Wake Up Call: Lawyer for False Trump Elector Eyes Michigan AG
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President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department on Monday to launch a program including free legal assistance from law firms to police officers accused of wrongdoing.
Another federal judge on Monday grilled the Trump administration over its attacks on law firms, suggesting the White House is retaliating against Jenner & Block for its connection to the Mueller probe.
Ashley Callen, US House Speaker Mike Johnson’s former general counsel, is joining Jenner & Block, the firm announced Monday.
Businesses mulling diversity policy changes to avoid Trump administration enforcement have a new option: focus on socioeconomic background in place of, or in addition to, race and gender.
Most Big Law partners upset with President Donald Trump’s attacks on the profession have protested quietly or anonymously—except for these lawyers.
Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.
In just four months, Quinn Emanuel’s Bill Burck went from being loved in Trump world to being fired.
A decades-old tax avoidance strategy could be costing other states hundreds of millions of dollars in vehicle taxes and fees, revenue officials say. Utah and California are leading enforcement efforts to make the tax dodgers pay.
Michael McGinley started the year making his first ever argument before the US Supreme Court. By the end of April, he’ll have argued his third case.
Columnist Andrew Leahey says a tax code change that caps top earner salary deductions for public corporations will unfairly penalize the Atlanta Braves—the only publicly traded MLB franchise.
President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department on Monday to launch a program including free legal assistance from law firms to police officers accused of wrongdoing.
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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.
WilmerHale’s Paul Connell, Swain Wood, and Ben Neaderland say the Trump administration’s apparent pivot away from securities enforcement will mean a complex and divided environment policed by states.
On-camera coach Kerry Barrett says lawyers can learn how to appear natural on camera by practicing vocal mapping, using natural movements, and making eye contact.
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Arizona’s treasurer and retirement system could invest billions of dollars in cryptocurrency under a first-in-the-nation measure the state Legislature passed Monday.
Mastercard Inc. announced that it will give merchants the option to receive payments in stablecoins amid increasing global regulatory clarity on the digital assets that are usually pegged to fiat currencies.
Smaller owners of the Donald Trump memecoin appeared to be leading the spike in token transfers seen after the issuers of the cryptocurrency announced that the top holders will dine with the president.
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