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  • July 01, 2025

    $70M Verdict Boosts TriZetto's Trade Secrets Award To $370M

    A New York federal jury has concluded that the TriZetto Group, a healthcare software company, is entitled to nearly $70 million in compensatory damages due to Syntel Inc.'s copyright infringement and trade secret theft, bringing the total award for TriZetto to $370 million following a damages retrial.

  • July 01, 2025

    Apple Hit With $111M Patent Verdict In Delaware

    A Delaware federal jury has found that Apple owes more than $110.7 million for infringing a Spanish company's wireless communications systems patent with the tech giant's products, including mobile phones and tablets.

  • July 01, 2025

    Texas Rep. Must Tell Feds If He'll Blame Attys In Bribery Case

    A Houston judge said Monday that U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife must disclose to federal prosecutors whether they plan to use an advice-of-counsel defense in their trial on bribery charges.

  • July 01, 2025

    Ga. Justices To Review $33M Verdict In Student Crash Death

    The Supreme Court of Georgia has agreed to review a state appellate court's decision that a metro Atlanta city must pay a $33 million verdict awarded to the parents of a college student who died after crashing into a roadside planter.

  • July 01, 2025

    'ComEd Four' Lobbyist Deserves 4 Years In Prison, Feds Say

    Federal prosecutors argued on Monday that a lobbyist convicted alongside Commonwealth Edison CEO Anne Pramaggiore and two others for bribing former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan should serve more than four years behind bars for falsifying books and records to hide the funneling of payments to Madigan's allies for do-nothing jobs.

  • July 01, 2025

    Top Personal Injury, Med Mal News: 2025 Midyear Report

    A U.S. Supreme Court ruling over whether personal injury claims can be brought under a RICO statute and a $7.4 billion settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2025.

  • July 01, 2025

    Pool Co. Can Sell Off Inventory On Amazon Despite Sales Ban

    A bankrupt swimming pool equipment company can sell off its remaining inventory on Amazon notwithstanding a contempt order that largely bans its Chinese parent company from selling products in the United States, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled.

  • July 01, 2025

    Gilstrap Slams Carmakers And Patent Owner But Allows Stay

    U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap chided two automakers and a company suing over alleged patent infringement for what he said was strategic wasting of the court's resources in the timing of a request to pause the case, but still granted the motion.

  • July 01, 2025

    Boston Globe, Former Exec Settle Ahead Of Trial Over Firing

    The Boston Globe and a former high-ranking executive have reported settling a lawsuit over his 2021 firing, days before a trial in Massachusetts state court was set to begin.

  • June 30, 2025

    Genentech Says Biogen Owes $122M Royalties As Trial Opens

    Genentech Inc. told a California federal jury Monday that Biogen MA Inc. owes $122 million in royalties for supplies of Biogen's multiple sclerosis drug that it manufactured before Genentech's patent expired in December 2018, while Biogen said the companies' licensing agreement doesn't require royalties for drugs sold after the patent expired.

  • June 30, 2025

    Deja Vu? MGA, T.I. Appear Headed For 4th OMG Doll Trial

    Clifford "T.I." Harris and Tameka "Tiny" Harris may be headed toward a fourth trial against MGA Entertainment Inc. after a California federal judge indicated Monday he might toss a jury's $53.6 million punitive damages award finding the toy giant willfully infringed the OMG Girlz pop group's trade dress.

  • June 30, 2025

    Supreme Court May Shape Future Of ISP Liability In Cox Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to take on a $1 billion battle between major music publishers and Cox Communications Inc. could set new liability boundaries for internet service providers that have faced significant damages for allegedly not curbing users who repeatedly download songs illegally.

  • June 30, 2025

    NY Court Grants Man New Trial, Allows Affirmative Defense

    A man convicted of murder for his role in a robbery that left one victim dead should have been allowed to present evidence that he didn't know his codefendants were planning a crime when he drove them to the scene, a New York state appeals court said, granting him a new trial.

  • June 30, 2025

    Ex-Defender Tells 4th Circ. Bias Hearing Would've Been Futile

    A former assistant public defender looking to revive her bias suit fought Monday to convince the Fourth Circuit that it would have been futile to wait for a final hearing on her sexual harassment claim through the judiciary's internal complaint process before quitting, citing in part her boss's alleged favoritism of the accused party.

  • June 30, 2025

    Texas Justices Scrap New-Trial Order For 3 SpaceX Contractors

    Comments to a jury alleging attorneys planned a "shakedown" do not warrant a new trial for three men awarded less in damages than they hoped after their truck was hit in a crash caused by a commuting SpaceX engineer, the Texas Supreme Court said Friday, saying the men's counsel did not seek redress at the time.

  • June 30, 2025

    Pa. Judges Reduce $4.65M Bus Death Verdict To $500K

    A panel of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on Monday reduced a $4.65 million verdict in favor of the family of a woman killed when she was hit by a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus down to $500,000, saying the verdict is subject to a statutory limit in the state's sovereign immunity law.

