Zeeshan “Zee” Ahmedani joined Proskauer as a partner in its private funds group in Los Angeles, the firm announced Tuesday.

A recent state lawsuit against a service with an AI chatbot, combined with other state and federal inquiries, may signal a new wave of enforcement. Companies with AI chatbots should reassess risk exposure across operations, say O’Melveny’s Daniel Suvor and Lindsey Greer Dotson.

The US Supreme Court in the 2022 case, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, took an important step to help local governments and lower courts better understand the law of the Establishment Clause, which had long been a confusing mess. However, it set our nation on a new adventure with very little guidance other than a woefully undertheorized opinion, writes Steven Collis of the University of Texas at Austin.

Congress gave the Office of Personnel Management the discretion to craft a better reduction-in-force appeal process—and that is exactly what the agency is seeking to do, OPM senior adviser Noah Peters writes.

Pro-crypto policy isn’t just about friendlier tax rules and less regulation. Without good data governance, compliance databases can become criminal target lists. To make the US the world’s crypto capital, the Trump administration and Congress must ensure stronger privacy protections, Andrew Leahey says.

Beth Ann Lennon joinedBallard Spahr’s Litigation Department and Labor and Employment Group as partner in the firm’s Denver and Portland, Ore. offices, the firm announced Monday.

The Justice Department’s environmental division is increasingly playing offense and taking states to court in the second Trump administration—a shift from its historical defensive role, the department’s head told Bloomberg Law in an interview.

An impending strike at the University of California hospital system adds to a growing list of high-profile work stoppages among healthcare employees faced with a tightening labor market and rising consumer costs.

Congress gave the Office of Personnel Management the discretion to craft a better reduction-in-force appeal process—and that is exactly what the agency is seeking to do, OPM senior adviser Noah Peters writes.

OpenAI said early Tuesday that it will partner with PwC LLP to build AI tools that will work autonomously to modernize how companies track revenues and, eventually, how they close their books.

A former IBM vice president accused the technology company of illegal race discrimination by firing Black executives to appease the Trump administration in the wake of its anti-DEI efforts.

An artificial intelligence tool will help write federal job postings, the federal government’s human resources office says.

Hong Kong’s economy expanded at its fastest pace in almost five years despite a global energy crisis unleashed by the war in Iran, thanks to an insatiable global demand for artificial intelligence along with an uptick in both consumption and investment.

The European Union has tools that it can turn to if Donald Trump makes excessive threats to strategic industries such as steel, French Trade Minister Nicolas Forissier said.

If companies won’t pay their workers a living wage, the government will try to do it for them. I laid out this argument in a 2019 column and have since watched with dismay as ever more counterproductive policies are proposed — and some adopted — around the country to address affordability. These range from millionaire taxes and rent control to government-run grocery stores and credit card interest rate caps.

Federal appeals courts recently diverged over whether state laws mandating so-called cooling off periods for firearms purchases implicate the Second Amendment and trigger the historical analogue test set out in the US Supreme Court’s landmark Bruen ruling.

The IRS approach to examining people claiming the newly expanded adoption tax credit could blunt the uptake of the popular break expanded in last year’s GOP tax law.

The Justice Department’s environmental division is increasingly playing offense and taking states to court in the second Trump administration—a shift from its historical defensive role, the department’s head told Bloomberg Law in an interview.

Since President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces and ousted from office on Jan. 3, Venezuela has entered a fast-changing and uncertain phase shaped heavily by Washington. Relations between the US and Venezuela have shifted from isolation to direct engagement: The Trump administration has restored diplomatic ties and is working with interim President Delcy Rodríguez. But that relationship is highly conditional. The US is using sanctions relief, access to global finance and control over oil revenues as leverage to steer policy and shape what comes next.

Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. included in their latest quarterly profits financial boosts tied to refunds on certain US tariff payments, while Rivian Automotive Inc. joined Tesla Inc. in holding off for now.

Banks are ramping up their use of significant risk transfers to hedge against commercial real estate defaults as economic fallout from conflict in the Middle East piles pressure on the sector.

Hundreds of vessels were seen clustering near Dubai on Tuesday, as more ships moved away from a still-empty Strait of Hormuz in response to Iran’s efforts to widen its area of control.

Australia’s central bank raised its key interest rate for a third consecutive meeting, with Governor Michele Bullock signaling policymakers would now pause to assess next steps.