The court applied an adverse inference against the company for failing to call two witnesses, and interpreted the parties' collective bargaining agreement (CBA) by inserting an intent requirement that was not explicitly included in the agreement. While the affirmance of an arbitration award is unsurprising, the court's discussion of these nuances warrants attention.

       

The Wall Street firm believes the changes will foster growth and retention.

       

Leaders at Slaughter and May, Macfarlanes, Travers Smith and other firms discuss the surge in Big Law mergers, and what the consolidation trend means for their sleek businesses.

       

The focus on earlier diligence—sometimes just after the first meeting with a candidate—reflects the escalating risks and stakes in partner recruiting.

       

“We find ourselves in a paradox. Organizations are more globally connected than ever, yet operating in an increasingly fragmented and unpredictable geopolitical environment that is fundamentally altering risk calculations, said Sunny Mann, global chair of Baker McKenzie.

       

Emory Law School banned Milano Wayne, a 1L, from campus due to social media posts from late December regarding a woman who made "false allegations" against him, which the school has purportedly been investigating for a few months.

       

The suit, brought by structural steel fabricator Cives Corp., seeks to recover over $14 million for its allegedly unpaid work on Boston's Fenway Center project.

       

"If we merely identified it as the first step of a root-canal procedure but never characterized it as a standard-of-care violation, then we might have an argument there—it's just part of the factual description of what happened. The problem is, in both trials, the plaintiffs went way further than that and characterized it repeatedly as a standard of care violation," argued defense attorney R. Page Powell Jr.
       

Firms such as Brownstein, Akin, Dentons, Bracewell, Miller & Chevalier and Ballard Partners have all represented some of the same oil and gas companies that met with Trump late last week, according to Lobbying Disclosure Act filings from 2025.

       

“Political instability and economic pressures have driven significant divergence in employment regulation, and understanding these shifts is essential for effective workforce planning," said Mike DeLarco, global head of labor and employment practice at Hogan Lovells.

       

The U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday that candidates for federal elective office have automatic standing to challenge the vote-counting rules in their elections, regardless of whether they are "long-shots" or "shoo-ins."

       

Mistakes—even forgetting to include a word on a label—could be a technical breach and spawn litigation under a directive being transposed into EU member states' national legislation this year.

       

In this first in a three-part series, trends in the trade enforcement and compliance landscape, a fast-moving area marked by unpredictability, are examined.

       

A Chicago federal judge said a jury will have to decide if a now-defunct group of more than 20 universities, known as the "568 Group," broke antitrust laws by using agreed upon and standardized rules for calculating a student's financial need.

       

       

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia has fired several of its career prosecutors ever since President Donald Trump effectively installed insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan as its de facto leader.

       

The former UnitedHealth Group general counsel talks to Law.com about his extensive experience of crises, and why he's switching to private practice.

       

The new appointment was until recently one of the firm's three global managing partners.

       

SB 574 would also bar arbitrators from delegating "any part of their decision-making process" to generative AI.

       

Grindr CEO George Arison said Katz "has built a strategic engine with real impact for both our business and the community."