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October 07, 2025
Musk Atty Alex Spiro Faces DQ Bid Ahead Of Twitter Deal Trial
A certified class of former Twitter investors accusing Elon Musk of tanking the social media platform's stock during acquisition negotiations has urged a California federal judge to disqualify Musk's proposed lead trial counsel Alex Spiro before a January trial, arguing he's a "critical first-hand witness" and may testify, according to documents unsealed Monday.
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October 07, 2025
Rolls-Royce Can't Ditch Helicopter Crash Suit Before Trial
A Texas federal judge won't give Rolls-Royce Corp. a win before trial in a suit over a fatal helicopter crash in the U.S. Virgin Islands, finding that the company failed to show that Indiana law bars the plaintiff's claims.
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October 07, 2025
Texas Court Overturns Forfeiture Verdict For Lack Of Evidence
A Texas appellate panel on Tuesday reversed a civil-forfeiture judgment and ordered state officials to return nearly $42,000 in cash that sheriff's deputies seized from a driver, saying there was no direct evidence that he would have spent the money on illegal drugs.
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October 07, 2025
Global Wound Care Flags Medicare Delay Amid Shutdown
Specialty medical practice Global Wound Care has told a Texas bankruptcy judge it is waiting on $27.2 million in Medicare reimbursement payments, saying the risk that the delays could put it into a liquidity crisis is compounded by the federal government shutdown.
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October 07, 2025
Fitch Even's $1.2M Fee Fight Appears Headed To Arbitration
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO may be paused and sent to arbitration before the firm can convince an Illinois federal judge to halt any alleged use or transfer of the money at issue.
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October 07, 2025
Litigation Funder, Ex-GC To Take Fight Out Of Texas Court
Litigation funder Siltstone Capital LLC has agreed to arbitration with a former general counsel it has accused in a Texas state lawsuit of diverting business opportunities and using confidential business information when secretly forming a new rival litigation funder, Signal Peak Partners LLC.
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October 07, 2025
Estate's $17M Transfer Not Tax-Related, 5th Circ. Told
The estate of a woman who inherited her husband's oil business and was the victim of elder abuse told the Fifth Circuit that it had multiple reasons unrelated to avoiding estate tax for setting up a partnership and transferring $17 million into it just before she died.
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October 07, 2025
White & Case Lands Akin Energy Ace In Houston
White & Case LLP announced Tuesday that it has expanded its global mergers and acquisitions practice and global energy industry group with a partner in Houston who arrived from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
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October 07, 2025
Hess Cuts Deal To End Suit Over 401(k) Investment Roster
Energy company Hess agreed to settle a proposed class action alleging it cost workers millions of dollars in retirement savings by loading its employee 401(k) plan with expensive and poorly performing investment options, according to filings in Texas federal court.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Wary Of Hard Rules On Recess Testimony Talks
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared reluctant Monday to rule that the Sixth Amendment allows defense counsel to freely discuss defendants' testimony with them during an intervening overnight recess, with justices questioning which topics should be off limits and which should not.
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October 06, 2025
Cisco Gets PTAB To Invalidate Ethernet Patent Claims
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated all claims Cisco Systems Inc. had challenged of an Ethernet patent owned by Lionra Technologies Ltd.
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October 06, 2025
Pioneer Couldn't Deliver Gas During Storm, Court Hears
Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc. told a Texas federal court Monday that Winter Storm Uri made it impossible to deliver about $9 million worth of natural gas to an energy trading company, saying during a Monday bench trial that the storm exempted it from its contractual obligations.
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October 06, 2025
Fed. Circ. Examines $41.8M Seagen Cancer Drug Patent Case
With a $41.8 million infringement verdict against Daiichi Sankyo at stake, a Federal Circuit panel Monday grappled with whether a Seagen breast cancer treatment patent adequately described the claimed invention and would enable a skilled person to use it.
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October 06, 2025
Nokia, Ericsson Lose PTAB Challenge To Wireless Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has refused to toss certain claims in a wireless communication technology patent challenged by Ericsson and Nokia, finding the companies failed to show the claims were obvious.
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October 06, 2025
Convicted Investor Puts More Properties Into Ch. 11
A company and several affiliates associated with convicted real estate investment fraudster Moshe "Mark" Silber filed for Chapter 11 on Monday in New Jersey bankruptcy court with up to 199 estimated creditors and up to $500 million in estimated liabilities.
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October 06, 2025
Cybertruck Design Trapped Rider In Flaming Wreck, Suit Says
The family of a college student who died while trapped in a Tesla Cybertruck has hit the electric-auto maker with a wrongful death lawsuit in California state court, alleging that Tesla knowingly kept Cybertrucks on the roads despite known risks of their allegedly defectively designed electric doors failing.
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October 06, 2025
AT&T, T-Mobile Settle Patent Suit Over 4G, 5G Tech
AT&T and T-Mobile have settled claims from Pegasus Wireless Corp. that they infringed patents with technology that runs on 4G and 5G standards.
