Enviro Advocates' Challenge To Forest Service Rule Tossed

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday tossed conservation groups' challenge to a U.S. Forest Service rule that allows some projects to avoid more extensive environmental review, saying the organizations failed to prove an "imminent" injury.

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Trump Admin Moves To Undo Biden-Era Fuel Economy Rules

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to unwind Biden-era fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks, claiming they unlawfully force a transition from gasoline-powered vehicles to electric ones.

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Chemours Monopolizing Refrigerant Market, Court Told

By Abigail Harrison

DuPont spinoff The Chemours Co. FC LLC is clutching on to monopolistic control of the refrigerant gas market in order to fend off a competitor's emerging gas reclamation business, the competitor's counsel told a North Carolina federal court in a Wednesday hearing.

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MVP: Kelley Drye's William J. Jackson

By Jack McLoone

William J. "Bill" Jackson, co-chair of both Kelley Drye & Warren LLP's environmental law and environmental litigation sections, led a first-of-its-kind series of bench trials between the state of New Jersey and multiple E.I. du Pont de Nemours entities, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Environmental MVPs.

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Camp Lejeune Plaintiffs Want Base's Muster Roll Info

By Emily Field

Veterans and family members suing over injuries from toxic water at Camp Lejeune have urged a North Carolina judge to compel the federal government to produce muster rolls for the base, saying the government has refused to give up the information with no explanation.

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Flint Water Case Judge Not Convinced EPA Hid Witnesses

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday wasn't convinced that Flint residents seeking damages from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over its response to the city's water crisis could yet show the agency intentionally failed to catalog identities of confidential informants the residents want to depose.

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NJ Seeks $195M Fee Award In $2.5B DuPont PFAS Case

By George Woolston

New Jersey asked a Garden State federal judge this week to approve $195 million in attorney fees to its special counsel team of four firms whose six years of litigation work resulted in two landmark settlements that serve to clean up some of the state's most contaminated sites.

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Chevron Can Back Feds In Gulf Lease Dispute, Judge Says

By Keith Goldberg

A federal judge in Washington has allowed Chevron to join litigation that is seeking to block the first in a series of offshore oil and gas lease sales mandated by the budget reconciliation bill enacted in July, a transaction in which the oil giant intends to participate.

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Commerce Told To Justify Accepting Korean Exporter's Math

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Department of Commerce must better explain why it decided to use a Korean exporter's calculations without adjustments in an antidumping duty review, the U.S. Court of International Trade said in an opinion remanding the government's determination.

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Seatrium Fights Maersk's Wind Farm Contract Termination

By Joyce Hanson

A Singapore-headquartered energy engineering company has initiated arbitration proceedings against a Maersk Offshore Wind affiliate over a terminated $475 million deal, saying it breached their contract for a turbine installation vessel at a wind farm project off the coast of New York.

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9th Circ. Asked To Reconsider Idaho Land Swap Decision

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Department of the Interior and J.R. Simplot Co. are asking the Ninth Circuit to reconsider a decision to invalidate an Idaho land transfer for the expansion of a phosphogypsum plant, arguing that the panel's conclusion flouts Supreme Court precedent and defies federal land management policy's text and central aim.

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State, Federal Incentives Heat Up Geothermal Projects

Geothermal energy can now benefit from dramatically accelerated permitting for development on federal land as well as state-level renewable energy portfolio standards — but operating in the complex legal framework surrounding geothermal projects requires successful navigation of complex water rights and environmental regulations, say attorneys at Holland & Hart.

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How Unchecked AI Exposes Expert Opinions To Exclusion

A growing number of cases illustrate the potential for misuse of artificial intelligence tools by experts in litigation, resulting in reports with hallucinated information or unexplainable analysis, so to embrace the efficiencies AI tools introduce without falling victim to the risks, attorneys and experts should implement a few best practices, say attorneys at Willkie Farr.

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The Ohio Supreme Court In 2025: A Focus On Civil Procedure

​​​​​​​If 2025 will be remembered for any particular theme at the Ohio Supreme Court, it might just be the justices' focus on procedural issues, including in three cases concerning, respectively, proper service, response time and pleading standards, says Bradfield Hughes at Porter Wright.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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Bonus Spotlight

High Billers At McKool Smith To Pocket Extra Bonus Money

By Tracey Read

McKool Smith is the latest BigLaw firm to announce extra cash for attorneys who went above and beyond with billable hours in 2025, according to an internal memo obtained by Law360 Pulse.

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Wilson Sonsini To Switch Leaders For 1st Time Since 2012

By Andrea Keckley

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC announced plans for its first top leadership transition in more than a decade on Wednesday, tapping a Palo Alto, California-based litigator and a New York-based corporate lawyer to begin co-leading the firm at the start of next August.

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Ex-Bernstein Litowitz Atty Starts Firm After Contentious Exit

By Adrian Cruz

A former Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP partner known for handling high-profile stockholder cases has led the launch of a boutique focused on corporate disputes and securities litigation after the firm says he was fired for misconduct.

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LA Atty Accused Of Using AI 'Hallucinations' Sanctioned

By Rae Ann Varona

A California state appeals court has ordered an attorney accused of including artificial intelligence "hallucinations" in a client's opening brief to pay $7,500 to the court, saying in a published opinion that the attorney is subject to sanctions for inaccuracies, regardless of whether they were the result of AI.

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FTC Backs Nixing ABA Role As 'Gatekeeper' For Texas Bar

By Lynn LaRowe

The Federal Trade Commission has endorsed a proposal from the Texas Supreme Court to abandon a rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, saying the organization's "accreditation monopoly" hurts competition and consumers.

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Virginia Bar Declines To Investigate Interim US Atty Halligan

By Ryan Boysen

The Virginia State Bar has declined to investigate whether Lindsey Halligan should face discipline over her scandal-plagued tenure as the interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, just days after a federal judge ruled she was not properly appointed to that post.

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Trump Would Prefer Jack Smith Testify In Public

By Courtney Bublé

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed former counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday for a closed-door deposition, to which President Donald Trump said he would rather see a public testimony.

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1st Circ. Doubts Ex-BigLaw Atty's Campaign Finance Appeal

By Chris Villani

The First Circuit on Wednesday expressed misgivings about a former BigLaw attorney's argument that a jury that convicted him of a campaign finance scheme during a failed run for Congress should have been required to unanimously find that each specific transaction was illegal.

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Archegos Founder Says Davis Polk Job Offer Taints Restitution

By Lauren Berg

Archegos founder Bill Hwang, who is serving an 18-year sentence for defrauding banks out of billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market, asked to vacate his restitution order because the presiding judge's clerk accepted a job with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, which represents victim-bank Morgan Stanley.

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Troutman Atty Is 3rd NC Federal Judge Confirmed This Week

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 57-41 on Wednesday to confirm Matthew Orso, a partner at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP, to the Western District of North Carolina as a federal district judge.

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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.

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