Nathaniel Marrs has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a partner and member of the asset management department in the Chicago office, the firm said Tuesday.

Out-of-date paperwork filed with state authorities can’t doom an out-of-state flooring company’s lawsuit that’s ready for trial, a New Jersey appellate court ruled Tuesday.

Two Louisiana bills that put the brakes on the burgeoning litigation finance industry have advanced through initial hurdles, as lawmakers hope to take advantage of a change in governors after last year’s effort fell short with a veto.

Donald Lussier has returned to Saul Ewing in the Boston office, the firm said Tuesday.

Domenico Fanuele has joined White & Case as a partner in the global mergers and acquisitions practice and global private equity industry group, the firm said Tuesday.

Neel Maitra has joined Dechert as a partner in the financial services practice group in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s US unit prevailed in court Tuesday against litigation seeking $200 million in post-deal payments tied to an acquisition by Cephalon Inc., which the Israeli drug giant later bought.

A <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-30c1-d4b6-a98f-f5f5ecdd0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Paramount Global investor is going to court, concerned that a merger of the film and TV company may harm minority investors.

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A long-held truism of ESG is being challenged, namely the idea that the strategy is best-suited to active fund management.

Meta Platforms Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg have escaped investor litigation that claimed their pursuit of profits jeopardized public health, social well-being, and their stockholders’ diversified portfolios.

Raytheon Technologies Corp. fought off an attempt to revive allegations that its Covid-19 policies discriminated against workers even after granting their vaccine mandate exemption requests, a federal appellate court said.

A lesbian former assembly worker at a FCA US LLC facility settled her duty of fair representation claim against the UAW Int’l Union Local 51 stemming from conflict with other employees

On this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Bloomberg Law reporter Maia Spoto talks about why California’s CARE Courts have had such an underwhelming start. Also, we discuss what this means for the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom (D), who’s invested a large amount of political capital into them, and hear from one of the judges helping to set up a CARE Court in Orange County. She talks about the large amount of manpower needed to adjudicate these special types of cases.

A federal appeals court appeared receptive to a challenge brought by Texas and other Republican states to Securities and Exchange Commission rules that boost disclosures about fund votes on ESG proposals at company annual meetings.

WestRock Services LLC and a former machine operator, who alleges the company wrongly denied him relief from its Covid-19 masking policy as an accommodation, have settled his suit, according to a mediator’s report.

Wells Fargo shareholders on Tuesday voted against a proposal seeking an annual public report outlining the bank’s efforts to prevent harassment and discrimination.

Raytheon Technologies Corp. fought off an attempt to revive allegations that its Covid-19 policies discriminated against workers even after granting their vaccine mandate exemption requests, a federal appellate court said.

Jimmy Kimmel argued his use of former Rep. George Santos’ Cameo video on his television show constituted a “paradigmatic example” of fair use in a bid to end the disgraced ex-lawmaker’s copyright suit.

On this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Bloomberg Law reporter Maia Spoto talks about why California’s CARE Courts have had such an underwhelming start. Also, we discuss what this means for the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom (D), who’s invested a large amount of political capital into them, and hear from one of the judges helping to set up a CARE Court in Orange County. She talks about the large amount of manpower needed to adjudicate these special types of cases.

Out-of-date paperwork filed with state authorities can’t doom an out-of-state flooring company’s lawsuit that’s ready for trial, a New Jersey appellate court ruled Tuesday.

Two Louisiana bills that put the brakes on the burgeoning litigation finance industry have advanced through initial hurdles, as lawmakers hope to take advantage of a change in governors after last year’s effort fell short with a veto.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1624796D%20CH%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-30a1-d4b6-a98f-f5b5e2cf0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Binance founder <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-30a1-d4b6-a98f-f5b5e2cf0002","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Changpeng Zhao was ordered to spend four months in prison for failures that allowed cybercriminals and terrorist groups to freely trade on the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.