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Ex-Angels Staffer Says Attys Botched Skaggs Overdose Case

By Elliot Weld

A former Los Angeles Angels press officer asked a Texas federal judge to undo the 22-year prison sentence he's currently serving after being convicted of giving pitcher Tyler Skaggs fentanyl-laced pills that caused his fatal overdose in 2019.

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Sandy Hook Families Seek To Enforce Alex Jones Judgment

By Brian Steele

Infowars founder Alex Jones should be forced to pay the judgment that Sandy Hook families won in their long-running defamation case, even though he lodged a "baseless" appeal with the Connecticut Supreme Court in an effort to create further delays, the plaintiffs said.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.

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ENFORCEMENT

Boeing, DOJ Want More Time To Rework 737 Max Plea Deal

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Justice and The Boeing Co. told a Texas federal judge on Thursday that they need another month to rework a plea agreement in the American aerospace giant's 737 Max criminal conspiracy case, saying new senior DOJ officials are still being briefed on a potential new deal.

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LITIGATION

Tesla, Objector Appeal $730M Chancery Board Pay Deal

By Katryna Perera

Tesla Inc. and a stockholder objector have appealed a Delaware Court of Chancery approval of the return of more than $730 million in director stock, option and grant awards to the company that would resolve a suit accusing the electric-car maker's board of raking in "outrageous" compensation packages that cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Claims Court Won't Block $182M Army Corps Deal

By Madeline Lyskawa

A Court of Federal Claims judge rejected a contractor's attempt to block a $181.5 million Army Corps of Engineers construction contract, saying the company provided little evidence to back its claim the agency erred in choosing a more expensive proposal. 

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Oil & Gas Co.'s Antitrust Suit Baseless, Insurers Say

By Spencer Brewer

Insurers who hold surety bonds in an oil company and have been accused of colluding with other bondholders to demand additional collateral have urged a Texas federal court to dismiss the antitrust allegations against them, saying the dispute is contractual only.

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Brief

EPA Asks 5th Circ. To Pause State Ozone Plan Decision

By Catherine Marfin

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked the Fifth Circuit to hold off on deciding whether it was allowed to deny three states' plans to comply with federal ozone standards to give the Trump administration time to evaluate the rule at the center of the litigation.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

After Winning $18M, ASUSTek Foe Asks For New Patent Trial

By Andrew Karpan

A patent litigation company that obtained a nearly $18 million award from a federal jury in Waco, Texas, against Taiwanese computer manufacturer ASUSTeK says it wants to try winning some more money at a new trial, though the company admitted it "recognizes the extraordinary nature of the relief it is requesting."

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ASUSTeK Hit With $10.5M Verdict In Chip Patent Case

By Andrew Karpan

A jury in the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday found that Taipei-based laptop maker ASUSTeK infringed electronic component patents by a fellow Taiwanese rival and owed $10.5 million.

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Jury Clears Cisco In IP Trial Over Routers, Axes Patent

By Andrew Karpan

A patent licensing company has failed for a third time to land a successful infringement lawsuit in the Western District of Texas, after a jury rejected its $19.3 million case against Cisco.

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DEALS

Kirkland, Davis Polk Steer SailPoint's Upsized $1.38B IPO

By Tom Zanki

Private equity-backed cybersecurity firm SailPoint began trading Thursday following an upsized $1.38 billion initial public offering that priced at the top of its range, represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and underwriters' counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, marking its return to public markets three years after being taken private.

