The panel relied on the plain reading of the state's wage law to clarify that courts cannot introduce federal wage-law limitations where the state legislature did not expressly include them.

       

The rule is out of sync with an order the president signed last year that directed agencies to shut down their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

       

The Federal Communications Commission blessed the deal, even though the combined company's broadcast signals reach 80% of U.S. TV households, more than double the 39% limit in the agency's own rules.

       

Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, including the rise in women leaders at U.K.'s highest earning law firms.

       

Prevailing themes of Legalweek—disruption and reinvention—were fitting, given how much programming focused on two phenomena currently rattling the legal industry as we know it: AI and private equity investment.

       

One plaintiff referred 7,402 individuals but claims she only received compensation of $41.90 per individual referred—not the $500 or $1,000 per individual referred that UPS allegedly promised. Another claimed he referred 1,400 individuals but was only compensated $32.50 per referral.

       

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia granted the Justice Department's motion this week to continue defending President Donald Trump's law firm executive orders through appeal after initially asking to drop the cases.

       

Attorney General Letitia James was sued in Westchester County Supreme Court this week by the Christian Brothers' Institute for a declaration that it, and not other educational charities, is entitled to roughly $22.5 million in proceeds from the sale of the shuttered All Hallows High School in the Bronx.
       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Matt Rasumssen, founder and CEO of ModeOne, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

Numerous similar suits targeting the represented protein contents in products have been filed recently, including this week against Trader Joe's chicken bone broth.

       

Investors accused Gemini Space Station of hiding a major business shift before its 2025 initial public offering—a move they said erased billions of dollars in market value.

       

While the defendant succeeded in getting the claim dismissed at the summary judgment stage, a Wilson Elser attorney's case still had a pending discovery dispute when District Court for the Parish of Orleans Judge Ken Reese made the ruling, according to the opinion.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Jason Brown, CEO and president of the Association of Corporate Counsel, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

Just one month after launching his own boutique law firm, Platkin Law Firm, former New Jersey attorney general Matthew Platkin has joined the fray of mounting products liability litigation against OpenAI that links its flagship chatbot, ChatGPT, to mental health harms.        

Since taking the legal reins of the banking giant in 2020, Ellen Patterson has created a strong risk culture built on transparency, accountability and proactive risk management, Wells Fargo says in its proxy statement. Those were all areas regulators deemed deficient under prior management.

       

The partner had represented some of the firm's biggest private equity clients, including CVC and Triton.

       

A group made up of CMA panel members up said the watchdog part of the CMA said that it was no longer possible for it to meet its deadline.

       

President Donald Trump's March 13 executive order directs the Federal Trade Commission to “consider writing regulations requiring online retailers to verify products that claim to be made in the United States.

       

"The Constitution vests the federal judiciary with the duty of ensuring that the Executive Branch does not exceed the powers delegated to it by Congress," the former judges' brief stated. "That duty does not go away when the Executive purports to act under statutes that protect our nation's security. This case is a straightforward challenge to unlawful agency action."

       

"We are aware of the filing of this complaint, and we will address the claims directly in the appropriate forum—the United States District Court," the firm's managing partner told Law.com in an emailed statement.