Analysis

What Patent Litigators Should Know From Q3

By Dani Kass

More than 1,200 patent suits were filed between July 1 and Sept. 30, and nearly a quarter of them have been assigned to ​U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, according to data from Lex Machina.

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Pharma Supplier Sues To Undo $52M Minority Stake Deal

By Jarek Rutz

Pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer Pfanstiehl Holdings Inc. has sued a minority shareholder and its general partner in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to unwind a $52.3 million transaction that allegedly transferred a majority economic interest in the shareholder's stake to an unidentified investor without required notice or consent.

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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms

The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.

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States Say Trump Can't Limit Funding Freeze Injunction

By Ganesh Setty

A coalition of 23 states and the District of Columbia urged a Rhode Island federal court Friday to let them continue challenging a now-rescinded Trump administration directive to "temporarily" withhold their federal funding, arguing a permanent injunction should still be on the table.

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AGs Seek Final OK For $29.6M Glenmark Price-Fixing Deal

By Brian Steele

A coalition of 48 states and territories is asking a Connecticut federal judge to give his final approval to a $29.6 million settlement with Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. that would end claims that the drugmaker conspired with competitors to inflate prices and allocate markets for generic drugs.

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Judge Won't Free Pierce Atwood Of Investor's Malpractice Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

Pierce Atwood LLP failed to win dismissal of a lawsuit from a Ukrainian oligarch who says the firm's advice led to a $1.85 million judgment against him in investor litigation over the liquidation of now-insolvent genetic testing company Pathway Genomics Corp.

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$9.1M Fee Award Against ChromaDex Erased By Fed. Circ.

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit Friday overturned a $9.1 million attorney fee award issued to Elysium Health Inc. stemming from a patent infringement case brought by ChromaDex and Dartmouth College, ruling that a district judge had not gone far enough in his patent eligibility analysis.

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3rd Circ. Judge Notes 'Privilege' Of Voting In Pa. Ballot Fight

By Matthew Santoni

A Third Circuit judge said Thursday that he believed there was "no indefeasible individual right to vote," splitting from his colleagues in an appeal over fee awards in an election case to opine on collective rights, who can enforce them and who benefits from litigation over election rules.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Weil Leases, CEQA, Trudeau

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including an early look at CMBS exposure to Weil Gotshal as the firm charts a wind-down, how streamlining the California Environmental Quality Act could affect data centers, and industry observations from former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Urban Land Institute's annual meeting.

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How AI Could Help Judges Spot Their Own Biases

In close cases where there’s room for discretion, artificial intelligence could challenge judges’ implicit biases by running counterfactual tests at scale — but any judicial use of such tools would need guardrails, say Arnold Peter at Peter Law and Nancy Rapoport at University of Nevada.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Ramona Nee, Tapped To Lead Weil, Now In Talks With Kirkland

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Ramona Nee, the co-leader of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private equity practice who had been poised to become its leader, is engaged in talks to join Kirkland & Ellis LLP, a source with knowledge of the situation told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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K&L Gates DQ'd In Trust's Mortgage Loan Agreement Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

A Washington federal judge disqualified K&L Gates LLP from a trust's dispute over a residential mortgage loan sale agreement, ruling that the law firm must leave the suit because it drafted the form agreement used in the transaction.

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Jackson Walker Inks $500K Deal In EXCO's Ch. 11 Fee Fight

By Clara Geoghegan

Jackson Walker has agreed to pay EXCO Resources Inc. $500,000 to end litigation over fees paid to the firm while one of its partners was in an undisclosed relationship with the former bankruptcy judge who mediated in the reorganized oil and gas driller's Texas Chapter 11.

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Fed. Judge A No-Show Amid Inquiry Into Her Mental Health

By Craig Clough

U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas failed to appear Friday before a judicial investigative committee examining allegations that she abandoned her post and concerns that a mental condition may be interfering with her ability to perform her duties.

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Judge Opens Ethics Inquiry Into DOJ's Golf Course Candor

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge opened an inquiry Friday into whether Trump administration attorneys and officials violated their ethical obligations to the court when they repeatedly told her that there were no plans to close East Potomac Golf Course for an overhaul at President Donald Trump's behest.

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Kalshi Taps Clement For High Court Sports Contracts Fight

By Elaine Briseño

Kalshi has hired appellate heavyweight Paul D. Clement of Clement & Murphy PLLC to represent the company in its potential U.S. Supreme Court battle over whether the prediction markets platform's sports wagering is subject to state or federal oversight.

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Cyberattack Class Action Against Fox Rothschild Dropped

By Madison Arnold

Three data breach victims have dismissed their proposed class action against Fox Rothschild LLP after ransomware group Silent Ransom Group targeted the firm.

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DOJ Backs Ex-Wisconsin Judge's ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Andrea Keckley

The U.S. Department of Justice told the Seventh Circuit that the high-profile conviction of a former Wisconsin state court judge for interfering with an ICE arrest was not compromised by her position on the bench or by jury instructions.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Meta reached a settlement during jury selection in the second Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims its Instagram platform harms the mental health of children, leaving Snap as the lone defendant facing trial. In the meantime, current and former in-house lawyers for Google and Meta said that the ability of AI to write patent applications is rapidly improving, and that in blind tests, experienced attorneys often deem AI-drafted patents to be superior to those from humans. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC and Smith Porsborg Schweigert Armstrong Moldenhauer & Smith lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eighth Circuit struck down the Federal Reserve's regulatory cap on the swipe fees that larger banks may collect on debit card transactions.

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Up Next At High Court: Religious Liberty & Unpled Defenses

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its November sitting by hearing oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of Colorado's universal preschool program and a dispute asking the justices to settle a circuit split over whether defendants in civil lawsuits can seek summary judgment based on unpled affirmative defenses.

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Roundup

Hub Hires: WilmerHale, Womble Bond, Kirkland

By Chris Villani

Falling temperatures didn't bring a cooldown in the Boston legal lateral market as WilmerHale and Robinson & Cole LLP both welcomed former assistant attorneys general, Honigman LLP established its first office in the market, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP snagged a partner from Ropes & Gray LLP.

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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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