Trials

  • March 10, 2025

    Starbucks Owes Up To $125M For Hot Water Burns, Jury Told

    Starbucks should pay as much as $125 million for permanent disfigurement to a takeout driver that "changed who he is as a person," a jury heard Monday, after finding last week that the coffee giant was to blame for the spill of scalding water.

  • March 10, 2025

    Mercedes Wins In Mich. Trial Over SUV Fire That Killed 2

    A Michigan state jury has sided with automaker Mercedes-Benz in a lawsuit over its GL450, one of which caught fire following a head-on collision, killing a mother and her 9-year-old daughter and leaving a son and father, a former University of Wisconsin basketball coach, with lifelong injuries.

  • March 10, 2025

    Bad Police Work Led To 30-Year Sentence, Conn. Jury Told

    A Connecticut man who served 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit should be compensated because one local police officer failed to disclose key evidence and another sat by as the state police fed facts to an informant, his attorneys told a federal jury Monday afternoon.

  • March 10, 2025

    Monsanto Says EPA's Roundup Study Sinks $3.5M Verdict

    Bayer AG unit Monsanto has told a Philadelphia appeals court to wipe out a $3.5 million verdict for a cancer patient who blamed Roundup weedkiller for her disease, saying that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that the product doesn't cause cancer.

  • March 10, 2025

    CVS PBM Caused Up To $330M In Part D Damages, Judge Told

    A CVS-owned pharmacy benefits manager caused anywhere from $240 million to $330 million in damages by overbilling the government for Medicare Part D sponsored drugs, counsel for a whistleblower told a Pennsylvania federal judge at the beginning of a False Claims Act bench trial on Monday.

  • March 10, 2025

    Sig Sauer To Appeal $2.3M Accidental Fire Verdict

    Sig Sauer said Monday that it plans to appeal a $2.35 million verdict it lost to a Georgia man who claimed that a defect in its popular P320 pistol caused him to accidentally shoot himself after a federal judge declined the company's bid for a new trial.

  • March 10, 2025

    Disney Unit Wins Copyright Trial Over 'Moana' Film

    A Los Angeles federal jury handed a win Monday to a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co. in a copyright infringement trial over the 2016 blockbuster "Moana," rejecting a claim that the movie ripped off another animation artist's Polynesian adventure epic.

  • March 10, 2025

    Accused Fraudster An Innocent 'Jailhouse Lawyer,' Jury Told

    A Long Island man charged with posing as an attorney to defraud families of inmates is really an innocent "jailhouse lawyer" who continued to help people after serving his own fraud sentence, his counsel told a Manhattan federal jury Monday.

  • March 10, 2025

    Loeb & Loeb Adds 5-Atty Litigation Team From Kasowitz In NY

    Loeb & Loeb LLP has expanded its litigation offerings in New York with the addition of five attorneys from Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, including the leaders of the firm's software litigation and real estate litigation practices.

  • March 10, 2025

    Judge Who Shot Wife Gets Mistrial As Jury Hangs On Murder

    A California judge declared a mistrial Monday in the murder trial of Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson, who shot and killed his wife in their Anaheim Hills home in 2023, after jurors said they remained at an impasse over whether he was guilty of second-degree murder.

  • March 10, 2025

    Ex-Cognizant Execs Support 180-Day Trial Delay In FCPA Case

    Two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives have told a New Jersey federal judge they agree with prosecutors that their bribery trial should be delayed for 180 days after the Trump administration paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

  • March 10, 2025

    Ex-Magellan CEO Pleads Guilty Over Faulty Lead Tests

    The former CEO of Magellan Diagnostics Inc. admitted Monday to selling faulty devices that tested blood lead levels, the final of three defendants to plead guilty ahead of a jury trial scheduled for April.

  • March 07, 2025

    Trump DOJ Agrees: Google Must Sell Chrome Browser

    The Department of Justice on Friday reiterated to a D.C. federal judge that Google should have to divest the Chrome browser to give rival search engines a fighting chance against its illegal monopoly, but backed off its previous request that Google sell its investments in artificial intelligence companies.

  • March 07, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Talks Definitions In Express Mobile Patent Case

    The Federal Circuit spent a chunk of its morning hashing it out over the meaning of the phrase "runtime engine" in a pair of disputes brought to the court by Express Mobile, one in which it accused GoDaddy of violating a set of patents and another fighting the invalidation of one of those patents.

  • March 07, 2025

    Starbucks Liable For Hot Drink Spill On Driver

    A unanimous California state jury has found Starbucks was negligent in the case of a driver who had scalding water spill in his lap, sending the case to a damages phase.

  • March 07, 2025

    Charter Defeats Touchstream's $1B Patent Case At Texas Trial

    A Texas federal jury cleared cable giant Charter Communications on Friday in a patent case over a New York startup's device that allows videos to be played on a separate, larger screen.

