Shareholders entered the year expecting the cold shoulder from companies after the SEC’s retreat from proposal oversight, but have been pleasantly surprised by higher than expected engagement from corporations looking to avoid lawsuits and reputational damage.
For three years, one of the country's most prominent Catholic archdioceses has been in a legal fight with its insurer over who should pay at least hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve sex abuse claims. Their war shows few signs of abating.
Two public-sector unions and an advocacy group lost their bid to prevent the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing federal employees’ data contained in the Treasury Department’s payments system.
A popular Wall Street tool to extend the life of private credit portfolios is driving work to corporate lawyers who have developed a specialty in the niche transactions.
Opinion: Stablecoins, a digital currency, are now the focus of federal legislative and enforcement attention, particularly with passage of the GENIUS Act.
The Department of Homeland Security may be technically shut down, but immigration enforcement in New York continues and so do efforts to track it.
The US Supreme Court’s emergency order in a transgender school policy case rattled dozens of lawsuits nationwide, and conservative groups are plotting a path forward to further empower parent plaintiffs.
The Justice Department’s removal of some restrictions on non-career appointees’ participation in political activities walks back years of policy across presidential administrations aimed at maintaining the department’s independence, former government ethics lawyers said.
Opinion: As confidence in AI grows, teams want to move from individual experimentation to consistent ways of working. Those that succeed will focus less on tool access and more on capability and the human skills that allow AI to be used productively.
Opinion: Vice President JD Vance made headlines announcing that the Trump administration was cutting off Medicaid funding for Minnesota. We should take fraud seriously, but trying to settle scores with stale accusations undermines efforts to improve.
OpenAI has picked Cooley and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to prepare for an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year.
The revocation of permit enabling ICE to build a temporary detainee facility in Howard County, Md., has drawn a real estate developer’s lawsuit.
A family office tied to golf legend Jack Nicklaus’ son has won an auction for the brand and business assets of bankrupt golf services business Nicklaus Cos. with a $35.7 million offer.
A judge granted CVS Health Corp. and its subsidiary Wellpartner LLC their motion to dismiss a case claiming the pharmacy giant unlawfully suppressed access to drug price discounts realized through a federal program.
The Texas Business Court is seeking an uptick in new case filings following changes to the barrier to entry that took effect Sept. 1.
Because the Supreme Court’s fractured 6-3 decision in Learning Resources v. Trump tangles nondelegation in its “major questions” debate, lower courts may know less about permissible Congressional delegation after Learning Resources than they did before it.
The US Supreme Court's tariff ruling emphasized the major questions doctrine's "unheralded" and "transformative" factors, which consider historical practice.
An Intel Corp. investor sued CEO Lip-Bu Tan and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Thursday over the chipmaker’s unprecedented sale of a 10% stake to the federal government last year.
The Department of Defense updated its guidancefor military facilities needing to manage or destroy PFAS-containing wastes at hundreds of bases across the US.
Opinion: A settlement agreement between and Federal Trade commission and Express Scripts may prove more transformative than any single pricing overhaul because it has restructured the rebate-driven pharmacy benefit manager model.
The Trump administration has moved the energy-efficiency program for appliances from the EPA to the Department of Energy.
President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary after months of controversy and announced he would replace her with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin.
The Florida Bar has opened an ethics investigation of former Eastern Virginia US Attorney Lindsey Halligan based on allegations of potential dishonesty and misrepresentations cited in judicial rebukes as she prosecuted Trump foes.
A group of federal employees can move forward with claims the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency violated their privacy rights by accessing their personal information, after a judge declined to dismissed their case.
Robinhood’s foray into sports prediction is in jeopardy, if a recent lawsuit against Kalshi filed by Michigan is any indication, according to a lawsuit against state officials.
Course Hero owes Post University $75 million, a jury found in a copyright dispute over the homework-help platform’s publication of unauthorized copies of exams and assignments.
The owner of the apparel brand Penguin told a federal court that NFT brand Pudgy Penguins Inc. is diluting its trademark by selling clothes using confusingly similar trademarks.
Keith Griffin, a former colleague of disgraced plaintiff attorney Tom Girardi, pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court on Thursday, the latest in a series of pleas related to mismanagement of client settlement funds by now-collapsed law firm Girardi Keese.
Alston & Bird is being sued by investors in Florida who say they were duped into contributing to an alleged $328 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme over business relationship contracts drafted by the international law firm.
President Donald Trump and US Attorney General Pam Bondi are being accused of violating the 2024 law that imposed a TikTok ban unless its parent company divested its US operations to new owners outside China.
