Analysis

DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Policy May Eclipse SDNY's

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice has put to use for the first time its new corporate enforcement policy of declining prosecutions when companies self-report potential criminal violations, but experts say the new, department-wide initiative has rendered a more business-friendly approach by the Southern District of New York moot.

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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak

By Tracey Read

The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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YouTube Creators Say Amazon Scrapes Videos To Train AI

By Lauren Berg

A group of YouTube creators say Amazon.com Inc. has been scraping millions of copyrighted videos to feed, train and commercialize its text-to-video generative product by unlawfully circumventing the video platform's technological protection measures, in a proposed class action filed Friday in Seattle federal court.

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Analysis

Ill. Businesses Score Win In 7th Circ. BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit's holding that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies retroactively to all cases pending before the change took effect is a major victory for businesses facing potentially enormous damages in those lawsuits, and offers important clarity for the lawyers handling them and negotiating settlements, attorneys told Law360.

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Analysis

Closing The Chapter On DOJ-Boeing 737 Max Criminal Case

By Linda Chiem

Boeing appears to have closed a chapter in the legal saga over the two 737 Max 8 crashes after a Fifth Circuit ruling underscored that courts cannot interfere with prosecutors' choices to bring criminal charges, dashing the hopes of victims' families for justice and accountability.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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Analysis

Clean Energy Tax Credits Could Gain Ground In Tax Planning

By Kat Lucero

Discounted pricing and risk-limiting contracts are driving large companies to buy clean energy tax credits to lower their IRS bills, a move experts said could become standard in corporate tax planning.

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Brief

GSA Restores Anthropic Technology Post-Injunction

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. General Services Administration said on Friday that it is restoring Anthropic's technology to the agency's multiple award schedule after a California federal judge blocked the Trump administration from requiring all federal agencies to stop using Claude.

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Music Publishers Say X Finds Conspiracy In 1 Emailed 'We'

By Craig Clough

The National Music Publishers' Association and its members have told a Texas federal court that X Corp.'s antitrust suit fails to allege any conspiracy, with the best argument the company could muster being an "implausible" interpretation of a single word — "we" — in a single email.

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Hershey Can't Escape 'One Chip Challenge' Death Suit

By Mike Curley

A Massachusetts federal judge has thrown out claims against Walgreens in a suit from a mother claiming her son died after eating part of an excessively spicy chip, but allowed design defect and other claims against the Hershey Co. and its affiliates that made the chip.

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Amazon Says Audible Intervenor Wants Info For Her Own Suit

By Ben Adlin

Amazon urged a Seattle federal judge to deny a woman's motion to intervene in a putative class action accusing the retailer of wrongfully auto-enrolling customers in its Audible e-book service, arguing the woman should not be able to obtain discovery in the case to buttress her own recently dismissed complaint.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Cleary, Hogan Lovells, Wachtell

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, spice maker McCormick acquires Unilever's foods business, wholesale restaurant food distributor Sysco buys Jetro Restaurant Depot, and private equity giant KKR closes a fund focused on investments in North America.

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Atlanta Braves CLO Saw Comp. More Than Double In 2025

By Madison Arnold

The chief legal officer of the Atlanta Braves earned almost $4.5 million in total compensation in 2025, which is $2.6 million more than the year before.

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Brief

CFTC Appoints Deputy GCs For Regulation, Litigation

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Friday that it has hired a former U.S. Senate staffer and a lawyer with experience at the Virginia Attorney General's Office as deputy general counsel overseeing regulation and litigation at the agency.

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HFW Hires Senior In-House Amazon Pro For Paris Office

By Ashish Sareen

Holman Fenwick Willan has boosted its office in Paris with the hire of a senior in-house lawyer at Amazon, which it says will strengthen the firm's services in global disputes and regulatory investigations.

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Greenberg Traurig Adds Former Healthcare GC In Dallas

By Lynn LaRowe

Greenberg Traurig LLP has boosted its healthcare and U.S. Food and Drug Administration practice with a shareholder in Dallas who brings substantial in-house experience, most recently serving as general counsel to ophthalmology administrative services provider Sight Growth Partners.

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Parsing Rule 12(c) Motion Overuse In Securities Class Actions

Defendants in securities class actions have more frequently been filing motions for judgment on the pleadings following the denial of motions to dismiss, but courts have recently demonstrated an increasing willingness to reject these previously rare motions, finding them transparent attempts to relitigate already-decided issues, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

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Opinion

FTC Case Risks Redefining Price Discrimination

Federal Trade Commission v. Southern Glazer puts a spotlight on the blurry line between illegal price discrimination and ordinary competition, and could potentially set a precedent that puts nearly any manufacturer at risk of Robinson-Patman Act enforcement, says Jeremy Sandford at Econic Partners.

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How Cos. Can Prepare For 'Made In America' Ad Scrutiny

The Trump administration's executive order to combat fraudulent "Made in America" claims in consumer-facing advertising, along with actions by the Federal Trade Commission, suggest a potential increased focus on consumer protection and pricing-related matters, say attorneys at Skadden.

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What's Missing From Latest Gov't Claims Against Harvard

The most interesting thing about the Trump administration’s recent civil rights enforcement efforts targeting Harvard University is its decision not to assert violations of the False Claims Act when given the opportunity, despite signals that its enforcement efforts will include use of the federal FCA, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

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Series

Mich. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q1

Michigan's financial services sector saw several significant developments in 2026's first quarter, including the state Department of Insurance and Financial Services' issuance of a bulletin on the use of artificial intelligence and the Michigan House's introduction of a bill based on the Model Money Transmission Modernization Act, say attorneys at Dykema.

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ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

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Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

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Brief

Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

By Courtney Buble

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

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6th Circ. Axes Atty For 'Inexcusable' AI 'Transgressions'

By Rae Ann Varona

An attorney committed "inexcusable transgressions" by relying on Westlaw's internal CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform for appellate filings and by failing to catch erroneous AI-generated content, the Sixth Circuit said Friday and removed the lawyer from further representing a man who pled guilty to drug trafficking charges.

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Analysis

'Political' Deals Pit DOJ Against State AGs, And Not Just Dems

By Bryan Koenig

Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."

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Florida Gov., AG Face Criticism For Judge Impeachment Push

By Rose Krebs

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier faced pushback this week from some in the state's legal community for calling for the impeachment of a judge for releasing a man who went on to allegedly kill his five-year-old stepdaughter, with critics blasting those calls as being politically motivated and "unethical."

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Ex-DOJ Official Wants Epstein-Talk Suit Kept In District Court

By Emily Sawicki

A former U.S. Department of Justice acting deputy chief who was fired last year after a hidden-camera video of him discussing the Epstein files was posted online has told a D.C. federal judge his due process case must survive in district court because the Trump administration now controls federal oversight agencies.

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Trump Seeks 13% Boost In DOJ Funding

By Courtney Bublé

The White House budget request for fiscal 2027, released on Friday, seeks $40.8 billion in discretionary funds for the U.S. Department of Justice, a 13% increase from the current year level.

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Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

By Jon Hill

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.

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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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