Wake Up Call: Justice Department Lawyers Struggle to Keep Up
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The legal chief of one of the music industry’s biggest performance rights organizations pushed back on a US Copyright Office inquiry into how royalties are distributed to songwriters and music publishers.
Dean John Sauer was confirmed as the Trump administration’s top lawyer at the US Supreme Court just as the justices face multiple appeals related to White House policies testing the bounds of presidential power.
A Maine law firm and one of its clients failed to convince a federal court that the state’s program pooling interest from lawyers’ trust accounts, which gets distributed to legal advocacy groups, is unconstitutional.
A Houston bankruptcy court’s process to decide whether Jackson Walker LLP must return millions in fees for failing to disclose an ex-partner’s romance with a prominent judge is “inefficient” and should be moved to a federal district court, a Justice Department attorney said.
Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.
State legislation across the country to mandate that businesses use E-Verify threatens to intensify scrutiny on employers’ immigrant hiring, while making it tougher for some industries to find enough workers.
Davidson Kempner Capital Management was identified as the funder behind patent cases against Amazon’s Audible Inc. last month, the first time the $35 billion hedge fund was publicly outed as a player in litigation finance.
Paul Atkins, who spent years advising Wall Street and Silicon Valley giants targeted by US securities regulators, will be surrounded by potential conflicts arising from his consulting work and board positions once he takes charge as President Donald Trump’s SEC chairman.
A coalition of Republican-led states asked 20 law firms Thursday to send them documentation of their diversity, equity, and inclusion practices to ensure their compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
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Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.
Crypto exchange OKX was fined by Maltese authorities for breaching the island nation’s anti-money laundering rules, the latest in a string of regulatory setbacks for the platform.
Paul Atkins, who spent years advising Wall Street and Silicon Valley giants targeted by US securities regulators, will be surrounded by potential conflicts arising from his consulting work and board positions once he takes charge as President Donald Trump’s SEC chairman.
Perplexity AI Inc. hit back at a lawsuit over a “perplexity” trademark, calling a Texas-based software company’s infringement claims against it a “thinly-veiled attempt to parlay a fraudulently obtained trademark registration” into a windfall.
Bakkt Holdings Inc. overhyped its cryptocurrency services’ stability until announcing large customer cancellations that would hinder its top-line revenue, a proposed class action said.
Lauren Lin is in a hurry. She has less than 48 hours to ship about 5,600 Bitcoin mining machines from Thailand to the US before tariffs imposed on the Southeast Asian country by President
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