Leaps in AI technology are raising questions about fair lending, fraud detection, and cybersecurity at banks, but federal banking regulators already have tools in place to deal with those issues, industry watchers say.

Greenberg Traurig and other major law firms faced with a dwindling M&A market are turning their attention to a new competitive growth area: private credit.

The US Supreme Court resolved a 20-year circuit split near the end of its term, when it backed the Justice Department’s authority to end a whistleblower’s False Claims Act suit that prosecutors viewed as too costly in government resources to continue.

Rob Chesnut, former general counsel and Justice Department prosecutor, writes on in-house, corporate, and legal ethics issues. Here, he says corporate board, counsel, and HR need to shore up governance over drug use in the workplace.

Texas was among the hottest places on Earth last week as a heat wave brought misery from Mexico to Florida. While residents across the region struggled to stay cool, the extreme heat took a particularly severe toll on those who could least protect themselves, particularly incarcerated people.

A prisoner who says he was incorrectly deemed an armed career criminal in 2007 can’t challenge the sentencing court’s imposition of a 15-year mandatory minimum, the Seventh Circuit said.