Kieran Kieckhefer joined Latham & Watkins as a partner in its intellectual property litigation practice in the Bay Area, the firm announced.

Patrick Harder and Brandon Davis joined Blank Rome as partners in its real estate practice group and industry team in Los Angeles, the firm announced.

Mhare Mouradian joined Seyfarth Shaw as a partner in its commercial litigation practice in Los Angeles, the firm announced.

Clayton Holland joined Orrick as a partner in its public finance practice in Houston, the firm announced Tuesday.

Cheryl O’Connor joined Goodwin as a partner in its complex litigation and dispute resolution practice in the Orange County, Calif. office, the firm announced Tuesday.

A contingent of Democrats joined Republicans to confirm a former House lawyer and federal prosecutor nominated by President Donald Trump to the South Carolina federal bench.

As SoftBank Group Corp. began investing billions of dollars in OpenAI last year, some executives asked Masayoshi Son what would happen in the event — however unlikely — that the ChatGPT developer should fail. Son, who has said he believes Sam Altman is leading this century’s most vital technology shift, dismissed such questions on multiple occasions, often so brusquely that his lieutenants stopped bringing them up, according to people familiar with the conversations.

The Department of Labor’s internal watchdog aims to wrap up the probe into former Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer by mid-June, the agency’s inspector general told Bloomberg Law Tuesday.

Attorneys general representing more than a dozen states are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to kill plans to scrap a Biden-era regulation governing the release of a cancer-causing chemical.

Wall Street leaders’ rhetoric about the impact of artificial intelligence on their firms has taken a dystopian turn.

CVS Health Corp. made illegal profits of $66 million since 2020 on prescription drugs sold through the federal 340B drug discount program, the University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers said in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court.

The United Auto Workers have signed onto litigation brought by a university faculty group challenging the Trump administration’s gold card visa program which allows immigrants to obtain permanent residency in the US for a $1 million payment.

As SoftBank Group Corp. began investing billions of dollars in OpenAI last year, some executives asked Masayoshi Son what would happen in the event — however unlikely — that the ChatGPT developer should fail. Son, who has said he believes Sam Altman is leading this century’s most vital technology shift, dismissed such questions on multiple occasions, often so brusquely that his lieutenants stopped bringing them up, according to people familiar with the conversations.

For months, US banking executives fretted that President Donald Trump was poised to conscript their workforces in a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration that would send their firms’ costs soaring, drive away customers and leave loans unpaid.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs regulators to issue guidance on banking services to undocumented migrants, in a move that could tighten access to the financial system amid the administration’s immigration crackdown.

The World Health Organization convened a meeting of its emergency committee amid an urgent search for vaccines and medicines to combat a widening Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

A panel of Ninth Circuit judges pressed Justice Department attorneys Tuesday on the department’s authority and purpose for collecting sensitive voter registration information from California and Oregon.

Doctors battling a rare strain of Ebola in central Africa will probably need to wait many months for a vaccine to be ready for human trials, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations said, underscoring the challenges health authorities face in combating the outbreak.

A panel of federal judges said Tuesday that it won’t force Louisiana to use an old congressional district map in 2026 that the US Supreme Court ruled was racially gerrymandered.

Community banks that are complying with a federal anti-redlining law can now go more than six years between examinations under a new supervisory policy from a US banking regulator.

The Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum location would be designated at a specified site on the National Mall under a modified version of H.R. 1329.

Attorneys general representing more than a dozen states are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to kill plans to scrap a Biden-era regulation governing the release of a cancer-causing chemical.

It’s not often that scenarios used by scientists to anticipate the impacts of climate change get wide public attention. But a recent journal article on warming scenarios has provoked discussion globally, including in the White House.

Trump’s $1.8 billion pact with the IRS has the hallmarks of a collusive settlement, a species of fraud, that could ensnare DOJ personnel involved in designing and administering it, former DC Bar President Philip Lacovara writes.