Kristen Clarke, the Biden administration’s civil rights chief, condemned hate-based violence in a Columbia Law School commencement speech Monday in New York.

Marcia Fudge, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Biden, has joined Taft as partner and firmwide chair of public policy, the law firm said Monday.

Michael Cohen directly connected Donald Trump to the hush-money payment to adult-film actress <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-7407-d4b6-a98f-f5370aed0001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Stormy Daniels to keep their alleged sexual encounter out of the news ahead of the 2016 election.

Jeffrey Rudd joined Ogletree Deakins as a shareholder in the firm’s Chicago office, the firm said Monday.

Damon Pitt has joined Venable LLP as a partner in the commercial litigation practice in the Los Angeles office, the firm said Monday.

Chevron Corp.’s $53 billion deal to acquire Hess Corp. suffered a potential blow Monday as an influential adviser said investors should abstain from voting for the deal.

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Chevron Corp.’s $53 billion deal to acquire Hess Corp. suffered a potential blow Monday as an influential adviser said investors should abstain from voting for the deal.

Elon Musk went to “appalling” lengths to stop a leading scholar from weighing in on his bid to retroactively validate his $56 billion pay package after a judge struck it down, a new court filing says.

A group of 21 congressional Democrats on Monday urged the SEC to finalize a rule aimed at ensuring investment funds don’t mischaracterize their environmental, social, and governance credentials.

Valve Corp.’s agreement with a Leigh M. Rothschild affilated company doesn’t require its lawsuit denying patent infringement and accusing the prolific inventor of violating a Washington state patent troll prevention law to be filed in Texas instead of the Evergreen State, a federal judge ruled in denying a venue change.

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Strict education requirements and stagnant pay deter aspiring accountants from joining the profession and staying in it. An industry proposal calls for big changes to fix these problems.

A coalition of 18 Republican state attorneys general sued to block the enforcement of the EEOC’s new workplace harassment guidance, claiming it illegally broadens the scope of a federal anti-discrimination law’s gender identity protections.

Kristen Clarke, the Biden administration’s civil rights chief, condemned hate-based violence in a Columbia Law School commencement speech Monday in New York.

A group of 21 congressional Democrats on Monday urged the SEC to finalize a rule aimed at ensuring investment funds don’t mischaracterize their environmental, social, and governance credentials.

A Georgia county’s denial of health plan coverage for a sheriff deputy’s gender-affirming surgery was illegal discrimination under federal law, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled.

An Alabama mayor who is Black and who says his town’s White minority is violating voting laws didn’t establish a special need for a November election, a federal judge said in denying his request for a preliminary injunction.

An 1864 Arizona law criminalizing nearly all abortions will be paused through the summer, the state’s top court ordered Monday in a move allowing the state’s attorney general to bring the case to the US Supreme Court.

A Louisiana hospital can’t fight a privacy lawsuit in federal court because it doesn’t qualify as a federal officer, which is required for removal under an applicable statute, a Fifth Circuit panel said Monday.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans persuaded the Fifth Circuit Monday that four creditors should be kept off of a committee representing claimants in the Archdiocese’s bankruptcy proceeding.

Kristen Clarke, the Biden administration’s civil rights chief, condemned hate-based violence in a Columbia Law School commencement speech Monday in New York.

Michael Cohen directly connected Donald Trump to the hush-money payment to adult-film actress <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-7407-d4b6-a98f-f5370aed0001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Stormy Daniels to keep their alleged sexual encounter out of the news ahead of the 2016 election.

A California state judge considering whether school districts can sue social media giants for student addiction said Monday that it’s hard to tell whether harms related to social media can be blamed on its algorithms, or if other factors, like peer pressure, are to blame.