Law360 Names 2026's Top Attorneys Under 40

Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.

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End In Sight For Ovarian Cancer Patients With $5.5B+ J&J Deal

By Emily Field

The $5.5 billion global deal over talc ovarian cancer allows women to move past recent court setbacks requiring them to provide experts who can show a causal link between their disease and use of talc, and for defendant J&J to close a decade of litigation that included judicially criticized gambits to spin off liability through bankruptcy maneuvers.

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Goldman Jury Sees Cash Talk In Energy Deal Email Deluge

By Stewart Bishop

Jurors weighing the fate of an ex-Goldman Sachs banker accused of coordinating a plan to bribe a client's way to a lucrative energy deal Friday saw a slew of payoff banter in his emails that prosecutors say show a pipeline of dirty money flowing from Turkey to a wide variety of government officials and agencies in Ghana.

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NY Public Defense Org. Denies Union's ULP Claims

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem's leadership on Friday denied allegations from the union representing its more than 100 employees that it has offered unlawful incentives to break its ongoing strike.

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Insulet Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Revive $59M Trade Secret Win

By Elliot Weld

Insulin product developer Insulet Corp. has asked the full Federal Circuit to hear its arguments for reinstating a jury's $59.4 million trade secret theft verdict against EOFlow Co. Ltd., saying a split panel decision overturning the award reached a timeliness issue that was not mentioned by either party.

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Verizon Asks EDTX Judge To Overturn $190M Patent Verdict

By Adam Lidgett

Verizon Wireless wants a Texas federal judge to overrule a jury's verdict that it owed $190 million for infringing a patent covering a way for cellphone calls to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

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11th Circ. Backs Nurse's 20-Year Term In $111M Medicare Case

By Carolina Bolado

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday agreed with a nurse practitioner that a trial court erred in giving prosecutors more time in closing arguments at her $111 million Medicare fraud trial, but upheld her conviction and 20-year sentence after finding the evidence against her was "overwhelming."

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Musk Wants 9th Circ. To Weigh Twitter Investor Trial Loss

By Sydney Price

Elon Musk wants the Ninth Circuit to review two orders entered in a securities case in California federal court accusing him of defrauding Twitter shareholders, according to a notice of appeal.

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Fla. Panel Affirms $103M Award Over Ford Mustang Explosion

By David Minsky

A Florida appellate court on Friday upheld a $103 million award against Ford Motor Co. in a lawsuit alleging responsibility for a Mustang explosion that severely injured its driver, saying the automaker couldn't sufficiently explain why the case should not have gone to a jury. 

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J&J's $25M Talc Appeal Can Advance, Conn. Panel Rules

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut appeals court has advanced Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a $25 million talc trial judgment, denying a Massachusetts real estate developer's attempt to dismiss the appeal based on what he argued was a late-filed brief.

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Calif. Supreme Court Reverses Strike Of 'Less Attentive' Juror

By Craig Clough

The California Supreme Court held that a prosecutor's claim that a prospective juror was "less attentive" than others is not enough to support a peremptory strike, saying a 2022 California law aimed at prohibiting bias in juror removals requires more than a behavioral reason.

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Ariz. Justices Clarify Clergy Minor Abuse Reporting Laws

By Parker Quinlan

Arizona's highest court has unanimously determined that under the state's child abuse statute, clergy members who learn about an abuse of a minor are not required to report it if the clergy learned about the abuse through confession, or if reporting it would violate their religion.

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FTC, Southern Glazer Need More Time To Finalize Settlement

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Trade Commission has told a California federal judge that it needs a little more time to work out the finer points of its settlement with Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, which would end the agency's first Robinson-Patman Act case in decades.

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Conn. Justices Revive Lawsuit Over Killer's Hospital Release

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Supreme Court for the first time Friday said mental health providers must try to protect identifiable victims from dangerous patients, ordering a Hartford HealthCare subsidiary to face ordinary negligence claims from the estate of a woman slain by her former boyfriend, a dentist who then killed himself.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two Texas personal injury firms lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work securing a $604 million verdict against a freight broker and logistics company for their roles in a deadly 2021 highway collision.

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Goldstein Launches Appeal Of Tax, Mortgage Fraud Case

By Jared Foretek

Imprisoned SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein is formally launching a Fourth Circuit appeal challenging his 12 convictions for tax and mortgage fraud, as well as his six-year prison sentence and the $3.1 million restitution judgment against him, according to a new filing from his attorneys.

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Judges Rip DHS GC's 'Worst' Posts As Intimidation Campaign

By Jake Maher

Sitting federal judges on Friday blasted the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for "painting a target" on judges' backs in a recent series of social media posts attacking judges who ruled against the Trump administration in immigration cases and called on him to take them down.

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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen George Michael's estate bring an intellectual property claim against the late star's friend over footage shared online, collapsed law firm Axiom Ince sue the U.K. branch of State Bank of India and Ryanair face a group claim from 262 people. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Hub Hires: Pierson Ferdinand, Biogen, FisherBroyles

By Chris Villani

While not as sizzling as the temperatures or the Red Sox, the Boston legal market remained hot through the month of July, with Hogan Lovells Cadwalader adding a mergers and acquisitions partner, Pierson Ferdinand snagging a veteran litigator and Foley & Lardner hiring a finance attorney.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

There has been a wave of cases alleging employers and their insurance brokers violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and experts say this marks an increasing litigation trend. In the meantime, the American Bar Association is eyeing the elimination of the first of multiple diversity-related law school standards. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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