Pillsbury Asks 2nd Circ. To Guard $4M Client Fee From SEC

By Aaron Keller

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on Wednesday urged the Second Circuit to allow it to keep a $4 million advance payment retainer from the since-convicted former CEO of a bankrupt cybersecurity company, but the law firm conceded it should have clarified its rights after the government sought an asset freeze.

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Trump Taps Norton Rose Atty To Be EEOC General Counsel

By Anne Cullen

President Donald Trump has nominated Norton Rose Fulbright's global labor and employment head to serve a four-year term as general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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Amazon Alexa Users Win Cert. Of 1.2M-Member BIPA Class

By Rae Ann Varona

An Illinois federal judge has certified a class of roughly 1.2 million users of Amazon's Alexa in litigation accusing the e-commerce giant of unlawfully collecting their biometric voice data, allowing two people to serve as representatives for those in the state for whom Amazon allegedly created voiceprints.

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TD Bank Accused Of Chinese Discrimination In AML Fallout

By Sydney Price

Ex-TD Bank employees on Wednesday hit the bank with a proposed class action accusing it of unlawfully targeting and firing its Chinese and Chinese-American workers in an attempt to show compliance with anti-money laundering procedures in the wake of enforcement actions taken by the U.S. government against the bank.

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Judge Unlikely To Find Eaton's Debt To Parent Wasn't Real

By Molly Moses

A U.S. Tax Court judge said Wednesday that he's unlikely to find that the intercompany debt U.S.-based Eaton Inc. owed its Irish parent was unreal and should be recharacterized as equity, all but dismissing an alternative argument raised by the Internal Revenue Service.

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SEC Enforcement Actions Plunged After Gensler, Report Says

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought far fewer enforcement actions against public companies and subsidiaries after its Biden-era leader Gary Gensler departed, with the former chair bringing 52 of the 56 actions the agency initiated in fiscal 2025 despite stepping down in January.

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Amazon Drivers Push For Class Cert. In Mass. Law Tip Suit

By Ben Adlin

Amazon delivery drivers who claim the e-commerce giant skimmed from their tips are asking a Seattle federal judge to revive claims under Massachusetts state law, arguing that drivers from that state may be eligible for "significant relief" beyond what they received through a 2021 settlement between Amazon and the Federal Trade Commission.

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6th Circ. Won't Explain Docs Ruling To FirstEnergy Investors

By Katryna Perera

The Sixth Circuit on Wednesday denied a request from FirstEnergy investors to clarify a ruling blocking them from accessing documents prepared by BigLaw firms investigating the company's $1 billion bribery scandal.

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Pirate-Ship Venture Ruling Tested At Del. Supreme Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court pressed attorneys Wednesday on whether a Chancery Court ruling correctly upheld decades-old stock issuances and sidestepped a final determination on a joint-venture agreement at the center of a saga involving the Whydah pirate-treasure venture.

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Nestle Asks 9th Circ. To Nix False Ad Class In Child Labor Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Nestle urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to reverse certification of a class of millions of consumers who purchased chocolate labeled "sustainably sourced," saying claims the chocolate is produced through child labor and deforestation are untrue and the question of whether consumers purchased due to the labeling is highly individualized.

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Pool Co. Directors Hit With Derivative Suit In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

Three stockholders of pool equipment company Hayward Holdings Inc. sued the company's directors and officers in Delaware's Court of Chancery late Tuesday, seeking derivative damages based on claims that — after thriving during the pandemic — the company failed to report ballooning customer inventories as insiders traded on bogus, upbeat news.

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Gilead Sciences' GC Will Leave Co. Next Month

By Sue Reisinger

Gilead Sciences Inc. announced Wednesday that Deborah H. Telman will no longer serve as its executive vice president for corporate affairs and general counsel as of Dec. 5, 2025.

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In-House Atty From Teva Joins Spencer Fane's DC Office

By Jack Rodgers

A former associate general counsel of Teva Pharmaceuticals, an Israel-headquartered biopharmaceutical company, is returning to private practice with Spencer Fane LLP, where he will work as a partner with the firm's intellectual property practice group, according to a Monday announcement.

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Pierce Atwood Energy Pro Joins Barnes & Thornburg In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Marking his third career move in the last five years, a Pierce Atwood LLP partner has made the jump to Barnes & Thornburg LLP's office in Washington, D.C., to continue his work on transactional and regulatory matters related to new energy technologies.

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The Future Of Gen AI Training Amid Reddit Data Scraping Suit

Reddit's lawsuit against Perplexity AI is not framed as a classic copyright infringement fight, demonstrating that even when companies avoid fair use claims, the path by which training data is obtained is legally consequential, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

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Bonus Spotlight

Law Firms Begin Upping The Ante For Associate Bonuses

By Tracey Read

Trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff LLP is exceeding the year-end associate bonus scale set by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP, announcing bonuses late Wednesday that are 150% of market.

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CFPB Will Shift Remaining Lawsuits Over To DOJ

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be handing off its enforcement lawsuits and other litigation to the U.S. Department of Justice as the Trump administration prepares for the consumer agency to run out of money, Law360 has learned.

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Analysis

Trump's Epstein Directive Puts SDNY Prosecutor In A 'Pickle'

By Phillip Bantz

Manhattan chief federal prosecutor Jay Clayton appears to have been backed into a "horrible" corner with a "no-win" outcome as a result of a directive from President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to prominent Democrats, experts say.

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Comey Says DOJ's Conduct 'Shocks The Conscience'

By Hailey Konnath

James Comey on Thursday reiterated his request that the U.S. Department of Justice be forced to disclose all grand jury materials related to his indictment, noting the government has conceded that the grand jury never saw the operative indictment and saying the purported misconduct "shocks the conscience."

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NJ Panel Expands Scope Of Ex-Reed Smith Atty's Bias Claims

By Rose Krebs

A New Jersey appellate panel on Thursday ruled that a former Reed Smith LLP attorney is entitled to pursue more damages and obtain expanded wage data in her gender discrimination suit against the firm, saying a trial court incorrectly applied certain statutes when it limited the damages and data she could seek.

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X Corp. Ends $90M Fee Suit Against Wachtell

By James Mills

X Corp. has ended its California state lawsuit against Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz over $90 million in legal fees tied to the fight over Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, according to a court filing.

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Analysis

Meta Loss Shows Time Not On Enforcers' Side In Tech Cases

By Bryan Koenig

Meta's triumph over a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case Tuesday hinged on a D.C. federal judge's finding that the company lacks a monopoly in the present day, highlighting some of the challenges of using slow-moving litigation to challenge fast-moving markets.

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Senate Panel OKs Miss. Judge, US Atty Nominees After Delay

By Courtney Bublé

After weeks of holdup, nominees for Mississippi federal courts and U.S. attorneys were voted out of committee on Thursday, following an impasse between Republican senators.

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Brief

Senate Passes Bill To Protect State Judges From Threats

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to beef up security for state and local judges.

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DOJ Antitrust Chief Says Agriculture A 'Top Priority'

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice's top antitrust official said enforcers have already opened several investigations in the agriculture sector, including into meatpackers at the direction of President Donald Trump, and called the industry a "top priority" for the agency.

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