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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PBMs Seek Exit From Philly's Suit Over Opioid Crisis

By P.J. D'Annunzio

CVS Health Corp. and other pharmacy benefit managers asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to let them out of the city of Philadelphia's lawsuit claiming they contributed to the opioid epidemic in the city, arguing that the city waited too long to file its suit and lacked standing to sue the companies.

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Legal Nonprofit Settles EEOC Suit Over Atty Fired On Leave

By Anne Cullen

A Philadelphia legal services organization secured court approval Friday for a $240,000 deal to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully fired a staff attorney who was on leave for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

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Widower Of BNY Mellon Bank VP Says Hospital Missed Cancer

By Matthew Santoni

Doctors at Allegheny Health Network missed indications that a BNY Mellon vice president's stomach ulcers were a sign of cancer and didn't correctly diagnose her until it had spread throughout her abdomen, according to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court by her widower Wednesday.

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USAA Warns Alice Became 'Sinkhole' For Tech In $223M Case

By Dani Kass

The United Services Automobile Association has become the latest patent owner to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to review what constitutes an abstract idea not eligible for patenting after the Federal Circuit invalidated mobile check deposit patents juries had determined PNC Bank owed $223 million for infringing.

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Insurer Says Other Carrier Owes $23M For Old Policy Claims

By Hope Patti

Sparta Insurance Co. said the former parent of an insurer it acquired reneged on its contractual obligations to handle and pay claims under policies issued before the acquisition, telling a Massachusetts federal court that it is owed more than $23 million in settlement payments, attorney fees and other costs.

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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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White House Backs State Govs In Push For PJM Changes

By Keith Goldberg

The Trump administration on Friday joined an effort by 13 state governors to force the nation's largest regional grid operator, PJM Interconnection, to fix the issue of escalating power prices amid data center-fueled increases in electricity demand.

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Analysis

College Gambling Busts Show That Getting Caught Is Easy

By David Steele

The evidence against the college basketball players indicted Thursday on federal sports gambling charges, and the alleged fixers involved in enticing and paying the players, appears strong enough for the NCAA to focus on preventing future scandals rather than on denying the problem existed, sports law experts say.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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