Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Litigation in Delaware's Court of Chancery sprawled from a dispute over control of banana plantations along Africa's Congo River to a fight over the late musician Prince's estate last week. Along the way, a court ruling rejected a motion for a quick decision favoring Blue Bell Creameries director and officer calls for liability releases in a tainted ice cream saga that dates to 2015.

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Del. Justices Put ITG On Hook For $250M Reynolds Settlement

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's Supreme Court stubbed out an eight-year ITG Brands LLC legal battle to avoid paying R.J. Reynolds more than $250 million to cover health-related settlement payments to Florida after ITG's acquisition of four of the cigarette company's brands, according to a ruling issued Monday.

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Hunter Biden Disbarred In Conn. Over Gun, Tax Cases

By Aaron Keller

Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joseph R. Biden, was disbarred Monday in Connecticut for attorney ethics rule violations connected to an earlier disbarment by consent in the District of Columbia and complaints related to his convictions on gun and tax charges for which he was pardoned.

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Analysis

The Top Patent Decisions Of 2025

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit decided its first en banc utility patent case in years and expanded who can use the U.S. International Trade Commission, while both the appeals court and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office took on the eligibility of AI patents. Here's a look at the top patent decisions of 2025.

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States Fight Sandoz Bid To Argue Duplication In Generics Row

By Matthew Santoni

Multiple attorneys general have told a Connecticut federal court that Sandoz Inc. and Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc. can't claim the states' grievances over allegations of price fixing are duplicative of claims that were already settled, since there are some claims and forms of relief that only state plaintiffs can seek.

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Roomba Maker IRobot Hits Ch. 11 To Hand Control To Lenders

By Emily Lever

IRobot Corp., the maker of the Roomba robot vacuums, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with over $250 million in debt and a plan to hand control of its business to its secured creditor.

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Fast-Track Sale Timeline Denied In Furniture Co. Ch. 11

By Ben Zigterman

A Delaware bankruptcy judge rejected an expedited timeline for the sale of the assets of home furnishing retailer American Signature Furniture, finding that the proposed 34-day process would not give enough time for an investigation of insider claims and the appointment of a consumer privacy ombudsman.

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Supreme Court Turns Down Entresto Patent Fight

By Dani Kass

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition from MSN Pharmaceuticals Inc. claiming the Federal Circuit improperly applied what is known as after-arising technology when reviving a patent covering Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.'s blockbuster cardiovascular drug Entresto.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Bard Patents In AngioDynamics Row

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Monday refused to revive claims in C.R. Bard patents on implanted catheter receptacles that were challenged by AngioDynamics, backing a Delaware federal court's finding that the claims were anticipated.

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3rd Circ. Revives $4M Coverage Dispute Over Highway Pileups

By Jennifer Mandato

The Third Circuit revived a highway construction company's coverage dispute stemming from lawsuits related to two separate vehicle pileups, finding that a policy issued by one of its excess insurers is ambiguous due to the policy's adoption of unclear language in a preceding policy.

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Profs, Pashman Stein Partner Back Burford In 3rd Circ. Case

By Caroline Simson

Two prominent international arbitration professors and a Pashman Stein Walder Hayden PC partner are urging the Third Circuit to revisit its decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds Burford Capital's bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation.

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2025 Noncompete Developments That Led To Inflection Point

Employers must reshape their approaches to noncompete agreements following key 2025 developments, including Delaware's rejection of blue-penciling and the proliferation of state wage thresholds, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.

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Series

The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Integrating Practice Groups

Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig.

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Bonus Spotlight

Susman Godfrey Bests Market With Bonuses Of Up To $280K

By Andrea Keckley

Susman Godfrey LLP announced on Tuesday that it is topping New York's bonus scale with payouts that range from a median of $120,000 for first-year associates to a median of $280,000 for the most senior associates.

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Kasowitz Hid Plummeting Profits From Ex-Partner, Suit Says

By Andrea Keckley

A former Kasowitz LLP partner has accused the firm and its founder, renowned litigator Marc Kasowitz, of misrepresenting its finances and failing to pay him the millions he is owed in a lawsuit in New York state court, alleging the firm's profits have plummeted due to poor management.

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Hagens Berman Sanctioned For Bot Errors In OnlyFans Case

By Emily Sawicki

A California federal judge sanctioned Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for submitting four briefs that contained errors blamed on ChatGPT while representing OnlyFans users pursuing proposed class fraud claims against the online platform, tossing the suit but allowing the users a chance to refile.

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DOJ Says NY Court Can't Handle Maurene Comey Firing Suit

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. Department of Justice has said former prosecutor Maurene Comey's suit challenging the circumstances of her firing should be dismissed, arguing that it is an attempt to sidestep the Civil Service Reform Act.

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Fired Top Antitrust Official Warns Of 'Politicization'

By Courtney Bublé

The former No. 2 at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division until he was terminated this year testified Tuesday about the "politicization" of antitrust enforcement.

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Levona Says New Docs Show Reed Smith Lied In $102M Feud

By Emily Sawicki

Levona Holdings Ltd. is pressing a Manhattan federal court to vacate what it calls a fraudulent $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson, arguing that new documents released under the crime-fraud exception show that the company and its prior attorneys at Reed Smith LLP lied during the arbitration.

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Ex-State High Court Chiefs Start Group To Defend Rule Of Law

By Jake Maher

A group of over 40 former chief judges of state supreme courts across the country this week launched a new project to speak out against attacks on the judiciary's independence and educate about the rule of law. 

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Quinn Emanuel Fee Fight Bound For Texas Or Mass. Court

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts federal judge is weighing whether to kick Quinn Emanuel's bid for $30 million in legal fees from a former client's parent company, Nano Dimension Ltd., to state court or to the Texas bankruptcy court where the client is undergoing Chapter 11 proceedings.

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Bullivant Houser Files For Ch. 11 After November Closure

By Rose Krebs

The now-shuttered Bullivant Houser Bailey PC has filed for Chapter 11 protection in California, with its chief dissolution officer saying the bankruptcy was filed so the firm can liquidate its assets as it continues "an orderly wind-down" of its operations.

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Corporate Transparency Act Is Constitutional, 11th Circ. Says

By Kevin Pinner

The Corporate Transparency Act is constitutional because it regulates economic activities with a substantial impact on interstate commerce and doesn't violate protections against unreasonable searches, the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday, reversing a lower court's decision.

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