“The settlements have allowed [the president] to build an unrivaled network of Lawyers' to advance not the interests of their own clients, but instead the government's chosen agenda, Jenner said, citing Trump.

Experts have previously been on the fence on whether businesses could hope for relief from President Donald Trump's tariffs from the federal courts, which have been increasingly deferential to the Executive Branch's national security powers. But there may be a different reception for the new duties.

“What we have seen in recent years are examples that make the news headlines of the destructive sort of separate opinion, one that's not actually meant to reason to the right answer, but is written for another reason: to audition or to make waves or to attract the attention of groupies, said William & Mary Law School professor Allison Orr Larsen.

Texas AG Ken Paxton launches an investigation into Kellogg's for potentially breaking the law by allegedly falsely claiming to remove unhealthy artificial dyes from its cereals.

“Just talk. Use language a nonlawyer can easily understand," Liu said.

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss denied 7-Eleven's motion to dismiss a Federal Trade Commission complaint that seeks up to $77.5 million in civil penalties against the convenience store chain for alleged consent agreement violations.

Federal agents demanded the phone of civil rights attorney and U.S. citizen Amir Makled as he returned to the U.S. following vacation with his family.

Desiree Ralls-Morrison's pay fell 19% last year as McDonald's cut back on short-term incentive pay for its top executives.

Nokia is suing Acer for patent infringement over use of its video technology. It claims it has tried to negotiate in good faith with Acer to license its technology since 2018 but to no avail.

Syme, a former trial attorney in the Antitrust Division, joins as a partner in DiCello Levitt's Antitrust and Competitive Litigation Practice Group. She is based in New York.

Firms that have cut deals with the president might reasonably believe that the backlash would be brief, relative to the timelines of their firm histories. So how long is Big Law's memory?

When the SEC issues the next annual enforcement report for fiscal year 2025, we expect securities offering actions and investment adviser actions will almost certainly be up, and the “crypto and “cyber cases will almost certainly be down. Public statements by the new SEC administration have said as much, but even more telling than public statements are the allocation of limited enforcement resources.

The justices lifted a federal court order requiring six U.S. agencies to begin reinstating approximately 16,000 probationary workers who were terminated amid President Donald Trump's push to reduce the federal workforce.

“The administration announced this move, like it did at the SEC, as part of its overall push to return enforcement to investigations and cases that harm retail investors, said Scott Armstrong, a principal at McGovern Weems and a former federal prosecutor who served as senior leadership in cases involving cryptocurrencies.

“The U.S. News rankings are so arbitrary as to have no meaning to me anymore, Dave Killoran, CEO of Powerscore Test Preparation, told Law.com. “[Harvard Law School] at six?

During a post-trial motion hearing, Los Angeles Judge Robert Draper engaged in a soliloquy about Black football players and miscegenation.

In a 5-4 ruling Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a D.C. federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Under Massachusetts Rule 68 of Civil Procedure, defendants may offer a settlement agreement to avoid trial expenses and protracted litigation. However, if a plaintiff rejects the offer but recovers less at trial, legal costs and attorney fees cannot be recovered after the date of the proposal, according to Suffolk County Superior Justice Anthony M. Campo Jr.

“The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done," wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III.

Letters to both Sullivan & Cromwell and Kirkland probe potential recruitment efforts by the firms looking to poach talent or clients from Paul Weiss.