Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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5th Circ. Mulls Families' Rights In Boeing-DOJ 737 Max Deal

By Linda Chiem

The Fifth Circuit on Thursday questioned whether crash victims' families are owed "unfettered" rights to consult with the U.S. Department of Justice over its refusal to criminally prosecute Boeing for conspiring to defraud safety regulators about the 737 Max's development.

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Lenovo Strikes Deal To End Patent Suit On The Eve Of Trial

By Gina Kim

Lenovo Group and Universal Connectivity Technologies on Wednesday issued a notice stating that they have settled their years-long patent infringement dispute covering power delivery technology, just days before a jury trial was set to begin in Texas federal court.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Ex-Exec At Perot's VC Firm Says Boss Owes Him For $2B Sale

By Spencer Brewer

A Dallas businessman sued billionaire Ross Perot Jr. in Texas state court on Thursday saying Perot stiffed him out of his rightful equity interest in a healthcare company that sold for $2 billion and refused to honor an explicit promise.

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BNY Mellon Can't Sue Investor In Texas Over Facility Funding

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appellate court determined Thursday that Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co.'s suit against the company that purchased senior revenue certificates for a student housing facility does not belong in the Lone Star State, saying the bank failed to demonstrate that the company's conduct tied it to Texas.

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DOJ Urges Court To Reject Live Nation's View Of Meta Ruling

By Matthew Perlman

Enforcers told a New York federal court to reject Live Nation's interpretation of a ruling in an antitrust case against Meta Platforms, saying that claims against the live entertainment giant do not have to accuse it of charging different venues different prices.

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Texas Panel Upholds Receivership In $2M Lung Disease Suit

By José Luis Martínez

A Texas appeals court affirmed the appointment of a receivership in a $2.2 million lung disease suit on Wednesday, ruling that the company appealing the receivership failed to address all the legal grounds supporting the appointment.

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Aircraft Service Co. Denied OT, Full Pay, Ex-Worker Tells Court

By Benjamin Morse

An aircraft services company stiffed workers on overtime and pay for all hours worked, a former employee alleged in a proposed collective action complaint filed in Texas federal court.

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FAT Brands Seeks OK To Use Subsidiary Stock Sale Cash

By Rick Archer

FAT Brands is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge for permission to use the proceeds from a sale of new shares in one of its subsidiary restaurant chains, saying it needs the more than $3 million in cash to fund its Chapter 11 case.

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Walmart Alice Win In Content Patent Suit Backed By Fed. Circ.

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Thursday agreed with U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's conclusion that a trio of content sharing patents asserted against Walmart are invalid for covering an abstract idea, rejecting the owner's arguments that certain claim limitations save the patents.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Gilstrap Sends Tesla Patent Case From Texas To Calif.

By Lauren Berg

A Texas federal judge refused to change his mind — again — about transferring to California a patent infringement suit against Tesla related to technology used in self-driving cars, according to a Jan. 29 order unsealed Thursday.

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Kodiak Gas Nabs Distributed Power Solutions For $675M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Contract compression services provider Kodiak Gas Services Inc. on Thursday unveiled plans to acquire Distributed Power Solutions LLC in an equity and cash deal valued at $675 million that was built by three law firms.

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Bipartisan Enforcement Is Rising In Consumer Finance

Activity over the past year suggests a bipartisan state enforcement wave is rippling across the consumer finance industry, which follows a blueprint set out by former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Rohit Chopra, who notably now leads a Democratic Attorneys General Association working group, say attorneys at Hudson Cook.

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What To Know As Courts Rethink McDonnell-Douglas

Although the U.S. Supreme Court declined the latest opportunity to address the viability of the McDonnell-Douglas burden-shifting framework used in employment discrimination and retaliation claims, two justices and courts around the country are increasingly seeking to abandon it, which could potentially lead to more trials and higher litigation budgets, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

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Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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