The divided court held the EPA cannot impose general water quality conditions on wastewater discharge permits, a win for the California city over its aging sewer system.

A judge in California federal court has partially granted Apple's motion to dismiss an antitrust complaint involving its cloud storage service, iCloud, ruling that Apple had not breached state or federal antitrust law, engaged in illegal tying, restricted competition or exercised a monopoly power in the cloud storage service market.

"[T]he dissemination of aggressive, angry, hostile, threatening comments about federal judges—and the number of them coming from people who are elected representatives of the people and then being repeated on social media platforms where millions of people read them—to me, that is something that needs to be responded to,” said former U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm.

"I just want to know if the work is being done or isn't being done," U.S. District Senior Judge Amy Berman Jackson said at a hearing, ordering Consumer Financial Protection Bureau witnesses to testify at an evidentiary hearing before she rules on a preliminary injunction motion that seeks to prevent mass firings of CFPB employees.

As Benesch matched the market for associate pay, it also bumped up pay for salary partners.

Ryan K. Buchanan from the Northern District of Georgia, Michael F. Easley Jr. from the Eastern District of North Carolina and Eric G. Olshan from the Western District of Pennsylvania, all have a history at the firm.

The company's former CLO, CEO and CFO have filed a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $137 million.

Senate Bill 69, which would mandate that third-party financiers register with the state and require public disclosure of financing agreements, cleared the chamber on Thursday.

“With no definitive court ruling and the potential for conflicting judicial opinions, the SEC's decision to drop the case can be seen as an implicit acknowledgment that its legal footing was not as solid as it initially claimed, said Charlyn Ho, managing member at Rikka Law.

In an amicus brief submitted to U.S. District Judge Dale Ho of the Southern District of New York, the former judges—represented by Keker, Van Nest & Peters—urge the court to conduct a factual inquiry to determine whether dismissal is in the public interest and if a quid pro quo has occurred.

Seventeen deans of ABA-approved law schools also urged the high court to move the bar exam back to in-person testing sites in July and to scrap the new Kaplan-written questions. State bar staff have recommended returning to the testing-sites format for this summer's test.

In Friday's hearing, which lasted 10 hours, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez heard closing arguments in Johnson & Johnson's Chapter 11 talc case.

The U.S. Department of Justice argued that foreign nations are not "persons" protected by the Constitution's Fifth Amendment right to due process.

The firm, focused on expanding its global presence, now has more offices in foreign locations than it has in Japan.

Gibson Dunn; Latham & Watkins; Sidley Austin; Morrison Foerster; Bracewell; Nixon Peabody; and McGuireWoods are among the latest to hire former senior government attorneys.

Kim has returned to the firm he co-founded in 2017 with fellow former federal prosecutors Paul Krieger and Nicholas Lewin. Initially known as Krieger, Kim & Lewin, the boutique will now rebrand as KKL.

The suits filed against the firm concerned a former partner's role in counseling Par Funding.

This will be Jonathan Waclawski's second tour of duty at the nation's largest trade group.

Bartko Zankel Bunzel and Miller is combining with Pavia & Harcourt to create Bartko Pavia, which will have 66 lawyers in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

The insurance defense firm has rapidly expanded in the last year, adding offices in Houston, Philadelphia and Sacramento.