The Kraft Heinz Co.'s global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, Angel S. Willis, who has served in her role for two years, plans to leave the company later this month to pursue other opportunities, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
The Kraft Heinz Co.'s global general counsel and corporate affairs officer, Angel S. Willis, who has served in her role for two years, plans to leave the company later this month to pursue other opportunities, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
A hearing over Brad Pitt's efforts to obtain financial documents from his ex-wife Angelina Jolie in a real estate battle over their winery turned personal Tuesday when Pitt's female counsel from Bird Marella suggested Jolie's male counsel from Murphy Rosen was being sexist, an intimation Jolie's attorney vehemently denied.
Ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire catering platform ezCater in a $2.3 billion all-cash deal that was built by three law firms.
Mars Foods misrepresents that one of its Seeds of Change rice and quinoa products is primarily made with quinoa, when the ingredients list shows quinoa is actually less than 2% of the product, a proposed false advertising class action alleges in California federal court.
True Food Kitchen, a health-focused restaurant chain that scored an investment from Oprah Winfrey in 2018, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with $42.1 million in debt and plans to sell the business after shutting down about a quarter of its stores.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to temporarily allow road vehicles to use dyed diesel fuel that is typically used by off-road vehicles and to defer applicable federal excise taxes, the White House said.
A toxicologist testifying in the latest Roundup trial acknowledged Tuesday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's exhaustive 2017 review of glyphosate science found that the balance of the evidence didn't support a link between glyphosate and human cancer.
Costco Wholesale Corp. will pay $14 million to resolve a class action accusing the retailer of sending advertising emails with false or misleading subject lines in violation of Washington's Commercial Electronic Mail Act, according to a settlement a state judge has given final approval to.
A group of commercial fishermen reached a deal with a Miami seafood wholesaler to resolve antitrust violations in Florida federal court, agreeing to a settlement in exchange for dropping proposed class claims that the company conspired to widen profit margins by artificially suppressing crab claw and spiny lobster tail prices.
A New York federal judge won't let Mitra-9 Brands LLC escape a suit over its kratom products, saying the complaint sufficiently alleges that it knew about the addictive qualities of those products but didn't warn consumers.
Two tobacco farmers in North Carolina have settled their suit seeking to recoup the cost of arbitration proceedings and other damages from a crop insurance provider accused of trying to halve their recovery for crop-related losses, federal court records show.
The North Carolina Business Court rounded the corner into fall with a setback for residents in an antitrust class action, a historic settlement in "forever chemical" contamination litigation and a raft of new restrictive covenant complaints.
Nortera Foods said Tuesday it abandoned its planned purchase of the Green Giant and Le Sieur brands in Canada from B&G Foods Inc., after the country's competition enforcer challenged the deal over concerns about higher prices for canned and frozen vegetables.
The Seventh Circuit's recent ruling in Franco v. Chobani that "zero sugar" claims on allulose-sweetened products are not preempted has sparked a wave of lawsuits, and companies can no longer assume that federal allulose guidance is a safe harbor, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
A former FBI agent has come forward with a claim that when U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove was at the U.S. Department of Justice, he directed the Los Angeles field office to illegally investigate protesters.
A pair of U.S. senators from Delaware have filed an ethics complaint with the Third Circuit raising concerns over U.S. Circuit Judge Jennifer Mascott's purported operation of a public affairs agency, months after she was officially confirmed to the appellate court.
Following widespread public outrage over how a former student's rape allegations were handled, Cornell University has hired former deputy U.S. attorney general and King & Spalding LLP partner Sally Yates to lead an internal review of its policies and procedures.
Chief Justice John Roberts has transferred the Federal Circuit's investigation of suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman to the Eleventh Circuit, the latter court said Tuesday.
Texas Supreme Court justices seemed hesitant to bar attorneys outright from using artificial intelligence voice transcription software during depositions, pointing out Tuesday that multiple safeguards exist to ensure accuracy.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to uphold precedent allowing states to use juries of fewer than 12 people in serious criminal cases, saying overruling it could unsettle thousands of convictions and force many states to change their criminal procedure laws.
When attorneys come before retired Judge Michael Panter, a former circuit court judge in Cook County, Illinois, they sometimes forget that he is not there to decide their cases, but to resolve them.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said University of Virginia School of Law professor John F. Duffy has joined the agency as its general counsel and acting solicitor.
