PacifiCorp Owes $2M In Latest Wildfire Trial

By Cara Salvatore

An Oregon state jury on Thursday ordered PacifiCorp to pay $2 million in noneconomic damages to a firefighter captain and his wife in the latest trial over wildfire property damage.

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Atlanta Settles Enviro Group's Suit Over Chattahoochee River

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge has approved a settlement agreement an environmental group and the city of Atlanta struck to end a 2024 Clean Water Act lawsuit over what the group alleged were permit violations at Georgia's largest wastewater treatment plant and discharges into the Chattahoochee River.

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Energy Dept. Defends University Grant Cost Cap To 1st Circ.

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Department of Energy urged the First Circuit to overturn a Boston federal judge's decision to block its attempt to cap reimbursable indirect costs for research grants awarded to colleges and universities, arguing it acted in line with its regulations.

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8th Circ. Says Farmer Must Face Water Dispute In Tribal Court

By Joyce Hanson

The Eight Circuit ruled that a Minnesota farmer can't block White Earth Tribal Court proceedings in federal court while his river water permitting case is still being litigated in the tribe's court system.

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Q&A

6 Questions For Incompas CEO Chip Pickering

By Christopher Cole

The surge of artificial intelligence and tech-driven communications has Incompas CEO Chip Pickering leading an expanded mission, widening the broadband infrastructure trade group's focus to the energy sector for its role in advanced telecom networks.

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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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Trump Admin Finalizes Rule Facilitating Federal Worker Firings

By Tim Ryan

The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last year that could affect 50,000 employees at federal agencies.

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Conn. Town's PFAS Case Against 3M, Others Sent To MDL

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut town's "forever chemicals" lawsuit against major corporations including 3M and RTX, claiming damages for the contamination of local water supplies, will proceed as part of multidistrict litigation in South Carolina, court records show.

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FERC's Grid Planning Policy Revamp Is Proper, 4th Circ. Told

By Keith Goldberg

Clean energy supporters and blue state officials are backing the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's overhaul of its regional transmission planning policy, telling the Fourth Circuit that the agency properly exercised its authority while ensuring states have a seat at the planning table.

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News Orgs Urge 1st Circ. To Reject Lobster Industry Libel Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

The New York Times, The Atlantic and other national news media organizations have asked the First Circuit to sink a defamation suit by lobster fishermen over a conservation group's warning not to eat lobster because of the purported impact on an endangered whale species.

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Timbisha Tribe, Green Groups Sue BLM Over Mining Plan

By Joyce Hanson

A Timbisha Shoshone tribal band has joined conservation groups in filing a California federal court suit to stop exploratory mine drilling near the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge's wetlands, saying the U.S. Bureau of Land Management refuses to comply with the Endangered Species Act.

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Animal Rights Group Fights Mich.'s Coyote Hunting Rule

By Carolyn Muyskens

An animal rights group has sued to challenge a Michigan commission's January decision to allow coyote hunting year-round, including during pup season.

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Kodiak Gas Nabs Distributed Power Solutions For $675M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Contract compression services provider Kodiak Gas Services Inc. on Thursday unveiled plans to acquire Distributed Power Solutions LLC in an equity and cash deal valued at $675 million that was built by three law firms.

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Radiation Standard Shift Might Add Complications For Cos.

In keeping with the Trump administration's focus on nuclear energy, the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that it will eliminate the "as low as reasonably achievable" radiation protection standard for agency practices and regulations — but it is far from clear that this change will benefit the nuclear power industry, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

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Series

Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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