The National Labor Relations Board will reconsider its Trump-era legal test for determining whether a worker is an employee protected by federal labor law or an independent contractor who is not.

The Fifth Circuit will hear oral arguments Jan. 7 on whether it should ask the Texas Supreme Court to answer questions over a state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, the federal appeals court said Monday.

President Joe Biden’s medical adviser said a domestic travel vaccination rule should be considered as the omicron variant fuels record Covid-19 case loads in some states and holiday travel continues to be disrupted around the U.S.

Google‘s $13 million class settlement resolving claims over personal data collected by its Street View vehicles remains intact after the Ninth Circuit rejected arguments Monday it unfairly benefited charitable groups at the expense of consumers.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that Texas state-court judges weren’t proper defendants in a case challenging a state abortion law led a federal court to release two jurists from a suit seeking to invalidate a medical malpractice damages cap.

Firms are thriving and lawyers are working more than ever, and there appears to be no end in sight as the industry adapts to the second year of Covid-19.