Expert Analysis

• Bid Protest Spotlight: Price Realism, High Bid, Interested Party

  

  In this month's bid protest roundup, Brian Doll at MoFo surveys three recent Government Accountability Office decisions that show a price realism argument cannot be repackaged as a disparate treatment challenge, an agency's allegedly misleading conduct must be connected to a concrete pricing decision, and interested-party status isn't just a pleading formality.

• What Actually Matters To GCs During Cross-Border Disputes

  

  A recent international arbitration forum featured an in-house perspective on dispute resolution, highlighting that relationship preservation and other factors may matter more to businesses than success on legal merits, say Michael Mutek at Womble Bond and Mark Stadnyk at Thyssenkrupp Nucera.

• CFIUS' Mandate Misses Foreign Risk In Project Subcontracts

  

  Recent calls for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to review equity transactions like the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. deal miss a consequential oversight gap — CFIUS' inability to review the subcontracting layer of U.S. infrastructure projects, says Thibaut Giret at Alstef Group.

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  Bass Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

  

  Landing a trophy striped bass and closing a big deal both require cultivating the patience to finesse — not force — your way to desired outcomes, changing course when your old approach isn’t working and learning from the ones that got away, says Jon Ruiss at Alston & Bird.

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  The Most Talked-About Supreme Court Decisions Of 2026

  

  This term, 11 U.S. Supreme Court decisions quickly became hot topics among Law360's guest writers.

• Structuring Space Nuclear Deals For Regulatory Risk

  

  With the White House's recent focus on space nuclear power, a highly important question for companies that want to build orbital reactors, lunar surface systems or critical components is whether the transaction documents can handle foreign investment constraints, export controls and treaty-linked liability, says Kristie Blase at Frazer + Blase.

• A New Defense For Medicaid Fraud Cases In Texas

  

  The Texas Supreme Court decision in LabCorp v. Texas last month, finding that the state's False Claims Act requires proof that an omission is material, is among the first to establish that the government's lack of reaction to the defendant's disclosures rendered alleged omissions immaterial, say attorneys at Sheppard.

• Quantum Readiness May Paradoxically Raise Contractor Risk

  

  The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cryptographic dependencies while protecting their vulnerability road map from adversaries, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

• Wound Care Industry Should Expect Data-Driven Scrutiny

  

  The U.S. Department of Justice's recent update on its healthcare fraud takedown efforts indicates that the wound care space is under particularly high scrutiny, with the government increasingly utilizing data analytics to find cases, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

• Trump EOs Pair Quantum Push With Cyber Defense Overhaul

  

  Two recent executive orders that mark a significant federal commitment to both advancing and defending against quantum technology create potential opportunities for companies in the quantum, AI and technology sectors and pose future compliance obligations contractors should begin considering now, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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  Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

  

  Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

• Attorney Mental Health Is An Ethical Obligation In The AI Era

  

  As attorneys cope with the increasing unpredictability that artificial intelligence and constant policy changes have created, particularly in practice areas where they carry the emotional weight of clients’ most consequential life events, otherwise soft discussions about self-care are a matter of professional competence, says attorney Jack Jrada.

• Healthcare Orgs Should Prep For Greater Grant Oversight

  

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' new Audit Enforcement and Risk Oversight initiative, and a proposed overhaul of the governmentwide framework for grants management, signal an aggressive and data-driven approach to federal grant enforcement, and could significantly expand the pathways leading to enforcement actions and private litigation, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

• Perfectus Deal Raises Trade Missteps To Enterprise Risk Level

  

  Former inspector general Parisa Salehi at Parker Poe discusses what the U.S. Department of Justice's recently settled False Claims Act case against Perfectus Aluminum can teach companies about satisfying trade reporting obligations as agencies increasingly coordinate enforcement.

• Why DOE Isn't Phasing Out Appliance Efficiency Regs

  

  While the U.S. Department of Energy recently acted on President Donald Trump's 2025 executive order requiring it to consider sunsetting many energy regulations, the DOE has not proposed phasing out efficiency standards for appliances and industrial equipment — but it could pursue other approaches to ease such requirements, say attorneys at HWG.