US To Work With Mexico, Others On Trade Of Critical Minerals

By Dylan Moroses

U.S. officials will coordinate efforts with Mexico, the European Union and Japan to secure critical minerals and develop trade policies around those resources, according to announcements Wednesday by the U.S. Trade Representative's Office.

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EU Lawmakers May Vote On US Trade Deal This Month

By Dylan Moroses

The European Parliament will resume work on carrying out a framework trade agreement with the United States later this month following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of tariff threats in an effort to obtain Greenland, the parliament's trade committee chair said Wednesday.

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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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Senate Committee Mulls Autonomous Vehicle Standards

By Linda Chiem

U.S. Senate lawmakers on Wednesday renewed debate over how to craft a federal regulatory framework governing autonomous vehicles in the U.S., as Tesla, Waymo and other industry executives pressed for concrete rules to help drive innovation and competition, while also defending their safety records in the face of recent incidents.

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Brief

EU Probes Chinese Wind Turbine Co. Over Foreign Subsidies

By Jack McLoone

The European Commission has opened what it is calling an in-depth investigation into a Chinese wind turbine company that may be receiving distortive foreign subsidies.

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Whoop Nabs Block On Chinese Co.'s Health-Tracker Products

By Elliot Weld

A Massachusetts federal judge has blocked a Chinese company from selling in the U.S. its health-tracking products that were alleged by health band maker Whoop Inc. to be infringing its trade dress.

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Patent Settlement Blocks Fitness Tech ITC Case

By Jack McLoone

An Atlanta federal court said a U.S. fitness technology company can't go to the U.S. International Trade Commission to complain about an Australian rival's alleged patent-infringing bicycle training products because of a previous settlement agreement, ordering Wahoo to withdraw its ITC complaint.

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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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Ex-Pentagon GC Joins Bradley Arant's National Security Team

By Jack Rodgers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has hired the former legal adviser to the National Security Council, who is joining the team in Nashville, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., to work with the firm's Government Enforcement & Investigations and Defense & National Security teams, the firm announced Tuesday.

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Takeaways From The DOJ Fraud Section's 2025 Year In Review

Former acting Principal Deputy Chief Sean Tonolli of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section, now at Cahill Gordon, analyzes key findings from the section’s annual report — including the changes implemented to adapt to the new administration’s priorities — and lays out what to watch for this year.

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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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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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