Corporate

  • November 20, 2024

    Bumble Brass Fumbled App Revamps, Investor Suit Says

    Current and former brass of dating app Bumble's parent company face shareholder derivative claims that they projected overconfidence about revamping its app, then saw trading prices crater when Bumble lowered its 2024 growth projections amid the tinkering.

  • November 20, 2024

    SkyWest Airlines Hit With $2M Verdict In EEOC Harassment Case

    A Texas jury found in favor of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Wednesday in a suit that saw SkyWest Airlines accused of sitting idle while an employee experienced persistent sexual harassment, awarding over $2 million in punitive damages for the workplace misconduct in federal court.

  • November 20, 2024

    Nike Accused Of 'Smear Campaign' Over $60M Trademark Suit

    A Los Angeles-based company that made customized sneakers for celebrities and athletes hit back Tuesday at Nike's $60 million trademark suit, saying that despite the companies' previous collaborations, Nike is now making knowing false claims in a "smear campaign" to crush its business.

  • November 20, 2024

    Xerox Faces Investor Suit Over 'Reinvention' Strategy

    Business technology company Xerox Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in New York federal court alleging the company's stockholders were harmed by a "reinvention" strategy it introduced in 2023 that yielded lower sales and revenue.

  • November 20, 2024

    Advance Notice Bylaw Measures Fuel Chancery Battle

    Arguing that recent corporate advance notice bylaws have resulted in "real, actual harm" to stockholders of Owings Corning and The AES Corp., attorneys for shareholders of both urged a Delaware vice chancellor on Wednesday to reject calls to dismiss challenges to the measures.

  • November 20, 2024

    Scotts Miracle-Gro Leaders Sued Over Post-Pandemic Glut

    Executives, directors and an heir to the CEO of consumer gardening giant The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. face a shareholder derivative action alleging the company flooded its sales channels with post-pandemic excess inventory as it struggled to avoid defaulting on its debt.

  • November 20, 2024

    Burger King Franchisee Escapes BIPA Coverage Counterclaim

    An Illinois federal judge has axed an AIG subsidiary's counterclaim in a Burger King franchisee's lawsuit seeking coverage for an underlying case accusing it of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law, concluding that the counterclaim is redundant and "adds nothing that will not be decided through resolution of the motions for summary judgment."

  • November 20, 2024

    PBMs Sue To Block FTC's In-House Insulin Pricing Case

    Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx have lodged a constitutional challenge of the Federal Trade Commission's in-house case accusing the pharmacy benefits managers of artificially inflating insulin prices through unfair rebate schemes.

  • November 20, 2024

    Hinshaw Brings On Ex-JPMorgan Counsel From Ballard Spahr

    A Ballard Spahr LLP attorney and former in-house counsel for JPMorgan Chase & Co. has joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP as a partner in the firm's consumer financial services practice group in New York, where he will advise banks, lenders and fintechs on state and federal regulations, compliance matters and litigation.

  • November 20, 2024

    Archegos Founder Gets 18 Years For Massive Market Fraud

    Bill Hwang, the founder of collapsed hedge fund Archegos, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in prison after he was convicted of lying to banks in order to secure billions of dollars in loans used to manipulate the market.

  • November 20, 2024

    Cleary Hires Milbank Atty For Capital Markets Team

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced the addition of a former Milbank LLP transactional attorney to its New York office on Wednesday, saying she will be an asset for its capital markets clients.

  • November 20, 2024

    Atty From Telecom Biz Joins IP Firm Panitch Schwarze

    Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP has hired an attorney with extensive in-house experience in the tech industry to help enhance the intellectual property services it offers to its clients.

  • November 20, 2024

    Sidley-Guided Lifeway Rejects Second Danone Buyout

    Lifeway Foods Inc. said Wednesday that its board has rejected a Nov. 15 revised offer from Danone North America PBC to buy the remainder of Lifeway for $27 per share, or roughly $306 million.

  • November 20, 2024

    TGI Fridays Gets OK On Bid Process As It Seeks Out Buyers

    A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved TGI Fridays' procedures for contacting and selecting prospective buyers for its assets after the struggling restaurant chain said it was in discussions with at least 21 potential bidders.

  • November 20, 2024

    Walgreens Wins Sanctions Over Depo With 300 Objections

    An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday ruled Walgreens can recover the costs of a contentious deposition in a dispute with an electronics company, saying the witness "possessed virtually no knowledge" of the matters laid out in the deposition notice and the company's attorney engaged in "improper, obstructionist conduct" during the proceeding.

  • November 20, 2024

    Calif. Voters Reject Minimum Wage Hike In Rare Outcome

    A slim majority of California voters shot down a ballot measure that would have raised the state's minimum wage to $18 an hour, the first time such a proposal has failed in any state in nearly three decades.

  • November 20, 2024

    Trump Wants 'Immediate Dismissal' Of NY Hush Money Case

    President-elect Donald Trump's legal team told the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial that his conviction should be thrown out due to his "overwhelming victory" at the polls, according to a filing released Wednesday.

