With an executive branch seemingly antagonistic toward its own Environmental Protection Agency, environmentalists may look to the judiciary to help block the Trump agenda and cite the end of Chevron deference

Edelson plans to suggest sanctions at a Feb. 18 hearing against Southern California Edison and its defense firm, Hueston Hennigan, for failing to preserve evidence related to one of last month's wildfires.

Acting SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda said he held reservations about the rule since it was first adopted in March 2024, including whether the securities regulator could enact what he viewed to be a climate policy.

Allstate was hit with eight class actions, which alleged the company and its subsidiary Arity LLC surveilled consumers' driving behavior through software embedded into third-party apps, and used it to sell the data and to raise insurance premiums.

“It's actually a collection of broad-based successes across hundreds of clients, managing partner Sean Fogarty said of the strong year.

Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, said there are open questions about what the future of the court will look like, given uncertainties about Trump's judicial selection approach.

Pinsent Masons China head Kanyi Lui will relocate from Beijing to Shenzhen to lead its new outfit.

The cuts are expected to affect all three German offices in Frankfurt, Munich and Du sseldorf .

We “need to see whether the forces that had promoted the Southern District's status—the bench, the bar, a very strong alumni network and some support in Washington—will act , said Columbia Law School professor, Daniel Richman. “The bench as a whole holds the office to a very high standard and has protected it.

Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Sullivan ordered indicted SCOTUSBlog publisher Tom Goldstein jailed without bond for being an alleged flight risk who failed to disclose his cryptocurrency wealth holdings.

Alternative legal services are booming as corporations and law firms embrace new legal models.

“There has been a lot of debate the past few months about what the SEC would do with its ongoing crypto litigation and now we have the answer, said Am Law 10 firm partner Ladan Stewart.

The Haralson County judge drafted a resignation letter to Gov. Brian Kemp with an effective date of Feb. 5, 2025, but didn't disclose his reason for stepping down from the bench.

"Faithfully applying Supreme Court precedent and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, we join our sister circuits in rejecting the clear statement rule in favor of the course of proceedings test for determining the capacity in which a § 1983 defendant is sued," Judge Raymond Gruender said in an excessive force case against a police officer.

After a decade of grinding away as associates, today's junior partners are grateful—most of them, anyway.

"[T]his court must evaluate only whether the arbitrator did his job, not whether he did it well or whether the court agrees with his conclusions," Whitney said.

Influencers, content creators and product reviewers allege "last-click attribution," the widely used practice of awarding sales commissions to the last stop on a consumer's online purchase journey, allows PayPal Honey, Capital One Shopping and other discount-hunting browser extensions to hijack their commissions.

While change is a constant in the privacy, security and technology arena, 2025 is poised to be a landmark year. New technologies will continue to radiate through the economy — and our lives — while the new Trump Administration is likely to emphasize innovation over protection, reward maximization over risk minimization, and incentivizing over enforcing.

"There can be no reasonable doubt that it is the President whose authority reigns principally in the realm of foreign affairs," the U.S. Department of Justice argued in court documents defending President Donald Trump's pause on federal funding to U.S. Agency for International Development contractors.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. said the pause would remain until further order of the court.