Stalled trade talks between the U.S. and China could resume with a phone call between the countries' leaders as early as this week, a Trump economic adviser said Sunday.
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US-China Trade Talks Could Resume After Stall Over Minerals

By Dylan Moroses

Stalled trade talks between the U.S. and China could resume with a phone call between the countries' leaders as early as this week, a Trump economic adviser said Sunday.

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Trump Blames Federalist Society For Trade Court Loss

By Cara Bayles

President Donald Trump blamed his recent, short-lived loss in the U.S. Court of International Trade both on judges he accused of hating him as well as on the Federalist Society — the conservative legal group that helped him with judicial selection during his first term — in a Truth Social post highlighting tensions within the conservative legal and political movements.

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ITC Ends Ericsson, Motorola Patent Fight After Settlement

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to drop an investigation into allegations that Motorola infringed patents owned by Swedish telecom giant Ericsson with its mobile phones after the companies settled their dispute.

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ITC Issues Import Block On Ascletis Liver Disease Drugs

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. International Trade Commission has issued an order blocking a Hong Kong-listed drug developer from importing treatments for a type of liver disease for the next seven years.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

Saying that June's circuit court calendars include important arguments in all practice areas would be hyperbolic — but just slightly. That's because significant showdowns are imminent, involving appellate procedure principles, "click-to-cancel" rules, government procurement protests, judiciary employment protections and litigation risk insurance — as well as President Donald Trump's felony convictions and extraordinary deportation measures.

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DHS Moves To Ax BigLaw Firm's Halkbank FOIA Dispute

By Gina Kim

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged a D.C. federal judge to end Williams & Connolly LLP's fight for records related to a businessman who cooperated with prosecutors in their pending case alleging the firm's client Halkbank laundered Iranian oil proceeds, arguing Thursday officials searched for responsive records, but nothing turned up.

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INVESTIGATIONS & REVIEWS

OFAC Sanctions Philippine Biz, Alleging Role In Cyber Scams

By Elaine Briseño

The Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned a Philippines-based technology company for allegedly providing computer infrastructure to "hundreds of thousands" of websites involved in virtual currency scams, according to a statement.

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LITIGATION

Shopper Wants Class Cert. In Mistranslated Cookie Label Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A shopper has urged a California federal court to certify three classes of consumers accusing a Japanese convenience store chain of selling snacks with dangerously mistranslated English labels that failed to disclose nut allergens, arguing common legal issues predominate because the company used "uniformly mistranslated" labeling across thousands of products.

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PEOPLE

Akin Adds Federal Export And Security Head As Adviser

By James Mills

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is boosting its international trade practice, bringing in an expert in export enforcement with the U.S. Department of Commerce as a senior regulatory adviser.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Staying The Course Amid Seismic DOJ White Collar Changes

While some of the big changes at the U.S. Department of Justice during the second Trump administration — like an embrace of cryptocurrency and more politicized prosecutions — were expected, there have also been surprises, so practitioners should advise clients to stay focused on white collar compliance in this unpredictable environment, say attorneys at Keker.

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Dutch Ruling Adds To EU Consensus On Investment Arb.

The Gerechtshof Amsterdam's recent decision in LC Corp. v. Poland marks a decisive development in the turbulent landscape surrounding intra-European Union bilateral investment treaties, exemplifying the growing judicial resistance to the enforcement and continuation of intra-EU arbitration proceedings, says Josep Galvez at 4-5 Gray's Inn Square.

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House Bill Tax Tweaks Would Hinder Renewable Projects

Provisions in the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rapidly phase out clean energy tax credits, constrain renewable energy financing arrangements and impose sweeping restrictions on projects with foreign ties, which may create compliance and supply chain issues for many developers, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

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Opinion

The BigLaw Settlements Are About Risk, Not Profit

The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

AI Video Pushes Boundaries Of Victim Impact Statements

By Sarah Martinson

At the beginning of May, an Arizona state court judge permitted an artificial intelligence-generated victim impact statement of a deceased victim at a sentencing hearing, leaving some attorneys concerned about how admitting these types of videos might affect sentencing in other cases.

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Jenner & Block Fights DOJ Motion Over Exec Order

By Jake Maher

Jenner & Block LLP on Friday fought a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to carve out part of a March executive order targeting the firm after the bulk of the order was tossed last week, in a dispute that could relate to future actions against the firm.

