'Dr. P.' Gets 2.5 Years For Selling Ketamine To Matthew Perry

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge sentenced a former physician who supplied Matthew Perry with ketamine before the "Friends" actor's overdose death to 2 years and 6 months in prison Wednesday, following the doctor's July guilty plea to four counts of illegally distributing the drug.

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Oak View CEO Pardoned 5 Months After Bid-Rigging Charge

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump has pardoned former Oak View Group CEO Tim Leiweke just five months after the U.S. Department of Justice charged him with allegedly rigging a bid to build and operate the Moody Center arena on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

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LA Atty Accused Of Using AI 'Hallucinations' Sanctioned

By Rae Ann Varona

A California state appeals court has ordered an attorney accused of including artificial intelligence "hallucinations" in a client's opening brief to pay $7,500 to the court, saying in a published opinion that the attorney is subject to sanctions for inaccuracies, regardless of whether they were the result of AI.

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Ex-Bernstein Litowitz Atty Starts Firm After Contentious Exit

By Adrian Cruz

A former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner known for handling high-profile stockholder cases has led the launch of a boutique focused on corporate disputes and securities litigation after the firm says he was fired for misconduct.

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Hagens Berman Must Give Apple, Amazon Ethics Pros Docs

By Bryan Koenig

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP must give Apple and Amazon all the communications it shared with outside ethics experts as the firm fought allegations that it hid a consumer plaintiff's desire to exit an antitrust case, a Washington federal judge has ruled.

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9th Circ. Won't Revive Adidas Investors' Suit Over Ye Collab

By Ben Adlin

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday affirmed an Oregon federal court's decision to toss investors' proposed class action accusing Adidas of failing to disclose the risks of relying on the rapper Ye for a multibillion-dollar fashion partnership, concluding a lower court properly tossed the dispute.

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GOP Expects G7 Side-By-Side Tax Deal Details This Week

By Asha Glover

The House Ways and Means Committee's top Republican expects negotiations to wrap up this week on the technical details of the agreement with the Group of Seven countries to exempt U.S. multinational corporations from the minimum-tax system, he said Wednesday.

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9th Circ. Asked To Reconsider Idaho Land Swap Decision

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Department of the Interior and J.R. Simplot Co. are asking the Ninth Circuit to reconsider a decision to invalidate an Idaho land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, arguing that the panel's conclusion flouts Supreme Court precedent and defies federal land management policy's text and central aim.

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Calif. Privacy Agency Hits Marketer For Broker Registry Lapse

By Allison Grande

A Nevada-based marketing firm that builds custom audience lists for fitness and wellness brands has become the latest target of the California Privacy Protection Agency's efforts to police data brokers, with state officials announcing Wednesday the company had agreed to pay a $56,600 penalty for failing to register as a data broker.

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Meta Accused Of Stealing Swedish Label's Music A 2nd Time

By Gina Kim

A Swedish music label has once again accused Meta of copyright infringement, saying the social media giant has not stopped encouraging users to insert its recordings into Reels and other videos on Facebook and Instagram without proper licensing since its first suit was filed. 

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OpenAI Can't Scrap Injunction In TM Suit Over 'IO' Name

By Gina Kim

OpenAI can't undo an injunction won by IYO Inc. that temporarily blocked it from using the "IO" trademark in certain circumstances involving acquired competitor IO Products, after the Ninth Circuit concluded on Wednesday that the parties' marks only differ by one letter and sell similar AI-related products.

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ITC Judge Finds Innoscience Infringes 1 Of 2 Infineon Patents

By Adam Lidgett

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has found that China-based chipmaker Innoscience infringed upon a patent owned by semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies, though Innoscience says the finding doesn't block it from selling its gallium nitride technology products.

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NuVasive Urges Del. Justices To Revive Officer Conflict Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

A Delaware vice chancellor applied the wrong standards in tossing a suit alleging a former officer of spine surgery tech venture NuVasive Inc. ran an insider scheme to lure surgeons to a competitor while planning his own jump, an attorney for NuVasive told a Delaware Supreme Court panel on Wednesday.

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9th Circ. Asks Calif. High Court For Ruling In Buyout Dispute

By Rae Ann Varona

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday asked California's highest court to rule on whether California state law bars a shareholder from seeking buyout-related damages when the shareholder does not become aware of their basis for seeking damages until after a buyout's completion — a ruling that could upend a $9 million verdict.

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Citibank Says Developer Can't Blame It For $45M Wire Scam

By Joyce Hanson

Citibank NA has urged a California federal judge to toss a suit by a real estate developer who accidentally wired $45 million in home-purchase funds to a fraudster after receiving spoofed escrow emails.

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AGs Say Sun, Taro Settlement Mustn't Touch State Claims

By Bryan Koenig

State attorneys general have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to again ensure their claims remain untouched by a settlement between private plaintiffs and generic-drug makers in sprawling price-fixing litigation, this time focusing on a $200 million deal between Sun Pharmaceutical, Taro Pharmaceuticals and employee benefit plans.

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2 Firms Advise As Marvell Inks Up To $5.5B Celestial AI Deal

By Al Barbarino

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Latham & Watkins LLP are advising Marvell Technology and Celestial AI, respectively, on an up to $5.5 billion deal that will expand Marvell's position in high-speed connectivity for artificial intelligence data centers.

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Sheppard Mullin Lands MoFo IP Atty In Los Angeles

By Lynn LaRowe

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Wednesday it has bulked up its intellectual property practice with a Los Angeles-based partner who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.

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State, Federal Incentives Heat Up Geothermal Projects

Geothermal energy can now benefit from dramatically accelerated permitting for development on federal land as well as state-level renewable energy portfolio standards — but operating in the complex legal framework surrounding geothermal projects requires successful navigation of complex water rights and environmental regulations, say attorneys at Holland & Hart.

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And Now A Word From The Panel: A New Rule For MDLs

With a new federal rule of civil procedure dedicated to multidistrict litigation practice taking effect this month, MDL watchers will be keeping on eye on whether the rule effectively serves its purpose of ensuring that only supportable claims proceed in MDLs, says Alan Rothman at Sidley.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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High Billers At McKool Smith To Pocket Extra Bonus Money

By Tracey Read

McKool Smith is the latest BigLaw firm to announce extra cash for attorneys who went above and beyond with billable hours in 2025, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.

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Wilson Sonsini To Switch Leaders For 1st Time Since 2012

By Andrea Keckley

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.

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FTC Backs Nixing ABA Role As 'Gatekeeper' For Texas Bar

By Lynn LaRowe

The Federal Trade Commission has endorsed a proposal from the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, saying the organization's "accreditation monopoly" hurts competition and consumers.

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Virginia Bar Declines To Investigate Interim US Atty Halligan

By Ryan Boysen

The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.

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Trump Would Prefer Jack Smith Testify In Public

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.

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1st Circ. Doubts Ex-BigLaw Atty's Campaign Finance Appeal

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Wednesday expressed misgivings about a former BigLaw attorney's argument that a jury that convicted him of a campaign finance scheme during a failed run for Congress should have been required to unanimously find that each specific transaction was illegal.

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Archegos Founder Says Davis Polk Job Offer Taints Restitution

By Lauren Berg

Archegos founder Bill Hwang, who is serving an 18-year sentence for defrauding banks out of billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, asked to vacate his restitution order because the presiding judge's clerk accepted a job with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which represents victim-bank Morgan Stanley.

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Troutman Atty Is 3rd NC Federal Judge Confirmed This Week

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.

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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.

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