Uber's chief product officer, the final live defense witness Monday in a bellwether trial over the company's sexual assault liability in multidistrict litigation involving thousands of cases, rejected claims that Uber dragged its feet on implementing some safety measures, while conceding "we have not done enough."
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'We Have Not Done Enough' On Sex Assaults, Uber Exec Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Uber's chief product officer, the final live defense witness Monday in a bellwether trial over the company's sexual assault liability in multidistrict litigation involving thousands of cases, rejected claims that Uber dragged its feet on implementing some safety measures, while conceding "we have not done enough."

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NHTSA To Redo Heavy-Duty Pickup Truck Fuel Economy Rule

By Linda Chiem

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told auto manufacturers Friday that it's preparing to retool fuel economy standards for heavy-duty trucks, as the Trump administration presses ahead with its dismantling of Biden-era policies that sought to bolster the adoption of electric-vehicle fleets.

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Gibson Dunn, Sullivan & Cromwell Lead SpaceX, XAI Merger

By Lauren Berg

Elon Musk announced Monday that SpaceX, represented by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, has acquired his artificial intelligence startup xAI, advised by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, in a bid to launch space-based data centers, amid plans for an initial public offering that would value the aerospace company at more than $1 trillion.

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Mail Carriers Can't Bring OT Suit Against USPS In NJ

By Irene Spezzamonte

The mail carriers who accused the U.S. Postal Service of automatically deducting time for meal breaks they didn't take failed to show any connection to New Jersey beyond residence, a federal judge ruled, agreeing to toss their overtime case.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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AVIATION

American Airlines, PSA Eye Exit In DCA Midair Collision Suits

By Linda Chiem

American Airlines has told a federal judge that it fully complied with federal aviation safety standards, and that victims' families suing for negligence over last year's deadly midair collision over Washington, D.C., should primarily be going after the government, not the airline.

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Detroit Must Pay $3.6M In Airport Property Dispute

By Parker Quinlan

A Michigan federal judge on Monday signed off on a $3.6 million deal to end a yearslong lawsuit that made its way to the Sixth Circuit alleging the City of Detroit took a commercial property owner's land while working on an expansion of its municipal airport.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Zipcar Can't Be Liable For Renting To Drunk Driver, Panel Says

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals court has tossed claims against Zipcar in a suit accusing the online car rental platform of causing a passenger's catastrophic injuries by renting out a vehicle to a drunk customer, saying certain duties of care owed by traditional rental agencies don't apply to car-sharing companies.

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Calif. Justices Revive 'Unreadable' Arbitration Agreement Suit

By Hailey Konnath

In a 6-1 decision, the California Supreme Court clarified on Monday that courts must "closely scrutinize the terms of difficult-to-read contracts for unfairness or one-sidedness," but the "illegibility" — font size, placement, prominence, etc. — of agreements do not themselves indicate that it is unconscionable.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

A pair of new high-dollar suits in Delaware's Court of Chancery showed last week that post-deal stock appraisal suits still have legs, despite some efforts to reduce potential from deal-price gains challenges. The week ended with Delaware's justices nipping $100 million from the attorney fees owed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk from $176.2 million to roughly $70.9 million, rejecting part of a Court of Chancery fee calculation.

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RAIL

Norfolk Southern Blames DR Horton For Runoff Rail Damage

By Nate Beck

Railroad company Norfolk Southern argued in North Carolina federal court that poor stormwater management at a nearly 1,000-home D.R. Horton development caused a July washout that canceled rail service, required repairs and altered a regional track improvement project.

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TRUCKING

Company Agrees To Pay $18M To Settle Truckers' Wage Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A Nebraska-based trucking company agreed to pay $18 million to nearly 100,000 current and former drivers to end a more than 11-year-old consolidated class action over unpaid minimum wages, reaching a deal the day before trial was set to begin, according to settlement papers filed in federal court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

State Of Insurance: Q4 Notes From Illinois

In 2025's last quarter, Illinois’ appellate courts weighed in on overlapping homeowners coverages for water-related damages, contractual suit limitation provisions in uninsured motorist policies, and protections for genetic health information in life insurance underwriting, while the Department of Insurance sought nationwide homeowners' insurance data from State Farm, says Matthew Fortin at BatesCarey.

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NYC Bar Opinion Warns Attys On Use Of AI Recording Tools

Attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with clients should heed the New York City Bar Association’s recent opinion addressing the legal and ethical risks posed by such tools, and follow several best practices to avoid violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, say attorneys at Smith Gambrell.

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Series

The Biz Court Digest: Dispatches From Utah's Newest Court

While a robust body of law hasn't yet developed since the Utah Business and Chancery Court's founding in October 2024, the number of cases filed there has recently picked up, and its existence illustrates Utah's desire to be top of mind for businesses across the country, says Evan Strassberg at Michael Best.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Paul Weiss Chair's Emails To Epstein Include Apollo Info

By Aebra Coe

Files released by the Department of Justice over the weekend belonging to the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein show a yearslong relationship between Epstein and Paul Weiss chair Brad Karp, which included dinners, phone calls and meetings, as well as communication related to Paul Weiss client Apollo Global Management.

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Ex-Goldstein Employee Claims Accountants Made Mistakes

By Jared Foretek

Defense attorneys for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein presented evidence Monday that his firm's tax accountants made serious mistakes in tax filings for Goldstein's wife, Amy Howe, in 2021.

