Companies that have scaled back their DEI initiatives should be prepared for those actions to be scrutinized if they are faced with a suit claiming that a firing or other action involving a particular employee was motivated by factors such as race, gender, religion or national origin.

       

"While the Executive Order reflects a symbolic sea change in terms of the government's intent to promote an industry that was subject to serious skepticism under the prior administration, its immediate practical impact may be more muted than some in the industry hoped," said Helen Gugel, a partner at Ropes & Gray, who has been recognized as one of the top female cryptocurrency litigators in the U.S.

       

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Akin, Wilmer, Brownstein and Hogan Lovells are creating programs and teams to help clients and stakeholders keep track of Trump's executive orders.

       

The deal, announced Thursday, removes nonconsensual releases to the Sackler family, Purdue's founders, which the U.S. Supreme Court had invalidated last year.

       

In issuing a temporary restraining order, U.S. District Senior Judge John Coughenour questioned the legal work that went into what he called a "blatantly unconstitutional" executive order restricting who qualifies as a U.S. citizen.

       

The majority of the listings raised less than $10 million each, benefiting U.S. practices that have long focused on small-to-midsized deals. 

       

"This role at Duetti is the perfect intersection of my previous experience advising on catalog acquisitions, acquiring content and growing a label and publishing business,” general counsel Sachin Premnath said.

       

"He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law," said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. "That's an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.”

       

The law requires potentially millions of local businesses to disclose their “beneficial owners, or anyone with at least a 25% interest or who controls the business, to a federal regulator.

       

Forty-five percent of the 965 Meta employees surveyed by the anonymity-protecting messaging app Blind disagreed with the company's shutdown of its DEI initiatives, while 43% agreed with it.

       

       

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services released his financial disclosure as part of his nomination process, listing all the law firms he's been affiliated with over the years and those with which he plans to remain.

       

"While the court concludes that the hourly rates requested are reasonable, the total number of hours should be reduced in order to account for Mr. Kellum's vague billing, the excessive time spent related to the investigation and preparation of the Complaint, and the time spent preparing the present motion," Chief U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger of the Western District of North Carolina said.

       

"People are realizing that, like all innovations, there's the early days and then there's an influx of people and money that want to try it, and then the better players sort of find their way to the top," said Burford Capital vice chair David Perla.

       

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Three days a week in the office remains the most popular arrangement, five years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted established patterns of work.

       

Baker & Hostetler, Foley Hoag, Baker Botts, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, King & Spalding and McGuireWoods announced new lateral partners in their D.C. offices over the past week.

       

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Addressing a circuit split over whether insurance solvency funds are considered a "primary plan," U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman concluded the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund was not responsible for a decades-old medical bill covered by Medicare.