By Rachel Rippetoe

This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

By Sam Reisman

Colorado's marijuana regulator used an "unlawful" method for calculating average market rates of cannabis that resulted in inflated excise taxes being assessed against state-licensed operators, a proposed class action filed Thursday in Denver state court alleges.

By Amy Epstein Gluck

Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

By Molly Moses

A careful reading of the law shows marijuana is not, as the IRS argues, a controlled substance under federal law, a New Mexico cannabis dispensary operator told the U.S. Tax Court in support of its business expense deductions claimed during 2017 through 2019.

By Sam Reisman

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's veto of legislation to tax and regulate the sale of adult-use cannabis will keep the commonwealth in a state of cannabis legal limbo for the foreseeable future.

By Melanie Oxhorn

Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.