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6th Circ. Clears Judge Boasberg In DOJ Ethics Complaint

By Courtney Bublé

The complaint the U.S. Department of Justice filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia has been dismissed.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

What happened to a GOP donor's $250,000 Swiss watch? Can cigarette warnings show jarring medical images? Will a circuit split of "far-reaching importance" for arbitration get even wider? That's a taste of the oral argument menu we'll help you digest in this preview of February's top appellate action.

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Fenwick Reaches Deal In FTX Crypto Scam Suit

By Madison Arnold

Fenwick & West LLP and victims of the infamous FTX Trading Ltd. cryptocurrency scam are working toward a settlement in a case over the firm's alleged role in the trading platform's collapse.

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Watchdog Renews Halligan Bar Complaint After Court Rulings

By Emily Sawicki

The nonprofit Campaign for Accountability on Monday once again launched a bar complaint against former interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Virginia, after the Virginia State Bar declined to pursue an ethics investigation against the attorney last year, calling it a matter for the courts to determine.

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Brief

Judiciary Open As Usual Until Thursday Despite Shutdown

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has enough funding to sustain normal operations until Thursday, following the partial government shutdown that started at midnight on Saturday.

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DOJ Defends NJ US Atty Office Funding Amid Scrutiny

By Matthew Santoni

Defending the three-person leadership structure of New Jersey's federal prosecution operations since the departure of Alina Habba, an administrator told a federal court that two of the attorneys running the office are paid through the office's budget and the third is funded through the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

U.S. enforcers reached three new merger settlements, while the Federal Trade Commission successfully blocked a $945 million heart valve deal and lodged an appeal for its case targeting Meta's past acquisitions.

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The Top In-House Hires Of January

By Sue Reisinger

Legal department hires over the first month of 2026 included high-profile appointments at SiriusXM, at a host of West Coast tech companies including Microsoft and Meta, and at Black & Decker. Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from January.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Bar Association

American Industrial Partners

American Lung Association

Anywhere Real Estate Inc.

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Aramark

Arctic Glacier Inc.

BNSF Railway Co.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

BlackRock Inc.

BrightSpring Health Services

Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.

CITGO Petroleum Corp.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Charter Communications Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Columbus McKinnon Corporation

Comerica Inc.

Compass Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

D.R. Horton Inc.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Elliott Investment Management LP

Epic Games Inc.

FalconX Ltd.

FedEx Corp.

Fifth Third Bancorp

Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd.

Fort Point Capital

Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman

Google LLC

HSBC Holdings PLC

Henkel Corp.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Home Box Office Inc.

Impossible Foods Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Intel Corp.

JELD-WEN Inc.

JM Family Enterprises

Janus Henderson Group PLC

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Jump Trading LLC

Juniper Networks Inc.

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

Kito Crosby

LS Power Development LLC

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Liggett Group LLC

LinkedIn Corp.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Miami Heat

Microsoft Corp.

Moelis & Co.

NRG Energy Inc.

National Football Museum Inc.

National Treasury Employees Union

Netflix Inc.

New York City Bar Association

Norfolk Southern Corp.

PSA Airlines Inc.

Qualia Labs Inc.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Inc.

Reddy Ice Holdings Inc.

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co.

ServiceNow Inc.

Sevita

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

Skydance Media LLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Spotify Technology SA

Stanford Health Care

Stanford University

Stanley Black & Decker Inc.

Suzano

Teck Resources Ltd.

Tesla Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

U.S. News & World Report LP

Uber Technologies Inc.

Victory Park Capital Advisors LLC

Virginia State Bar

Walmart Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

WeWork Inc.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

Yahoo Inc.

Zipcar Inc.

Zuora Inc.

Zynga Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Advisors LLC

Arnold & Porter

Audet & Partners

BatesCarey

Brooks Pierce

Chaffin Luhana LLP

Cleary Gottlieb

Clifford Law Offices

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Crowell & Moring

Demas Law Group

Demorest Law Firm

Duane Morris

Fenwick & West

Fisher & Phillips

Fraser Stryker

Friedman Kaplan

Gibson Dunn

Girard Sharp

Goldstein & Russell

Gunster Yoakley

Gupta Wessler

Holland & Knight

Irell & Manella

Javanmardi Law

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kennyhertz Perry

Kirkland & Ellis

Kobre & Kim

Kreindler & Kreindler

Latham & Watkins

Leach & Walker

Lewis Brisbois

McDermott Will & Schulte

Meritz Reddy

Michael Best & Friedrich

Morgan & Morgan PA

Munger Tolles

O'Melveny & Myers

Orrick Herrington

Paul Weiss

Peiffer Wolf

Robbins LLP

Selendy Gay

Shegerian & Associates

Smith Gambrell

Speiser Krause

Sullivan & Cromwell

Swartz Swidler

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Ziegler Resnick

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

California Supreme Court

Central Intelligence Agency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Competition and Markets Authority

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Cook County Circuit Court

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Illinois Department of Insurance

Illinois General Assembly

Internal Revenue Service

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

National Transportation Safety Board

New York Attorney General's Office

New York State Public Service Commission

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Surface Transportation Board

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Postal Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

Utah Legislature