  • March 07, 2025

    FTC: Outlining World Sans Amazon Price-Floor 'Not Possible'

    The Federal Trade Commission told a Washington federal judge Friday that it can only offer pieces, and not the entire outline, of what an alternative world might look like without Amazon.com's allegedly monopolistic pricing floor created by penalties for sellers offering their goods more cheaply through other retailers.

  • March 07, 2025

    Google Says Special Master Can't Make Ad Tech Trial Calls

    Google is opposing a bid in Texas federal court from state enforcers accusing the company of monopolizing key digital advertising technology to have a special master make decisions about what evidence will be admitted during trial.

  • March 07, 2025

    Electronics Co. Owes $14M In Charger Patent Suit, Jury Finds

    A Delaware federal jury on Friday found Hong Kong electronics company Anker Innovations Co. infringed Texas company Fundamental Innovation Systems International LLC's patents with its USB charger products, saying Anker owes more than $13.6 million in damages.

  • March 07, 2025

    Husband Of Ex-Takeda VP Gets 2½ Years For Invoice Scam

    The husband of a former Takeda Pharmaceuticals vice president was sentenced in Massachusetts federal court Friday to two and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to dupe the drug giant out of $2.3 million through bogus invoices.

  • March 07, 2025

    DOJ Cites SDNY Prosecutors' Texts In Bid To End Adams Case

    President Donald Trump's Justice Department doubled down Friday on its bid to toss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, citing newly released internal correspondence showing "troubling conduct" by Southern District of New York prosecutors the agency criticized as "careerist" and insubordinate.

  • March 07, 2025

    'Exhausted' Jury To Deliberate 3rd Week In Judge Murder Trial

    A California state jury was told to come back Monday for a third calendar week of deliberations over whether Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson intentionally shot his wife in 2023, after reporting that they were "exhausted" but had "further movement" toward a verdict.

  • March 07, 2025

    How To Tell If A Litigation Funder Is Helping Your IP Opponent

    Knowing when a litigation funder is involved in an intellectual property case can help attorneys better understand their adversary's footing in a dispute, and while most courts don't have disclosure requirements, lawyers told Law360 there are several signs attorneys can look out for to determine whether their opponent is receiving funding from an outside party.

  • March 07, 2025

    Calif. Atty, Reality TV Hopeful Gets 5 Years For Client Theft

    A California lawyer who claimed to be developing a Bravo TV show about himself has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for looting his firm's client trust accounts, an offense that appears to be only one tentacle of "a larger criminal scheme."

  • March 07, 2025

    Conn. Atty Convicted Of Manslaughter In Parking Lot Shooting

    A Connecticut jury on Friday convicted a Cramer & Anderson LLP partner of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting a man who followed him to his Litchfield law firm's parking lot and attacked the lawyer as he exited his car.

Expert Analysis

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    Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.

  • Opinion

    New DOJ Leaders Should Curb Ill-Conceived Prosecutions

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    First-of-their-kind cases have seemingly led to a string of overly aggressive prosecutions in recent years, so newly sworn-in leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice should consider creating reporting channels to stop unwise prosecutions before they snowball, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • Opinion

    Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay

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    Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • Perspectives

    Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

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    KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

  • Perspectives

    DC Circ. Cellphone Ruling Upends Law Enforcement Protocol

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    The D.C. Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Brown decision, holding that forcibly requiring a defendant to unlock his cellphone with his fingerprint violated the Fifth Amendment, has significant implications for law enforcement, and may provide an opportunity for defense lawyers to suppress electronic evidence, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Engaging With Feds On Threats To Executives, Employees

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    In an increasingly polarized environment, where companies face serious concerns about how to protect executives and employees, counsel should consider working with federal law enforcement soon after the discovery of threats or harassment, says Jordan Estes at Gibson Dunn.

  • Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering

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    Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.

  • Opinion

    Courts Should Nix Conferencing Rule In 1 Discovery Scenario

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    Parties are generally required to meet and confer to resolve a discovery dispute before bringing a related motion, but courts should dispense with this conferencing requirement when a party fails to specify a time by which it will complete its production, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law.

  • Perspectives

    How High Court May Rule In First Step Act Resentencing Case

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    U.S. Supreme Court justices grappled with verb tenses and statutory intent in recent oral arguments in Hewitt v. U.S., a case involving an anomalous resentencing issue under the First Step Act, and though they may hold that the statute is unambiguous, they could also decide the case on narrow, practical grounds, say attorneys at Bracewell.

  • Series

    Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations

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    In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.

  • Opinion

    Firing Of Jack Smith's Team Is A Threat To Rule Of Law

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    The acting attorney general’s justifications for firing prosecutors who worked on the criminal cases against President Donald Trump rest on a mischaracterization of legal norms, and this likely illegal move augurs poorly for the rule of law, say Bruce Green at Fordham University and Rebecca Roiphe at New York Law School.

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