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Whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid, known for representing the intelligence official whose complaint led to President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, sued the Trump administration Monday to reclaim his security clearance.
Mike Lindell Media Corp., a conservative broadcast network led by the My Pillow Inc. founder of the same name, announced Monday its hire of Daniel J. Eastman to immediately serve as its new general counsel.
Latham & Watkins is guiding Skechers USA Inc. in its plan to go private through a sale to 3G Capital for $9.4 billion.
Sidley Austin hired the chair of WilmerHale’s corporate group and a partner from that practice to start an emerging companies and capital markets team in Boston.
Roughly 70% of attorneys at the Justice Department’s civil rights division are leaving or were reassigned in recent months, according to multiple people familiar with the departures, as Trump administration officials elevate ideological priorities over its historic missions.
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 could ruin the Supreme Court’s summer recess. It’s already filed an unprecedented number of emergency requests for the court’s intervention and there’s no signs of any let up. The extra work threatens to delay the release of opinions and force the justices to rule on requests well into July.
The California State Bar sued ProctorU Inc., whose platform crashed during the February Bar Exam, seeking damages and a court-ordered audit into the vendor it says is dodging its requests for info on what went wrong.
Lawyers for a shower-curtain company and its importer were dressed down by the Federal Circuit’s chief judge Monday for teaming up in their briefs to get around the court’s strict word limits as they appealed nearly $4 million in damages and attorneys’ fees.
Whistleblower attorney Mark Zaid, known for representing the intelligence official whose complaint led to President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, sued the Trump administration Monday to reclaim his security clearance.
Mike Lindell Media Corp., a conservative broadcast network led by the My Pillow Inc. founder of the same name, announced Monday its hire of Daniel J. Eastman to immediately serve as its new general counsel.
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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.
New York County Lawyers Association’s Albert Feuer and James Kobak Jr. warn Attorney General Pam Bondi is trying to turn DOJ into a law firm for the president.
Figment is looking for acquisition targets, potentially extending a flurry of dealmaking in the digital-assets space triggered by President
A bipartisan alliance backing stablecoin legislation shattered in the US Senate as a key group of Democrats threatened to block a bill that Republicans had hoped to pass this month — unless “numerous” fixes are made.
Longtime IRS official Trish Turner will now lead the agency’s digital assets unit with the exit of two crypto leads, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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