuit panel refused to pause New York City laws setting minimum pay and other protections for grocery delivery workers while Instacart appeals a lower court order that allowed the rules to take effect.

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Intuit's PTAB Win On Browsing Patent Upheld At Fed. Circ.

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Thursday approved a Patent Trial and Review Board decision that held a patent owned by Samesurf Inc. that was asserted against TurboTax maker Intuit Inc. was invalid, rejecting Samesurf's arguments that an improper claim construction was used.

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Nexstar Asks 9th Circ. To Narrow Tegna Merger Block

By Matthew Perlman

Nexstar urged the Ninth Circuit to narrow a preliminary injunction preventing it from fully integrating with Tegna Inc. that was issued in a challenge to the broadcasters' $6.2 billion merger by state enforcers and satellite provider DirecTV.

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Meta Defeats App Users' Location Data Privacy Suit For Good

By Lauren Berg

A California federal judge Thursday shut down for good a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms of illegally collecting location data from users of third-party apps that installed the company's tracking software, again finding the complaint doesn't plausibly allege that Meta knew it didn't have permission to access this data.

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Train Service Co. Can't Escape Safety Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

Train service solutions provider Piper Networks has been denied a chance to exit an infringement lawsuit in New York federal court that Metrom Rail LLC brought over its train safety patents, with a judge finding the suit gave Piper proper notice of the infringement claims.

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AI Voice Recognition Biz Must Face Some Investor Claims

By Emilie Ruscoe

Artificial intelligence and voice recognition company SoundHound AI can't shed investor claims that it hid unresolved accounting issues that led the company to delay financial reporting, though a California federal judge has trimmed some allegations from the proposed class action.

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Ex-MLB Star Reynolds Can't Dodge Sports Tech Co.'s Suit

By David Steele

A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday allowed a technology company's suit accusing former baseball star Harold Reynolds of breaking their agreement to create a youth sports app to continue, but passed on forcing their dispute into arbitration.

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Meta Expert Says $27M Is Better Number For Abatement

By Cara Salvatore

An economics expert for Meta testified Thursday against New Mexico's desired $3.7 billion plan to abate social media's harm to mental health, calling it more "a spending plan" than one for abatement and claiming $27 million will do the job.

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Consumers Want Prelim Block On Paramount-Warner Bros.

By Bryan Koenig

Consumers challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery asked a California federal judge Wednesday to preliminarily block the transaction while the case proceeds, arguing the threat of higher streaming costs and reduced news competition is too great, and it will be too hard to unscramble the egg after trial.

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LGBCoin Buyers Say Sanctions Bid Flunks Safe Harbor Rule

By David Minsky

Investors in the "Let's Go Brandon" meme coin asked a Florida federal court to reject a sanctions bid filed by the coin's founder, saying he didn't comply with the court's safe harbor rule requiring him to send a draft motion 21 days in advance. 

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CoStar Hit With Antitrust Suit Alleging Data Monopoly

By Grace Dixon

A Washington, D.C., brokerage has filed a proposed class action against CoStar in federal court, alleging a decades-long anticompetitive scheme designed to maintain a monopoly over commercial real estate listing services and information services.

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Magna Unit Sues Mich. Firm Over $11M Ford Program Assets

By Melanie Dorsey

A division of Magna International Inc. has sued a Michigan automation company in federal court, accusing it of wrongfully holding more than $11 million in manufacturing assets, including dozens of industrial robots, after the cancellation of a Ford Motor Co. vehicle program.

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Deals Rumor Mill

NFL Teams Valued At $9B In Stake Sales, And Other Rumors

By Al Barbarino

Two reported NFL stake sales this past week highlight the continued surge in professional sports valuations, fueled in part by the entry of private equity investors.

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Zillow In FTC Case Says Redfin Debt Forced Noncompete Deal

By Nate Beck

Zillow has answered a complaint in Virginia federal court from federal authorities over a deal to pay Redfin $100 million to stop competing on multifamily listings, arguing that the syndication deal came as the smaller competitor faced no other path to increase its apartment listings and dig itself out of debt.

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Citron Founder's Tweets Impacted Stock Prices, LA Jury Told

By Rae Ann Varona

A former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission financial economist testified Thursday in the criminal securities fraud case against Citron Research founder Andrew Left, telling a California federal jury that allegedly deceptive tweets posted by the "activist investor" clearly had a "statistically significant" impact on companies' stock prices.

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Texas Panel Weighs If AG Can Sue Allstate Data Unit In State

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas appellate court considered Thursday whether an Allstate-owned analytics company accused of illegally collecting mobility data from people's phones through third-party apps can be sued in Texas, pressing counsel on the company's ties to Texas users' data.

