Many cannabis businesses are cash-only, a restriction that limits their growth and prevents banks from building relationships in the growing industry.

       

“The [Seventh Circuit's] holding is going to reverberate and have a huge impact on wage and hour litigation throughout the United States, said Gerald Maatman, chair of Duane Morris' class action defense group.

       

Investors in the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX have narrowed their legal claims to target a single law firm: Fenwick & West.

       

"Act like an owner before you are one. Learn the business side of the firm—billing, staffing, client development. And don't wait for someone to hand you a title. Leadership is often about mindset and initiative more than anything else. That same mindset is what created our firm—we saw an opportunity to do things differently in commercial litigation, real estate, and government affairs, and we built a firm to deliver top-tier work without the red tape."

       

Clients are asking their lawyers or others with connections to skip the line of the normal DOJ chain of command—“process in the parlance of prosecutors and white collar defense lawyers. Prosecutors, defense lawyers and legal ethics experts weigh in.

       

The legal industry may just be in the “eye of the storm, with costs still rising quickly and clients potentially becoming more cautious with their payments, a new report said.

       

The Trump administration indicated in a recent court pleading that President Donald Trump might not file additional executive orders against law firms that call for things such as suspending security clearances for lawyers or restricting their access to federal buildings.

       

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said that his review of the documents showed that they contained “garden-variety testimony from law enforcement agents that was already known to the public—not the type of information justifying taking the “extraordinary step of revealing grand jury materials. “[The U.S. Department of Justice's] entire premise—that the Maxwell grand jury materials would bring to light meaningful new information about Epstein's and Maxwell's crimes, or the Government's investigation into them—is demonstrably false, Engelmayer said.

       

Just as cyber insurance was when it first came on the market, AI insurance is "the Wild, Wild West," Butler University professor Thomas Faulconer said.

       

As sweeping new AI rules take effect, U.S. tech giants and European companies are preparing for compliance. But much of Europe is still scrambling to appoint regulators.

       

Robert Keele wrote on LinkedIn that "working with Elon on this tech, at this time, was the adventure of a lifetime" but had one big drawback: "I love my two toddlers and I don't get to see them enough."

       

The settlement, announced on Friday, resolves a nationwide class action focused on algorithmic pricing of rental units and includes the U.S. Department of Justice.

       

In an appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Shira Perlmutter notes that her removal came one day after the Copyright Office released its report on the use of copyrighted materials to train generative AI models, an analysis that ran counter to the Trump administration's position.

       

The Trump administration is asking the justices to allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to continue using aggressive, dragnet tactics in their immigration crackdown in the Los Angeles area, which civil rights groups have said amount to racial profiling.

       

Lower demand in the lateral market for corporate associates is unlikely to yield midyear bonuses in Big Law, although year-end Milbank matches are expected.

       

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In a concurring opinion, D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas said James Boasberg's order halting removals was too ambiguous to support criminal contempt.

       

The Seventh Circuit also remanded the case to the district court to determine the scope of the injunction following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. CASA Inc., which put limits on universal injunctions. In the present case, which may be among the first cases analyzed since the Supreme Court's ruling, the Seventh Circuit said Sweeney will have to determine if the injunction applies only to the media organizations named as plaintiffs or to all Indiana residents.        

The EEOC launched a crackdown on COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

       

Donald Trump "has absolutely no incentive to go along with this, and especially an ideological president who doesn't have many circuit court vacancies,” said University of Pittsburgh law professor Arthur Hellman.