Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. said Wednesday that it has initiated arbitration against Panama after the country nixed its operating contract for the main entry and exit points of the Panama Canal, a year after the pact attracted the Trump administration's ire.
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Panama Faces Arbitration Over Nixed Canal Contract

By Caroline Simson

Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. said Wednesday that it has initiated arbitration against Panama after the country nixed its operating contract for the main entry and exit points of the Panama Canal, a year after the pact attracted the Trump administration's ire.

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Shipping Co. Eletson Can Seek Arrest Of Ex-Officials

By Alex Wittenberg

A New York bankruptcy judge on Wednesday allowed shipping group Eletson Holdings Inc. to seek the arrest and incarceration of former Eletson directors and others who the company says have failed to appear at court-ordered depositions.

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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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PEOPLE

Kingsley Napley Debuts Sports Unit With Disputes Pro

By Jamie Lennox

Kingsley Napley has created a sports disputes practice with the addition of a new partner, who said Wednesday that the full-service firm offers a broader platform to build his practice than he had at boutique company Level Law.

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Eversheds Sutherland Hires Paul Hastings Trial Pro

By Grace Dixon

Eversheds Sutherland announced that it has added a partner to its litigation practice group, who joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP fresh off the heels of guiding Prologis Inc. through a three-month jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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Brief

Squire Patton Launches Korea Desk

By Anna Sanders

Squire Patton Boggs LLP announced the launch of a Korea desk on Wednesday to strengthen the firm's ability to serve local clients and companies with interests in the region.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashby & Geddes

Ashtons Legal

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Ciardi Ciardi

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Eversheds Sutherland

Goldstein & Russell

Goulston & Storrs

Hamilton Lincoln

Kingsley Napley

Lehotsky Keller

Libby Hoopes

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Pollard PLLC

Pryor Cashman

Quarles & Brady

Rosenberg Freedman

Seyfarth Shaw

Shah Litigation

Shapiro Arato

Squire Patton

Sullivan & Cromwell

Wachtel Missry

Whiteford Taylor

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

APM Terminals Management BV

Apollo Global Management LLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

LinkedIn Corp.

New York University

Parabellum Capital LLC

Prologis Inc.

The New York Times Co.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alaska Department of Law

Executive Office of the President

Federal Election Commission

Internal Revenue Service

International Chamber of Commerce

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

Superior Court of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court