Tesla Inc. has hired a former Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. in-house lawyer to be its new head of corporate governance legal, building on the flurry of changes it has made within its law department this year.

An attorney for Alex Jones tried to blame a paralegal for inadvertently sending opposing counsel all of Jones’ text messages from the last two years, but ethics experts say he could still face disciplinary action. Lydia Wheeler looks at why in her latest edition of Opening Argument.

Congress is spending billions to save communities from Western megafires by thinning large swaths of forests even as scientists say climate change-driven drought and heat are too extreme for it to work.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google LLC filed two lawsuits Monday in a California federal court, alleging in one that Sonos Inc.’s audio players with a voice-control feature infringe three patents, and in the other that they infringe four different patents, expanding an already heated battle over royalties for various technologies.

Domain-seller Philanthropist.com couldn’t petition to cancel the General Conference Corp. of Seventh-Day Adventists’ “Adventist” trademark registration just because it owned adventist.com and received a legal threat, the Federal Circuit affirmed.

Global restructuring professionals are breathing a sigh of relief after a judge reaffirmed that a foreign restructuring can discharge debt governed by New York law—a common element of global insolvencies recently brought into question by a Hong Kong judge.