Rising Star: Honigman's Chauncey Mayfield II

By Mike Curley

Chauncey Mayfield II of Honigman LLP has shepherded supply, purchasing and healthcare deals for major companies like Rivian Automotive Inc. and General Motors Co., earning him a spot among the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.

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11th Circ. Saves Delta-Aeromexico Joint Venture

By Linda Chiem

The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday handed Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico a decisive win by vacating a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their nearly decadelong joint venture, saying the DOT applied a skewed standard and made unsupported findings about the partnership's purported anticompetitive effects.

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Podhurst, Ex-Client Take Malpractice Fight To Lion Air Judge

By Lauraann Wood

The Illinois federal judge handling consolidated wrongful death litigation over Lion Air Flight 610's crash agreed on Thursday to take on malpractice claims a widow recently lodged against Podhurst Orseck PA for allegedly failing to communicate about her $4 million settlement over the 2018 tragedy.

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United Gets Flight Attendant's Sex Harassment Suit Narrowed

By Patrick Hoff

A Colorado federal judge trimmed but refused to completely toss a flight attendant's lawsuit claiming United Airlines failed to prevent a former pilot from stalking and distributing intimate images of her without her consent, saying she plausibly alleged the airline was slow to act after being contacted by the police.

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Conn. Nissan Dealer Will Pay $4M To End FTC's Junk Fee Suit

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday approved a $4 million deal to resolve claims from government enforcers that a Nissan dealership broke consumer protection laws by adding deceptive junk fees to vehicle sale prices.

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Customs Must Free 1 Of 2 Chinese Tire Shipments, CIT Says

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. Customs and Border Protection must release one of two Chinese tire shipments it withheld for years initially due to a lack of identifying requirements, according to a Thursday opinion by the U.S. Court of International Trade.

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SBA Proposes Broad Changes To Small-Biz Size Standards

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Small Business Administration has moved to overhaul how the agency defines small businesses by proposing new standards that would simplify industry classifications and dramatically increase size thresholds, which would lead to about 114,000 more businesses being classified as small.

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USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. 'Settled Expectations' Is Constitutional

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject Google's constitutional challenge to the office's "settled expectations" policy of taking the age of patents into account when deciding whether to review them, saying the rule is "eminently rational."

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9th Circ. Sides With NLRB In Wash. Terminal Union Work Fight

By Rachel Riley

The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.

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Jury Finds Okla. Highway Contractor Guilty Of Price-Fixing

By Matthew Perlman

A federal jury in Oklahoma found a highway runoff contracting business and two of its employees guilty of antitrust violations for a price-fixing conspiracy that allegedly impacted $100 million in publicly funded construction contracts in the state.

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Dems Push For Probe Of LNG Tanker Tax Breaks At IRS

By Tom Lotshaw

Democratic senators Thursday urged a government watchdog to investigate whether the Internal Revenue Service has determined that liquefied natural gas exporters who use the fuel to propel their tankers can claim an alternative fuel tax credit.

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Monitor Exposure, Stay Flexible Amid Tariff Uncertainty

To navigate an unstable trade environment, businesses must evaluate their exposure to new tariffs invoked under a patchwork of statutory authorities and be prepared to adapt to further changes that may be on the horizon, says Bhargav Prajapati at Capital Trade.

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Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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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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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Meta Atty 'Absolutely Wrong' On Client Privilege, Judge Warns

By Dorothy Atkins

With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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