Meaghan Connors, a Mayer Brown finance partner in Houston, fashioned a niche practice in critical minerals after focusing on the ways the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 would impact the mining industry.

District Judge William Alsup said the schedule for a Dec. 1 trial start remains on track and that, while a jury may end up vindicating the AI company, “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big.

The two firms are set to merge to create a 1,200-lawyer entity approaching $1 billion in revenue by Dec. 31. Morris Manning managing partner Simon Malko shared why the deal made sense.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have filed lawsuits seeking to remove twelve Democratic state lawmakers from office for breaking quorum by fleeing the state during a special legislative session focused on congressional redistricting.

Many cannabis businesses are cash-only, a restriction that limits their growth and prevents banks from building relationships in the growing industry.

“The [Seventh Circuit's] holding is going to reverberate and have a huge impact on wage and hour litigation throughout the United States, said Gerald Maatman, chair of Duane Morris' class action defense group.

Investors in the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX have narrowed their legal claims to target a single law firm: Fenwick & West.

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Clients are asking their lawyers or others with connections to skip the line of the normal DOJ chain of command—“process in the parlance of prosecutors and white collar defense lawyers. Prosecutors, defense lawyers and legal ethics experts weigh in.