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June 03, 2025
Norton Rose Adds K&L Gates Product Liability Litigator In LA
Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its product liability team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a K&L Gates LLP trial attorney as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
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June 03, 2025
Fired CFO Can't Sue To Collect Bonuses, Conn. Court Told
The ex-vice president and chief financial officer of an adhesive and fastener company is not entitled to collect nearly $300,000 in bonuses because he was not employed on the date they became payable and nothing prevented him from being terminated, according to a motion to dismiss his federal lawsuit with prejudice.
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June 03, 2025
Ex-Bank GC Can Easily Pay $2.5M Fraud Restitution, Feds Say
The former general counsel of Stamford-based Webster Bank has chipped away at a $7.4 million restitution order since being sentenced to four years in prison for a yearslong fraud scheme and is capable of paying back the full amount in a lump sum, prosecutors have told a Connecticut federal judge.
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June 03, 2025
Fisher Phillips Brings On Former Gap Counsel In Fla.
A former in-house attorney for clothing giant Gap Inc. rejoined the private practice space as a partner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at Fisher Phillips, the firm announced Tuesday.
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June 03, 2025
IBM Nixed White Exec's Job Offer, Race Bias Suit Claims
A white Massachusetts woman has alleged in a racial discrimination suit that she was in the final stages of being hired as an executive at IBM when the job offer was abruptly rescinded and the position was given to a candidate of Indian descent who was an acquaintance of someone involved in the hiring process.
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June 03, 2025
Tech Co. Accuses Ex-Manager Of Pilfering Trade Secrets
A former senior account manager for a public and investor relations technology business emailed himself company secrets and tried to poach customers before he decamped for a competitor, according to a newly designated North Carolina Business Court complaint.
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June 03, 2025
Ex-Copyright Chief Can't Get Fast Ruling In Firing Suit
The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office can't fast-track a lawsuit contesting her firing by President Donald Trump, a D.C. federal judge said Tuesday.
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June 03, 2025
The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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June 03, 2025
Willkie Hires Asset Management Partner In DC
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired an asset management partner in Washington, D.C., who was once the law clerk of the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman who now co-leads the firm's digital works practice.
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June 03, 2025
Katten Adds 4 Ex-Kirkland Attys To Healthcare Practice
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired two partners and two associates from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to boost Katten's regulatory and transactional expertise in the firm's healthcare practice.
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June 02, 2025
5th Circ. Will Mull In-House Banking Cases In Jarkesy's Wake
A Fifth Circuit panel is set to scrutinize in-house proceedings at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and other banking agencies on Tuesday in a trio of appeals with the potential to upend the regulators' primary mode of enforcement.
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June 02, 2025
Amazon Defeats Prime Subscribers' Privacy Suit For Good
A Washington federal judge has permanently tossed Amazon Prime subscribers' proposed class action alleging that the company illegally disclosed their personal viewing habits, ruling that they still haven't plausibly alleged that Amazon "actually and affirmatively" shared their information.
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June 02, 2025
Rocket Cos. Board Beats Investor's $500M Insider Trading Suit
Delaware's Court of Chancery on Monday dismissed a derivative shareholder suit accusing Rocket Companies Inc.'s board, chairman and controlling stockholder of breaching their fiduciary duties by liquidating $500 million worth of stock allegedly based on material nonpublic information, saying the plaintiffs have failed to show a motive.
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June 02, 2025
J&J Unit May Owe Around $125M Over AI Tissue Imaging Deal
A New York federal judge ruled Friday that J&J unit Ethicon Inc. owes a termination fee of $40 million plus intellectual property impairment damages in the neighborhood of $85 million to ChemImage Corp. after unilaterally ending their deal to develop in-surgery artificial intelligence imaging techniques.
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June 02, 2025
Alphabet Pledges $500M To Boost Compliance In Investor Suit
Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., has agreed to earmark half a billion dollars over the next 10 years to overhaul the tech giant's global compliance structure, according to two institutional investors that sued the company's leaders over allegations of anticompetitive and monopolistic business practices.
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June 02, 2025
Fed. Circ. Asks Whether Trade Secrets Were Secret Enough
The Federal Circuit set out Monday to determine whether an Ohio federal judge was right or wrong to throw out a $64 million jury verdict finding that Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. stole an inventor's ideas for self-inflating tires because the trade secrets were too vague to have gone to a jury.
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June 02, 2025
Airbnb Nixed Conservative Shareholder Proposals, Suit Says
Two institutional Airbnb shareholders that promote conservative values have sued the vacation property rental company, saying it wrongfully excluded their shareholder proposals from its 2025 proxy materials while allowing the inclusion of a proposal submitted by a "liberal-leaning" state pension fund.
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June 02, 2025
Amazon Gets A Look At Some Of FTC's Antitrust Suit Theory
A Washington federal judge said Monday the Federal Trade Commission must hand over some information about the underlying legal theories in its landmark antitrust case against Amazon but mostly agreed with the agency that the company's discovery requests were "premature."
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June 02, 2025
A Jury Says Fortress Controls VLSI. What Now?
