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September 26, 2025
Capital One Resolves Ex-Workers' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit
Capital One has agreed to end a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully used tens of millions of dollars in forfeited 401(k) funds to reduce its own contributions to the plan rather than curtail administrative costs, the company told a New York federal court.
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September 26, 2025
JPMorgan Must Face Mich. Firm's Fraud Debt Collection Suit
JPMorgan Chase Bank must face a Michigan law firm's claim that the firm shouldn't have to repay debt for lines of credit a former controller took out fraudulently in the firm's name, a Michigan federal judge said, but the bank escaped allegations under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.
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September 26, 2025
Wells Fargo Nears Deal With Investors In 'Sham' Hiring Suit
Wells Fargo and investors who said they lost money after allegations surfaced that the bank conducted fake interviews to show it met diversity goals have told a California federal court they've reached a settlement in principle, less than two weeks after the company announced a deal in a derivative lawsuit over similar claims.
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September 26, 2025
Jones Day Hires NY Public Finance Attorney From Orrick
Jones Day announced that its New York office has gained a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lawyer who advises issuers, underwriters and lenders on public finance and real assets transactions.
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September 26, 2025
Taxation With Representation: De Brauw, Hengeler Mueller
In this week's Taxation With Representation, power grid operator TenneT Holding sells a stake in its German transmission business to institutional investors, Pfizer Inc. acquires biotechnology company Metsera Inc., and Dutch brewer Heineken NV buys most of Costa Rica's FIFCO beverage and retail operations.
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September 26, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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September 25, 2025
Standing Questions Loom In Mozambique LNG Loan Dispute
The requirements for organizational standing dominated much of Thursday's oral argument over the Export-Import Bank of the United States' decision to back a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, as the challengers sought a preliminary injunction that could hinge on recent standing rulings from the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.
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September 25, 2025
Fed's Cook Warns Justices Of Fed Independence 'Death Knell'
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust her, warning that allowing her dismissal at this juncture would "sound the death knell" for an independent Fed.
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September 25, 2025
CashCall Urges Justices To Overturn $134M CFPB Award
CashCall is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit order that left the loan company on the hook for $134 million in restitution to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the firm's insistence that conflicting precedent deprived it of its right to a jury trial.
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September 25, 2025
Big Banks Beat Yearslong Libor-Rigging Claims In NY
A New York federal judge Thursday disposed of the remaining claims in long-running multidistrict litigation accusing Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other large banks of Libor manipulation.
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September 25, 2025
Atkins Hints At Flexible Reporting Deadlines For Public Cos.
With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission preparing to seek public feedback on President Donald Trump's proposal that public companies be allowed to report their financial results only twice a year, agency Chair Paul Atkins suggested Thursday that the SEC may not take a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
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September 25, 2025
Cleo AI Military Lending Suit Paused Amid 9th Circ. Appeal
A Washington federal judge has halted proceedings in an Army staff sergeant's proposed class action alleging Cleo AI Inc. violates the Military Lending Act by employing predatory lending practices through its cash advances.
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September 25, 2025
BBVA's Boosted $23B Sabadell Bid Gets Approval In Spain
Spain's securities regulator, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, has approved BBVA's revised offer to Banco Sabadell shareholders, which includes a 10% increase in consideration and more favorable tax treatment, the lender announced Thursday.
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September 25, 2025
Mich. Judge Backs $778M Judgment Against Auto Parts Mogul
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday said Alter Domus LLC can pursue a judgment against a Detroit-area businessman's trust in a decades-old dispute over a guaranty agreement, renewing the more than $770 million award to the administrative agent after determining it properly took over the case from JPMorgan Chase.
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September 25, 2025
DC Circ. Backs Whistleblower In IRS Award Dispute
A whistleblower who received millions of dollars in awards for helping the IRS nab prominent Wall Street firms that helped offshore hedge funds evade taxes was wrongly blocked from receiving millions more, the D.C. Circuit ruled.
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September 25, 2025
Flagstar Seeks Instant Win In Ex-Live Well VP Fraud Case
Flagstar Bank has urged a Michigan federal judge to grant it an early win against a former executive of the now-bankrupt Live Well for his role in a scheme to defraud lenders by inflating the value of bonds, saying because the executive already pled guilty to securities fraud, he cannot now deny liability in the bank's civil case.
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September 25, 2025
First Merchants, First Savings Merge In $241M All-Stock Deal
Dentons-advised First Merchants Corp. and First Savings Financial Group Inc., led by Luse Gorman PC, on Thursday unveiled plans to merge in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $241 million.
