Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2025, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

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Analysis

In First Year, Trump Lost Most Cases But Often Won Appeals

By Cara Bayles

In the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, his administration lost in court nearly twice as often as it won, but its success rate increased when it appealed, according to a Law360 review of more than 400 lawsuits.

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Roundup

Up Next At High Court: Fed Firing & Gun 'Vampire Rules'

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court will begin a short argument week Tuesday, during which the justices will consider President Donald Trump's authority to fire a Democratic Federal Reserve governor over allegations of mortgage fraud, as well as the ability for states to presumptively bar gun owners from carrying firearms onto private property open to the public unless the property owner explicitly allows it. 

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Analysis

Immigrant Visa Pause Could Test Limits Of Executive Power

By Britain Eakin

The Trump administration's indefinite pause on immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries may test the outer bounds of executive control over visa issuance and prompt court battles in a rarely litigated area of immigration law.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Stibbe, A&O Shearman, Latham

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. plans to complete its deal to snap up coffee company JDE Peet's NV, Boston Scientific Corp. acquires medical device company Penumbra Inc., and fitness and wellness platform parent Playlist merges with fitness technology company EGYM.

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Oversight Head Seeks Help From CMS On NY Medicaid Inquiry

By Ganesh Setty

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., asked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Friday to aid the committee's investigation into whether New York has wrongfully withheld funds for hospitals disproportionately serving Medicaid recipients and uninsured people.

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Calif. AG Orders xAI To Stop Enabling Sexualized Deepfakes

By Rae Ann Varona

California's attorney general on Friday sent xAI a cease and desist letter demanding the artificial intelligence company immediately stop the creation and distribution of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes, days after U.S. senators announced they had demanded that leading tech companies disclose how they are preventing such images on their platforms.

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Judge Won't Toss Google Patent Suit After Hearing No-Show

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge has said he wasn't going to take a magistrate judge's recommendation to toss a patent infringement suit against Google due to the plaintiff defying court orders and skipping a bench trial, saying missing the trial did not amount to "failing to prosecute" the case in a manner that would warrant dismissal.

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Judge Backs Employment Law Firm's 'Harmless Flirting' Ad

By Grace Elletson

A New York federal judge said an employment law firm would probably win its constitutional challenge to the rejection of a billboard advertising its willingness to sue companies that dismiss sexual harassment as "harmless flirting," calling a Syracuse airport authority's concerns that the ad pushed false information "nonsense."

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Maurene Comey Fights DOJ Bid To Toss Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey has urged a New York federal court to reject the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to dismiss her firing suit, arguing her claims belong before the district court and not under the jurisdiction of a non-independent board now controlled by the president.

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Money Not Sole Motive For Jordan Card Caper, Jury Told

By Pete Brush

A Washington state youth sports coach who says he bankrolled a $2 million sports trading-card scam conceded Friday that the man accused of spearheading the fraud had motives beyond money, as a defense lawyer challenged the cooperator's account before a Manhattan federal jury.

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$29M Deal In Boeing Supplier Fraud Suit Gets Final OK

By Linda Chiem

A New York federal judge on Friday approved a $29 million deal to close out a suit alleging that Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. misled investors by failing to disclose pervasive quality problems and a documented history of supplying its chief customer, The Boeing Co., with defective plane parts.

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Infinite Eagle SPAC Raises $300M In Latest IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Infinite Eagle Acquisition Corp., the tenth blank check company helmed by Jeff Sagansky and Harry Sloan, began trading publicly Friday after raising $300 million in its initial public offering.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Cannabis Landlords, Global Deals, ACREL

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including how potential changes to federal marijuana regulation could affect landlords, the largest global real estate deals of 2025, and a chat with the new president of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

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Pinnacle Ch. 11 Buyer's Repair Pledge Enough For Sale OK

By Vince Sullivan

A New York bankruptcy judge approved the $451 million sale of 93 properties in the Chapter 11 case of real estate entities affiliated with Pinnacle Group, saying the buyer's plan to invest $30 million in repairs and maintenance for the buildings is enough to adequately assure residents it will perform its management obligations.