A Texas federal jury has concluded that Fortress Investment Group controls VLSI Technology, which could be a game-changing step in the patent company's multibillion-dollar patent fight with Intel. Here's how the jury's narrow finding could play into the widespread litigation.
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June 02, 2025
Nike Floods Inboxes With Misleading Sales Promos, Suit Says
A Nike customer has filed a proposed class action in Washington state court accusing the sports apparel giant of flooding his inbox with promotional emails with misleading subject lines to trick him into acting quickly to take advantage of discount deals that don't have a legitimate expiration date.
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June 02, 2025
Trump Taps Vinson & Elkins Atty To Replace FERC Chair
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney to replace current Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Mark Christie, whose term expires on June 30.
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June 02, 2025
Fla. Sanitizer Co. Faces Penalties Over Fake AI Legal Citations
Two Florida federal judges have ordered a disinfectant sprayer business to explain why artificial intelligence-generated fake citations and quotes appeared in filings in lawsuits over corporate wrongdoing from a Canadian breach of contract case, saying it could face serious penalties for alleged intentional misrepresentations.
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June 02, 2025
White House Asks DC Circ. To Halt Tariff Injunction
The White House on Monday asked the D.C. Circuit to hit pause on a lower court ruling that found President Donald Trump's tariffs unlawful, arguing the "legally indefensible preliminary injunction" would impede sensitive trade negotiations if left unchecked.
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June 02, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The Federal Trade Commission finally dropped its long-pending challenge of Microsoft's purchase of video game developer Activision Blizzard, as enforcers pushed monopolization cases seeking to break up Google, Meta and Live Nation, while also pursuing several traditional merger cases. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from May.
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June 02, 2025
DraftKings Skirting Calif. Ban On Gambling, Class Action Says
A trio of DraftKings customers has filed a proposed class action accusing the online gambling giant of fraudulent behavior for using its Daily Fantasy Sports games and other contests to circumvent California's ban on sports betting.
Expert Analysis
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Reviving A Dormant Criminal Statute In Antitrust Prosecution
The U.S. Department of Justice is poised to revive a dormant misdemeanor statute to resolve bid-rigging charges against a foreign national, providing important context to a recent effort to entice foreign defendants to take responsibility for pending charges or face the risk of extradition, say attorneys at Axinn.
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Traversing The Shifting Sands Of ESG Reporting Compliance
Multinational corporations have increasingly found themselves between a rock and a hard place attempting to comply with EU and California ESG requirements while not running afoul of expanding U.S. anti-ESG regimes, but focusing on what is material to shareholder value and establishing strong governance can help, say attorneys at MoFo.
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An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future
Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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How Plan Sponsors Can Mitigate Risk In PBM Contracts
A recent lawsuit in New York federal court alleges that JPMorgan caused exorbitant prescription costs by mishandling the pharmacy benefit manager arrangement, adding to a growing body of Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciary breach litigation and affirming that fiduciaries must proactively manage their healthcare plan vendors, say attorneys at Hall Benefits Law.
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Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.
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Tax Takeaways From Georgia's 2025 Legislative Session
Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland discuss tax-related measures passed by the Georgia Legislature during the session that adjourned on April 4, which included a decrease in income tax rates, an extension of the time in which to a protest tax assessment and cleanup provisions related to launching the state’s new tax court next year.
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Limit On SEC Enforcement Authority May Mean Fewer Actions
Following a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission final rule revoking the Enforcement Division director's long-standing authority to issue formal investigation orders, it's clear the division is headed for a new era of limited autonomy, marked by a significantly slower pace of SEC investigations, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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Calif. Antitrust Laws May Turn More Zealous Than US Regs
California is poised in the next 18 months to significantly expand its antitrust laws, broadening the scope of liability and creating a premerger review process that could be more expansive than review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, say attorneys at Munger Tolles.
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As SEC, CFTC Retreat, Who Will Police The Crypto Markets?
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission pull back from policing the crypto markets, the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have the authority to pick up the slack — although recent events raise doubts that they will do so, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Digesting A 2nd Circ. Ruling On Food Delivery App Arbitration
The Second Circuit recently rejected Grubhub's attempt to arbitrate price-fixing claims, while allowing Uber Eats to do so, reinforcing that even broad arbitration clauses must connect to the underlying dispute and suggesting that terms of service litigation may center on websites' design and content, say attorneys at Greenspoon Marder.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Making Sense Of Small Biz Fair Lending Compliance
Despite the uncertainty brought on by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent efforts to revise fair lending data collection requirements under Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the compliance dates have not yet been stayed, so covered institutions should still start to monitor any disparities now, say attorneys at Frost Brown Todd.
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Defense Strategies After Justices' Personal Injury RICO Ruling
In Medical Marijuana v. Horn, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act can be invoked by some plaintiffs with claims arising from personal injuries — but defense counsel can use the limitations on civil RICO claims to seek early dismissal in such cases, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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A Look At M&A Trends In An Uncertain Deal Environment
Dealmakers are adopting more cautious and deliberate merger and acquisition practices, such as earnout agreements, joint ventures and strategic partnerships that mitigate risk and bridge valuation gaps, amid the slower pace so far in 2025, says Louis Lehot at Foley & Lardner.