Criminal case specialists, appointed by courts to aid judiciary-funded defense lawyers, are cutting costs and refusing assignments after four months of working without pay, prompting lawyers to request case delays.

Massive surprise offers by activist investors for competitor companies in 2025 reminded businesses seeking to protect themselves from hostile takeovers to look back at almost-forgotten defenses.

The debate over the accounting treatment of stablecoins matters not only to companies, accountants, and auditors, but also to investors, regulators, and markets. Clear financial reporting underpins investor confidence and financial stability by extension.

In an era of shrinking budgets and rising complexity, smart general counsel should rethink how they engage legal services. The solution is matching the right work to the right kind of firm.

Private credit funds should bolster their compliance programs, with a particular focus on valuation practices, conflict management frameworks, and underwriting standards.

Two Trump judicial picks are struggling to reach a vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to advance their nominations to federal court seats in Mississippi, the panel’s chair said.

Criminal case specialists, appointed by courts to aid judiciary-funded defense lawyers, are cutting costs and refusing assignments after four months of working without pay, prompting lawyers to request case delays.

In an era of shrinking budgets and rising complexity, smart general counsel should rethink how they engage legal services. The solution is matching the right work to the right kind of firm.

US stock futures held steady after Donald Trump and Xi Jinping ended their trade meeting with a range of expected concessions, keeping markets near record highs.

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI is preparing to file for an initial public offering as soon as next year that could give the company a market capitalization of $1 trillion, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing unidentified sources.

Mark Zuckerberg pledged that Meta Platforms Inc. will spend even more aggressively on artificial intelligence in the year ahead, raising fresh concerns from investors who drove the stock down on worries the company may not have an obvious return on the massive investment.

Unionized workers at a Volkswagen Group of America plant in Tennessee voted to authorize a strike, weeks after the automaker walked away from bargaining.

In an era of shrinking budgets and rising complexity, smart general counsel should rethink how they engage legal services. The solution is matching the right work to the right kind of firm.

The devastation from Hurricane Melissa came into focus after the record-setting storm moved past Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba with at least 33 deaths and almost $8 billion of damage in its wake.

A nearly $667 million jury verdict against Greenpeace tied to an energy company’s lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline protests has been reduced by a North Dakota judge by nearly half.

Ukraine and its allies have called on Donald Trump to pressure Xi Jinping over China’s support for Russia. Trump’s meeting with Xi later Thursday will be a major test of just how ready the US president is to get tough with Vladimir Putin.

A Biden administration leasing plan for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska would be repealed using the Congressional Review Act under S. J. Res. 80.

Argentine provinces and companies are lining up to tap global markets in the next few weeks as President Javier Milei’s win in midterm elections fuels optimism about the country, opening a window for debt sales that could bring much needed dollars into the nation’s foreign-exchange market.

A former assistant manager at a Courtyard by Marriott is suing a North Carolina hotel management company, alleging it discriminated against her after she requested leave to undergo gender-affirming surgery.

Edelman & Edelman PC’s former controller says the New York personal injury law firm illegally terminated him after he suffered a stroke and falsely accused him of embezzling money.

President Donald Trump’s effort to send troops to Democratic-led cities is facing its biggest legal test yet with a trial over his power to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to counter protests.

The State Department must face a Black EEO specialist’s claim that discrimination drove her forced resignation from a leadership role in a race-focused employee affinity group, a DC federal judge ruled.

A former federal inmate suing the government after the US Probation Office failed to correct a presentence investigation report that mistakenly identified him as a double murderer won an appeal to revive one of his claims Wednesday.

A federal judge said Wednesday the Justice Department has “a real problem on the merits” defending its hollowing out of its “peacemakers” unit, meaning it could eventually be found to be an illegal closure of the civil rights-era agency without congressional approval.