Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to break up the country's largest meatpacking conglomerates over concerns that concentration in the beef, pork and chicken sectors has contributed to higher food prices and worse deals for farmers. www.law360.com/artic...
The Trump administration told the First Circuit it should be able to keep deporting people to countries they do not have ties to while it appeals a ruling that its policy for doing so is unlawful. www.law360.com/artic...
A Louisiana attorney was fined $1,000 Thursday for his use of artificial intelligence in drafting an error-riddled brief, while three co-counsel were spared penalty. www.law360.com/artic...
The Florida Bar said Friday that it is not investigating controversial former interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan, walking back a previous assertion it had made in a letter to a nonprofit that it was probing Halligan's actions.
A Detroit-based intellectual property boutique marking its 10th year in business this year can chalk much of its success up to a single-engine turboprop and its founder’s mile-high ambitions.
A California federal jury has upheld claims in a pair of Cyntec Co. patents for electrical circuit technology, years after Chilisin Electronics Corp. was put on the hook for infringing the patents.
Duke Energy settled a Florida-based power provider's monopoly suit on the eve of a jury trial in North Carolina, just two months after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Fourth Circuit ruling that revived the antitrust claims.
Thirteen of the biggest book publishers in the U.S. filed a copyright lawsuit against Anna's Archive, accusing the so-called shadow library of operating one of the world's largest piracy sites.
The legal sector continued its lengthy upward streak in February, with 2,600 more people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in January.
A former UNC law student sued the school alleging that they initiated an unconstitutional disciplinary process that resulted in banning him from campus and blocking graduation attendance based on "baseless" criminal charges stemming from "Cop City" protests in Atlanta.
Attorneys are preparing clients for a possible "roller coaster ride" as law firms craft tailored strategies to claw back tariffs paid under the now-struck-down IEEPA tariff regime amid wide uncertainty over refund processes.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in three cases this week and issued decisions in two. Here's a data-driven dive into the week that was at the high court.
Wilson Sonsini is planning to roll out a few more artificial intelligence tools this year as it pushes toward a longer-term goal of transforming how its attorneys practice. www.law360.com/pulse... #Law360Pulse #BusinessOfLaw
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A longtime intellectual property and litigation partner at Mitchell Silberberg has been tapped as the new leader of its Washington, D.C., office.
The U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS proposed tax guidance Friday for people considering the government's offer to make $1,000 contributions under a new type of individual retirement accounts for children known as Trump accounts. www.law360.com/artic...
Cleary Gottlieb announced on Thursday that it has rehired a former Paul Weiss lawyer who previously served as co-chief of the Southern District of New York's General Crimes Section.
As clients face heat from state attorneys general amid a changing federal enforcement landscape, a growing number of law firms are building up their state attorney general practices, including Arnold & Porter, which announced a new task force this week.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this month will revisit a ruling on the state attorney general's power over civil suits brought by county-level DAs in a case stemming from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh district attorneys' objections to a $26 billion opioid settlement. www.law360.com/artic...
Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system. http://law360.com/ar...
Here is a sampling of notable insider sales by legal chiefs last month, each over a million dollars. www.law360.com/pulse... #Law360Pulse
Legal leaders at Alphabet, Bloom Energy and United Therapeutics made life a little sweeter during Valentine's month as each sold over $5 million worth of stock in February.
The Pentagon has officially informed Anthropic that it is a supply chain risk to the United States' national security, a designation that the artificial intelligence company plans to challenge in court as not "legally sound." www.law360.com/artic...
Companies that do business in California are stuck in no-man's-land as the Golden State implements sweeping laws requiring disclosure of financial risks tied to climate change, at the same time the Ninth Circuit is poised to decide whether to block the laws.
A Delaware Supreme Court ruling allowed insurers to seek a collective recovery of their policyholders' losses from a ransomware attack, clearing a key procedural hurdle for policyholders and insurers to be made whole after a cyber incident. www.law360.com/insur... #InsuranceAuthority
The Sixth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to rule that a law prohibiting mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment allegations protects the entirety of a case that includes a claim, a decision that sheds light on how others will rule. www.law360.com/emplo... #EmploymentAuthority
How and why the conflict, which quickly spread to Lebanon, Israel and around the Middle East, is ultimately defined could mean massive new exposure for carriers now grappling with a sudden, potentially expansive increase in exposure. www.law360.com/insur... #InsuranceAuthority
That's because a firm definition for the recent conflict in the Middle East is pivotal for how potential claims related to the joint U.S.-Israel operation and its aftermath are classified, and ultimately covered or not, experts told Law360.
Conflicting statements from President Donald Trump's administration and congressional leaders about whether the United States is "at war" with Iran could spell trouble for shipping companies, cargo owners and other insureds with war risk policies.