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PEOPLE

Greenberg Traurig Adds Goodwin Life Sciences Pro In Texas

By Lynn LaRowe

Greenberg Traurig LLP has expanded its life sciences and technology practice with a shareholder in Austin, Texas, who has extensive expertise in handling cross-border deals and came aboard from Goodwin Procter LLP.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Emerging Energy Trends Reflect Shifting Political Landscape

As the Trump administration settles in, some emerging energy industry trends, like expanded support for fossil fuel production, are right off of its wish list — while others, like the popularity of Inflation Reduction Act energy tax credits, and bipartisan support for carbon capture, reflect more complex political realities, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig

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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege

Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

FTC Political Appointees Told To Break Up With 'Leftist' ABA

By Lauren Berg

Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew N. Ferguson told agency staff in a letter Friday that political appointees cannot hold leadership positions in the American Bar Association, attend its events or renew their memberships, citing the ABA's "leftist advocacy and its recent attacks" on the Trump administration's agenda.

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Adams Case Careens Toward 'Messy' Hearing, Experts Say

By Phillip Bantz

The Manhattan federal judge overseeing the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams is unlikely to rubber stamp a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to toss the case and may instead hold a hearing on the matter, which could get "messy" and "embarrassing," experts say.

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Brief

House Judiciary Courts Chair Previews 'Rogue' Judges Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The chair of the House Judiciary Committee's courts panel is working on legislation to prevent "rogue rulings" by federal judges, which he plans to introduce on Tuesday, following adverse rulings for the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

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Munger Tolles Gets $10M Retainer To Rep LA In Fire Litigation

By Rachel Scharf

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP has signed a $10 million retainer agreement to represent the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in a series of lawsuits alleging it irresponsibly left a local reservoir empty ahead of last month's devastating Palisades Fire.

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Analysis

Trump Aims To End Limits On President's Power To Fire

By Katie Buehler

President Donald Trump has his sights set on taking down a 90-year-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protects certain government officials from being fired, a U.S. Department of Justice letter confirms, and he plans to leverage his prior legal victories to deliver the precedent's death knell and expand presidential power.

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NY Leads Lateral Associate Pay Growth, Up $100K In 5 Years

By Xiumei Dong

Competition for lateral associates in top U.S. legal markets, including New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., has soared over the past five years, as law firms compete fiercely for top talent, according to a recent report from global legal recruitment firm Major Lindsey & Africa.

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Diddy, Jay-Z Rape Lawsuit Dropped Amid Legal Ethics Battle

By Rachel Scharf

An anonymous woman on Friday dropped her New York federal court lawsuit accusing Sean "Diddy" Combs and Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter of raping a teenager together, claims that launched a bitter ethics feud between personal injury attorney Tony Buzbee and Jay-Z's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Buchalter, Parker Milliken Get Stay In $19M Theft Suit

By Craig Clough

A California judge on Friday granted a stay to Buchalter PC and Parker Milliken Clark O'Hara & Samuelian APC while the law firms appeal a decision denying their bid to arbitrate a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to help their client bilk nearly $20 million from some trusts in a Ponzi scheme.

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Almost Everyone Hates The Judiciary's Amicus Rule Revamp

By Jeff Overley

Policymakers for the federal judiciary Friday did what often seems impossible in a polarized nation, uniting powerful advocates for defense counsel, trial lawyers, corporations and consumers on a controversial issue. Unfortunately for the policymakers, those advocates were united by antipathy for major rule changes affecting amicus brief filers.

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House Dems Amplify ABA Decision On High Court Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee's courts panel urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to adopt a binding and enforceable code of ethics after the American Bar Association's policy-making body advocated for such.

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Melgren Takes Senior Status, Opening Kansas Seat For Trump

By Courtney Bublé

Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren of the District of Kansas will take senior status later this year, bringing the total of current and upcoming judicial vacancies President Donald Trump has available to fill to 53.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Spice Girls star Mel B's ex-husband bring a defamation claim against the publisher of The Sun, a hotel sue a former director convicted of embezzling its funds for breach of fiduciary duty, and comedian Russell Brand face a sexual abuse claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Rewarding Ex-Atty For Killing Wife Is Unjust, Ga. Court Told

By Emily Johnson

The administrator of the estate of the wife of a former BigLaw attorney urged a Georgia state court to block the husband's bid to designate the settlement proceeds of a wrongful death suit, arguing that it "does not seem just to reward" him after he "did, in fact, shoot and kill his wife."

