Trump Threatens Triple-Digit Tariff Rates If China Retaliates

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened an additional 50% tariff on Chinese imports entering the U.S., which would drive the total rate above 100%, if Beijing follows through on the retaliatory tariffs announced last week in response to Trump's reciprocal plan.

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Compensation Up For Quest Diagnostics GC After Earlier Dip

By Jake Maher

Quest Diagnostics' longtime senior vice president and general counsel brought home $2.43 million in 2024, up from $2.25 million in 2023, according to a proxy statement filed recently by the company.

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Analysis

Meta May Not Scroll Past 'Clever' Instagram Addiction Suit

By Chris Villani

Meta Platforms Inc. may struggle to convince Massachusetts' top court to dismiss a suit claiming it illegally hooks kids on Instagram, according to experts, who credit the state's attorney general for a creative legal strategy to thwart web platforms' usual defenses.

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Vice Chancellor Warns Plaintiff Over AI-Generated Filings

By Katryna Perera

A Delaware vice chancellor has threatened a plaintiff with sanctions in an appraisal action for allegedly using a "hallucinating" generative artificial intelligence program to prepare his motions and has ordered the plaintiff to disclose his use of AI in court filings moving forward.  

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Litigation Firms Back Perkins Coie In Suit Over Trump Order

By Jake Maher

A slew of midsize and small litigation firms took up Perkins Coie LLP's cause in its legal battle against an executive order from President Donald Trump targeting the BigLaw firm, arguing Monday in an amicus brief that the order is "anathema" to the justice system.

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Trump Reopens Security Review Of US Steel-Nippon Deal

By Al Barbarino

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered a fresh national security review of Nippon Steel's proposed $14.9 billion takeover of U.S. Steel, reviving a deal blocked by his predecessor and giving the companies some of the relief they sought in court.

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AGs Announce $335M Opioid Deal With Mylan

By Emily Field

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday said her office and those of other states reached a $335 million deal with Mylan to help combat the opioid crisis.

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SEC Orders Crypto Guidance Review As Deregulation Looms

By Aislinn Keely

Acting Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Mark Uyeda ordered a review of a number of staff statements on digital assets, to potentially change or withdraw them in light of the White House's policy directive on deregulation and recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency.

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OMB Issues Guidance On Agency Use, Purchasing Of AI

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Office of Management and Budget issued a pair of memorandums last week that replaced the Biden administration's safeguards on the federal acquisition of artificial intelligence with a policy aimed at accelerating federal agencies' use and procurement of artificial intelligence.

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Brief

SEC Drops Suit Against Silver Point Over Atty Info Access

By Brian Steele

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has dropped a Connecticut federal lawsuit alleging Silver Point Capital LP failed to establish policies to safeguard material nonpublic information, particularly from a former BigLaw attorney who acted as outside counsel, according to federal court records.

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Boeing Again Settles Ethiopian 737 Max Cases On Eve Of Trial

By Celeste Bott

Boeing has agreed to settle two wrongful death cases over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash just before a damages trial was scheduled to start in Chicago federal court on Monday.

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Analysis

WHO Cancer Report May Spark Gasoline Toxic Torts

By Keith Goldberg

A recent report from the World Health Organization linking automobile gasoline to cancer could spawn toxic tort lawsuits similar to the costly, and sometimes losing, battles that energy companies have had to fight over exposure to gasoline components and additives.

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Former Workers Say X Corp. Refuses To Arbitrate Their Claims

By Celeste Bott

A group of former Twitter employees is trying to force the company now known as X to arbitrate the workers' challenges to allegedly unlawful actions taken after Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform, claiming the social media giant is preventing their cases from moving forward by refusing to pay the full arbitration fees.

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Whole Foods To Settle Bonus Manipulation Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Whole Foods has agreed to resolve a lawsuit claiming the grocery chain rigged an employee bonus program to reduce payouts to workers, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.

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Chemours Co. Hit With Insider Derivative Suit In Del.

By Jeff Montgomery

Attorneys for a Chemours Co. stockholder have docketed a sealed derivative suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery, seeking damages on the company's behalf from 13 current or former directors and officers, alleging breaches of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment in connection with alleged manipulation of financial disclosures.

