“The SEC wants to lay out a path where players in the industry can issue tokens, can trade tokens and build products off of those tokens with clear guidelines on what's permitted and what isn't, said Arlo Devlin-Brown, a partner at Treanor Devlin Brown.

       

Hogan Lovells, Husch Blackwell, Dechert, Cooley, ArentFox Schiff, Morrison & Foerster, and Crowell & Moring announced D.C.-based partner and of counsel hires this past week.

       

A lawyers' union official said that state courts could face overwhelming impacts. But the Office of Court Administration spokesman said judiciary leaders were in touch with all sides and that the court system would remain open.

       

“Don't look at this as a win for the tech companies. This is at best guidance for the plaintiffs," said Jason L. Haas, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup.

       

Under the order, instead of the prior obligations imposed under EO 11246, federal contracts and grants will now be required to include a clause mandating that the contractor or grant recipient agrees that they are in compliance “with applicable federal anti-discrimination laws. The order notes that such a certification is a term “material to the government's payment decisions for purposes of the FCA.

       

The justices said they will hear an appeal from Cox Communications over a copyright ruling that could it expose it to up to $1 billion in damages to the music industry.

       

"Realize that you cannot change the world in a day. I think this is especially true in the context of a law firm where you really need to develop consensus and buy-in from your fellow partners."

       

After the loss of approximately 60 lawyers to other Am Law 200 firms so far this year, Morris Manning managing partner Simon Malko said the firm is in merger discussions with an Am Law 100 firm.

       

The government's decision to appeal the Perkins Coie ruling could foreshadow its next move in the other three law firm executive order cases.

       

The U.S. legal framework, the Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act (DSHMRA), although enacted nearly 40 years ago, has never been used to authorize mineral extraction. Now all eyes are on the United States while we await the substance of the first authorization of commercial extraction activities. This authorization undoubtedly will result in litigation and present novel legal questions for courts to resolve.

       

Vice President JD Vance was previously among the challengers to a federal law restricting so-called “coordinated party expenditures.

       

Lawyers reacted on social media to a viral video of a Colorado attorney mistakenly calling a judge "honey."

       

As the U.S. Supreme Court clamps down on nationwide injunctions, state attorneys general may still be "uniquely positioned" to pursue widespread legal relief, said Troutman Pepper Locke's Ashley Taylor Jr.

       

In the wake of two landmark legal victories scored by artificial intelligence developers this week, Microsoft Corp. has become the latest tech giant to face allegations that it used pirated copyrighted material to train its own AI models without the writers' consent.

       

"We were delighted to achieve the reversal on our clients' behalf and with the impact it will have on privacy litigation moving forward. It sets an important precedent for pursuing relief and benefits not only for the class in our case, but data breach cases across Illinois," Alex Phillips, of Strauss Borrelli in Madison, Wisconsin, said on behalf of the plaintiffs.

       

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Data breach cases surged after cyberattacks hit the insurance industry.

       

U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan deemed the executive order against Susman Godfrey unconstitutional, enjoining all agencies of the federal government from enacting any part of the executive order.

       

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants an apology, or $787 million, after Fox News personalities suggested he lied about an early June conversation with President Trump.

       

U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall of California's Central District is set to preside when the parties—rival real estate data and listing firms—bring the long-running case over copyright infringement and antitrust allegations to trial. Two recent court rulings, one from the 9th Circuit and the other from the trial judge, brought that trial closer to realization.