  • June 30, 2025

    Sotomayor Urges Tenn. To Address Jury Instruction Issue

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that Tennessee's high court should fix a logical knot that she says makes it impossible to get a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in the state, in a statement on Monday that came alongside the court's refusal to review a second-degree murder case centering on jury instructions.

  • June 30, 2025

    Lin Wood Can't Avoid Legal Costs In Defamation Case

    A Georgia federal judge has found that retired attorney L. Lin Wood can't escape paying his former law partners $750,000 in attorney fees and costs related to a $3.75 million defamation verdict against him, rejecting his argument that the statute governing attorney fees was unconstitutional.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices To Resolve Split On Supervised Release Fugitives

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case poised to resolve a sharp circuit split over whether the "fugitive tolling" doctrine barring criminal defendants from earning credits to reduce prison sentences while they are not behind bars also should apply to defendants who abscond from supervised release.

  • June 30, 2025

    Ex-Ohio Speaker Calls 6th Circ. Bribery Ruling A 'Stretch'

    Former Ohio House of Representatives Speaker Larry Householder urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink its decision to stand by his bribery conviction over the FirstEnergy nuclear bailout scandal that got him 20 years in prison, arguing the panel made "an illegal stretch" in assuming the jurors undertook proper analysis despite allegedly improper instructions.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices Seek SG's View In $1.2M Roundup Verdict

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. solicitor general to weigh in on Monsanto's petition challenging a $1.2 million jury award given to a man who claimed that the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer.

  • June 30, 2025

    Justices Rebuff American Airlines' Bid To Revive JetBlue Pact

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rebuffed American Airlines' bid to revive its codeshare agreement with JetBlue in Boston and New York.

  • June 30, 2025

    High Court Takes Up $1B Copyright Fight Over ISPs' Liability

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a petition for certiorari from Cox Communications Inc. that asked the justices to review a Fourth Circuit's conclusion that telecom companies can be liable for copyright infringement for providing an internet connection that leads to music piracy online.

  • June 30, 2025

    Husch Blackwell Adds Ex-US Atty, DOJ Public Integrity Lawyer

    Todd Gee, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi and an ex-member of the U.S. Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section, has joined Husch Blackwell LLP as a white collar partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.

  • June 28, 2025

    DOJ OKs $14B HPE-Juniper Deal With Small-Biz WiFi Unit Sale

    The U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement Saturday with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, clearing the tech giant's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms.

Expert Analysis

  • Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them

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    Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.

  • 5th Circ. Ruling Is Latest Signal Of Shaky Qui Tam Landscape

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    In his recent concurring opinion in U.S. v. Peripheral Vascular Associates, a Fifth Circuit judge joined a growing list of jurists suggesting that the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, underscoring that acceptance of qui tam relators can no longer be taken for granted, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

  • How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients

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    Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.

  • How Attorneys Can Make The Most Of A Deposition Transcript

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    With recent amendments to federal evidence rules now in effect, it’s more important than ever to make sure that deposition transcripts are clear and precise, and a few key strategies can help attorneys get the most out of a transcript before, during and after a deposition, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

  • 3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims

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    Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.

  • Series

    Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.

  • A New Tool For Assessing Kickback Risks In Health Marketing

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    The Seventh Circuit's recent decision in U.S. v. Sorensen, reversing a conviction after trial of a durable medical equipment distributor, highlights two principle considerations for determining whether payments to marketers in healthcare are unlawful under the Anti-Kickback Statute, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law

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    Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.

  • Understanding How Jurors Arrive At Punitive Damage Awards

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    Much of the rising trend of so-called thermonuclear verdicts can be tied to punitive damages amounts that astonish the imagination, so attorneys must understand the psychological underpinnings that drive jurors’ decision-making calculus on damages, says Clint Townson at Townson Litigation.

  • Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals

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    If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.

  • Series

    Playing Football Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    While my football career ended over 15 years ago, the lessons the sport taught me about grit, accountability and resilience have stayed with me and will continue to help me succeed as an attorney, says Bert McBride at Trenam.

  • 10 Arbitrations And A 5th Circ. Ruling Flag Arb. Clause Risks

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    The ongoing arbitral saga of Sullivan v. Feldman, which has engendered proceedings before 10 different arbitrators in Texas and Louisiana along with last month's Fifth Circuit opinion, showcases both the risks and limitations of arbitration clauses in retainer agreements for resolving attorney-client disputes, says Christopher Blazejewski at Sherin and Lodgen.

  • Series

    Power To The Paralegals: The Value Of Unified State Licensing

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    Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.

  • Fed. Circ. In March: Forfeiting Claim Construction On Appeal

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    The Federal Circuit's decision in Wash World v. Belanger last month confirms the importance of fair notice to the district court when determining forfeiture of an argument on appeal in the context of patent claim construction, allowing appellants to better gauge the appropriate framing of arguments that may be presented, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

  • AI Use In Class Actions Comes With Risks And Rewards

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    The use of artificial intelligence in class actions holds promise for helping to analyze complex evidence, but attorneys and experts must understand how to use it correctly, and how to explain it clearly, say Simone Jones and Eric Mattson at Sidley and Anna Shakotko at Cornerstone Research.

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