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  Judge Albright's Do's And Don'ts For Patent Trials

  By Dani Kass

  Two months after former ​U.S. District Judge Alan Albright returned to private practice, he regaled a room of at...(read more)

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  Wendy's Rejects $1.4B Trian-Led Take-Private Offer

  By Al Barbarino

  Wendy's said Thursday that an independent committee of its board unanimously rejected a $1.4 billion Trian Fund ...(read more)

• 2nd Circ. Doubts Aetna's Push To Arbitrate Health Fund Fight

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The Second Circuit Friday appeared skeptical of Aetna's push to force arbitration of an insurance contract dispute with a multiemployer union health benefit fund, with judges pointing to circuit precedent that arguably undermined Aetna's position.

• BREAKING: High Court Will Take Up Case Of Goldman Arbitration Denial

  By Vince Sullivan

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to take up a case involving a Fourth Circuit decision that denied an attempt by Goldman Sachs to arbitrate disputes with two debtors in bankruptcy over alleged violations of the automatic stay.

• Defeated Texas Justice Being Considered For Federal Bench

  By Courtney Bublé

  With the clock ticking on Republicans' control of the Senate, President Donald Trump is considering putting a Texas Supreme Court justice who just lost reelection on the federal bench.

• Kirkland Adds 40-Atty Weil Team Led By Ramona Nee

  By Anna Sanders and Daniel Moritz-Rabson

  Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Friday the addition of 40 attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, including the private equity practice co-leader who was once set to lead the firm.

• US Charges 3 Over $129M AI Scam Using Fake UK Lawyers

  By Laura Stewart Liberty

  U.S. prosecutors said Thursday they have charged three men, including one facing extradition from London, for allegedly defrauding companies of $129 million through a scheme that used AI to impersonate executives and U.K. lawyers.

• Quant Trader Denies Using Stolen Recipe At Code Theft Trial

  By Pete Brush

  A California quant trader accused of stealing billion-dollar code from his former employer argued to a New York federal jury Thursday that he did not use any secret recipe at a new venture, denying trade secrets theft charges.

• Blue Congress, Red Regulators: 5 FinReg Predictions

  By Jon Hill & Sarah Jarvis

  Lawmakers are set to return to Washington, D.C., next week for the final stretch of Republican control on Capitol Hill before Democrats take over, a reversal that is reshaping the outlook for financial services oversight in the remainder of President Donald Trump's term.

• Kartri Infringed Curtain Patents But Not Willfully, Judge Rules

  By Elliot Weld

  A New York federal judge on Thursday let stand a ruling that a shower curtain distributor infringed patents for hookless curtains, but determined that the infringement was not willful and cleared the curtains' manufacturer of infringement, more than a year after the Federal Circuit overturned a $4 million judgment against them.

• Blue Wave May Usher In New Era Of State Climate Action

  By Gautama Mehta

  After the midterm blue wave, environmental advocates are looking to newly flipped statehouses to pass strong climate laws in the face of the federal government's retreat from greenhouse gas regulation.

• Bankrupt LIV Golf Scraps 'LIV 2.0' Plan, Moves To Wind Down

  By Emily Lever

  LIV Golf is shutting down its plan to reorganize after one of its debtor-in-possession lenders backed out of its pledge to contribute $300 million toward its reorganization, the troubled men's professional golf league told a New Jersey bankruptcy judge on Thursday.

• Meta, TikTok, Google Say Calif. Teen Feed Ban Is Censorship

  By Emily Field

  Meta, TikTok and Google have sued California to block a new law that bans social media platforms from allowing children under 16 certain features like personalized feeds, saying in separate complaints that the law violates the First Amendment and is barred by Section 230.

• In Moderna Row, Fed. Circ. Mulls What's 'For The Government'

  By Theresa Schliep

  The Federal Circuit on Thursday took a critical look at a lower court's decision concluding that Moderna had to face Arbutus' infringement claims over its COVID-19 vaccines, with one judge repeatedly asking why Moderna's vaccine efforts weren't "for the government" within the meaning of a statutory shield for contractors.