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September 25, 2025
3rd Circ. Won't Revive Debt Collection Suit Against NJ Firm
The Third Circuit rejected a bid Thursday from a woman suing Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP to revive her proposed class action over allegedly unfair debt collection practices after a federal trial court ruled that she filed her suit too late.
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September 25, 2025
Fed. Circ. Revives Apex Bank's TM Bid Over TTAB Error
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board incorrectly prevented a Tennessee bank from registering "Aspire Bank" for banking and financial services because of potential confusion with a credit card company's existing "Aspire" mark, the Federal Circuit said in a precedential decision Thursday that remanded the case for further analysis.
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September 24, 2025
Robocall Recipients Get Class Cert. Against Ill. Bank
Consumers who allegedly received unwanted robocalls from Illinois-based Federal Savings Bank will secure certification of a nationwide class of nearly 2.3 million consumers in a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action, an Illinois federal judge has decided.
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September 24, 2025
SEC Gets $7M Default Insider Trading Win Against UK Trader
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ordered a British-Lebanese trader to pay over $7.7 million, stemming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading allegations, months after the defendant avoided extradition from the U.K. on parallel criminal charges.
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September 24, 2025
Texas Banker Says Co.'s $30M Fraud Suit Must Be Arbitrated
A South African company's lawsuit accusing a Texas family, a wealth manager and Frost Bank of orchestrating a $30 million embezzlement and money laundering scheme belongs in arbitration, the defendants have told a Fort Worth federal judge.
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September 24, 2025
FINRA To Nix Minimum Equity Requirement For Day Traders
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced Wednesday that its board approved changes to its rules for so-called pattern day trading that would remove a minimum equity requirement for such traders.
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September 24, 2025
Comcast Loses Challenge To Labor Dept. ALJs' Authority
Comcast Corp. can't force a pair of former executives and the U.S. Department of Labor to sue in federal court, after a Virginia federal judge found that handing a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower case to an administrative law judge did not violate the company's Seventh Amendment rights.
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September 24, 2025
Execs Breached Danish Deal In $2B Tax Case, Court Says
Three men claiming to be pension plan executives who struck a civil settlement with the Danish taxing authority over their role in a $2 billion tax fraud scheme breached their settlement agreement, a New York federal court found, saying the men had not paid back the amount they promised.
Expert Analysis
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How AI Is Easing Digital Asset Recovery In Fraud Cases
In combination with recent legislation and a maturing digital asset infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to recover stolen assets, giving litigants a more specific understanding of financial fraud earlier in the process and making it economically feasible to pursue smaller fraud claims, says Solomon Shinerock at Lewis Baach.
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5 Critical Changes Coming To Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1
Residential mortgage lenders and servicers should prepare for significant amendments to Bankruptcy Rule 3002.1 taking effect this December that will impose new filing requirements, codify how creditors handle untimely payment change notices and allow debtors to request status updates, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Sanctions Considerations For Reentering The Syrian Market
Reentering or opening new markets in Syria, now that the Trump administration has revoked certain long-standing sanctions and export controls, necessitates increased due diligence and best practices capable of adapting to a changing local environment as well as future changes in U.S. law, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds
A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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What FinCEN's AML Rule Delay Means For Advisers
Even with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's statement last month delaying the compliance date for a rule requiring advisers to report suspicious activity, advisers can expect some level of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission oversight in connection with anti-money laundering compliance, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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State Laws Show Uniformity Is Key To Truly Fair Bank Access
The lack of uniformity among state laws — including new Idaho legislation — that forbid banks from discriminating against customers based on ideology shows that a single set of federally administered fair access rules would better serve financial institutions and American consumers, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: August Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses key takeaways from federal appellate decisions involving topics including antitrust, immigration, consumer fraud, birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, and product defects.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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White House Report Strikes An Optimistic Note On Crypto
Taking seriously President Donald Trump's pledge to adopt a pro-innovation mindset toward digital assets and blockchain technologies, a recent benchmark White House report on crypto provides a comprehensive regulatory framework that takes into account the products' novel characteristics within the high-tech ecosystem, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.
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Taxpayers Face Tough Choices Under NJ's New Nexus Rules
Though New Jersey’s new rules expanding the commercial nexus that triggers state taxation are likely to be challenged, businesses still need to carefully consider whether it’s best to minimize potential tax by reducing online customer support services or maintain their current instate services and begin paying tax, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.