Johnson & Johnson Hit With $1.5B Talc Verdict In Baltimore

By Emily Field

A Baltimore jury late Monday returned a walloping verdict of more than $1.5 billion in favor of a woman who claimed that Johnson & Johnson talc products caused her mesothelioma, which her attorneys say is the largest verdict against the company for a single plaintiff.

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Philly Joins MDL Against Drug Cos., PBMs Over Insulin Prices

By Bonnie Eslinger

Philadelphia on Tuesday sued drug manufacturers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, along with several pharmacy benefit managers, joining multidistrict litigation in New Jersey federal court accusing the companies of illegally inflating the price of insulin.

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Squires Will Review If Hydrafacial's ITC Win Should End IPR

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has paused the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's review of a Hydrafacial LLC skin treatment patent to consider the effect of a related U.S. International Trade Commission decision.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In January

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit is set to hear several intellectual property cases in January, including one over a nine-figure patent judgment against cybersecurity company Gen Digital tied to a contempt finding against a major law firm that represented it, and another over the tech industry's long-running crusade against patent review denials based on related litigation.

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Dem Sens. Blast Idea Of Charging Value-Based Patent Fees

By Elliot Weld

A group of Democratic U.S. senators has asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick not to move forward with a proposed overhaul of the U.S. patent fee system that reportedly would implement fees based on a patent's value, saying such changes would create a "prohibitive bar to innovation for start-ups and other small-to-mid-size businesses."

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Federal Agencies Urge 9th Circ. To Lift Layoff Freeze

By Braden Campbell

The U.S. government urged the Ninth Circuit to stay a court order barring agencies from laying off workers through next month under the shutdown deal, saying the court intruded on federal labor panels' territory and the funding resolution didn't bar layoffs agencies had in the works.

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Justices Urged To Spurn SG's Call To Tackle 'Skinny Labels'

By Ryan Davis

Amarin Pharma Inc. on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the U.S. solicitor general's call to hear a patent case involving generic drug "skinny labels," saying the dispute over the company's heart drug Vascepa deals with factual issues not suitable for high court review.

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AdaptHealth To Pay Investors $35M To End Inflated-Sales Suit

By Jessica Corso

Medical device provider AdaptHealth Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving shareholders about its revenue projections as it "routinely engaged in improper and unethical tactics to inflate sales numbers." 

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Sanofi Eczema Drug Linked To Lymphoma, Suit Says

By Chart Riggall

Drug manufacturers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi were hit with a lawsuit Monday from a Georgia woman alleging the companies have covered up a "strong and consistent causal relationship" between their drug Dupixent and a form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

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Blue Cross Seeks McDonald Hopkins' Fraud Warning Docs

By Jack Karp

Advice that McDonald Hopkins LLC gave a Florida hospital manager about potential exposure to criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud is neither privileged nor work product, and so should be handed over to a Blue Cross health insurer being sued for malicious prosecution in Georgia federal court, the insurer said.

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Feature

Top New Jersey Cases Of 2025

By George Woolston

New Jersey courts saw some history-making litigation come to a close over the course of 2025, including the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state and the first clergy abuse trial verdict since the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse claims was extended. Another notable development was the state's federal bench exercising a rarely used authority to reject President Donald Trump's pick for interim U.S. attorney.

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Top Illinois Decisions Of 2025

By Celeste Bott

State and federal courts have handed down rulings in Illinois cases this year that made clear plaintiffs must allege concrete injury for common law standing, narrowed the scope of the federal anti-kickback statute and laid out a new standard for certifying collective actions.

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Baker Botts Hires 2 New DC Partners For Enviro, IP Team

By Jack Rodgers

Baker Botts LLP has hired two new partners in its intellectual property and environmental safety and incident response groups, who will both be based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, Baker Botts said in recent announcements.

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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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