The partners of Schulte Roth & Zabel will “assume key roles across the management, executive, and compensation committees" of the new firm and will also serve as co-leads of its New York and London offices, the firm said.

       

The regulatory agency created to enforce the watershed $2.8 billion House v. NCAA class action settlement, said NIL collectives and other school-affiliated entities may ink deals with student-athletes—as long as those transactions meet the benchmark of serving a "valid business purpose."        

The College Sports Commission, a regulatory agency created to enforce the watershed $2.8 billion House v. NCAA class action settlement, on Thursday revised its guidance for name, image and likeness (NIL) payments, permitting NIL collectives and other school-affiliated entities to ink deals with college athletes—as long as those transactions meet the benchmark of serving a "valid business purpose."        

A San Francisco federal court jury on Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act in a landmark data privacy class action, which accused the Big Tech giant of illegally mining sensitive sexual and reproductive health data from Flo Health Inc., an app-based online fertility tracking platform.

       

"Violations of court orders that span multiple jurisdictions are difficult to detect, particularly in Schedule A cases where forum shopping is rampant and defendants rarely appear." U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr.

       

In a racketeering suit 3M filed against three lawyers who brought hundreds of black lung lawsuits, a federal judge ordered preservation of evidence contained in a storage unit belonging to one of the defendants, Glenn Martin Hammond.

       

The 65-attorney firm has had a strong year and added multiple new major clients in the private credit and banking sectors, firm chair Richard Stehl said.

       

An electricity provider is facing heat over a Texas fire.

       

"Oftentimes, you may have negligence or the accidental failure to adequately secure cybersecurity systems," Adam Polk of Girard Sharp, counsel for the plaintiffs in multiple class actions against insurers, said. "Here what you have are tracking technologies that are placed on the website and that are specifically designed to help the website publisher optimize their advertisements."

       

New York Democratic lawmakers and sports law practitioners are monitoring whether Congress will enact NIL regulations, on urging from President Donald Trump.

       

After a day and a half of deliberations, the Miami jury found Tesla partly liable in a fatal 2019 Florida car crash.

       

Nixon Peabody intellectual property attorney Michael Gray's passion for scuba diving closely parallels his approach to litigation strategy and trial preparation. Gray has been practicing in Texas for more than 10 years, but he had a non-traditional route to the legal profession. Before going to the University of Houston Law School, he built a career in mechanical engineering as a drilling engineer.

       

The Second Judicial Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York said that the law—Section 7003(c) of the Civil Practice Law and Rules—violated the separation of powers, by incentivizing judges to decide one way while considering petitions for writs of habeas corpus.

       

McDermott Will & Schulte was created on Friday, creating a new major player in the Am Law 100.

       

The largest settlement, of $150,000, involved an employee so humiliated by a senior official that it caused her "to have panic attacks at work," according to a new report from the agency's Office of Inspector General.

       

Thursday's courtroom closing arguments threw blame in many directions.

       

"The Fourth Circuit is in line with the three liberals on the [Supreme] Court," said University of Pittsburgh law professor Arthur Hellman. "It's out of line with the conservative majority. But you do have to dig a little more into [the cases].”

       

The law firm is Figma's counsel and holds a sizable chunk of shares following the startup's debut on the New York Stock Exchange.

       

The Wild Horses Act places wild horses—symbols of the West's pioneer spirit—under federal protection and management. In southern Wyoming though, these herds largely live on “checkerboard land, in other words, lands that alternate between public and private ownership, creating a checkerboard effect. After its enactment, wild horse populations exploded, leading to damaged habitats.

       

The National Conference of Bar Examiners released six new resources on Friday to prepare test-takers for the NextGen Uniform Bar Exam, which launches July 2026.