  • November 20, 2024

    Bankman-Fried Tech Deputy Who Parsed Code Avoids Prison

    A Manhattan federal judge allowed tech expert Zixiao "Gary" Wang to avoid jail Wednesday for his role in the $11 billion FTX fraud, crediting his effort to detail programming "back doors" that enabled Sam Bankman-Fried to loot the bankrupt crypto exchange.

  • November 19, 2024

    Pfizer Unit Can't Get $75M Left In Insider Trading Deal Fund

    A New York federal judge Tuesday agreed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that roughly $75.2 million leftover in settlement funds should be transferred to the U.S. Treasury — not a Pfizer subsidiary — now that distribution of the $602 million insider trading deal has concluded.

  • November 19, 2024

    Ex-OpenSea Staffer Says Insider Trading Verdict Must Fall

    A former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading from digital tokens sold on his employer's platform urged the Second Circuit Tuesday to overturn his conviction, saying his ideas about what to feature on his company's website cannot be construed as property.

  • November 19, 2024

    Dell, Iron Bow To Pay $4.3M To End Army Overcharge Claims

    Dell Technologies and Iron Bow Technologies have agreed to collectively pay more than $4.3 million to resolve allegations they orchestrated a scheme to overcharge the U.S. Army by submitting noncompetitive bids for a computing contract, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

  • November 19, 2024

    HP Joins Patent Pool After Resolving Suit Over 'Unfair' Terms

    HP has agreed to join a patent pool for coding technology developed by companies like Dolby Laboratories, Mitsubishi and Philips, months after alleging that the group was engaging in "a money grab" to coerce it to accept "unfair and discriminatory licensing terms."

  • November 19, 2024

    What's On Deck At 10th Circ. Arguments In CPSC Magnet Case

    On Wednesday, the Tenth Circuit will hear arguments over whether a rule from the Consumer Product Safety Commission over safety standards for high-powered magnets is overly broad and unconstitutional. Here, Law360 looks at what the parties are expected to argue.

  • November 19, 2024

    Dentons Atty Owed No Duty In $54M Currency Swap, Jury Told

    A Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner on Tuesday defended the actions of a former Dentons attorney in a failed $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap, telling jurors that she did not owe a duty to the Venezuelan attorney suing her for malpractice because she never represented him as his attorney. 

  • November 19, 2024

    SEC's $196M Win Revived After Judge Fixes 'Scrivener's Error'

    A Florida federal judge has granted a $196 million judgment against a group of fraudsters to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after fixing what he called a "scrivener's error" in the original order that caused the Eleventh Circuit to overturn a part of the award in September.

Expert Analysis

  • The Risks Of Employee Political Discourse On Social Media

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    As election season enters its final stretch and employees increasingly engage in political speech on social media, employers should beware the liability risks and consider policies that negotiate the line between employees' rights and the limits on those rights, say Bradford Kelley and James McGehee at Littler.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Opinion

    Big Oil Climate Ruling Sets Dangerous Liability Precedent

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    The recent Maryland court dismissal of Baltimore's case seeking to hold BP responsible for climate damage mischaracterized the city's injuries as divorced from the conduct that caused them, and could allow companies that conceal the dangers of their products to escape liability, says Randall Abate at George Washington University Law School.

  • DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • 11 Patent Cases To Watch At Fed. Circ. And High Court

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    As we head into fall, there are 11 patent cases to monitor, touching on a range of issues that could affect patent strategy, such as biotech innovation, administrative rulemaking and patent eligibility, say Edward Lanquist and Wesley Barbee at Baker Donelson.

  • Why India May Become A Major Patent Litigation Forum

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    India is reinventing itself with the goal of becoming a global hot spot for patent litigation, with recent developments at the Delhi High Court creating incentives for plaintiffs to assert patent rights in India, say Ranganath Sudarshan at Covington and IP litigator Udit Sood.

  • Increased IPOs In '24 Shows Importance Of Strategic Planning

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    Initial public offerings, debt issuances and M&A activity so far in 2024 have shown substantial increases over comparable periods in 2023, highlighting why counsel should educate clients on market trends and financing alternatives to proactively prepare them to be ready to take advantage of opportunities, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • The State Law Landscape After Justices' Social Media Ruling

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    Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice ruling on social media platforms’ First Amendment rights, it’s still unclear if state content moderation laws are constitutional, leaving online operators to face a patchwork of regulation, and the potential for the issue to return to the high court, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Navigating New Enforcement Scrutiny Of 'AI Washing'

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent lawsuit against Joonko Diversity, its first public AI-focused enforcement action against a private company, underscores the importance of applying the same internal legal and compliance rigor to AI-related claims as other market-facing statements, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

  • Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year

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    As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • 9 Liability Management Tips As Debt Maturity Cliff Looms

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    As the debt maturity cliff swiftly approaches in this challenging environment, attorneys at Winston & Strawn highlight the top considerations for boards of directors and finance professionals to think about when structuring and executing liability management transactions, including reviewing capital structure, evaluating debt covenants, and more.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

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