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SolarEdge Claims Get Tossed Again In Second Try

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has once again tossed certain claims in a securities class action accusing SolarEdge Technologies Inc. of misrepresenting the demand for its solar energy products in Europe, but he gave investors the chance to file a third amended complaint.

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Coinbase Accused Of Scam Prevention Shortfalls

By Corey Rothauser

A California man has filed a proposed class action seeking to hold cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase liable for failing to implement safeguards against fraudsters who run "pig-butchering" scams.

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Brief

Spirit Airlines CEO Departs After Ch. 11 Exit

By Emily Lever

The CEO of budget air carrier Spirit Airlines LLC has resigned following the company's completion of its bankruptcy, the company announced Monday.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission sued to block GTCR BC's planned purchase of a medical device coatings company, the Justice Department's antitrust case against Live Nation survived a dismissal bid and a New York state court found a ski mountain deal hurt competition. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from March.

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USPTO Gets New Acting General Counsel, Policy Officer

By Theresa Schliep

The personnel shuffle at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office continues, with familiar faces at the agency temporarily taking over the general counsel and chief policy officer roles.

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Running A Compliant DEI Program After EEOC, DOJ Guidance

Following recent guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice that operationalized the Trump administration's focus on ending so-called illegal DEI, employers don't need to eliminate DEI programs, but they must ensure that protected characteristics are not considered in employment decisions, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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A Closer Look At New NYSE, Nasdaq Listing Rule Changes

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently approved changes to the New York Stock Exchange's and the Nasdaq's listing rules on reverse stock splits, minimum share price requirements and required liquidity for initial listings, meaning listed companies facing delisting will have fewer means to regain compliance, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

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6 Principles For De-Risking In This Era Of Uncertainty

Companies can emerge from the current period of disruptive transformation stronger than ever by embracing strategies that enable them to methodically evaluate risk, adapt to change without losing purpose, focus on customer value and find competitive advantages amid uncertainty, says David McVeigh at Axiom.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate

While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.

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Congressional Dems Probe Trump's Actions Against BigLaw

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of top congressional Democrats wrote to the White House and six major law firms over the weekend seeking more information about deals that multiple BigLaw firms have reached with the Trump administration and the possible fallout.

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Brown Rudnick Inks $8M Deal With Guo Ch. 11 Trustee

By Alex Wittenberg

Brown Rudnick LLP has agreed to pay nearly $8 million in a deal with the trustee overseeing Chinese exile Miles Guo's Chapter 11 case in Connecticut to settle potential claims tied to the law firm's onetime work for the convicted fraudster.

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Holland & Knight Lands 8-Atty Seward & Kissel Maritime Team

By Rose Krebs

Holland & Knight LLP announced Monday that it has added an eight-person team from Seward & Kissel LLP to bolster its asset finance group and enhance its efforts to steer clients through key shipping financing and maritime issues.

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Justices Remove Bar On Venezuelan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Trump administration can move forward with its removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act, vacating a D.C. federal judge's order that had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's invocation of the 1798 wartime law.

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Full DC Circ. Lifts Pause On NLRB, MSPB Reinstatements

By Tim Ryan

The full D.C. Circuit on Monday lifted a March panel decision pausing the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board members that President Donald Trump fired, saying U.S. Supreme Court precedent blessing limitations on the president's ability to fire agency officials still stands.

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Justice Roberts Pauses Return Order In Deportation Case

By Katie Buehler

Chief Justice John Roberts hit pause Monday on a federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to quickly bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and imprisoned there, freeing the administration from a late night compliance deadline.

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Judge Who Shot Wife Warned Against Retrial 'Press Tour'

By Gina Kim

The California judge presiding over the murder trial of an Orange County jurist who fatally shot his wife admonished him Monday for embarking on a recent "press tour," warning that he could be violating the state judicial ethics code by commenting on a pending case. 

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Littler Wants Out Of Fired Tech Exec's Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Littler Mendelson has asked to be cut loose from a former tech company executive's suit claiming the firm and the business worked together to retaliate against her for complaining that her boss made bigoted comments, arguing to a New York federal court that it can't be held liable for the legal advice it provided.

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