The blank check company that took Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. public last year says it has been "unfairly trapped in a procedural morass" after a Delaware Chancery Court magistrate held the company in contempt and ordered it to pay sanctions over its refusal to pay an over $2 million legal fee advancement bill.
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TOP NEWS

Trump SPAC Fights Chancery's $25K Daily Sanction Ruling

By Katryna Perera

The blank check company that took Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. public last year says it has been "unfairly trapped in a procedural morass" after a Delaware Chancery Court magistrate held the company in contempt and ordered it to pay sanctions over its refusal to pay an over $2 million legal fee advancement bill.

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Zuora Investor Sues Over $1.7B Silver Lake Take-Private Deal

By Jeff Montgomery

An investor in software as service subscription software venture Zuora Inc. has opened a proposed class suit seeking damages in connection with Silver Lake Group's $1.7 billion take-private acquisition of the company, naming both Silver Lake and managing panther Joseph Osnoss and alleging breaches of fiduciary duty.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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POLICY & REGULATION

DC Circ. Urged To Revive PJM Watchdog's Access Fight

By Keith Goldberg

The electricity market watchdog for PJM Interconnection on Thursday urged the D.C. Circuit to reconsider its dismissal of its lawsuit over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission denying it access to certain committee meetings held by the regional grid operator.

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COURT OF CHANCERY

Fight To Control Security Screening Co. Hits Del. Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

A former director of a Florida-based weapon screening technology maker has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to determine who actually controls the company, bringing a summary proceeding challenging his recent removal from the board following what he described as an invalid stockholder vote grounded in a deeply flawed capitalization table.

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TreeHouse Foods Sued In Chancery For Docs On $2.9B Sale

By Jeff Montgomery

A TreeHouse Foods stockholder filed suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery late Wednesday for expedited access to withheld documents on the company's $2.9 billion agreement in November to sell the packaged snack and beverage company to affiliates of Investindustrial VIII SCSp, an independently managed group of European investment, holding and advisory companies.

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DISTRICT COURT

Crypto Investor Says Cos. Can't Intervene In $40M Award Fight

By Sydney Price

A cryptocurrency investor urged a Delaware federal court to stop two companies from joining an effort to vacate his $40 million arbitral award over an alleged bitcoin scheme, saying the companies' interests are already protected by involved parties.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

FTC Warns 42 Law Firms Of DEI 'Anticompetitive Collusion'

By Sarah Jarvis

The Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that it has sent warning letters to 42 major law firms for their purported participation in an outside diversity, equity and inclusion program, alleging their participation could constitute anticompetitive collusion.

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Analysis

Real Estate Attys 'Not Going In Blind' Amid Data Center Boom

By Chris Villani

The explosion of artificial intelligence has created a sharp demand for new data centers with no signs of slowing down, posing challenges that have some real estate attorneys turning to well-worn playbooks from other industries.

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Susman Faces Suit After Ex-Client's Arbitration Loss

By Adam Lidgett

Susman Godfrey LLP and a litigation funding business were hit with a lawsuit in Texas state court by an Irish patent litigation business that is challenging the outcome of an arbitration proceeding putting it on the hook for more than $37.8 million.

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Attys Rip Judge-Shopping Sanctions As Bid To 'Rewrite' Rules

By Jake Maher

Two Alabama attorneys who were sanctioned for allegedly judge shopping in a civil rights case urged the Eleventh Circuit to toss the sanctions Friday, arguing the judges accusing them were seeking to "rewrite" the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

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Brief

Bill Regulating Attorney AI Use Passes California Senate

By Emily Sawicki

A proposed California law that would regulate attorneys and arbitrators' use of generative artificial intelligence statewide has headed to the Assembly after the state Senate unanimously approved the measure.

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Colo. Firm Hit With Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado law firm failed to properly care for the personal information of clients and their customers and did not provide adequate notice of a February 2025 data breach, according to a proposed class action in state court.

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Litigation Funder Suit Against Janus Henderson Can Proceed

By Ryan Boysen

A lawsuit that claims a Janus Henderson Group subsidiary schemed to take over a mass torts litigation funder can go forward, after a Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled the funder's case was compelling enough to survive a motion to dismiss.

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House To Vote On Reform Of Court Nondisclosure Orders

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., fumed at the House on Friday for trying to undo a provision that allows him and other senators investigated by special counsel Jack Smith to sue for damages and held up the government funding vote as a result. But a bill the House is poised to take up next week could alleviate some of his concerns.

