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Some attorneys who left their firms over deals with President Donald Trump are resurfacing months later in jobs outside of Big Law.
The former deputy for New Jersey’s US attorney claims she was fired in “direct retaliation” for judges appointing her as the state’s top federal prosecutor.
A defense-side patent lawyer urged a South Florida federal court to throw out much of Leigh Rothschild’s defamation lawsuit against her over comments she made about the inventor and patent-monetization executive’s business model.
After more than three decades as the top lawyer for Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants, longtime legal chief John “Jack” Bair is putting on a different cap—but will remain in the C-suite for the same team.
A Justice Department official in Washington is pushing back on acting Los Angeles US Attorney Bill Essayli’s reliance on recent white-collar policy to dismiss charges against a fast-food executive who’s donated to President Donald Trump.
Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.
The Trump administration has narrowed employers’ options for boosting workforce diversity, cutting off long-used tools for recruiting Black and Hispanic talent if regulators aggressively follow the latest Justice Department guidance on illegal DEI.
A family in court seeking $350 million worth of works by Wassily Kandinsky and other Russian avant-garde artists is also battling an investor that financed their lawsuits.
A reinstatement push by the Justice Department’s former top bankruptcy watchdog is emerging as an early challenge to the Trump administration’s aggressive campaign to expand presidential authority over a higher echelon of the federal workforce.
Law schools throughout New York are seeing increased demand from students for immigration law classes and clinics to get hands-on experience—all coming amid the Trump administration’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants and wipe out sanctuary city laws.
Top executives are diving deep into the weeds on their companies’ transfer pricing decisions as tariffs supercharge the financial impact of intercompany transactions.
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Latham & Watkins is Big Law’s leading M&A adviser so far this year, riding a second-quarter upswing in tech, telecommunications, and energy deals work.
Latham & Watkins is Big Law’s leading M&A adviser so far this year, riding a second-quarter upswing in tech, telecommunications, and energy deals work.
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.
The rush to convert listed companies into vehicles for buying cryptocurrencies has reached such a fever pitch that even executives backing such deals are warning of potential fallout for
China told local brokers and other bodies to stop publishing research or hold seminars to promote stablecoins, seeking to rein in the asset class to avoid instability.
Ripple Labs Inc. and the SEC will abandon an appellate fight over sales of the blockchain company’s XRP token now that they can’t settle the case, they told the Second Circuit Thursday.
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