Kieran Kieckhefer joined Latham & Watkins as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice in the Bay Area, the firm announced.

Patrick Harder and Brandon Davis joined Blank Rome as partners in its real estate practice group and industry team in Los Angeles, the firm announced.

Mhare Mouradian joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in its commercial litigation practice in Los Angeles, the firm announced.

Clayton Holland joined Orrick as a partner in its public finance practice in Houston, the firm announced Tuesday.

Cheryl O’Connor joined Goodwin as a partner in its complex litigation and dispute resolution practice in the Orange County, Calif. office, the firm announced Tuesday.

A contingent of Democrats joined Republicans to confirm a former House lawyer and federal prosecutor nominated by President Donald Trump to the South Carolina federal bench.

As SoftBank Group Corp. began investing billions of dollars in OpenAI last year, some executives asked Masayoshi Son what would happen in the event — however unlikely — that the ChatGPT developer should fail. Son, who has said he believes Sam Altman is leading this century’s most vital technology shift, dismissed such questions on multiple occasions, often so brusquely that his lieutenants stopped bringing them up, according to people familiar with the conversations.

The Department of Labor’s internal watchdog aims to wrap up the probe into former Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer by mid-June, the agency’s inspector general told Bloomberg Law Tuesday.

Attorneys general representing more than a dozen states are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to kill plans to scrap a Biden-era regulation governing the release of a cancer-causing chemical.

Wall Street leaders’ rhetoric about the impact of artificial intelligence on their firms has taken a dystopian turn.

CVS Health Corp. made illegal profits of $66 million since 2020 on prescription drugs sold through the federal 340B drug discount program, the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers said in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court.

The United Auto Workers have signed onto litigation brought by a university faculty group challenging the Trump administration’s gold card visa program which allows immigrants to obtain permanent residency in the US for a $1 million payment.

China said it will continue negotiating with the US to extend a trade truce reached last October, as ties between the world’s two largest economies further stabilize.

The European Union finalized the text of its long-delayed US trade deal after months of negotiations, clearing a major hurdle to ratifying the pact before President Donald Trump’s threatened deadline to impose higher tariffs.

Colorado voters will be asked to decide whether the state should break through constitutionally required caps on the use of tax revenue in a bid to provide more funding for education.

The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund lacks the rigorous controls that typically guide programs compensating victims out of litigation settlements or congressional mandates, said officials involved in prior efforts.

President Donald Trump scored a major legal victory over the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday as the agency he has long reviled was barred by the Justice Department from continuing any “known and unknown” probes into his tax returns.

The House passed legislation by voice vote Tuesday that gives taxpayers more time to file refund claims during disputes with the IRS, and expands the US Tax Court’s jurisdiction in such cases.

India is preparing to send vessels through the Strait of Hormuz to load up energy cargoes from suppliers in the Middle East, according to people familiar with the matter, the first time since the Iran conflict began that the country will do so.

Wealthy, democratic and strategically located off the Chinese coast, Taiwan has long been the most volatile issue between the US and China.

IDG Capital, an investment firm that has backed Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Coinbase Global Inc., is seeking to raise about $2 billion for a growth fund, according to people familiar with the matter.

Australia’s Beach Energy Ltd. believes it’s a more attractive acquisition target due to a government plan to force gas producers to keep a portion of their sales at home.

The BYD Shenzhen slipped its moorings from the southeastern Chinese port of Xiamen in late November to embark on a high-stakes journey across the Pacific with 1,768 new electric vehicles onboard. The mission: get to Mexico before recently announced tariffs on Chinese imports kicked in on Jan. 1.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has the leading role on the cover of SpaceX’s initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter, giving the firm a prominent position in potentially the biggest listing of all time.