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October 06, 2025
Texas Class Action Nixed Over Law Firm's La. Hurricane Ads
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a litigation funder and a Houston-area attorney will not face a proposed class action alleging that a law firm engaged in deceptive advertising targeting hurricane victims in Louisiana, finding that a prior Texas Supreme Court ruling dooms the case.
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October 06, 2025
Womble Bond Adds Cybersecurity Pro From Texas AG's Office
Womble Bond Dickinson announced Monday that it has bolstered its privacy and cybersecurity practice and its artificial intelligence and machine learning team with a Houston-based partner who previously served as director of privacy and technology enforcement at the Texas attorney general's office.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Skip Unpaid Texas Tech Mentor's Retaliation Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a former Texas Tech University graduate research assistant's suit alleging she lost an unpaid mentor position for complaining about a professor's sexual harassment, leaving intact the Fifth Circuit's finding that she wasn't technically an employee.
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October 06, 2025
Frost Brown Adds Porter Hedges Commercial Finance Pro
Frost Brown Todd LLP announced Monday that it added a new partner to its commercial finance practice group in Houston from Porter Hedges LLP.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review 5th Circ. Ending ACA Trans Policy Suit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the Fifth Circuit's decision to shut down a challenge to a Biden-era interpretation of the Affordable Care Act's nondiscrimination-in-healthcare policy as also protecting against gender identity bias, which an appellate panel told a Texas court to dismiss in December.
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October 06, 2025
Sullivan, Wachtell Guide Fifth Third's $10.9B Comerica Buy
Fifth Third Bancorp and Comerica Inc. announced Monday that Fifth Third will acquire Comerica in an all‑stock transaction valued at $10.9 billion.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Deny SEC Whistleblower Award Calculation Appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up two whistleblowers' case alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shortchanged them after they helped to uncover purportedly the largest fraud in Texas history, after the pair argued the agency improperly and retroactively applied a rule amendment to dilute their awards.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Turns Down 6 Patent Cases At Start Of Term
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected six petitions in patent-related cases, taking some of its first actions on intellectual property matters this term.
Expert Analysis
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FTC Actions Highlight New Noncompete Enforcement Strategy
Several recent noncompete-related actions from the Federal Trade Commission — including its recent dismissal of cases appealing the vacatur of a Biden-era noncompete ban — reflect the commission's shift toward case-by-case enforcement, while confirming that the agency intends to remain active in policing such agreements, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Agentic AI Puts A New Twist On Attorney Ethics Obligations
As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.
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Resilience Planning Is New Key To Corporate Sustainability
While the current wave of deregulation may reduce government enforcement related to climate issues, businesses still need to evaluate how climate volatility may affect their operations and create new legal risks — making the apolitical concept of resilience increasingly important for companies, says J. Michael Showalter at ArentFox Schiff.
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Cos. Face EU, US Regulatory Tension On Many Fronts
When the European Union sets stringent standards, companies seeking to operate in the international marketplace must conform to them, or else concede opportunities — but with the current U.S. administration pushing hard to roll back regulations, global companies face an increasing tension over which standards to follow, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Being A Professional Wrestler Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Adapting To The Age Of AI
Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor.
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Ch. 11 Ruling Voiding $2M Litigation Funding Sends A Warning
A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan.
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Demystifying The Civil Procedure Rules Amendment Process
Every year, an advisory committee receives dozens of proposals to amend the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, most of which are never adopted — but a few pointers can help maximize the likelihood that an amendment will be adopted, says Josh Gardner at DLA Piper.
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How The 5th, DC Circuits Agreed On FCC Forfeiture Orders
The Fifth and D.C. Circuits split this year on the Federal Communications Commission's process for adjudicating enforcement actions, but both implicitly recognized the problem with penalizing a party based on a forfeiture order that has not yet been challenged in any way in court, says Jared Marx at HWG.
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7th Circ. FLSA Notice Test Adds Flexibility, Raises Questions
In Richards v. Eli Lilly, the Seventh Circuit created a new approach for district courts to determine whether to issue notice to opt-in plaintiffs in Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions, but its road map leaves many unanswered questions, says Rebecca Ojserkis at Cohen Milstein.
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Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally
As kids head back to school, the time is ripe for lawyers who are parents to consider how they can incorporate their parenting skills to build a deep, meaningful and sustainable legal practice, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses seven decisions pertaining to attorney fees in class action settlements, the predominance requirement in automobile insurance cases, how the no mootness exception applies if the named plaintiff is potentially subject to a strong individual defense, and more.
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Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.
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Data Center Construction Trends, Challenges In Ill. And Texas
Data centers in Illinois and Texas are reshaping the industrial landscape, but this growth brings legal complexity, so developers, contractors and corporate legal departments must have a deep understanding of each state's legal terrain and take a proactive approach to risk management, say attorneys at Hicks Johnson.
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Texas Property Law Complicates Financing And Development
A new Texas law imposing expansive state-level restrictions on properties owned by entities from designated countries creates a major obstacle for some lenders, developers and other stakeholders, as well as new diligence requirements for foreign companies, say attorneys at Pillsbury.