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9th Circ. Says DOJ Can Withhold VW Grand Jury Records

By Emily Field

The Ninth Circuit on Friday held that the U.S. Department of Justice couldn't be forced to hand over about 6 million Volkswagen documents that were part of a Jones Day investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal, as the government obtained them through a grand jury subpoena.

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Analysis

The Message From Delaware Courts: Change Is Coming

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's Supreme Court delivered a reminder to the state's corporation law ecosystem recently with a reversal of a Court of Chancery decision invalidating a 7-year-old stockholder agreement that granted broad corporate powers to investment bank Moelis & Co.'s founder.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London saw collapsed solar bonds company Rockfire Capital sue the Royal Bank of Scotland, e-ticket platform Eventbrite target the owners of Salford Red Devils rugby club over an alleged contract breach, and Scottish distiller William Grant & Sons square off against a former MP in a trademark tussle tied to its Glenfiddich whisky. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

When Minnesota-based companies publicly called for de-escalation after two fatal shootings by federal ICE agents, the nation saw how CEOs and their general counsel can step up amid controversy. And a new study shows that white collar offenders received more than half of all recent pardons. 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

Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. Circuit panel revived a lawsuit that accuses pharmaceutical companies of aiding a Hezbollah-linked militia's terrorism in Iraq.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Addleshaw Goddard

Advisors LLC

Akerman LLP

Alston & Bird

Alston Asquith

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Bailey & Glasser

Baker & Hostetler

Baker McKenzie

Block & Leviton

Bradley Arant

CJ Jones Solicitors

CMS Cameron McKenna

Charhon Callahan

Christensen Law LLC

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Cooper Levenson

Covington & Burling

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Davis Malm & D’Agostine

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Dentons

Dominick Feld

Faegre Drinker

Finnegan

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees

Greenberg Traurig

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Husch Blackwell

JCP Solicitors

Jackson Lewis PC

Jones Day

K&L Gates

Kaplan & Grady

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Knights PLC

Kuit Steinart

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Law Offices of David W. Klasing

Lester Aldridge

Lewis Brisbois

Lightfoot Franklin

Littler Mendelson

Marshall Gerstein

Mayer Brown

Maynard Nexsen

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGuireWoods

Milberg Coleman

Mills & Reeve

Montgomery Little

Morgan Lewis

Morris Nichols

Nabarro LLP

Nelson Mullins

Ogletree Deakins

Pashman Stein

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Polsinelli PC

Potter Anderson

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Ropes & Gray

Russell-Cooke

Shakespeare Martineau

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Skadden Arps

Smith Gambrell

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Taylor Wessing

Troutman

Ven Johnson Law

Venable LLP

White & Case

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Wilson Sonsini

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Arxada

Ashland Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

AstraZeneca PLC

Baker Hughes Co.

Bank of Cyprus Holdings PLC

Barclays PLC

Berkshire Hathaway Energy GT&S

Burke Inc.

Cargill Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Comcast Corp.

Convex Insurance UK Ltd.

ESPN Inc.

Eventbrite Inc.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

FTI Consulting Inc.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.

Google LLC

HDI Global SE

HSBC Holdings PLC

Hulu LLC

Insurance Europe Ltd.

Investindustrial Services Ltd.

Investments Ltd.

Janus Henderson Group PLC

Johnson & Johnson

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Leidos Holdings Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyds Bank PLC

Longford Capital Management LP

Match.com Inc.

McDonald's Corp.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Meta Platforms Inc.

Moelis & Co.

National Westminster Bank PLC

Novo Nordisk A S

PJM Interconnection LLC

Paramount Global

Pfizer Inc.

SentencingStats.com Inc.

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Stanford University

Target Corp.

Tesla Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

The UPS Store

The Walt Disney Co.

TikTok Inc.

Trader Joe's Co.

TreeHouse Foods Inc.

United Parcel Service Inc.

University of Arkansas

University of Iowa

Victory Park Capital Advisors LLC

Vinci SA

Volkswagen AG

William Grant & Sons Ltd.

YMCA of the USA

YouTube Inc.

Zuora Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alabama Attorney General's Office

California Air Resources Board

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Serious Fraud Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO)

United States District Court for the District of Colorado