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February 05, 2026
State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey
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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February 05, 2026
2 Firms Advise JV's Data Center Portfolio Sale To Igneo
A joint venture guided by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP sold off its portfolio of seven U.S. data centers to global infrastructure manager Igneo Infrastructure Partners, which was guided by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, the companies announced on Thursday.
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February 05, 2026
Cooley Adds Ex-Kirkland Corporate Real Estate Leader In NY
Cooley LLP announced it has hired the former leader of Kirkland & Ellis LLP's corporate real estate team.
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February 05, 2026
Covington, Davis Polk Lead Eikon's Upsized $381M IPO
Oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company Eikon Therapeutics began trading publicly Thursday after raising $381 million in its upsized initial public offering.
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February 05, 2026
4 Firms Build Genius Sports' $1.2B Legend Acquisition
Sports data, technology and broadcast partner Genius Sports Ltd. unveiled plans Thursday to acquire digital sports and gaming network Legend in a $1.2 billion deal that was built by four law firms.
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February 05, 2026
Weil, Latham Advise Data Center Parts Builder's $1.5B IPO
Minnesota-based data center and industrial parts builder Forgent Power Solutions raised $1.5 billion after it began trading Thursday, with advice from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.
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February 05, 2026
Alston & Bird Hires Ex-Baker McKenzie Tech, Privacy Pro
Alston & Bird LLP has added a technology and privacy specialist previously with Baker McKenzie as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, the firm announced Thursday.
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February 04, 2026
DC Circ. Preserves Secrecy Of DOJ's Gag Orders On Google
The D.C. Circuit has rejected a nonprofit group's push to unmask applications filed by the U.S. Department of Justice that blocked Google from informing one of its email subscribers about a subpoena for some of his account data, agreeing with the lower court that the records were shielded by grand jury secrecy rules.
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February 04, 2026
Ropes Leads Hair-Loss Firm Veradermics' Upsized $256M IPO
Hair loss drug developer Veradermics Inc. began trading Wednesday after raising $256 million in an upsized initial public offering, with Ropes & Gray LLP representing the company and Cooley LLP representing the underwriters.
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February 04, 2026
Medtronic Owes $381M For Antitrust 'War Games,' Jury Told
An attorney for Applied Medical told a California federal jury Wednesday during closing arguments in an antitrust trial against Medtronic that internal documents from the medical device giant show it played illegal "war games" against his client and should pay up to $381 million.
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February 04, 2026
What's Left In VLSI-Intel's $3B Patent Litigation
Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit in one arm of their high-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.
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February 04, 2026
Senate Committee Mulls Autonomous Vehicle Standards
U.S. Senate lawmakers on Wednesday renewed debate over how to craft a federal regulatory framework governing autonomous vehicles in the U.S., as Tesla, Waymo and other industry executives pressed for concrete rules to help drive innovation and competition, while also defending their safety records in the face of recent incidents.
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February 04, 2026
Wash. AG Defends 'Constitutional' Anti-Spam Law In Ulta Suit
Washington's attorney general is defending the constitutionality of a state anti-spam law, denying arguments by beauty retailer Ulta that the statute is an undue burden on interstate commerce and runs afoul of federal law.
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February 04, 2026
Fed. Circ. Leans Toward Vacating $12.7M Copyright Award
The Federal Circuit appeared likely to vacate a $12.7 million copyright infringement award against the federal government on Wednesday, pressing attorneys for a software developer and the government to answer what instructions should be given to the claims court on remand.
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February 04, 2026
'Extraordinary Circumstances': Elon Musk Faces USAID Depo
A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday said billionaire Elon Musk must testify in litigation filed by U.S. Agency for International Development employees claiming he illegally dismantled the foreign aid agency while head of the advisory organization known as the Department of Government Efficiency, saying "extraordinary circumstances justify the deposition."
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February 04, 2026
Oracle Oversold AI Infrastructure Spending, Investor Says
An Oracle Corp. shareholder has accused the company in Delaware federal court of overly promising that its increased spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure would accelerate revenue growth despite concerns about its increasing contractual reliance on OpenAI, saying OpenAI itself is beholden to "AI tailwinds continuing and its models being a market leader."
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February 04, 2026
CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit
Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."
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February 04, 2026
Judge Says $40B Ligado Suit Looks 'Destined' For High Court
Network company Ligado's nearly $40 billion lawsuit accusing the government of wrongly blocking its use of a certain slice of the airwaves seems likely to eventually land in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit's chief judge said Wednesday.
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February 04, 2026
Squires Throws Out 23 Patent Challenges, Grants 12
The latest summary decision from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires denied 23 America Invents Act petitions and instituted 12 others, bringing his total number of patent challenges granted to 60.
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February 04, 2026
HPE Backs DOJ Bid For Final Merger Deal Approval
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has endorsed the Justice Department's bid for final approval of a controversial settlement permitting the $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, telling a California federal judge that Democratic state attorneys general have nothing but "vague and inaccurate accusations" that the deal was improper.
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February 04, 2026
SPEX Urges Fed. Circ. To Revert Slashed $1 IP Win To $553M
SPEX Technologies Inc. is asking the Federal Circuit to reinstate the $553 million award it had won against Western Digital for patent infringement, after a California federal judge lowered it to a single dollar.
