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Akin advised Paine Schwartz Partners on the private equity firm’s strategic growth investment in Elemental Enzymes, which says it develops naturally occurring enzymes and biochemicals to protect and increase yields of commercial crops.

In an analogy comparing Big Law mergers to the PGA Tour’s proposed tie-up with the Saudis, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is cast in the role of a managing partner selling an unpopular deal to a deeply divided group, and he’s lost the most important currency for a leader of a partner-run organization: Trust.

Republicans are clamoring to clip the rule-making powers of federal agencies and return the authority to Congress.

The increasingly unfavorable odds of winning the annual lottery for H-1B specialty occupation visas have helped fuel new alternatives to secure visas for high-skilled foreign workers that aren’t subject to the statutory cap.

Nowhere in law might the anxiety over AI be more acute than among the 353,000 US paralegals and legal assistants. For all the errors and fake information that generative AI throws up, it’s undeniable that it can identify and categorize documents much faster than a paralegal, sometimes within seconds.

A venture started by Generation Investment Management, the asset manager co-founded and chaired by Al Gore, has raised $1.5 billion for its first climate fund after drawing in some of the world’s biggest institutional investors.

In an analogy comparing Big Law mergers to the PGA Tour’s proposed tie-up with the Saudis, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is cast in the role of a managing partner selling an unpopular deal to a deeply divided group, and he’s lost the most important currency for a leader of a partner-run organization: Trust.

Uber Technologies Inc. pledged to eliminate carbon emissions and “unnecessary” plastic waste from its growing delivery business by 2040, bringing it in line with goals at its ride-hailing arm.

Electric-vehicle sales are poised to more than double by 2026 but eliminating emissions from road transportation by the middle of this century will require even greater efforts, according to BloombergNEF.

A lawyer representing Charlie Javice accused the US of deploying “hide-the-ball” legal tactics in an effort to gain an advantage in its criminal prosecution of the Frank founder.

Cooley LLP is asking some of its incoming first-year associates to defer their start dates for another year in exchange for a $100,000 stipend.

Puerto Rico resident Jayson Call and his wife get about $430 a month from the US government to buy groceries for themselves and their two children. If they lived on the US mainland, they’d likely get more than $600.

Former senior counsel to the EEOC chair Patrick Patterson says California’s legislature should pass bill SB-403 to add caste as a protected category in state civil rights laws, and eliminate any doubt that caste discrimination is prohibited.

William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO chief economist and outspoken critic of how the profession has addressed racial disparities in the US, has died. He was 68.

Employers can be liable under federal harassment law when sexually graphic music is played in the workplace even if employees of both sexes find it offensive, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.

US drug regulators are in talks with the Medicare agency about “what to do about obesity drugs,” FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf said Wednesday, potentially signaling a step toward increased coverage of the popular class of drugs.

The boutique law firm that pushed out two ex-Lewis Brisbois founding partners who wrote racist and sexist emails has rebranded itself as Daugherty Lordan.

Akin advised Paine Schwartz Partners on the private equity firm’s strategic growth investment in Elemental Enzymes, which says it develops naturally occurring enzymes and biochemicals to protect and increase yields of commercial crops.

In an analogy comparing Big Law mergers to the PGA Tour’s proposed tie-up with the Saudis, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan is cast in the role of a managing partner selling an unpopular deal to a deeply divided group, and he’s lost the most important currency for a leader of a partner-run organization: Trust.

Nowhere in law might the anxiety over AI be more acute than among the 353,000 US paralegals and legal assistants. For all the errors and fake information that generative AI throws up, it’s undeniable that it can identify and categorize documents much faster than a paralegal, sometimes within seconds.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s upcoming state Senate impeachment trial is a legal minefield that the combative official must deftly navigate to avoid a conviction.

Former senior counsel to the EEOC chair Patrick Patterson says California’s legislature should pass bill SB-403 to add caste as a protected category in state civil rights laws, and eliminate any doubt that caste discrimination is prohibited.

Brooks Pierce’s Natalie Sanders analyzes a recent memo from the NLRB’s general counsel that calls non-competes unlawful, and describes some practical consequences for employers today.