Christopher Van Gundy joined Buchalter as a partner in its litigation, class actions and FDA regulatory compliance practice groups in San Francisco, the firm announced Friday.

Stephanie Godfrey joined Lowenstein Sandler as chief financial officer, the firm announced Monday.

Ashley Chung joined Winston & Strawn as a partner in its appellate & critical motions practice in Chicago, the firm announced Monday.

Hackers have breached Jones Day and accessed the files of 10 clients, the law firm said on Monday.

Sorrento Therapeutics Inc. shareholders sued the company’s CEO, its bankruptcy counsel Jackson Walker LLP, and its restructuring professionals, accusing them of fabricating a bogus connection to Texas to file its bankruptcy case there.

Philip Fitzpatrick joined King & Spalding as a partner in its real estate and funds practice group in New York, the firm announced Monday.

A New York federal court denied dismissal of Title VII claims by a religious Marcionite Christian employee who refused Covid-19 testing, finding plausible joint employer status and temporal proximity supporting her retaliation claims. Czachorowski v. New York, 2026 BL 113384, W.D.N.Y., 22-CV-878-LJV, 3/31/26

A Tennessee federal district court dismissed WARN Act claims against Xtend Healthcare, LLC and Navient Corporation, ruling that remote workers don’t qualify under the “single site of employment” requirement for WARN Act protection. Dargon v. Xtend Healthcare, LLC, 2026 BL 113640, M.D. Tenn., 3:25-cv-00013, 3/31/26

Google LLC convinced a New York federal court to reduce a jury’s $1 million damages award in a gender bias lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct and pay inequality.

A New York federal district court partially denied Amazon’s motion to dismiss, allowing a Black manager’s Title VII claims of disparate impact, retaliation, and hostile work environment to proceed based on discriminatory performance plans and excessive workloads. Ashmeade v. Amazon.Com, 2026 BL 118728, S.D.N.Y., 23-CV-4331 (KMK), 3/31/26

A Tennessee federal court dismissed all claims by a 60-year-old professor against University of Tennessee and officials, finding sovereign immunity applied and individual defendants weren’t “employers” under relevant statutes. Brotman v. Univ. of Tenn., 2026 BL 113927, E.D. Tenn., 3:24-CV-472-KAC-DCP, 3/31/26

An Illinois appellate court affirmed summary judgment to Zeller Digital Innovations, Inc. on state law wage claims by a former account executive seeking unpaid commissions, as she failed to prove any projects without purchase orders at termination were profitable. Christine St. v. Zeller Digit. Innovations, Inc., 2026 BL 115239, Ill. App. Ct., 4th Dist., 4-25-0706, 3/31/26

The owner of a commercial property damaged by a storm can reap the tax benefits of a like-kind exchange with another parcel, the California Office of Tax Appeals ruled in an opinion released Monday.

The IRS published a notice providing population figures that state and local housing credit agencies must use to calculate the 2026 calendar year population-based component of the state housing credit ...

The IRS has issued a private letter ruling on I.R.C. §6033 granting exemption from Form 990 filing requirements to a governmental unit or affiliate exempt under I.R.C. §501 per Revenue ...

The IRS has issued a private letter ruling on I.R.C. §168 and Treas. Reg. §301.9100 granting a C corporation 60 calendar days to make a late election not to be ...

The IRS has issued a private letter ruling on I.R.C. §2642 granting taxpayer extension of time to elect out of automatic generation-skipping transfer (GST) exemption allocation for transfers to multiple ...

The IRS has issued a private letter ruling on I.R.C. §430 approving the use of substitute mortality tables for making minimum funding standard computations for a group of single-employer defined ...

A unit of Telesat Canada has filed two motions in New York federal court seeking to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from a 2025 asset transfer by the satellite company on jurisdictional grounds.

The Securities and Exchange Commission sued two investment advisers and their firm, alleging they fraudulently induced hundreds of clients, including many who were elderly and financially unsophisticated, to buy promissory notes issued by five high-risk private equity funds managed by the defendants.

Matt Levine discusses prediction markets and the continuing problem of what words mean, SpaceX’s tying of Grok subscriptions to working on the IPO, the idea of index exclusivity, Sam Altman, and VC value add.

After making its name on millennials and meme stocks, the popular brokerage app is riding its Trump bump into the S&P 500 and beyond.

Syngenta AG, Corteva Inc., Bayer AG, and BASF Corp. dodged claims that they conspired to keep prices of crop-protection chemicals high after the Eighth Circuit said the farmer plaintiffs failed to plead facts suggesting the agricultural giants colluded.

Oil rose as US President Donald Trump signaled that an escalation in strikes on Iran could come as soon as Tuesday, heightening fears that imminent military action will derail tentative progress toward restoring energy flows through the crucial Strait of Hormuz.