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Texas AG Accuses Meta Of Lying About WhatsApp Encryption

By Bonnie Eslinger

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Meta and the social media giant's messaging platform WhatsApp in Texas state court on Thursday, claiming the companies lied in promising that WhatsApp messages are private and "not even WhatsApp can see them."

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Feds Accuse Contractors Of DOD Bribery Scheme In Hawaii

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Justice has accused two Florida residents of conspiring to bribe a U.S. Army employee and defraud the federal government in connection with the development of a U.S. Department of Defense innovation lab in Hawaii.

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5 Rules In 10 Weeks: Inside Genius Act's Implementation Blitz

Regulators have proposed five Genius Act rules in a striking span of 10 weeks, building a stablecoin framework that, with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency at its operational center, will shape oversight and force issuers, banks and fintechs to take action as deadlines approach, say attorneys at Cahill.

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Series

NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

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Fox Rothschild Attys Shot Outside NC Courthouse After Hearing

By Hayley Fowler

Two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys were shot Friday outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to police reports and a firm spokesperson.

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Survey Finds Legal Malpractice Claim Frequency Grew In 2025

By Andrea Keckley

Insurers reported an increase in the frequency of legal malpractice claims for the first time in several years amid concerns over issues like the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey by EPIC Law Firm Group.

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Prosecutors Seek $1.98M Forfeiture In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors are seeking a nearly $2 million forfeiture judgment against convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and asking a Maryland federal judge to turn the Supreme Court lawyer's Northwest D.C. home over to the government to pay it.

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Discipline Upheld For Fed. Judge Who Had Sex In Chambers

By Madison Arnold

The federal judiciary signed off Friday on a private reprimand for a district judge within the Eleventh Circuit for misconduct that included having an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer and sexual intercourse in their chambers within earshot of the judge's staff.

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Nelson Mullins Faces $2B Suits Over Alleged Conflicts

By Carolina Bolado

The former wives of two insurance mogul brothers have sued Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for $2 billion, claiming a partner there set up the couples' estates while quietly conspiring with the brothers to shield marital assets from the wives in the event of divorce.

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Ala. Atty Suspended Over 'Atrocious' Bid To Cover Up AI Use

By Rae Ann Varona

A federal judge has suspended an attorney from practicing in the Northern District of Alabama after the attorney deleted his ChatGPT account in a bid to cover up his use of the chatbot to write an erroneous brief, saying the court never imagined having to deal with such "atrocious conduct."

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DOJ Hid Grand Jury Misconduct In ICE Case, Ill. Judge Says

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge said Thursday her trust in U.S. Department of Justice attorneys had been "broken" after reviewing unredacted grand jury transcripts in a criminal case against anti-ICE protesters that revealed prosecutorial misconduct, shortly after which Chicago's top federal prosecutor moved to dismiss the charges.

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'Can't Just Make Up Names And Sue,' 7th Circ. Judge Says

By Anne Cullen

A Seventh Circuit judge rebuked a lawyer Friday for naming a "made up" entity, rather than the correct institution, in a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit against the Wisconsin Court System and a former judge, demanding the error be corrected immediately.

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UC Berkeley Law Adopts Sweeping Restrictions On AI Use

By Lynn LaRowe

The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has adopted a sweeping new policy that restricts the use of artificial intelligence by students, saying the measure aims to ensure "our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default."

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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says

By Emily Sawicki

Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.

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Analysis

Why Big Tech Gets Advisory Juries In 'Socially Explosive' Suits

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.

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Exclusive

Fed. Judiciary Urged To Drop Unified Atty Admission Effort

By Jack Karp

The federal judiciary should scrap any proposal to do away with state bar admission requirements for U.S. district courts and create a national district court bar, according to a recent report finding it would undercut those courts' control over bar membership and that it lacks the necessary support.

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Analysis

Some Attys Say Remote Hearing Expansion Comes At A Cost

By Julie Manganis

A push in Massachusetts to expand the number of proceedings held via videoconference is raising concerns among some attorneys, who question if the time savings of remote hearings is outweighed by the hidden costs of lawyers and judges staring into a screen.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morrison Foerster LLP, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Dechert LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared OpenAI and executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of allegations that they breached the nonprofit's charitable trust by converting to a for-profit.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Napster sued by a music royalties company, White & Case LLP and Laytons LLP targeted in a claim by a property developer, a short-term lender pursue legal action against law firm Rainer Hughes and its former founding partner following his strike-off for money laundering offenses, and the administrators of London Bridging sue the founder of collapsed Market Financial Solutions. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The role of artificial intelligence in law weaves in and out of this week's stories, with the most recent compelling action coming from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued an executive order to mobilize state agencies as AI layoffs begin to hit thousands of workers in his state.

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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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