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Workplace Bullying Can't Be A Rite Of Passage For Attys

By Andrea Keckley

As more than half of young lawyers cite workplace toxicity as the reason they left their jobs, a panel of attorneys said Friday that many of the professionals they've listened to aren't willing to dismiss bullying as a rite of passage.

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Trump Taps Paul Ingrassia To Lead Special Counsel's Office

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has nominated Paul Ingrassia, a lawyer and former right-wing writer, to lead the Office of Special Counsel after firing the previous one.

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Analysis

Kousisis May Boost Fraud Cases, But Questions Remain

By Stewart Bishop and Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Supreme Court's finding that inducing a transaction through lies, even with no intent of economic loss, is a valid basis for a wire fraud conviction opens the door for a wave of aggressive fraud prosecutions, but unanswered questions on issues like materiality may lead the court to again consider reining in the government's power.

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More Californians Face Legal Issues, But Get Less Help

By Jack Karp

The gap between the need for civil legal services for Californians and the help that is actually available has grown over the past five years, as has the income level of those affected by that gap, according to a new study from the State Bar of California.

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AI Not Slowing Down Despite Ethical Risks, Experts Say

By Andrea Keckley

Following its rapid evolution in the past half-year alone, McDermott Will & Emery LLP Chief Information Officer Michael Shea predicted during a panel conversation Friday that artificial intelligence tools would see "pretty significant changes" over the next 12 months despite the challenges of putting guardrails around them.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Clement & Murphy PLLC leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

An investor is asking the Delaware Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of a new state law that broadens the protection of corporations in shareholder suits. And hundreds of general counsel are joining an online forum to stand up for the rule of law after President Donald Trump's executive orders against several corporate law firms.

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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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Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Philippe & Jennifer Selendy

By Yun Park

Philippe and Jennifer Selendy, who met as associates at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP and married in 1997, each spent nearly three decades building distinguished legal careers. They now continue their partnership at Selendy Gay PLLC, founded in 2018, which has quickly grown into one of the nation's leading litigation firms, recovering more than $47 billion for their clients.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

4 5 Gray's Inn Square

A&O Shearman

Akin Gump

Alston & Bird

Arnold & Porter

Bernstein Litowitz

Boies Schiller

Carrington Coleman

Clement & Murphy

Clement Van Ronzelen & Schulte

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dewey & LeBoeuf

Farella Braun

Fenwick & West

Finnegan

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Goodwin Procter

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Grant & Eisenhofer

HWG LLP

Harrison LLP

Haun Mena

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kelley Drye

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lieff Cabraser

London & Naor

Lowenstein Sandler

Martin LLP

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Emery

McKool Smith

Meagher & Geer

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Foerster

Nelson Mullins

Patterson Belknap

Patton Tidwell

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Prince Lobel

Reed Smith

Scale LLP

Selendy Gay

Sheppard Mullin

Simon Paschal

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Cromwell

Talkin Muccigrosso

Wachtell Lipton

Waymaker LLP

Weil Gotshal

White & Case

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

10x Genomics Inc.

Achmea BV

Acorda Therapeutics Inc.

Akin's

Alkermes PLC

Altice SA

Altice USA

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Amicus

Anti-Defamation League

Auris Health Inc.

Bayer AG

Binance Holdings Ltd.

CACI International Inc.

Cable News Network Inc.

California Western School of Law

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.

Credit Suisse Group AG

Crum & Forster Holdings Corp.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Digital Currency Group Inc.

Duke University

Eden Foods

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

Federalist Society

Federated Mutual Insurance Co.

Finjan Holdings Inc.

Fordham University

Fortis Advisors LLC

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Getin Noble Bank SA

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

Google LLC

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Harvard University

Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism

Informatica Corp.

Intel Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

Lenovo Group Ltd.

LinkedIn Corp.

Maxell Ltd.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Michaels Stores Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Monsanto Co.

Motorola Mobility LLC

NFL Enterprises LLC

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association of Realtors

National Federation of Independent Business

National Opinion Research Center

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Percipient.ai Inc.

SAIC Inc.

Salesforce.com Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Seattle Seahawks

State Bar of California

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

Temple University

The Boeing Co.

The Estee Lauder Cos. Inc.

The New York Times Co.

Therapeutics Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Uber Technologies Inc.

Ultimate Fighting Championship Ltd.

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

Wells Fargo & Co.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Employee Benefits Security Administration

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

European Commission

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

International Trade Commission

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Economic Council

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

New York County District Attorney's Office

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Permanent Court of Arbitration

U.S. Army

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado