Del. Justices Reinstate Elon Musk's $56B-Plus Pay Package

By Jeff Montgomery

Elon Musk saw his once-$56 billion, now larger, Tesla Inc. compensation package rescued Friday, as the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a lower court ruling from January 2024 that voided a board and stockholder-approved pay deal.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

In one of the stories in corporate legal news from the past week, almost half of the in-house legal professionals in a recent survey said they were either actively or passively seeking new jobs, citing stress, a struggle to build multidisciplinary teams and anxiety around artificial intelligence.

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Roundup

Employment Authority: NLRB Quorum Back, 2025 In Rulings

By Emily Brill

Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with features on the new direction of the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor and the biggest employment rulings of 2025.

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In-House Impressions

If GCs Can't Do It, How Do We Hold Boeing Accountable?

By Sue Reisinger

Several years ago, Ben Heineman Jr. — often referred to as the father of modern-day general counsel — spoke with me about his view of a general counsel's role in shaping a company's corporate culture and ethics.

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NLRB To Get Quorum, GC As Senate Confirms Trump Picks

By Braden Campbell

The National Labor Relations Board is set to end 2025 with a quorum after the U.S. Senate confirmed the president's nominees to two board vacancies and the agency's open general counsel post as part of a bloc of picks for jobs across the government.

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Medical, School Groups Seek Order Halting $100K Visa Fee

By Dan McKay

A medical practice in rural North Carolina and other employers asked a federal judge Friday to block enforcement of the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, arguing the "massive" fee hike will inflict irreparable harm on their communities.

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Rail Giants Pitch $85B Deal To Transportation Regulators

By Matthew Perlman

Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. submitted the required application for their planned $85 billion merger on Friday, telling regulators the rail networks have few overlaps and that a combined system will allow freight to move faster and more efficiently across the country.

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Health Co. CEO Gets 15 Years In $1.4B Fraud Scheme

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge sentenced a software company CEO to 15 years in prison Friday for participating in a scheme to coordinate illegal medical kickbacks through an internet platform, an operation that resulted in $1.4 billion worth of false billings to Medicare and other insurers for unnecessary medical products.

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Google Says SerpApi Bypasses Security To Scrape IP

By Lauren Berg

Google says data-scraping firm SerpApi circumvents its security measures protecting copyrighted content that appears in search results, alleging in a California federal lawsuit Friday that SerpApi steals content Google licenses from others "at an astonishing scale" and then resells it to its own customers.

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App Makers Tell 9th Circ. It Got Google Maps Facts Wrong

By Bryan Koenig

App makers asked the Ninth Circuit to rethink their proposed antitrust class action accusing Google of locking out rival maps products, arguing a panel refused to revive the case only because it did "not address and ignored" their allegations.

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Meta Mostly Defeats 'Bricked' Devices False Ad Suit, For Now

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge has explained his decision to toss the bulk of a proposed class action alleging Meta Platforms Inc. deceptively sold video-calling devices it later "bricked" by dropping software support, although he refused to toss an unfair competition claim and gave the consumers the opportunity to take another stab at the complaint.

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Chancery Keeps Alive Electric Vehicle Co. SPAC Suit

By Jeff Montgomery

Most counts have gone forward in a Delaware Court of Chancery suit alleging an unfair "blank check" company take-public merger with a since-reorganized electric vehicle company that faced allegedly undisclosed supply chain problems.

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NC Panel Denies Lindberg's Bid To Broaden Receivership

By Abigail Harrison

Convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg couldn't convince a North Carolina state appeals court to either loosen the strictures on a receivership or free certain of his affiliates from a temporary restraining order connected to his $1.2 billion insurance scheme from the mid-2010s.

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Brief

Iowa Appeals Schwab Antitrust Deal After Objections

By Sarah Jarvis

Iowa's attorney general has appealed to the Fifth Circuit a Texas federal judge's final approval of a settlement ending an antitrust class action suit over The Charles Schwab Corp.'s merger with TD Ameritrade, following the Hawkeye State's previous objection claiming the deal offered class members insufficient relief.

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Real Estate Recap: How '25 Shaped Offices, Hotels, Data Hubs

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including analyses of how the office, hotel and data center sectors fared in 2025.

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SEC Rulemaking Radar: A Reset, A Shift And A Preview Of '26

With major proposals withdrawn and new priorities emerging, forthcoming U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposals in 2026 will look to reshape how digital assets are regulated, recalibrate market structure and simplify how small companies go public, says Christopher Grobbel at Goodwin.

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How Fractional GCs Can Manage Risks Of Engagement

As more organizations eliminate their in-house legal departments in favor of outsourcing legal work, fractional general counsel roles offer practitioners an engaging and flexible way to practice at a high level, but they can also present legal, ethical and operational risks that must be proactively managed, say attorneys at Boies Schiller.

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Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader's Divergent Paths Led To Deal

By Aebra Coe

The blockbuster combination between Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP announced this past week involves two law firms that have charted very different paths in recent years. Here, a look at what events led up to the firms joining together at the deal table.

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Analysis

More Pardon Seekers Going 'Straight To The White House'

By Phillip Bantz

A nonprofit's unusual plan to make a mass pardon request directly to the Trump administration highlights burgeoning optimism among white collar defendants about their chances of securing relief, and a recognition that the clearest path to clemency no longer runs through the traditional channels.

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4 Stories That Shaped Civil Rights, Access To Justice In 2025

By Marco Poggio

Civil rights and access to justice advocates faced mounting pressure in 2025, as President Donald Trump's return to office drove aggressive immigration enforcement, deep cuts to criminal justice funding, renewed Supreme Court scrutiny of the Voting Rights Act, and a steep increase in executions.

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Federal Courts Not Subject To FOIA, DC Judge Rules

By Jake Maher

The conservative litigation group America First Legal Foundation cannot demand documents from the federal Judicial Conference of the U.S. and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under the Freedom of Information Act because they are not executive agencies, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.

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Wis. Judge's Conviction In ICE Case Tees Up Legal Battle

By Ryan Boysen

The conviction of a Wisconsin state judge for obstructing ICE officers is just the start of what will likely be a long legal battle, with major questions over judicial immunity, the evidence at hand and the meaning of "corrupt" yet to be decided.

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Justices Let Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit Continue

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration has failed to show it will be irreparably harmed by a Fourth Circuit decision that revived immigration judges' lawsuit challenging restrictions on their ability to speak publicly.

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Florida Supreme Court Approves Limits For Non-Lawyer Roles

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court has signed off on a rule change to spell out that nonlawyers at a law firm cannot supervise the work of attorneys or perform policymaking duties that affect the practice of law.

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Keesal Young Drops Part Of Stradley Ronon Poaching Suit

By Madison Arnold

Keesal Young & Logan wants to drop part of its California state court lawsuit alleging Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP unlawfully recruited 10 of its attorneys.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen the designer of an 88-facet diamond bring a copyright claim against a luxury watch retailer, collapsed firm Axiom Ince bring legal action against the solicitors' watchdog, and the Post Office hit with compensation claims from two former branch managers over their wrongful convictions during the Horizon information technology scandal.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Five firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the D.C. Circuit reinstated an order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants for climate change projects.

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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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