Rising Star: Mayer Brown's Elisabeth Anderson

By Jonathan Capriel

Elisabeth Anderson of Mayer Brown LLP helped defeat the bulk of a $2.5 billion class action alleging GM concealed a Chevrolet Bolt battery fire defect, serving as the key writer of motions that roughly halved the 81-count complaint and pushed a dozen drivers into arbitration before reaching a $150 million settlement, earning her a spot among the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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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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Feds Back NJ Drivers' Bid To Void NYC Congestion Pricing

By Linda Chiem

The Trump administration threw its support behind New Jersey and out-of-state drivers suing to shut down New York's congestion pricing, saying a Biden-era federal agreement that gave New York's program the green light was invalid from the start.

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Simon & Simon Gets Some Loss Records In Uber, FedEx Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A federal judge has partially granted Philadelphia injury firm Simon & Simon PC's request to order Uber and FedEx to submit records showing alleged financial losses in connection with a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations lawsuit accusing the firm of scheming to falsify medical records to boost injury claims against the companies.

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Google To Pay $10M For Spirit Airlines Data To Help AI Models

By Alex Wittenberg

Technology giant Google LLC has won an auction for Spirit Airlines' emails, chats, spreadsheets and other data, offering $10 million for anonymized information it will use to improve its large language models and other products, according to a notice filed Friday in New York bankruptcy court.

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Air Canada Gets OK To Enforce $25M Venezuela Award

By Caroline Simson

Venezuela can't skirt a more than $25 million arbitral award issued to Air Canada, after a D.C. federal judge ruled that the country was adequately represented in the arbitration despite the tribunal allowing the administration of former President Nicolás Maduro to defend the case.

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Judge Suggests Narrowing Patent Suit Against Southwest

By Theresa Schliep

A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of Texas has recommended that the court eliminate one patent claim from Intellectual Ventures' infringement lawsuit against Southwest Airlines and foreclose presuit damages for some claims, but otherwise preserved the patent-holding company's case.

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Standing Flaw Sinks Chrysler Website Tracking Row, For Now

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has tossed, with leave to amend, a proposed class action accusing automaker FCA of illegally divulging Chrysler website visitors' personal information to a data broker, finding that the plaintiff had failed to establish the type of concrete injury necessary to sustain her wiretap and privacy claims.

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Honda Civic Seat Belt Design Caused Teen's Death, Suit Says

By Carla Baranauckas

Honda was hit with a wrongful death suit in New Jersey state court alleging that the rear seat belt system in its 2017 Civic models was defectively designed and caused the death of an 18-year-old state resident in a crash.

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Pitney Bowes Hit With Tariff Refund Suit By EBay Users

By Gina Kim

EBay users hit Pitney Bowes Inc. with a breach of contract proposed class action Monday in Connecticut federal court alleging the global shipping and logistics company failed to return or refund them tariff-related charges that were deemed illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.

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Hartford HealthCare Told To Double-Check Privilege Claims

By Aaron Keller

Hartford HealthCare has agreed to re-review 113 documents over which the hospital operator asserted attorney-client privilege in an antitrust lawsuit by a Teamsters health plan and a local Connecticut transit district, following a federal magistrate judge's concerns about a nearly 1,000-page privilege log.

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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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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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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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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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