Justices Icy To Time Limits For Multiemployer Plan Actuaries

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of a push by employers to prohibit pension plan actuaries from retroactively changing assumptions used to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer funds, with multiple justices questioning whether a timing rule aligned with federal benefits law.

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Feature

John Roberts Welcomes John Roberts To Supreme Court

By Jeff Overley

U.S. Supreme Court advocates have tips galore for staying calm at a debut argument, including diligent preparation, mindful breathing and treating the event as a conversation. But a Proskauer Rose LLP attorney benefited Tuesday from a distinctive development: the chief justice's introductory jest about the two of them not being related.

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Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

By Kevin Penton

Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 48 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, achieving milestones such as high-profile litigation wins at the U.S. Supreme Court and 11-figure merger deals.

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NLRB Pushes Contempt For Pittsburgh Paper's Defiance

By Braden Campbell

The ailing Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is still defying the Third Circuit's order to restore newsroom workers it railroaded in collective bargaining to their old healthcare plan, the National Labor Relations Board said Tuesday in a renewed motion to hold the newspaper in contempt of the March 2025 ruling.

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Elevance, Nurses Reach Midtrial Deal To End OT Pay Suit

By Chart Riggall

Elevance Health agreed Tuesday to settle claims from three dozen registered nurses, assigned to evaluate insurance claims, that they were denied overtime pay, bringing an early close to a bench trial that kicked off in Georgia federal court last week.

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Navigating Privilege Law Patchwork In Dual-Purpose Comms

Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to resolve a circuit split in In re: Grand Jury, federal courts remain split as to when attorney-client privilege applies to dual-purpose legal and business communications, and understanding the fragmented landscape is essential for managing risks, say attorneys at Covington.

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Analysis

Nonprofits, Not BigLaw, Lead Legal Challenges To Trump

By Jack Karp

Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.  

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Ballard Partners Led In Lobbying Earnings As Trump Returned

By Alison Knezevich

Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.

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Former SG Prelogar Joins Cooley Team On Trump EO Appeal

By Alison Knezevich

Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.

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House Speaker Johnson Supports Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday threw his support behind efforts to impeach federal judges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.

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DOJ Outline Of New Fraud Role Doesn't Mention WH Oversight

By Courtney Bublé

A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.

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NYC Indigent Defense Program In 'Crisis,' Task Force Reports

By Andrea Keckley

The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.

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7th Circ. Cautions Pro Se Litigants To Avoid AI-Induced Errors

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.

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Justices Wary Of Greenlighting Trump Bid To Fire Fed's Cook

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.

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