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Paul Hastings has hired former Ropes & Gray partner Amanda Persaud in New York to help lead its investment funds and private capital practice.

Judge Alan Albright, after spending years making his Texas courtroom a national hub for patent litigation, is leaving behind one of the longest backlogs of cases of any federal judge for his colleagues to see through when he leaves the bench at the end of August.

Attorneys working on employee benefits cases are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to crunch data, increase efficiency, and identify potential lawsuits.

Supreme Court lawyer Kannon Shanmugam’s move to Davis Polk & Wardwell spotlights how Big Law firms are building appellate practices as contentious battles under President Donald Trump land at the high court.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network should use its special measures authority to better ensure that foreign financial institutions seeking access to the US financial system have effective anti-money laundering compliance programs, write White & Case’s Brent Wible and K2 Integrity’s Himamauli Das.

United Airlines Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby said he approached American Airlines Group Inc. about a combination and that talks have ended, laying out the benefits of a merger that he said would have been possible to get past regulators.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman will face off this week in a trial that could determine the future of OpenAI.

Former independent agency officials who alleged they were fired because they’re Black are testing whether courts can countermand presidential dismissals even if the US Supreme Court kills job protections for agency officials.

The Department of Labor moves on quickly from the Lori Chavez-DeRemer era and lawmakers push for a vote on a union-backed bill.

Attorneys working on employee benefits cases are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to crunch data, increase efficiency, and identify potential lawsuits.

Alan Davis, a former Chester, Pa., police captain injured in a shooting that left him with permanent damage to his right arm in 2016, was forced to retire on disability. A decade later, he’s watching a constitutional fight that could determine whether the city can monetize water assets and exit bankruptcy—and, by extension, when retirees will receive overdue pension payments.

Expenditure-based investment tax incentives can provide more value for money than income-based incentives and should be considered by policymakers as the basis for new incentive design, the OECD said Monday.

A third of surveyed UK businesses saw their property investment plans being impacted by the business rates system, according to a report Monday from the Confederation of British Industry.

The EU’s push to simplify its tax code through a bill due this summer risks clashing with individual countries’ priorities and dampening their enthusiasm for the effort, which will need unanimous support.

One of New York’s most iconic department store dynasties is feuding in court over an alleged scheme to hide inherited wealth from taxes—a family dispute revealed due to a whistleblower law operating in only a handful of states.

Companies are complying, but also adapting, restructuring, and in some cases sidestepping the spirit of the OECD’s global minimum tax writes Unite’s Karen Nally.

Ports operator China Merchants Group is in talks to join a consortium seeking to buy dozens of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.’s ports, people familiar with the matter said, giving renewed momentum to a deal that stalled after emerging as a geopolitical flashpoint between China and the US.

Hawkeye 360 Inc., a provider of satellite-based signals intelligence for US government agencies is seeking to raise $416 million in an initial public offering.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman will face off this week in a trial that could determine the future of OpenAI.

Seaport Therapeutics Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on antidepressants and anxiety drugs, is seeking to raise $212.4 million in a US initial public offering.

Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to power artificial intelligence data centers with solar energy collected in space, taking a novel approach to meeting its insatiable demand for electricity.

Florida’s role in building the detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” let the federal government skip environmental review under a recent appeals court opinion, setting a dangerous precedent for other projects moving forward, environmental litigators say.

Exceptions to a decision in a fee dispute involving a merger between President Donald Trump’s social media platform and a blank-check company will get an airing this week before the Delaware Chancery Court.