CDC Panel Ends Recommendation Of Hepatitis B Shot At Birth

By Yeji Jesse Lee

A panel of federal vaccine advisers on Friday voted to lift a long-standing recommendation that all newborns be given vaccinations for hepatitis B.

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SG Urges Justices To Hear Hikma's 'Skinny Label' Patent Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. solicitor general on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Hikma Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s appeal of a decision reviving a patent suit involving its "skinny label" on a generic heart drug, saying the ruling puts the availability of lower-cost generics at risk.

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Cancer Detection Biz Going Public Via $1.1B SPAC Merger

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Cancer detection company Freenome Holdings Inc. announced plans Friday to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp. in a deal that gives the combined business a post-transaction equity value of $1.1 billion and was built by three law firms.

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Mass Tort Firms Targeted Over Benicar MDL Fees In NJ Suits

By Jake Maher

Robins Kaplan LLP and Pendley Baudin & Coffin were hit with proposed class actions in New Jersey state court from former clients in multidistrict litigation over the blood pressure medication Benicar alleging that the firms overcharged on their fees.

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Judge Won't Lift Stay On Hopewell Drug Launch

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge has shot down Hopewell Pharma Ventures' bid to lift a regulatory stay on approval of its planned generic version of German drugmaker Merck's blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Mavenclad.

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Medline Accused In Chancery Of Withholding $10M Earnout

By Jarek Rutz

A Florida-based holding company and its founder have sued medical supplier Medline in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging it deliberately refused to make a $10 million payment tied to a 2023 acquisition, missed a hard deadline and is now acting in bad faith to avoid paying the key portion of the sale price.

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Pharma Co. Says Ex-Staff Used Secrets To Compete

By Abigail Harrison

Pharmaceutical supplier New Life Medicals (USA) Inc. told a North Carolina state court that a former warehouse manager, a freelance contractor and a business partner conspired to steal confidential information to form a competing venture only 10 miles away.

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10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

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Bonus Spotlight

Katten Exceeds Market Bonus Scale, Orrick Matches

By Tracey Read

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has joined a select few law firms that have gone beyond the BigLaw norm for year-end and special bonuses.

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Immigration Lawyers Battle Burnout Amid Deportation Surge

By Daniel Connolly

As the Trump administration carries out a mass deportation campaign across the country, immigration attorneys faced with heavy demand and changing norms are feeling the impact of burnout and stress on their practices and emotions, they told Law360.

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Judges Beat Ethics Suits For Dropping Retirement Post-Trump

By Jake Maher

A Fourth Circuit judge and two district court judges have defeated ethics complaints from a conservative legal organization alleging they improperly reversed their decisions to take senior status after President Donald Trump was elected.

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Rosen Law Firm Sanctioned Over 'Frivolous' Investor Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

A Wisconsin federal judge has sanctioned The Rosen Law Firm PA for failing to conduct an adequate investigation before filing a "frivolous" securities complaint against an airline holding company.

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Utah Atty Avoids Monetary Sanction For 'Hallucinated' Cases

By Matt Perez

A Utah federal judge handling a trademark infringement matter has sanctioned an attorney for filing court documents with "hallucinated" cases, but instead of issuing a fine, the lawyer was ordered to read all the cases and authorities cited in the opinion and file a summary statement within 30 days.

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Supreme Court Halts Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Fourth Circuit decision reviving a free speech suit from an immigration judges union challenging a policy barring them from speaking publicly about immigration without approval.

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Feature

For NY Inmate, Jamaica's Violence Waits Outside Prison Walls

By Rachel Rippetoe

Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead.

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Fla. Court Upholds Atty Disqualification In $1M Estate Dispute

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court on Friday affirmed the disqualification of an attorney who abandoned his client and began representing his client's adversaries in a $1 million probate case, finding that he likely violated ethics rules regarding conflicts of interest.

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Fla. Judge OKs Release Of Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts

By Rae Ann Varona

A Florida federal judge on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from an investigation of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, citing a newly enacted law that the government said overrides a prohibition on disclosing the documents to the public.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

An SEC panel has asked the agency to adopt regulations that could standardize the way publicly traded companies report details about AI use. Meanwhile, the FCC approved AT&T's $1 billion UScellular deal after AT&T became the latest of the big three mobile carriers to agree to do away with diversity, equity and inclusion policies. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Gupta Wessler LLP and Block & Leviton LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Eleventh Circuit revived a proposed class action against NextEra Energy Inc. that seeks to hold the energy company liable for a share price drop that followed political interference allegations involving a subsidiary.

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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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