Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

The Department of Justice’s latest written defense of President Donald Trump’s law firm attacks shows a desire to protect parts of the executive orders even if sections are struck down.

The in-house legal hiring market has changed dramatically over the past several years, with many in-house employers, relying heavily on behavioral interviews to evaluate candidates.

With President Donald Trump continuing his battle against big law firms, it’s time to explore the applicability of the American Bar Association rule on professional conduct, which may prohibit the law firms from promising pro bono work to avoid White House sanctions.

The California Senate’s recent bill for a tax increase on data centers’ use of natural gas to produce electricity reflects growing skepticism around the balance of benefits and costs associated with data center development.

A proposed rule from the Department of Labor would let 401(k) fiduciaries offer alternative assets if they document a prudent process on key risks.

Congress returns this week to tackle a daunting list of priorities, including fiscal 2026 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security and additional funding for immigration enforcement and defense.

Costly missteps in the National Labor Relations Board’s new intake protocol are emerging, as union attorneys report instances where regional offices have thrown out unfair labor practice charges based on technicalities or their own errors.

Employers are bracing for another year of fast-expanding litigation over their retirement and health-care plans, with new ERISA class actions coming almost twice as fast as in previous years.

They thought they did everything right: took on debt, sat through four years of lectures and labs, pulled all-nighters to write papers and cram for exams, and finally earned their college degrees. Now they’re left working jobs that high schoolers could land—ringing up customers at clothing stores, pulling espresso shots at coffee shops and nannying to make ends meet.

The DOL’s IG faces questions around whether he’s running for Congress and some lost Special Counsel reports.

The in-house legal hiring market has changed dramatically over the past several years, with many in-house employers, relying heavily on behavioral interviews to evaluate candidates.

The economist Carmen Reinhart has made a career out of studying the causes of economic crises and the responses to them. Her most famous book, published in 2009 with co-author Ken Rogoff, dove into what they called “eight centuries of financial folly” across 66 countries and five continents and identified predictable patterns. Its title – This Time is Different – mocked the speculators, politicians and pundits pushing the idea that any moment in history can defy economic gravity.

Two sanctioned supertankers laden with Iranian crude have dropped anchor off Indian ports, marking what could be the first such cargoes to arrive in the country in nearly seven years, just as the US escalates efforts to curb Tehran’s exports.

Wyoming is launching a new Energy Dominance Fund that will support its expansive oil and gas sector, but the exclusion of wind and solar project funding marks a key difference from a similar fund the state set up a few years ago.

Congress returns this week to tackle a daunting list of priorities, including fiscal 2026 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security and additional funding for immigration enforcement and defense.

The Trump administration is scaling up its overhaul of the federal permitting process, advancing on technological, cultural, and procedural fronts to move faster, according to the White House’s top environmental adviser.

The in-house legal hiring market has changed dramatically over the past several years, with many in-house employers, relying heavily on behavioral interviews to evaluate candidates.

The Trump administration is scaling up its overhaul of the federal permitting process, advancing on technological, cultural, and procedural fronts to move faster, according to the White House’s top environmental adviser.

The DOL’s IG faces questions around whether he’s running for Congress and some lost Special Counsel reports.

The century-old system for oversight of college quality will be in the spotlight this week as the Trump administration considers big changes to college accreditation groups the president calls his “secret weapon” for targeting higher education.

The in-house legal hiring market has changed dramatically over the past several years, with many in-house employers, relying heavily on behavioral interviews to evaluate candidates.

A federal appeals court asked a Washington federal judge to further explain his ruling that blocked President Donald Trump from building a 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the site of the demolished White House East Wing.

The Department of Justice hit back at four law firms on President Trump’s target list late Friday in a final written brief before arguing in person next month.