The decision, released Monday, concludes a case involving a 2021 transaction in which Property Solutions Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, agreed to a $2.7 billion business combination with then-private Faraday Future that formed Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc, represented in the Chancery case by Troutman Pepper Locke.

       

"While defendants are correct that the Seventh Circuit has had an opportunity to hold that Title II applies to police encounters but has not done so, it likewise has not held that does not apply to police encounters, and instead resolved the case on other grounds," U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso for the Northern District of Illinois said.

       

Looking ahead to the next five years, chairman and managing partner Gary Wingens says the firm's strategic plan emphasizes growth, specifically boosting total head count to between 550 and 700 attorneys.

       

Musk's attack “exposes the judge and judges like him to very real danger, said Richard Deane, the president of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

       

“Segregation was an impetus for me. It was my life. It's my lived experience, said Ninth Circuit Judge Johnnie Rawlinson. “No one can take that away because I lived it, and it's my story. And we can't take it away by pretending it didn't exist.

       

Octus is just 13 years old but already has enviable client base, including 88% of the Am Law 50.

       

On Friday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered nearly 70 lawsuits be coordinated before U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers in the Northern District of Florida.

       

The Middle East appears to be the hottest legal market around, but wherever firms decide to place their eggs in 2025, geopolitical concerns loom large, writes The Global Lawyer.
       

The evidence collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation included an online search: “What are the signs that you are under investigation by law enforcement or the FBI even if you have not been contacted by them."

       

Paul Atkins once called companies that cave in to environmental, social and governance activists "weenies."

       

The top 10 deal leads ranking by Mergerlinks saw a significant shakeup between 2023 and 2024, with only one attorney making both years' lists.

       

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Hecker Fink alleges President Donald Trump's firing of the powerful U.S. Office of Special Counsel head Hampton Dellinger, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden to a fixed five-year term, is "unlawful and unconstitutional."

       

"There's a bullying label; there's a jealousy label. There's no context given whatsoever. He had the opportunity to do that when he pled, he could have quoted something that she said. He could have provided a specific circumstance, but he didn't do that, and that's his burden," Aaron R. White, an attorney with Boyle Shaughnessy Law, said about allegations filed against a deputy chief staff attorney at the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.

       

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island ordered federal agencies to restore funding that continues to be frozen.

       

"NTEU members at the CFPB are no longer able to do the supervision and enforcement work that they came to the CFPB to do for the American people," the National Treasury Employees Union alleged in twin lawsuits seeking to prevent the Trump administration from gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

       

New intel released on Monday from the TRM Labs 2025 Crypto Crime Report revealed a dual trend for attorneys: a decrease in illicit crypto transactions over the past year, alongside an increase in hacks and misuse by bad actors.

       

A number of Am Law 200 firms are opening offices in the Georgia capital by luring partners in need of more resources to serve long-established practices.

       

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Following the suicide of a Georgia judge on the bench, Atlanta attorney Eric C. Lang of The Lang Legal Group is calling for a more tailored approach for addressing mental health in the legal industry.