Apollo Global Management has agreed to pay €3 billion ($3.4 billion) for a minority stake in Bayer's long-acting reversible contraceptive business, according to a joint announcement Friday. 
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4 Firms Advise On $3.4B Apollo, Bayer Contraceptives Deal

By Al Barbarino

Apollo Global Management has agreed to pay €3 billion ($3.4 billion) for a minority stake in Bayer's long-acting reversible contraceptive business, according to a joint announcement Friday. 

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Boston Scientific Top Brass Sued Over Pacemaker Recall

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Boston Scientific Corp. shareholder has filed a derivative lawsuit against the company's current and former directors and top executives, claiming they ignored early signs of an issue with the company's pacemakers that led to a recall and has been connected to four deaths.

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Thermo Fisher Looks To Block Former Exec's Move To Fortrea

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Thermo Fisher is asking a Delaware court to prevent a former executive's move to a direct competitor following its $8.875 billion acquisition of Clario in March 2026, saying the new leadership role is in violation of contractual obligations negotiated as part of the acquisition.

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LITIGATION

Fed. Circ. Won't Rethink Corcept Patent Loss In Teva Case

By Adam Lidgett

Corcept Therapeutics Inc. lost its bid Friday to have the full Federal Circuit look at a panel's refusal to revive its suit accusing Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. of patent infringement over its production of a generic version of the drug Korlym.

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Chemours Says NC Resident's PFAS 'Equity Action' Must Fail

By Abigail Harrison

DuPont entity and spinoff Chemours Inc. has told a North Carolina federal court it shouldn't have to face a PFAS contamination suit from a state resident, saying in her early-stage court filings, she's conceded that her "equity action" is doomed to fail.

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Ex-Biomedical Worker Axed For Not Altering Data, Suit Says

By George Woolston

A former regulatory affairs specialist for biomedical company Vitara has alleged in New Jersey state court that she was fired in retaliation for refusing to manipulate data in the company's bid to perform the first human trial of its technology aimed at helping premature newborns.

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Medical Device Co. Hit With Action Over Data Breach

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Pennsylvania-based medical device company AdaptHealth Corp. is facing a putative class action in federal court alleging the company was liable for a data breach last month that exposed the sensitive information of its customers.

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Brief

DOJ Appeals Order Shielding Trans Youth Medical Records

By Gianna Ferrarin

The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Ninth Circuit to review a California federal court's order blocking the government from trying to identify individuals who received gender-affirming care from a Stanford Medicine hospital as minors.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What Data Says About Biologics-Related Ex Parte Challenges

An analysis of the 67 ex parte reexaminations used to challenge biologics patents over the last 13 years reveals that reexamination may emerge as an alternative to inter partes review and postgrant review, despite facing a number of procedural disadvantages, say attorneys at Steptoe.

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Roundup

The Most Talked-About Supreme Court Decisions Of 2026

This term, 11 U.S. Supreme Court decisions quickly became hot topics among Law360's guest writers.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Over 2,600 Attys, Professionals Urge Blocking Blanche As AG

By Emma Cueto

More than 2,600 lawyers and legal professionals on Friday urged lawmakers to oppose the nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general, saying Blanche's dismissal of the idea that the U.S. Department of Justice should be independent from the White House and his record as interim attorney general make him unfit for the role.

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HHS' Ex-GC Committed Ethics Violations, Watchdog Says

By Craig Clough

A watchdog organization filed a complaint Thursday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General seeking an investigation into former HHS general counsel Michael Stuart over alleged federal ethics violations, saying it appears he failed to divest from prohibited financial holdings and made prohibited investment purchases after taking office.

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Atty's 'Fabricated Quotes,' 'Reliance on AI' Panned By Judge

By Craig Clough

A New York magistrate judge struck a brief Friday filed by an attorney representing a client suing Roc Nation after finding that it included numerous fabrications that may have resulted from artificial intelligence hallucinations, noting that the attorney has been "repeatedly" sanctioned or warned by multiple courts for the same behavior. 

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11th Circ. Refers Atty For Discipline Over Suspected AI Entries

By Katherine Smith

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday referred an attorney for potential discipline over a brief he filed in a client's retaliation lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, ruling that the attorney failed to explain how several defective quotes and citations ended up in the brief.

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Baker Donelson Wins $45K From Tenn. Firm Over AI Misuse

By Lynn LaRowe

Tennessee personal injury firm Reaves Law Firm PLLC must pay more than $45,000 in attorney fees to Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC over Reaves Law's misuse of artificial intelligence in a federal malpractice suit against Baker Donelson.

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Davis Wright Atty Hit With Sanctions After Winning Sanctions

By Jeff Overley

After defending six-figure sanctions of plaintiffs lawyers for "a reckless course of prolonging litigation," a Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorney is facing his own six-figure sanctions, with a California magistrate judge finding he "unnecessarily burdened" opposing counsel despite warnings dating back years about "improper litigation tactics."

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Oura Health Swaps In Sidley For Quinn After Ex-CEO's DQ Bid

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge granted Oura Health's request to swap in Sidley Austin LLP for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP in breach-of-contract litigation by the fitness tracker company's former CEO after the ex-executive sought to disqualify Quinn Emanuel for purportedly having access to his confidential data.

