It's hard not to draw a comparison between what's happening amid attacks on the rule of law in Trump's America with what has taken place in Asia.

       

It's the fourth presidential action or order against a big law firm.

       

"If location in D.C. meant that the D.C. Circuit is a hometown court, then this court would be a hometown court for EPA, and I've never had that perception," joked Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart.

       

"It's as much of the marquee high-value transactions as it is the aggregation of what we call our bread and butter, and it's that combination that ends up being magical for us in the end,” said CEO Rachel Proffitt.

       

The shopping mall giant awarded Steven Fivel $8.1 million in stock under a special bonus program tied to the performance of investments outside of the company's core business.

       

"Consumers are excited about AI, and unfortunately that's led to Big Tech overpromising and under-delivering,” said Timothy Giordano, a partner at Clarkson Law Firm, which sued Apple last week.

       

Constitutional Law Expert Erwin Chemerinsky warns about the expansion of presidential power, and how that weakens the congressional and judicial branches and can threaten the U.S. Democracy. The UC Berkeley Law School dean gave a lecture Monday night at the University of Houston Law School.

       

A Texas man received a $411 million verdict for injuries sustained while working for Brock Industries at a Phillips 66 refinery in Louisiana. It is the largest award to a single plaintiff in the state's history, according to Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin, and Valdivia's lead attorney.

       

After managing partner Stephen Sonberg stepped down after 16 years in the role, new leaders Robert Grammig and David Whitestone oversaw continued growth.

       

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A new day brings a new emergency Trump appeal to the Supreme Court. Plus: Why did Monday's voting rights hearing veer into a discussion about complying with court orders?

       

Robert Finnerty, now at Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo in Encino, California, faces disciplinary charges for failing to inform clients about their $53 million settlement.

       

“If the government says we don't have to give process for that, then y'all could have picked me up on Saturday and thrown me on a plane thinking I'm a member of Tren de Aragua and given me no chance to protest it," said Judge Patricia Millett.

       

The social media giant alleges India is wrongly using an IT law and a new portal to ‘facilitate' censorship of information in India.

       

Investors had argued that the bank and its top brass should have known that it lacked the controls necessary to prevent the $17.7 billion sale, as that issue spun out of the bank's well-known loss of filing privileges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. But U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman was skeptical that executives who knew of the lost privileges would have known the bank lacked the controls to cope.

       

A new Association of Corporate Counsel survey found that 38% of legal chiefs have a cybersecurity leadership role—up from 15% in 2020.

       

“I don't think there's a firm in Big Law that is not talking about this today," noted one consultant.

       

Big Law remains silent, but some at smaller firms are raising their voices. "I am concerned about a government where one person is an authoritarian figure and Congress is silent and the courts are marginalized or threatened with impeachment when they rule on the lawfulness of government action," said Keker Van Nest & Peters partner Elliot Peters.

       

The EEOC asked about law firms' relationships with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity in each of the 20 letters to law firms this month.

       

Jessica Aber, who rose up the ranks and led about 300 prosecutors and litigators as the former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, died at age 43 of natural causes related to a longstanding medical issue, according to a close family friend.