Former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has agreed to testify behind closed doors on Friday to the House committee investigating last year’s assault on the US Capitol, people familiar with the matter said.

Clifford Alexander, a pioneering attorney who forcefully championed civil rights as a presidential adviser and in private practice, taught his son that lawyers “can use their power” to make a difference.

The Major League Baseball Players Association named a new general counsel and promoted the lawyer who negotiated the deal that ended this year’s lockout in a series of personnel moves announced on Wednesday.

A federal appeals court declined to rehear a company’s challenge to regulations that the IRS has used to block an array of tax deductions tied to conservation land deals.

A FirstEnergy Corp. stockholder’s suit claiming that former executives were involved in a bribery scheme that eventually cost the company a huge fine and hurt its stock value will remain active in one federal court in Ohio after a judge there criticized a settlement pending on nearly identical claims in another federal court in the state.