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NY Nonprofits Want ICE Docs On Courthouse Arrest Policies

By Stewart Bishop

Nonprofit groups suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over courthouse arrest policies pressed a Manhattan federal judge to force the agency to produce documents and testimony concerning arrests it conducts outside immigration courts after the agency's revised policy concerning such arrests in Manhattan was put on hold.

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Brooklyn Legal Aid Provider's Union Sets Strike Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

The union for the Brooklyn Defender Services has voted to authorize a strike if it doesn't reach an agreement with managers by the morning of July 16.

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11th Circ. Upholds Airline's Win In COVID Discrimination Case

By Irene Spezzamonte

A group of workers for a commercial airline and a related entity failed to support their claims that the companies' COVID-19 pandemic-era policies discriminated against their religious beliefs, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday, while sharply criticizing their attorney for his misuse of artificial intelligence.

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UChicago Law Takes On AI With Phone And Laptop Ban

By Matt Perez

The University of Chicago Law School will prohibit the use of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and phones in all first-year law school sections and courses as part of new policies dictating the use of artificial intelligence at the school.

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4 Takeaways From Probe Of Feb. 2025 Calif. Bar Exam Fiasco

By Emily Sawicki

Poor implementation of the February 2025 California Bar Exam resulted in millions of dollars in extra costs and negatively affected "a significant portion" of test-takers, according to a new report by the California State Auditor.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen lawyer Ian Rosenblatt launch legal action against music mogul Simon Cowell, Boohoo face a fresh investor claim after previously facing allegations that it feigned ignorance of labor abuses in its supply chain, and an ex-Tory MP and his chief of staff sued by their former employer. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week: The SEC chair said this year's corporate proxy season saw none of the "dire predictions" some had forecast, and in a recent survey, hundreds of law firm leaders said they're increasingly losing clients, citing problems in delivering their legal services.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP and Ludd & Ludd lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a San Diego jury ordered Hyatt to pay $15.5 million over the death of a guest who was left uncontacted for a day after failing to check out.

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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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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

AbbVie Inc.

AdaptHealth LLC

African Communities Together

American Civil Liberties Union

Ankura Consulting Group LLC

Anthropic PBC

Apollo Global Management LLC

Apple Inc.

Applied Medical Resources Corp.

AstraZeneca PLC

Atlas Air Inc.

Bayer AG

Big Lots Inc.

BigHand Ltd.

Biogen Inc.

Boston Scientific Corp.

Boyer Co.

British American Tobacco PLC

Brooklyn Defender Services

CRA International Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

Center for Family Representation Inc.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisneros

Clario

Compass Lexecon LLC

Corcept Therapeutics Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

Deutsche Bank AG

Fortrea Inc.

Genentech Inc.

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Google LLC

LVMH Moet Hennessy

Learning Resources Inc.

LifePoint Health Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Make the Road New York

MasterCard Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Medtronic PLC

Monsanto Co.

Multi-Color Corp.

Neuralstem, Inc.

New York Civil Liberties Union

North American Securities Administrators Association

Pfizer Inc.

ROC Nation LLC

Radisson Hotels International

Red Bull GmbH

Sandoz International GmbH

SentencingStats.com Inc.

SoftBank Group Corp.

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc.

State Bar of California

StoneTurn Group LLP

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

The District of Columbia Bar

The Hain Celestial Group Inc.

The Kroger Co.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

TikTok Inc.

Trafigura Group Pte. Ltd.

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

United Auto Workers

Verizon Communications Inc.

Visa Europe

Vitara Biomedical

Walmart Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

eResearch Technology Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ahdoot & Wolfson

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Baker Donelson

Barack Ferrazzano

Benesch

Blank Rome

Brownstein Hyatt

Bryson Harris Suciu & DeMay

Bursor & Fisher

CM Law LLP

Charles Russell Speechlys

Christensen Law LLC

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen & Gresser

Cole Scott & Kissane

Colson Hicks

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

DAC Beachcroft

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Davis Woolfe

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dovel & Luner

Dynamis LLP

Ellis & Winters

Emery Celli

Finnegan

Fisher & Phillips

Fox Williams

Freeths LLP

Gibson Dunn

Greene Broillet

HSF Kramer

Harris Solicitors

Hill Dickinson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hooper Lundy

Hutchings Barsamian

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Joseph Greenwald & Laake

Katsky Korins

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Knobbe Martens

Kopecky Schumacher

Kuit Steinart

Lankler Siffert

Latham & Watkins

Levi & Korsinsky

Linklaters LLP

Logan Vance

Lowell & Associates

MSB Solicitors

Mayer Brown

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

Memery Crystal

Morgan Lewis

NautaDutilh

Patterson Belknap

Paul Weiss

Phelps Dunbar

Pinsent Masons

Potter Anderson

Quinn Emanuel

Quintairos Prieto

Reaves Law Firm PLLC

Reed Smith

Reichman Jorgensen

Reynolds Porter

Richards Layton

Rosen Bien

Rosenblatt Solicitors

Rosing Pott

Sabatini Law Firm PA

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Smith Krivoshey

Snell & Wilmer

Squire Patton

Stephens Scown

Stephenson Harwood

Steptoe LLP

Sterne Kessler

Stinson LLP

T. A. Blackburn Law PLLC

TLT LLP

Tacopina Seigel

Veale Wasbrough

Venable LLP

Ward Hadaway

Wiley Rein

Williams Leininger

Winston Taylor

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

City and County of San Francisco, California

Competition Appeal Tribunal

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Communications Commission

Florida Department of Corrections

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

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 Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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

UK High Court