
Sullivan & Cromwell Takes Houston Plunge With New Office
Wall Street’s Sullivan & Cromwell is preparing to open an office in Houston, the latest elite corporate law firm to target the city, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Wall Street’s Sullivan & Cromwell is preparing to open an office in Houston, the latest elite corporate law firm to target the city, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Another Trump administration effort to punish a political opponent is in legal limbo after a federal judge disqualified the US attorney in Albany, New York, investigating state Attorney General

The Justice Department’s top civil rights enforcer is using social media to single out anti-DEI targets, an approach former division lawyers say is at odds with career attorneys’ responsibility to carefully vet discrimination claims.


A New York judge denied Harvey Weinstein’s request to throw out the ex-mogul’s sexual assault conviction and ordered prosecutors to retry him in March on a separate rape charge that had ended in a hung jury.
A New York judge denied Harvey Weinstein’s request to throw out the ex-mogul’s sexual assault conviction and ordered prosecutors to retry him in March on a separate rape charge that had ended in a hung jury.
Across the country children and teenagers say they are being strip searched at school by administrators and staff – often for vape pens and minor offenses, a Bloomberg Law investigation found. At least 40 federal civil rights lawsuits since 2017 claim children were strip searched at school.
President Trump’s administration has made transgender rights a central policy issue, restricting gender identity recognition, limiting access to gender-affirming care, and banning transgender athletes from competing according to their gender identity.
Federal district courts are broadly rejecting the Trump administration’s new mandatory detention policy for noncitizens awaiting deportation, with a flood of rulings in favor of detainees who say their due process rights are being violated.


US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused from a case involving the oil industry just ahead of oral arguments due to stock ownership in a company involved in the broader dispute.
The head of Cravath’s Washington DC office, who chaired the government agency insuring the US banking system during President Donald Trump’s first term, has accepted an executive role at fintech company Plaid Inc.
Judges should allow AI use by lawyers preparing court papers because existing rules are robust enough to handle concerns about hallucinations introducing fictitious citations to filings, a New York court system advisory committee’s annual report says.
A committee of Rhodium Encore LLC’s board of directors appealed $11.6 million in fees approved for Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP as special litigation counsel to the Bitcoin miner in its bankruptcy.
Ankur Tohan joined Stoel Rives as a partner in its environmental practice in Seattle, the firm announced Jan. 6.
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