Lawyers from at least eight Big Law firms corresponded with Epstein on more than a couple of occasions and for a variety of purposes, from strictly business reasons to legal advice.

       

Simpson Thacher has failed to secure an extension for a client after missing a regulatory deadline by a day, in what the Competition Appeal Tribunal has called "ordinary and natural consequences of a failure".

       

Several people familiar with the firm say the office has closed, despite the Chinese firm describing its opening as a “significant milestone in September 2024.

       

Even with the most well-intentioned plans, her career did not necessarily follow that route. But, Kaling said her confidence and willingness to adapt to her environment led to the beginning of her career, even if it was an "off-off-Broadway" play in Chinatown.

       

The Daily Report and Law.com are pleased to announce its 2026 winners and finalists for the fourth annual Southeastern Legal Awards.

       

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing paraquat multidistrict litigation, ordered supplemental briefs after Syngenta and Chevron moved last month to preempt claims they failed to warn of the weedkiller's link to Parkinson's disease.

       

The willingness to mull a merger outwardly has seemingly become more commonplace lately.

       

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The former New York Giants quarterback and two-time Super Bowl MVP kicked off Legalweek Monday at the Javits Center in Manhattan.

       

The federal judiciary on Tuesday approved the creation of an office dedicated to improving the advocacy of federal public defenders at the U.S. Supreme Court.

       

Judge Vince Chhabria last week expressed doubts about the likelihood of class certification in a long-running case that seeks to hold Apple Inc. liable for design elements in its AirTag tracking products that allegedly facilitate stalking.

       

"Only the Appointments Clause or the Vacancies Act's exclusive structure may authorize service as a principal officer, and [Kari] Lake satisfies the requirements of neither the statute nor the Constitution," U.S. District Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth wrote in a decision invalidating Lake's service as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Lake's attempt to gut Voice of America's workforce.

       

"With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this district potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The government tells us: the president doesn't like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants," Judge Matthew Brann wrote.

       

"The consequences of this case are enormous," Anthropic's complaint said. "The federal government retaliated against a leading frontier AI developer for adhering to its protected viewpoint on a subject of great public significance—AI safety and the limitations of its own AI models."

       

The case was particularly challenging because counsel for the County of Mercer and the Mercer County Parks Commission claimed immunity under the Landowner Liability Act, plaintiff counsel said.

       

Effective July 1, Stacy Leeds will become the first woman to permanently hold the position of president at the university.

       

The trial is the fourth in the nation to allege cow's milk-based formula fed to premature babies in hospitals causes a life-threatening gastrointestinal illness called necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.

       

With nearly 2,400 international lawyers caught in the Middle East conflict, the world's largest law firms are determined to keep staff safe, deals moving, and the lights on. But how?

       

"Due to the substantial prejudice caused by this settlement and DOJ's abrupt exit after taking the lead role up to and during the first week of trial, a mistrial is warranted," more than 20 plaintiff states wrote in a motion for a mistrial after the U.S. Department of Justice informed a Manhattan federal judge that the Justice Department will no longer participate in the antitrust jury trial proceedings against defendants Live Nation and Ticketmaster.

       

“The court has unambiguously rejected the false and damaging narrative that Binance assisted terrorists, Eleanor Hughes, Binance's general counsel, said in a statement.