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Corporate

  • August 05, 2025

    Trump-Tied SPAC Exec Rips SEC Suit After Deal Talks Fizzle

    The former CEO of the special-purpose acquisition company that took President Donald Trump's social media platform public has renewed his bid to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit alleging he failed to timely alert investors to the prospective deal after settlement talks broke down.

  • August 05, 2025

    Calif. City Sanctioned Over Missing Reports In Dow, PPG Case

    A San Francisco Superior Court judge found that a California city that's pursued decades-long litigation against Dow Chemical and PPG Industries over dry cleaning chemicals that allegedly contaminated city sites "committed egregious discovery violations" by destroying and concealing 1991 reports related to the chemicals leaking into the city's groundwater.

  • August 05, 2025

    Boston Firm Adds Former Panera, Dunkin' Brands Counsel

    Boston-based Rubin and Rudman LLP hired the former legal counsel of Panera Bread Co. and Dunkin' Brands for an "of counsel" role on the firm's real estate team, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • August 05, 2025

    McGuireWoods Adds Loeb & Loeb Tax Pro In Los Angeles

    McGuireWoods LLP is enhancing its corporate team, announcing Tuesday it is bringing in a Loeb & Loeb LLP tax expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office in Century City.

  • August 05, 2025

    Binance Founder Seeks Exit From FTX $1.76B Clawback Suit

    Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to dismiss him from a clawback suit filed by the estate of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX seeking to recover $1.76 billion it says FTX illegally transferred before its collapse two years ago, saying the transaction was outside the court's jurisdiction.

  • August 05, 2025

    White & Case Lands Baker Botts Benefits Chair

    The firmwide executive compensation and employee benefits chair at Baker Botts LLP became the 20th U.S. lateral partner to join White & Case LLP this year, according to a Tuesday announcement.

  • August 05, 2025

    Ex-GoPro CLO Now Steering AI Cyberbiz's Legal Dept.

    AI-driven cybersecurity company Darktrace announced this week that GoPro's former chief legal officer is now leading its legal department, while the camera technology company has promoted an in-house attorney to serve as its general counsel.

  • August 05, 2025

    Lottery.com SPAC Exec Wants Info From California Fraud Case

    A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that he will weigh a request by a special purpose acquisition company CEO accused of fraud in a merger involving Lottery.com Inc. to have New York prosecutors provide discovery from a California criminal case.

  • August 05, 2025

    Pharma Startup Claims Lupin Stole Inhaler Trade Secrets

    Pharmaceutical startup Transpire Bio has accused Lupin Pharmaceuticals and its affiliates of stealing trade secrets related to the development of generic inhalers, alleging in a Florida federal complaint that a Lupin scientist briefly took a job with Transpire and returned to Lupin with confidential information.

  • August 05, 2025

    Tesla Hit With Suit Over Autonomous Vehicle Issues

    A Tesla Inc. investor has launched a proposed securities class action against the company in Texas federal court, claiming it overhyped its autonomous driving vehicles despite flaws that led to regulatory and legal blowback, including a recent $329 million verdict involving the Autopilot feature.

  • August 04, 2025

    9th Circ. Says Rival Vegas Newspapers' Deal Was Not Legal 

    The Ninth Circuit handed a win to a Las Vegas newspaper formerly owned by the late billionaire Sheldon Adelson in antitrust litigation accusing the daily of trying to ruin its liberal rival, saying Monday that the papers' joint operating agreement should be dissolved as "unlawful and unenforceable."

  • August 04, 2025

    Sandwich Seller Owes $32K For Breaching Noncompete Pact

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday found in favor of the owners of a sandwich fundraising and catering company who accused its former owner of breaching multiple noncompete and confidentiality agreements by launching a rival business and stealing recipes and customer information.

  • August 04, 2025

    Axos Wins $40M In Trade Secrets Case Against Calif. Rival

    A California federal court has ordered Nano Banc and several former employees and executives to pay $40 million to rival Axos Bank after they were found liable for trade secret misappropriation and other claims.

  • August 04, 2025

    Chancery Bars 'D-Day' Data Block By Nielsen Holdings Spinoff

    A Delaware vice chancellor on Monday permanently barred Nielsen Holdings Ltd. spinoff NIQ from carrying out a "fairly blatant" plan to cut off its parent and a competitor from accessing its data, a move the spinoff purportedly described as "D-Day."

  • August 04, 2025

    Chamber Wants FTC's Merger Notice Overhaul Nixed

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has urged a Texas federal judge to upend a dramatic overhaul of merger filing requirements that it argued exceeded Federal Trade Commission authority, was made without a proper cost-benefit analysis and amounts to a solution in search of a problem.

  • August 04, 2025

    Chancery Spreading Workload, Automating Case Assignments

    Citing in part efforts to balance jurist workloads, Delaware's ever-slammed Court of Chancery reported plans on Monday to field a new, automated case assignment regime in September that will pull more factors into the mix when distributing new cases.