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Amid a slew of Trump administration actions this week that will impact corporate legal departments, the Federal Communications Commission announced it will investigate Comcast and NBCUniversal over their diversity efforts.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Delaware federal judge ruled that tech startup ROSS Intelligence infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

AVA Law Group

Abrams & Bayliss

Akerman LLP

Bass Berry

Bayard PA

Benesch

Bleichmar Fonti

Broocks Law Firm

Browne Jacobson LLP

Brownstein Hyatt

Buchalter APC

Burns Charest

Buzbee Law Firm

Charles Russell Speechlys

Cheeley Law Group

Clifford Law Offices

Clyde & Co

Crowell & Moring

Curis Law

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Davis Polk

Deka Chambers

Dickinson Wright

Dorsey & Whitney

Dykema

Edwin Coe

Erise IP

Fieldfisher

Fields Kupka

Folio Law Group

Gaslowitz Frankel

Gerger Hennessy

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goldberg Segalla

Goodwin Procter

Goody Law Group

Greenberg Gross

Greenberg Traurig

Halpern May

Haltom & Doan

Hausfeld LLP

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Howes Percival

Husch Blackwell

Irwin Mitchell

Jenner & Block

Johnson Vaughn & Heiskell

Jones Day

Joshua R. Furman Law

Kasowitz Benson

Kemmer Law

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Koskoff Koskoff

Kreindler & Kreindler

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Baach

Lumens Law Group

Manatt Phelps

McCarter & English

McGuireWoods

Mishcon de Reya

Molfetta Law

Morgan & Morgan

Morris Nichols

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

Orrick Herrington

Parker Milliken

Podhurst Orseck

Pryor Cashman

Quinn Emanuel

Randazza Legal Group

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Robin Frazer Clark PC

Scott Douglass

Seila Law

Sher Tremonte

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Coburn

Weil Gotshal

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.

Ageas SA/NV

AllianceBernstein Holding LP

Amazon.com Inc.

American Association for Justice

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Amicus

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

British Broadcasting Corp.

Bucyrus International, Inc.

C.R. Bard Inc.

Cato Institute

Chevron Corp.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Comcast Corp.

Corporate Legal Operations Consortium

Crum & Forster Holdings Corp.

Curis Inc.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Disney Consumer Products Inc.

Dragoneer Investment Group LLC

Duquesne University

Enterprise Holdings Inc.

Epic Games Inc.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

Federalist Society

Gallup Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Hawaiian Electric Co. Inc.

If P&C Insurance Ltd.

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Iron Ship Builders Blacksmiths Forgers & Helpers

JUUL Labs Inc.

Johnson Rice & Co. LLC

Jupiter Fund Management PLC

KPMG International

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Landry's Restaurants Inc.

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Los Angeles Angels

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power

MS Amlin PLC

MTV Networks Co.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Marvel Entertainment LLC

McCarthy Holdings

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Morgan Stanley

NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund Inc.

NASDAQ Inc.

NBCUniversal Media LLC

National Federation of Independent Business

National Rifle Association of America

Netflix Inc.

New York City Bar Association

New York University

Nokia Corp.

Nokia Siemens Networks BV

Northern Trust Corp.

PG&E Corp.

Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

Pro Publica Inc.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

RELX PLC

ROSS Intelligence

Slack Technologies Inc.

Smithfield Foods Inc.

Spotify Technology SA

State Bar of Texas

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Walt Disney Co.

Thoma Bravo LLC

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Twitter Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

UBS Group AG

Venture Global LNG

W&T Offshore Inc.

Walmart Inc.

Whitley Penn LLP

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Land Management

Companies House

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Union

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Housing Finance Agency

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Georgia Supreme Court

Illinois Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

Maritime Administration

National Labor Relations Board

New York Attorney General's Office

New York State Police

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Office Of Special Counsel

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court