An agreement signed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California requires Anthropic to use “guardrails to protect copyrighted lyrics allegedly used to train its premier AI product, Claude. The case filed by a group of music publishers remains in motion.

Japan's outbound M&A volume grew by 36% to nearly $45 billion last year. By September 2024, outbound M&A from Japan to the U.S. was also up a remarkable 160% to $32 billion.

The complaint alleges Clayton Act violations and demands damages, restitution, civil penalties and injunctive relief to "restore free and open competition to the coal markets."

Advisory federal sentencing guidelines suggest a sentence of at least 24 years for the offenses the ex-lawmaker was found guilty of. The Probation Department has recommended a sentence of 12 years.

Patrick Donnelly's employment agreement expired Friday, but he will stay aboard through the end of this year to help facilitate the transition to a new legal chief.

Karl Thallner, 66, led the health care practice for the firm's Philadelphia office. He launched Thallner Law, in response to client requests.

From June 2022 to November 2023, JetBlue operated four flights that were delayed at least 145 times, DOT stated in its consent order.

“At no point during the course of the representation in the underlying matter did defendant provide written or oral guidance to plaintiff specifically addressing Proposition 51 or the significant joint and several liability risk posed by the economic damages in the underlying matter, the complaint said.

Republicans will outnumber Democrats on the panel 12-10.

Collins J. Seitz Sr., father of Delaware's current chief justice, was honored for his work as the first judge in the country to order the integration of a formerly all-white public school. Louis Redding, Delaware's first Black attorney, won those key cases

Global M&A was up 11% from 2023, according to Dealogic. These firms made the most of it.

Apple has agreed to pay a $95 million class action settlement to resolve 5-year-old claims that its voice-activated digital assistant Siri recorded Apple device users' conversations without their consent.

"I call on the American people to assemble on that day in their respective places of worship, there to pay homage to the memory of President James Earl Carter Jr.," President Joe Biden wrote in his proclamation designating Jan. 9, 2025, a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States.

Stories covered a swath of topics, from how women and men negotiate differently to what's holding women back from landing more first-chair trial roles.

"When I was a younger attorney, I displayed arrogance at times to cover up various insecurities. My advice would be to stay true to yourself, and things will work out to your benefit."

"There is reason to doubt that the Conference has any such authority,” a top judiciary official told Democratic lawmakers Sheldon Whitehouse and Hank Johnson.

The case pits an employee's right to religious expression against the company's support of its LGBTQ+ workers.

The suicide of a Georgia judge is making national headlines. After being appointed to a new seat on the Effingham County State Court in 2022, Judge Stephen R. Yekel died on the bench during the final hours of his term that had been set to expire Dec. 31, 2024.

Merger talks right now are more offensive than defensive. "It does reduce the number of completed mergers we see, because firms are pickier, and they should be," said Kristin Stark of Fairfax Associates.

King denied his involvement in the event in cease-and-desist letters, but manager, Cecil Miller, claims that King had not only given his blessing for the project, but had been looped into the planning process.