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  • June 03, 2025

    Akoustis' Appeal Of $39M IP Verdict Dropped After Bankruptcy

    Radio frequency filter firm Akoustis Technologies has agreed to drop an appeal of a jury's $39 million patent infringement and trade secrets misappropriation verdict in favor of Qorvo Inc. that drove it to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December.

  • June 03, 2025

    The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

    A rebound in client work sent the nation鈥檚 largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.

  • June 02, 2025

    DOJ Urged To Sue States Over Broadband Rate Caps

    Broadband industry groups want the U.S. Department of Justice to bring suit against California and other states pursuing new caps on internet service rates for low-income households, pointing to myriad harms they say the state laws would inflict on consumers.

  • June 02, 2025

    Amazon Gets A Look At Some Of FTC's Antitrust Suit Theory

    A Washington federal judge said Monday the Federal Trade Commission must hand over some information about the underlying legal theories in its landmark antitrust case against Amazon but mostly agreed with the agency that the company's discovery requests were "premature."

  • June 02, 2025

    Nike Floods Inboxes With Misleading Sales Promos, Suit Says

    A Nike customer has filed a proposed class action in Washington state court accusing the sports apparel giant of flooding his inbox with promotional emails with misleading subject lines to trick him into acting quickly to take advantage of discount deals that don't have a legitimate expiration date.

  • June 02, 2025

    Tech Giants Want 6 GHz Shielded From Spectrum Auctions

    As Congress looks to direct the government to sell wide stretches of the airwaves for exclusive commercial use, companies such as Meta, as well as advocacy groups, want lawmakers to continue leaving the upper 6 gigahertz spectrum band alone rather than auctioned to mobile carriers.

  • June 02, 2025

    Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

    The Federal Trade Commission finally dropped its long-pending challenge of Microsoft's purchase of video game developer Activision Blizzard, as enforcers pushed monopolization cases seeking to break up Google, Meta and Live Nation, while also pursuing several traditional merger cases. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from May.

  • June 02, 2025

    DOJ Deal OKs $1.5B Keysight-Spirent Network Testing Merger

    The U.S. Department of Justice cut its first merger clearance deal of the Trump administration, and nearly its first settlement since a Biden-era hardline stance against most agreements, with a consent decree Monday allowing Keysight Technologies Inc. to proceed with its planned $1.5 billion acquisition of Spirent Communications PLC.

  • June 02, 2025

    Dominion Opposes Cable Plan To Ease Utility Pole Fixes

    Dominion Energy is again criticizing a telecom industry proposal meant to expedite the process for putting communications attachments on utility poles, saying the telecom trade association behind the push is conflating simpler work lower on poles and more dangerous work above the聽space on poles where communications lines typically go.

  • June 02, 2025

    Verizon Voice BIPA Claims Should Be Arbitrated, Judge Says

    Two Verizon Wireless customers who say the telecommunications giant illegally collects, uses and stores their personal identifying voice data must hash out their dispute in arbitration, an Illinois federal judge said.

  • June 02, 2025

    Feds Want 12陆 Years For Ex-Ill. Speaker Convicted Of Bribery

    Prosecutors are urging an Illinois federal judge to sentence former state House Speaker Michael Madigan to prison for 12陆 years for bribery, conspiracy and fraud, saying his conduct adds "another sordid chapter to Illinois' storied reputation of corruption" while Madigan, armed with more than 200 letters of support, seeks only probation.

  • May 30, 2025

    'Not Sure It Fits': Google Judge Challenges DOJ AI Boost Idea

    Generative artificial intelligence may be the future of online search, but a D.C. federal judge cast doubt Friday on the Justice Department's bid to force Google to share and syndicate its search results with companies like OpenAI as he mulls what remedies to impose against Google's search monopoly.

  • May 30, 2025

    ITC Ends Ericsson, Motorola Patent Fight After Settlement

    The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to drop an investigation into allegations that Motorola infringed patents owned by Swedish telecom giant Ericsson with its mobile phones after the companies settled their dispute.

  • May 30, 2025

    Broadband Rate Regs Hurt Competition, Report Says

    Capping broadband rates for low-income families is a bad idea, according to a new study backed by cable trade group ACA Connects, which found that such caps negatively impacts competition.

  • May 30, 2025

    'Humongous' Apple Must Face Boosted 186M Antitrust Class

    A California federal judge on Friday granted App Store users' request to amend their class definition in a yearslong antitrust fight against Apple, rejecting Apple's argument that the changes unfairly add millions of new members and noting that the 185.9 million-member class stems from the fact Apple is "humongous."

  • May 30, 2025

    Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

    Saying that June's circuit court calendars include important arguments in all practice areas would be hyperbolic 鈥 but just slightly. That's because significant showdowns are imminent involving appellate procedure principles, "click-to-cancel" rules, government procurement protests, judiciary employment protections and litigation risk insurance 鈥 as well as President Donald Trump's felony convictions and extraordinary deportation measures.

  • May 30, 2025

    Meta Looks To Nix FTC's Lead Econ Expert After Antitrust Trial

    Meta Platforms asked a D.C. federal judge Friday to strike testimony the Federal Trade Commission's lead economics expert gave during a bench trial in the antitrust case over Meta's purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the "biased witness" 鈥 a New York University School of Law professor 鈥 "advocated" for the case.

