The fight over the future of Hollywood just got nastier.

Just hours before Paramount Skydance Corp. Chief Executive Officer David Ellison launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., he hobnobbed in Washington with some of the federal government’s heaviest hitters.

Litigation funder Archetype Capital Partners won a court order barring its co-founder from using the firm’s proprietary systems for mass tort cases while its lawsuit accusing him of stealing trade secrets proceeds.

Victoria Ferres and Sami Ben Dechiche joined Morgan Lewis as investment management partners in Dubai, the firm announced Monday.

Three groups of law firms are fighting for the top spot representing writers in a recently consolidated proposed class action against Apple Inc. alleging it used a database containing pirated books to train its AI models.

Lawyers from Paul Weiss and Cooley LLP advised on International Business Machines Corp.'s plan to buy data-streaming platform Confluent Inc. for about $9.3 billion.

Just hours before Paramount Skydance Corp. Chief Executive Officer David Ellison launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., he hobnobbed in Washington with some of the federal government’s heaviest hitters.

PepsiCo Inc. reached an agreement with activist investor Elliott Investment Management that includes a 20% reduction in its US product lineup and a sharper focus on affordability, while the soda and snacks company also plans layoffs as part of cost reduction efforts.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is floating changes to his corporate head tax proposal as he and the city council are at an impasse over how to close a nearly $1.2 billion deficit.

A New York federal district court granted a former employee of 2&5 Line Deli Grocery, Inc.'s application for attorney’s fees, after a jury trial found the employer liable for unpaid overtime and failure to provide wage statements under New York Labor Law and awarded $87,490 in damages. Ortega v. 2&5 Line Deli Grocery, Inc., 2025 BL 433465, S.D.N.Y., 22-CV-09170(MMG), 12/3/25

Options on Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shares had the second-busiest day ever after the fight to take over the media conglomerate heated up on Monday. In a telling sign, however, traders avoided long-term wagers on the company’s fate.

A Pennsylvania federal district court denied American Oncologic Hospital’s motion to dismiss the claims of an orderly that his overtime pay rate wasn’t calculated correctly, and was in violation of the state’s Minimum Wage Act. Macklin v. Am. Oncologic Hosp., Inc., 2025 BL 435030, E.D. Pa., 24-2215, 12/4/25

The US Department of Justice has detained two men for allegedly violating export control laws by attempting to smuggle at least $160 million worth of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China. A third, the owner of a Houston company, has already pleaded guilty.

Dollar Financial Group Inc. failed to protect the personal information of thousands of customers that was exposed in a November data breach, a proposed federal class action said.

Two former University of Phoenix students sued the private, for-profit school for negligence after it announced that a vulnerability in its Oracle E-Business Suite software led to a data breach.

The Federal Trade Commission convinced a federal appeals court to uphold a lower court decision that two businessmen were liable for civil contempt sanctions related to a deceptive practices scheme.

ALN Medical Management LLC would pay $4 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it negligently failed to protect the personal information of nearly 2 million people in a 2024 data breach, under a proposed deal initially approved in federal court.

The Federal Trade Commission denied a petition by a spyware company CEO to dismiss or modify a 2021 order barring him from selling and promoting surveillance apps and services. The agency cited in its decision SpyFone CEO Scott Zuckerman’s non-compliance with the original order, including alleged continued failures to protect sensitive personal information collected by his businesses in 2023.

A North Carolina school board faces a lawsuit alleging a high school student was wrongly investigated for vandalism after displaying a message in tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

A dozen FBI agents sued the Trump administration over their firing in September for having taken a knee during a 2020 demonstration in Washington following the police killing of George Floyd.

An Eagles tour massage therapist claiming she was effectively paid to have sex with MSG Networks chair James Dolan encountered a Ninth Circuit panel Monday wary of reviving her sex trafficking suit against Dolan, his JD & The Straight Shot band, and the Azoff Company.

A Black JPMorgan Chase customer will have to arbitrate her discrimination claims against the bank and its branch manager after a split federal appeals court found she’s bound by an arbitration agreement.

The US Supreme Court signaled it’s poised to give the president control over potentially dozens of traditionally independent federal agencies as the court’s dominant conservative wing cast doubt on a 90-year-old precedent.

The Trump administration is considering demolishing four historic Washington buildings, including those that housed the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Voice of America, a former government official alleged in a declaration.