  • August 04, 2025

    9th Circ. Rejects Most Of Sodexo's ERISA Arbitration Push

    The Ninth Circuit said Monday that employers can't unilaterally change Employee Retirement Income Security Act-governed plans to require arbitration, backing the bulk of a trial court ruling that refused to throw out of court a nicotine fee lawsuit against food service company Sodexo.

  • August 04, 2025

    Feds Get 2nd Crack At Regeneron FCA Case After Key Ruling

    The government may pursue an alternate theory of its False Claims Act kickback case against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. and try again for a pretrial win after a First Circuit ruling created a "critical shift" in the law, a Massachusetts federal judge said Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    Ex-CNBC Pundit Gets 5 Years For $2.7M Investor Fraud

    A California federal judge sentenced former frequent CNBC guest James Arthur McDonald Jr. to five years in prison Monday for defrauding investors out of at least $2.7 million after he admitted he "betrayed" some of his close friends as part of his scam.

  • August 04, 2025

    Apple Hits 'Apple Cinemas' With TM Suit Amid Expansion

    Apple Inc. has sued a movie theater chain called Apple Cinemas in Massachusetts federal court over trademark infringement claims, saying the cinema brand has expanded to the tech giant's backyard by opening in a historic theater location in San Francisco.

  • August 04, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sought injunctive relief in a new suit accusing U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. of a poaching scheme that involved over 100 M&M employees resigning on July 21. 

  • August 04, 2025

    McGuireWoods Adds Private Equity Pro From Paul Weiss

    McGuireWoods LLP announced Monday the firm has grown its private equity offerings in New York with the addition of an attorney from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.

  • August 04, 2025

    2 Firms Guide Elme Communities' $1.6B Portfolio Sale

    Elme Communities announced Monday that it plans to sell 19 multifamily assets to Cortland Partners LLC in a $1.6 billion deal, after which the multifamily real estate investment trust will liquidate remaining assets, in a deal guided by King & Spalding and Hogan Lovells.

  • August 04, 2025

    Anthropic Asks 9th Circ. To Review Authors' Class Cert.

    Anthropic PBC has asked the Ninth Circuit to review a California federal judge's class certification of a group of authors suing over use of their books to train artificial intelligence, saying the judge had rushed to approve a class of nearly seven million potential claimants.

  • August 04, 2025

    Nespresso Accused Of Racial Bias In Ex-Employee's Lawsuit

    A Black woman who worked at Nespresso for more than a decade has sued her former employer in Illinois federal court, saying she was routinely denied promotions and subjected to comments about her "messy" hair and having the "loudest voice in the room," but was still trotted out to work on the Nestle subsidiary's diversity initiatives.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    DOJ's HPE-Juniper Settlement Will Help US Compete

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    The U.S. Department of Justice settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise clears the purchase of Juniper Networks in a deal that positions the U.S. as a leader in secure, scalable networking and critical digital infrastructure by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms, says John Shu at Taipei Medical University.

  • Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training

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    A California federal court’s recent ruling that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Series

    Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

  • Ultra-Processed Food Claims Rely On Unproven Science

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    Plaintiffs' arguments that ultra-processed foods are responsible for the nationwide increase in certain chronic illnesses, though a novel approach to food-based personal injury claims, depend on theories that are still being tested, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • APA Relief May Blunt Justices' Universal Injunction Ruling

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    The Administrative Procedure Act’s avenue for universal preliminary relief seems to hold the most promise for neutralizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA to limit federal district courts' nationally applicable orders, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Series

    Ohio Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

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    Ohio's financial services sector saw several significant developments in the second quarter of 2025, including a case that confirmed credit unions' setoff rights, another that established contract rights between banks and cardholders, and the House passage of a digital asset bill, say attorneys at Frost Brown.

  • Building Better Earnouts In The Current M&A Climate

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    In the face of market uncertainty, we've seen a continued reliance on earnouts in M&A deals so far this year, but to reduce the risk of related litigation, it's important to use objective standards, apply company metrics cautiously and ensure short time periods, among other best practices, say attorneys at White & Case.

  • Managing Risks As State AGs Seek To Fill Enforcement Gap

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    Given an unprecedented surge in state attorney general activity resulting from significant shifts in federal enforcement priorities, companies must consider tailored strategies for navigating the ever-evolving risk landscape, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion

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    In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.

  • A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far

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    The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.

  • Reform Partly Modernizes Small Biz Stock Gains Exclusion

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    Changes to the Internal Revenue Code in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act update the qualified small business stock gains exclusion to reflect inflation, but the regime would be more in line with current business realities if Congress had also made the exemption available to additional business structures, says Mark Parthemer at Glenmede.

  • How Real Estate Funds Can Leverage Del. Statutory Trusts

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    Over the last two years, traditional real estate fund sponsors have begun to more frequently adopt Delaware Statutory Trust programs, which can help diversify capital-raising strategies and access to new sources of capital, among other benefits, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

  • Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss

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    Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Tips For Cos. From California Climate Reporting FAQ

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    New guidance from the California Air Resources Board on how businesses must implement the state's sweeping climate reporting requirements should help companies assess their exposure, understand their disclosure obligations and begin documenting good-faith compliance efforts, says Thierry Montoya at Frost Brown.

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