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February 04, 2026
Co. Can't Limit Punitive Damages For Ill. Dehumidifier Fire
A dehumidifier manufacturer lost its bid to limit the punitive damages sought by property owners and their insurer for damage they say was caused by a product defect when an Illinois federal court ruled Tuesday the owners' punitive damages are for the total damage, not just the deductible for their uninsured loss.
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February 04, 2026
Parent Tells 9th Circ. Roblox Can't Arbitrate Suit
A parent has urged the Ninth Circuit to uphold a lower court's ruling that Roblox can't arbitrate claims that his daughter was preyed upon by adults on the popular gaming platform, since it was his minor child, not him, who made purchases on the app.
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February 04, 2026
Partisan Permit Reform Won't Last In Long Run, Dem Says
A Democratic member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday called for bipartisan reform of state and local broadband permitting laws, saying a GOP approach that excludes the other side could stymie the legislation.
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February 04, 2026
Loeb & Loeb To Guide SPAC's Merger With Packaging Co.
Loeb & Loeb LLP is advising a special purpose acquisition company on its proposed combination with Taiwan-based packaging solutions company Deluxe Technology Group, according to an announcement on Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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Series
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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New Biotech Nat'l Security Controls May Have Blunted Impact
While the newly enacted federal prohibition against contracting with certain biotechnology providers associated with countries of concern may have consequences on U.S. companies' ability to develop drugs, the restrictions may prove to be less problematic for the industry than the significant publicity around their passage would suggest, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.
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From IPR To EPR: The Rapid Rise Of Ex Parte Reexamination
With the current administration's dramatic shifts in policy rendering inter partes reviews essentially unavailable for the majority of patents being asserted in litigation, IPR filing rates have plunged, and ex parte reexamination requests have surged to the average rate of IPR petitions in 2024, say attorneys at McKool Smith.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience
Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.
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Takeaways From The DOJ Fraud Section's 2025 Year In Review
Former acting Principal Deputy Chief Sean Tonolli of the U.S. Department of Justice's Fraud Section, now at Cahill Gordon, analyzes key findings from the section’s annual report — including the changes implemented to adapt to the new administration’s priorities — and lays out what to watch for this year.
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Anticipating The SEC's Cybersecurity Focus After SolarWinds
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent voluntary dismissal of its enforcement action against SolarWinds Corp. and its chief information security officer marks a significant victory for the defendants, it does not mean the SEC is done bringing cybersecurity cases, say attorneys at MoFo.
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Opinion
Congress Should Lead On AI Policy, Not The States
There needs to be some limits on how far federal agencies go in regulating artificial intelligence systems, but Congress must not abdicate its responsibility and cede control over this interstate market to state and local officials, say Kevin Frazier at the University of Texas School of Law and Adam Thierer at the R Street Institute.
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Limiting Worker Surveillance Risks Amid AI Regulatory Shifts
With workplace surveillance tools becoming increasingly common and a recent executive order aiming to preempt state-level artificial intelligence enforcement, companies may feel encouraged to expand AI monitoring, but the legal exposure associated with these tools remains, say attorneys at MoFo.
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How Insurers Are Wording AI Exclusions
Artificial intelligence exclusions are now available for use in insurance policies, meaning corporate risk managers must determine how those exclusions are interpreted and applied, and how they define AI, says David Kroeger at Jenner & Block.
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How 2 Tech Statutes Are Being Applied To Agentic AI
The application of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act to agentic artificial intelligence is still developing, but recent case law, like Amazon's lawsuit against Perplexity in California federal court, provides some initial guidance for companies developing or deploying these technologies, say attorneys at Weil.
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Defense Strategy Takeaways From Recent TCPA Class Actions
Although recent Telephone Consumer Protection Act decisions do not establish any bright-line tests for defeating predominance based on an argument that class members provided consent for the calls, certain trends have emerged that should inform defense strategies at class certification, say attorneys at Womble Bond.
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NYC Bar Opinion Warns Attys On Use Of AI Recording Tools
Attorneys who use artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and summarize conversations with clients should heed the New York City Bar Association’s recent opinion addressing the legal and ethical risks posed by such tools, and follow several best practices to avoid violating the Rules of Professional Conduct, say attorneys at Smith Gambrell.
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Series
The Biz Court Digest: Dispatches From Utah's Newest Court
While a robust body of law hasn't yet developed since the Utah Business and Chancery Court's founding in October 2024, the number of cases filed there has recently picked up, and its existence illustrates Utah's desire to be top of mind for businesses across the country, says Evan Strassberg at Michael Best.
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Aerospace And Defense Law: Trends To Follow In 2026
Some of the key 2026 developments to watch in aerospace and defense contracting law stem from provisions of this year's National Defense Authorization Act, a push to reform procurement, executive orders that announced Trump administration priorities, the upcoming Artemis space mission and continuing efforts to deploy artificial intelligence, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Viewing The Merger Landscape Through An HPE-Juniper Lens
If considerations beyond antitrust law were taken into account to determine whether Section 7 of the Clayton Act was violated in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-Juniper Networks deal, then legal practitioners advocating deal clearance may now have to argue that deals should be justified by considerations not set forth in the merger guidelines, says Matthew Cantor of Shinder Cantor.