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DOJ Says Wife Owes FBAR Penalties On India Account

By Anna Scott Farrell

A New York federal court should find that a businessman's wife owes penalties for his failure to report his Indian bank account to the Internal Revenue Service after he deposited $1.5 million from the sale of a New York apartment complex, the U.S. Department of Justice argued Friday.

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Seneca Nation Pushes To End NY Jurisdiction On Tribal Lands

By Crystal Owens

The Seneca Nation of New York has urged Congress to pass a bill that would nullify a 1948 law that gives the state criminal and civil jurisdiction over its tribal lands, saying the legislation strengthens public safety accountability and reduces the opportunity for illegal activities to flourish under legal uncertainty.

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Expect State Noncompete Reforms, FTC Scrutiny In 2026

Employer noncompete practices are facing intensified federal scrutiny and state reforms heading into 2026, with the Federal Trade Commission pivoting to case-by-case enforcement and states continuing to tighten the rules, especially in the healthcare sector, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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What Changed For Healthcare Transaction Law In 2025

Though much of the legislation introduced last year to expand state scrutiny of healthcare transactions did not pass, investors should pay close attention to the overarching trends, which are likely to continue in this year's legislative sessions, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Decoding The SEC's Plans To Revitalize The US IPO Market

Chairman Paul Atkins' recent speech showcased the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's plans to ease certain disclosure burdens, rein in politicized shareholder voting and mitigate litigation risk, which could encourage more U.S. companies to seek public listings stateside and make U.S. stock exchanges more competitive for foreign companies, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.

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Cannabis Industry Faces An Inflection Point This Year

Cannabis industry developments last year — from the passage of a new wholesale tax in Michigan, to an executive order accelerating the federal rescheduling process — presage a more mature phase of legalization this year, with hardening expectations and enforcement to come, says Alex Leonowicz at Howard & Howard.

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5 Advertising Law Trends That Will Shape 2026

The legal landscape for advertisers will grow only more complex this year, with ongoing trends including a federal regulatory retreat, more aggressive action by the states, a focus on child privacy and expanded scrutiny of "natural" claims, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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Kirkland, Ex-Judge Hit With Class Action Over Texas Romance

By Hilary Russ

An investment firm is suing Kirkland & Ellis LLP, an ex-judge, two other law firms and a lawyer for allegedly fomenting "mass corruption" in Houston's bankruptcy court and colluding to enrich themselves by controlling the outcome of large Chapter 11 cases.

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Womble Bond Expands With 36-Person McGlinchey Team

By Tracey Read

Womble Bond Dickinson announced Friday it has added a 36-member consumer financial services team from the shuttering McGlinchey Stafford PLLC and is opening two new offices in Albany, New York, and Cleveland.

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Supreme Court Hacker Pleads Guilty To Misdemeanor Charge

By Jared Foretek

A 24-year-old Tennessee man pled guilty Friday to a single misdemeanor charge for hacking into the U.S. Supreme Court's filing system and several other government networks, admitting that he "intentionally accessed a computer without authorization" on 25 different days in 2023.

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Watchdog Urges Blanche To Exit Trump Records Role

By Courtney Bublé

A watchdog organization is calling on Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to step aside as President Donald Trump's proxy for records from his first term as they become available next week, saying he has a conflict of interest.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London saw the David Lloyd gym chain file an intellectual property claim against its founder, security company Primekings reignite a long-running dispute with the former owners of an acquired business, and a pair of Belizean developers sue a finance executive they say shut them out of a cruise port project.

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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, U.S. House lawmakers approved a bill that would restrict how retirement plan managers can consider environmental, social and governance issues when picking investments.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sher Tremonte LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Second Circuit upheld a ruling requiring Getty Images to pay out nearly $88 million to investors who said they were blocked from purchasing shares in the company once it became public.

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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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