U.S. lawmakers are exploring potential visa programs that would pair skilled workers with communities in need of economic development in response to a growing gap between local markets and sustainable worker populations.

Owners want their brand everywhere, but Peloton Interactive Inc.'s bid to cancel “spinning” trademarks reminds companies they must manage threats of a certain kind of pervasiveness—a mark that ends up defining a product, not its producer.

A U.S. Supreme Court case over Illumina Inc.’s fetal DNA test patents gives the justices a chance to solidify a road map for how biotech companies can protect their diagnostic inventions.

California’s latest privacy law will require companies to establish data retention schedules, renegotiate agreements with third-party vendors, and create new procedures for managing sensitive personal information.

Jamie Welton is one of four litigation partners who left Barnes & Thornburg to open Duane Morris’s Dallas office earlier this month. Bloomberg Law spoke with Welton about which sectors the new Dallas office will focus on; how locating one document among a trove of papers resulted in a $64 million litigation win; and how new lawyers should worry less about billable hours and more about providing invaluable work for their firm.

The SEC plans to take a hard look at how public companies apply 2010 agency guidance that emphasized the importance of disclosing how climate change impacts their bottom lines.