  • May 30, 2025

    NSO Wants New WhatsApp Hack Trial After Meta's $168M Win

    Israeli spyware developer NSO Group has asked a California federal judge for a new trial to determine damages for installing spyware on 1,400 phones using Meta-owned WhatsApp, saying the punitive damages portion of a roughly $168 million award was egregious and revealed the jury's "general hostility" toward the company.

  • May 30, 2025

    FCC Moves To Revoke Radio Licenses For Unpaid Fees

    The Federal Communications Commission is revoking two Texas radio stations' licenses and threatening the same for another in Tennessee over unpaid regulatory fees, the agency said in two orders issued this week.

  • May 30, 2025

    Google Must Turn Over Docs About Potential Ad Tech Breakup

    A Virginia federal court granted a request from government agencies on Friday for internal Google LLC reports analyzing a potential breakup of its ad tech business, as the sides ready for a September trial to determine what remedies to impose on Google for monopolizing key ad tech markets.

  • May 30, 2025

    Calif. Fire Chiefs Favor Earth-Based GPS Backup Plan

    A group of California fire chiefs told the Federal Communications Commission that a tech firm's proposal to deploy an Earth-based navigation and broadband network would be the best way to backstop the Global Positioning System.

  • May 30, 2025

    AT&T Unit Loses Dispute Over Calif. Property Tax Rates

    AT&T unit Pacific Bell and other phone companies failed to prove that a California聽county's聽differing tax rates for locally assessed and state-assessed properties are unconstitutional, a state appeals court affirmed.

  • May 30, 2025

    Radar Co. Saves Trade Secret Claims In Suit Against Ex-Exec

    A Washington federal judge has preserved a radar company's claims that a former executive stole confidential information as he left to start his own company, while dismissing other breach of contract claims against the executive and another former employee.

  • May 30, 2025

    Google Nears Class Deal In Privacy Suit Over Recording Users

    Google and a 30 million-strong consumer class have told a California federal judge they've made "substantial progress" in reaching a potential settlement that would "fully and finally" resolve a years-old action alleging Google Assistant-enabled devices surreptitiously recorded conversations to fuel its advertisement business and train machine-learning models.

  • May 30, 2025

    DC Circ. Keeps Block On Texas AG's Media Matters Probe

    A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday upheld an order barring the Texas attorney general from demanding internal records from Media Matters about the left-leaning media watchdog's reporting on the social media platform X.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that鈥檚 so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what鈥檚 most scary about it 鈥 its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys鈥 chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial

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    Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • What To Know About Latest Calif. Auto-Renewal Law Update

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    While businesses have about nine months to prepare before the recently passed amendment to California's automatic renewal law takes effect, it鈥檚 not too early to begin working on compliance efforts, including sign-up flow reviews, record retention updates and marketing language revisions, say Gonzalo Mon and Beth Chun at Kelley Drye.

  • Taking Stock Of FCC's New Spectrum Rule For Drones

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    While an order recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission is intended to provide drones with rapid access to a limited amount of spectrum in the 5030-5091 megahertz band, the commission envisions an incremental approach to full usage that will play out over the course of the coming months and years, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • 3 Coverage Tips As 2nd Circ. 'Swipes Left' On Tinder Claim

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    The Second Circuit's recent opinion in Match Group v. Beazley Underwriting, overturning Tinder's victory on its insurer's motion to dismiss a coverage action, reinforces three best practices policyholders purchasing claims-made coverage should adhere to in order to avoid late-notice defenses, say Lynda Bennett and Alexander Corson at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • How Loper Bright Is Affecting Pending FCC Litigation

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    Pending challenges against Federal Communications Commission orders at the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Loper Bright highlight that counsel must be familiar with the statutes, regulations and precedent relevant to the FCC to best navigate the rapidly changing compliance landscape, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • Dealmaker Lessons From CFIUS' New Enforcement Webpage

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    The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States鈥 recently launched webpage, which details the actions 鈥 and inactions 鈥 that led to enforcement activity, provides important insights for dealmakers about filing requirements, mitigation commitments and the cost of noncompliance, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners 鈥 though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Google And The Next Frontier Of Divestiture Antitrust Remedy

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    The possibility of a large-scale divestiture in the Google search case comes on the heels of recent requests of business breakups as remedies for anticompetitive conduct, and companies should prepare for the likelihood that courts may impose divestiture remedies in the event of a liability finding, say Lauren Weinstein and Nathaniel Rubin at MoloLamken.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional 鈥渢rusted adviser鈥 paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient 鈥 they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Calif. Bill, NTIA Report Illustrate Open-Model AI Safety Debate

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    The National Telecommunications and Information Administration鈥檚 balanced recommendations for preventing misuse of open artificial intelligence models, contrasted with a more aggressive California bill, demonstrate an evolving regulatory debate about balancing democratic access to this powerful new technology against potential risks to the public, say Stuart Meyer and Fredrick Tsang at Fenwick.

  • Patent Lessons From 4 Federal Circuit Reversals In July

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    The Federal Circuit鈥檚 July reversal of four cases, all of which were Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions, highlights lessons for patent practitioners regarding the scope of estoppel provisions, potential issues with obtaining certain substitute claims, and more, say Denise De Mory and Li Guo at Bunsow De Mory.

  • Patent Owner Estoppel Questions In The Wake Of SoftView

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    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's seldom-litigated Rule 42.73(d)(3) on Patent Trial and Appeal Board estoppel was recently brought to the forefront in the Federal Circuit's SoftView v. Apple decision, highlighting uncertainties in this aspect of patent practice, say David Haars and Richard Crudo at Sterne Kessler.

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