Paul Weiss said Tuesday it brought on Kirkland & Ellis’ Jennifer Gasser for its Houston office as an M&A partner, the firm’s first hire since it entered the Texas legal market last month.

Jeffrey Steinfeld joined White & Case as a partner in its global litigation practice in Los Angeles, the firm announced Tuesday.

The Trump administration, in an abrupt reversal, has changed its mind on its decision to walk away from appealing its courtroom losses over executive orders targeted at four Big Law firms.

Evan Carr joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani as a partner in its commercial litigation, appellate and trial practices in Indianapolis, the firm announced Tuesday.

Aaron Russ joined Holland & Knight as a partner in its private investment funds team in Richmond, the firm announced Tuesday.

Shan Haider joined Winston & Strawn as a partner in its transactions department in New York, the firm announced Tuesday.

Ninth Circuit judges appeared to view a California law requiring law enforcement officers to identify themselves as an unconstitutional regulation of the federal government by the Golden State during oral arguments Tuesday.

A group of former Wells Fargo & Co. employees failed to prove that high drug prices under the bank’s health plan violated its fiduciary duties, even though the price variations they identified were “staggering,” a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Tuesday.

Lennar Corp. was hit with a proposed class action saying it mishandles the 401(k) money forfeited by departing workers by using these amounts to make its required plan contributions.

A Mitre Corp. engineer with long-haul Covid was properly awarded more than $210,000 in disability benefits from Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., the Fourth Circuit said in an opinion weighing ERISA’s claims procedures.

An Indiana county prosecutor’s office is free of the remaining claims in a White worker’s race bias lawsuit after a federal judge said she lacks evidence of retaliation.

The IRS decision to move over a thousand of its human resource and IT employees to help with tax filing season is causing “chaos,” union president Doreen Greenwald said Tuesday.

The IRS released an updated FAQs on refundability, and special needs determinations made by Indian tribal governments, for the adoption tax credit. The information includes clarifying the tax credit for ...

Two West Virginia Supreme Court justices seemed unimpressed Tuesday with the state tax commissioner’s argument that an Equinor ASA subsidiary isn’t entitled to a $4.5 million refund of taxes it paid on natural gas liquids extracted in the state.

A bill gaining momentum in the Florida legislature would dismantle a state appeals court’s ruling that saddled the Department of Revenue with paying interest on successful tax refund claims against the state.

The EU should extend and expand implementation of an effective VAT fraud prevention tool beyond its current expiration date at the end of the year, energy companies said Tuesday.

A three-judge Federal Circuit panel appeared hesitant Tuesday to reverse a lower court’s decision allowing a couple to rely on a 1994 treaty between the US and France to use a foreign tax credit to offset a tax created under the Affordable Care Act.

Title insurance and escrow services are attributed to the state where the buyer’s property is located, not the agent’s remote office, a Washington appeals court held Tuesday, overturning a $10.9 million business and occupation tax refund.

A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its approval of a Montana coal mine expansion, arguing the Interior Department skirted the environmental review process based on a “nonexistent ‘Energy Emergency.’”

Deloitte & Touche LLP‘s $34 million class settlement with Scana Corp. investors who sued to hold the auditor liable for nuclear reactor project losses is fair, a federal court said in granting final approval.

A federal appeals panel struggled Tuesday with whether Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency flame retardant regulations are an appropriate interpretation of federal law and thus satisfy restrictions on toxic, bio-cumulative chemicals.

A federal banking regulator’s proposal to subject only a handful of the largest national lenders to enhanced supervisory standards is an overreaction that puts the entire banking system at risk, opponents say.

The Justice Department and dozens of states attacked Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary over allegations that the company illegally monopolized much of the market for live music, as a trial over a major clash more than 15 years in the making got underway Tuesday in New York City.

President Donald Trump said the US will provide insurance guarantees and naval escorts to ensure safe passage for oil tankers and other vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, aiming to head off a potential energy crisis caused by the war with Iran.