Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has elevated Justice Department aide and conservative litigator Trent McCotter to a critical role with authority to shape a new leadership vision in the wake of Pam Bondi’s ouster.

Texas energy lawyers are sorting through the chaos of the Iran War, helping some clients find new domestic energy sources and telling others that new mergers and acquisitions are “dead, dead, dead.”

A Berkshire Hathaway Inc. insurance unit is off the hook for any potential settlement or judgment in a fraud suit against a Texas lawyer and his firm.

Andrea Merediz Basham and Jennifer Cheng joined White & Case as partners in its global mergers & acquisitions practice in New York, the firm announced Thursday.

Marcus Wu joined Morgan Lewis as a partner in its employee benefits and executive compensation practice in San Francisco, the firm announced Thursday.

Amazon.com Inc.‘s longtime general counsel, who ranked among highest paid legal leaders in total compensation a year ago, took home $372,000 last year, according to a proxy statement filed Thursday.

The US Agency for Global Media owes Capital FM (Pvt.) Ltd $10,000 in employee severance costs following the the agency’s March 2025 decision to stop providing content to the company under a distribution agreement, the US Civilian Board of Contract Appeals said.

Companies that give their hiring managers race and sex data about internal employment decisions could draw scrutiny from the EEOC, according to the Republican chair of the agency.

Texas court affirmed summary judgment for Texas A&M University Commerce on age discrimination claims, ruling the employee’s administrative charge was filed too late, beyond the 180-day deadline following notification of non-renewal. Yaqub v. Tex. A&M Univ. Com., 2026 BL 123245, Tex. App., 5th Dist., 05-24-01457-CV, 4/7/26

A former truck driver with Parkinson’s disease can’t qualify for the job accommodations protected by federal law based on his own description of his limitations, a federal appeals court found.

A California federal district court approved a $3.5 million FLSA settlement requiring residential care facility owners to pay back wages and implement comprehensive compliance measures for minimum wage and overtime violations. Chavez-Deremer v. Golden Care Living, Inc., 2026 BL 123208, C.D. Cal., 2:25cv00232 CAS (MARx), 4/2/26

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano said the agency will be vigilant in looking out for fraud in new tax breaks on tips and overtime created by the 2025 GOP tax-and-spending law, as millions claim the benefits.

Washington state’s income tax on high earners met its first court challenge alleging it’s an illegal tax on property Thursday, two weeks after its enactment.

A Senate Democrat is calling for more details on the Trump administration’s deal to pay nearly $1 billion to a French energy giant to cancel its US offshore wind projects.

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano said the agency will be vigilant in looking out for fraud in new tax breaks on tips and overtime created by the 2025 GOP tax-and-spending law, as millions claim the benefits.

The Finnish Tax Administration published detailed guidance Thursday on identifying groups within the scope of its global minimum tax rules and allocating profits to constituent entities.

President Donald Trump has the authority to enact new Iran-related duties under an emergency law the Supreme Court previously ruled could not be used to impose tariffs, his top economic adviser said.

A federal law governing military families’ domicile for tax purposes applies to the spouse of an active service member even though she resides in a state where her husband isn’t stationed, the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals ruled.

Oil climbed in choppy trading on signs of further Middle Eastern supply losses and as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is still largely blocked.

Matt Levine discusses the Bitcoin overnight trading pattern, the lawsuits against social media companies, insider venting, the concentration risk, contrarianism, and Satoshi.

The EPA’s use of a specific economic metric when proposing major regulations isn’t traceable to or discriminatory against children alleging climate harms, the Ninth Circuit said Thursday, handing a loss to youth plaintiffs.

The EPA is giving chemical manufacturers and importers of goods made with PFAS more time to submit information about the chemicals they’ve made or imported, but the agency hasn’t set a final deadline for that information.

Texas energy lawyers are sorting through the chaos of the Iran War, helping some clients find new domestic energy sources and telling others that new mergers and acquisitions are “dead, dead, dead.”

New Jersey lifted what it calls a “de facto moratorium” on building new nuclear plants and plans to start a task force focusing on expanding the power source, as Democrats in nearby New York consider potentially halting nuclear development altogether.