Insurer Can't Add McLaren Flint To Legionella Coverage Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan federal judge said an insurer cannot add a Michigan hospital's Flint-based subsidiary to a coverage dispute stemming from legionella contamination claims, ruling Thursday that the insurer missed an agreed-upon deadline and that adding a new defendant now would disrupt the case.

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Woman's Hit-And-Run Injuries Not Covered, 8th Circ. Says

By Hope Patti

A woman struck by a vehicle while crossing the street is not entitled to uninsured motorist coverage under her employer's auto policy, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday, saying she was not an insured under the policy because she was not occupying a covered vehicle at the time of the incident.

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Ga. Panel Revives Man's Suit Over Accidental Shooting

By Gina Kim

Georgia appellate judges reinstated a personal injury suit by a man whose leg was amputated after being accidentally shot by a teenager, ruling Wednesday the defendants failed to show no other insurance coverage was available for the injuries under a commercial auto policy the teen's father had through his business. 

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Costco Drops Chicken Drippings Slip-And-Fall Coverage Row

By Danielle Ferguson

Costco has agreed to dismiss claims seeking coverage for an underlying suit from a man who was injured when he slipped on rotisserie chicken drippings in a California store, according to a joint motion to dismiss Wednesday.

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Paul Weiss Guides Standard Life's £2B Pensions Venture

By Tom Fish

Standard Life PLC launched a partnership with a consortium of major global financial companies on Thursday to expand in the U.K. pension risk-transfer market, with a combined initial capital commitment of up to £2 billion ($2.7 billion).

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Ex-AIG GC Fato Joins Vantage Group As Top Lawyer

By Sue Reisinger

Vantage Group Holdings, a specialty insurance and reinsurance company based in Bermuda, said Thursday it has hired the former legal chief of AIG and Seaport Entertainment Group as its general counsel.

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Mitigating The Risk Of Antiestablishment Jurors

The legal battles currently embroiling social media companies underscore that jurors with anti-corporate bias and conspiratorial thinking patterns pose myriad risks to corporate defendants, and defense counsel should adapt their trial strategies accordingly, say consultants at Persuasion Strategies.

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Series

Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Analysis

The Race Is On To Confirm Trump's Judges By Year-End

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump nominated 11 judges this past week, meaning 19 nominees are now in the pipeline. But how many can the Senate confirm before the end of the year, given that it will mostly be absent and consumed by the midterm election? 

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Trump Admin Moves Toward Nixing ABA's Accreditor Status

By Emma Cueto

The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a move that comes as the ABA seeks to modify or repeal standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion in an attempt to preserve its accreditor status.

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Law Schools Flooded With Applicants For 3rd Straight Year

By Tracey Read

This year's U.S. law school applicant pool is up nearly 8% over 2025, with significant growth in Asian and Black prospective attorneys, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.

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Divided 2nd Circ. Backs DQ Of Acting NDNY US Attorney

By Stewart Bishop

The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court's decision that found the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, John Sarcone III, was unlawfully serving in his position when he obtained grand jury subpoenas of the New York attorney general's office.

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Fla. Attorney Fined, Referred To Bar For Unapologetic AI Use

By Madison Arnold

A Florida attorney is the latest to be sanctioned for his use of artificial intelligence, after a Florida state appeals court found Friday that his filings contained at least 46 hallucinations.

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Wiley Data Breach Class Action Dropped As 2 Sides Confer

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida resident pursuing negligence and unjust-enrichment claims against Wiley Rein LLP over a data breach voluntarily dismissed his proposed class action on Friday while leaving the door open to refile, one day after the firm told the D.C. federal court that the two sides were "conferring" on next steps.

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Gov't To Take 9th Circ.'s Bar Of Nev. US Atty To High Court

By Madison Arnold

The U.S. government asked the Ninth Circuit to stay its ruling disqualifying Nevada's top prosecutor from assuming that role without Senate confirmation, saying it plans to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump Says Pardon Atty Ed Martin Leaving For Midterms

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin will be leaving the administration to work on the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.

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Judge's Job Bid Sinks Conn. Atty's Homicide Conviction

By Brian Steele

Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is entitled to a new manslaughter trial because the presiding judge at his original trial "created an appearance of a lack of impartiality" when he did not disclose to the parties that he had applied for an oversight job with the state prosecutor's office, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Diminished Capacity, Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned 25 years of state precedent by reviving the diminished capacity defense, and the justices in Pennsylvania said the Legislature is out of time to craft new sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten sue a fur auction house, private equity and pensions magnate Edmund Truell hit by a commercial fraud claim and Charles Russell Speechlys file a contract claim against two of its previous clients in the Middle East.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A California federal judge told Meta that its in-house attorney was absolutely wrong about what constitutes attorney-client privilege and should take an ethics course. And a bipartisan group of 128 ex-judges have asked the Florida Bar to investigate Homeland Security's general counsel for his attacks on sitting judges. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Eversheds Sutherland, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after Maryland's tax court held that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act.

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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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