The U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday announced new proposed changes to existing federal regulations on exploratory offshore drilling in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf, as part of the Trump administration's broader push to "unleash American energy dominance."
The U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday announced new proposed changes to existing federal regulations on exploratory offshore drilling in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf, as part of the Trump administration's broader push to "unleash American energy dominance."
The Tenth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a Clean Air Act lawsuit from several environmental justice groups against Suncor Energy, finding Monday that a lower court incorrectly ruled that the groups' claims were barred because of civil actions against the company in Texas.
Shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. and Mousterian Corp. Inc. have signed an engineering agreement for their first moored U.S. floating data center project, the two companies announced Monday.
Certain wood cabinets and vanities will be subject to a 25% surtax when imported into Canada under a temporary provision designed to protect the country's softwood lumber industry, though the Canadian government said a number of countries' imports — including the U.S. — are exempt.
Democratic senators led by Oregon's Jeff Merkley on Monday called on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to "rein in" prediction markets speculating on wildfires.
KKR, guided by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, has closed its latest fund for investing in North American and European infrastructure assets and businesses at $19.2 billion, the private equity giant said Monday.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that it has strengthened its global energy and infrastructure practice with a Houston-based partner who came aboard from McGuireWoods.
Baker Botts LLP has hired two litigators who focus on representing companies in highly regulated and technically sophisticated industries as partners in its offices in Washington, D.C., and London, the firm announced Monday.
Recent securities cases demonstrate the difficulty in discerning a clear difference between statements made in connection with the purchase or sale of securities and those that aren't, with that line more likely attributable to individualized factual situations than to any doctrinal differences of opinion between various courts, says Samuel Groner at Fried Frank.
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Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.
Florida's Attorney General said Monday he is asking Congress to open an impeachment inquiry into U.S. Circuit Judge Nancy Abudu because of work she did before ascending to the Eleventh Circuit bench for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.
During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.
In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.
The founder of Patriot National Inc. was likely short millions of dollars when it finalized a private investment in public equity transaction at the center of his malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, according to defense testimony on Tuesday at a Florida state trial.
Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent position Tuesday, after Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, said they would support him.
Ford Motor Co. has asked the Ninth Circuit to revive its racketeering lawsuit accusing three attorneys affiliated with Knight Law Group LLP of orchestrating a massive fraudulent billing scheme, saying First Amendment protections don't immunize the attorneys' underlying conduct in California lemon law litigation against the automaker.
A Connecticut state court judge allowed Day Pitney LLP to withdraw from a $1.3 million corporate windup feud after the involvement of one of its partners, a former chief justice on the state Supreme Court, came to light, negating the defendants' call for an evidentiary hearing on a motion to disqualify the firm.
A proposed class action data security suit against Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP was voluntarily dismissed on Thursday following a joint motion to stay the case in April to undergo mediation.
Ashurst Perkins Coie won't have to turn over documents related to its predecessor firm's work for an Omani screw and nail manufacturer in international trade proceedings that are now the subject of a legal malpractice case, a Washington court has ruled, while also denying a discovery request from the firm.
More patent suits were filed in 2025 than in any year in the past decade, according to a new report, an increase attorneys said is likely tied to new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that have made it harder to challenge patents.
Judge Thomas Schroeder of the Middle District of North Carolina has informed the president he will take semi-retired status at a date later in the future.
An attorney with the Bronx Defenders felt she had no other choice but to cross the picket line on Tuesday after an immigration judge ordered her to appear in court and the organization's managers did not commit to covering the proceedings without her, a union representative has told Law360.
