-
July 21, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has added a Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP real estate partner who advises his clients on digital infrastructure transactions and construction financing.
-
July 20, 2026
Environmental and community groups asked a Texas federal judge Friday to grant them summary judgment in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's waiver of dozens of environmental and other federal laws to speed border wall construction across roughly 430 miles, arguing it's a clear violation of the major questions doctrine.
-
July 20, 2026
Dozens of urban-area hospitals have filed another suit over the Health and Human Services wage index methodology for Medicare reimbursements, claiming the calculation was flawed between 2019 and 2023 and they are owed "prompt" payment to remediate the incorrect calculations.
-
July 20, 2026
Environmental groups asked a D.C. federal court Monday to halt a deal that will see hundreds of acres of formerly protected habitat near the Texas Coast transferred to Space Exploration Technologies Corp., saying that an immediate injunction is needed to block the transfer while litigation plays out.
-
July 20, 2026
Two telecommunications companies will pay $10,000 each to the Federal Communications Commission to settle claims that they didn't file "accurate and truthful" statements when participating in a telecommunications gear replacement program.
-
July 20, 2026
Ahead of a third bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over alleged sexual assaults by Uber drivers, the company has asked a Texas federal judge to toss a bid for punitive damages, saying state law doesn't allow punitive damages for third-party criminal conduct.
-
July 20, 2026
A California federal judge ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to designate areas of the country as either meeting, or not, national regulations for soot and other particulate matter by February, handing a win to 10 states and nonprofit groups that sued the agency for failing to do so.
-
July 20, 2026
JPMorgan Chase's payment processing systems have been infringing a trio of patents covering technology meant to protect data during transactions, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas federal court.
-
July 20, 2026
BNSF Railway Co. asked a Texas federal court on Friday to dismiss a suit brought by the family of a man who died when a train derailed, saying the parties had reached a settlement, and to appoint the man's family as personal representatives of the estate.
-
July 20, 2026
A professors union and its Texas affiliate asked a Texas federal court to stop Texas Tech University's chancellor and board from enforcing policies that, the unions say, censor academic speech on race, gender identity and sexual orientation, arguing the policies will cause irreparable harm to the university's teachers.
-
July 20, 2026
Houston-based Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp. said Monday it has agreed to acquire WildFire Energy for approximately $4.06 billion, including debt, in a deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, respectively.
-
July 20, 2026
A Texas federal judge has ordered Samsung to pay prejudgment and postjudgment interest on a $445 million jury verdict that found the South Korean electronics firm was infringing patents covering wireless communications network efficiency.
-
July 20, 2026
Texas regional firm Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC has bolstered its intellectual property offerings with new directors in Austin and Dallas, one joining from Akerman LLP and another from Hilgers PLLC.
-
July 20, 2026
Jackson Walker LLP and the U.S. Trustee's Office, grappling with the aftermath of a romantic relationship between one of the firm's former partners and a then-bankruptcy judge, will not be able to delay pretrial proceedings to continue negotiating a possible settlement, a judge ruled Monday.
-
July 20, 2026
The Communications Workers of America has accused Microsoft of including more than 400 unionized video game studio employees in recent mass layoffs without negotiating and urged the National Labor Relations Board to intervene.
-
July 20, 2026
Alea Holdings US Co., a unit of Bermuda-based insurance group Catalina Holdings, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with roughly $280 million in funded debt, saying it plans to use the case to push through a $20 million deal with a major creditor.
-
July 17, 2026
Omaha, Nebraska-based agricultural company Scoular has agreed to fork over $10 million to resolve a federal investigation into allegations it had customs brokers bribe Mexican border officials into accepting shipments into Mexico that had tested for impurities, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
-
July 17, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney reactions to the structural issues at the old Pfizer building in New York, a Big Law partner's view of manufactured housing in light of the new federal housing law, and new tactics in data center development as certain states clamp down.
-
July 17, 2026
A Texas appeals court ruled that Energy Transfer LP cannot compel the family of a man who died in a pipeline explosion to arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, finding Thursday that the FAA did not apply to his employment contract because he engaged in interstate commerce.
-
July 17, 2026
The Tesla Model 3 driver who plowed into a Texas family's home, killing a 76-year-old grandmother, fully pressed down on the accelerator, which "overrode" the electric vehicle's so-called Autopilot feature, the National Transportation Safety Board has found.
-
July 17, 2026
The Second Circuit on Friday deferred the appeal by a track athlete claiming Gatorade supplied him with tainted gummies to a New York state appeals court to determine whether his complaint is covered by state tort or contract law.
-
July 17, 2026
Pointing to a paper filed by patent owner Malikie Innovations Ltd. under a new policy put in place this spring, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Unified Patents LLC's request for reexamination of a video coding patent originally issued to BlackBerry Ltd.
-
July 17, 2026
Music publishers have agreed to drop their copyright infringement suit against X Corp., at the same time the social platform said it would end claims that the publishers and their trade group banded together to demand an industrywide license.
-
July 17, 2026
A Texas federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement suit against the Italian company that owns brands including Vimeo and AOL for lack of jurisdiction, weeks after the company hit public markets upon raising $1.7 billion in its initial public offering.
-
July 17, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.