Chrystie Holmstrom has joined Holland & Knight as a partner with the firm’s corporate—Mid South practice group in Nashville, the firm said Thursday.

Brian Koosed has joined Venable as a partner in its commercial litigation practice in Washington and New York, the firm said Thursday.

Kirkland & Ellis, the world’s largest law firm by revenue, is assisting real estate billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty in its effort to purchase the US operation of social media platform TikTok.

A key player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle has been absent from public view since the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in late 2022. A year and a half later, <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-8251-de3b-adcf-daf3e7250001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Sam Trabucco has emerged to lend his support to a former colleague ahead of their sentencing.

UnitedHealth Group Inc. disclosed that its chief legal officer Rupert Bondy will transition to a new role next month with Christopher Zaetta, head of legal for its Optum unit, succeeding him as the health insurance giant’s top lawyer.

Chao “Wendy” Wang has joined Baker Botts as a partner in its intellectual property department in the firm’s Palo Alto, California office, the firm said Thursday.

Illumina Inc. lost its bid Thursday to keep a lid on a pension fund lawsuit blaming its board for the costly fallout of its failed $7 billion deal to acquire Grail Inc.

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA underestimates the restructuring costs it would face if it were to buy Banco Sabadell SA, the smaller lender’s chief executive officer said.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking to overturn the Treasury Department’s electric vehicle tax credit rules—an effort that’s likely to succeed in both chambers.

An Olo Inc. investor sued Raine Group LLC, challenging planned stock buybacks that will allegedly force the software company’s public shareholders to pay for the privilege of handing the merchant bank outright majority control.

Bytes Technology says former CEO Neil Murphy has agreed to forfeit his entitlements under the firm’s performance share plan and deferred bonus in entirety, according to a statement.

The Biden administration wants employers to consider eight major principles when using artificial intelligence at work, including establishing human oversight processes and limiting the data collected on workers.

Conservative members of the en banc Fifth Circuit appear ready to reverse a lower court order that said Louisiana must show it won’t commit future violations of the Voting Rights Act with maps for its state supreme court.

Tyson Foods Inc. was denied a quick victory in a lawsuit by a former scientist who says she was denied a true accommodation for her religious objection to mandatory Covid-19 vaccination.

The Massachusetts Senate discriminated against a disabled staff member by failing to reasonably accommodate his injury and later retaliating against him, according to a complaint filed Wednesday.

The Biden administration wants employers to consider eight major principles when using artificial intelligence at work, including establishing human oversight processes and limiting the data collected on workers.

A look at how much time AI could cannibalize from a law firm and how to address it.

Georgetown Law’s William Treanor and Amy Mattock say students suffer from early recruiting and that law firms would also benefit from a return to a later schedule.

A convicted fentanyl trafficker won his appeal for a new sentence when the Second Circuit agreed the district court shouldn’t have applied a four-level enhancement for his purported leadership role when it calculated his sentencing guidelines range.

A Washington property owner is subject to a higher tax rate imposed on vacant buildings because a lower rate can only be claimed within two years after a commercial building is listed for sale, an appeals court said Thursday.

A federal appeals court appears likely to uphold the Securities and Exchange Commission’s win against a man accused of acting as an unregistered securities dealer after buying and selling billions of newly issued penny stock shares.

Illumina Inc. lost its bid Thursday to keep a lid on a pension fund lawsuit blaming its board for the costly fallout of its failed $7 billion deal to acquire Grail Inc.

The former CEO of two Philadelphia-based nonprofits—found guilty in March of conspiracy, honest services fraud, wire fraud, and tax fraud—lost his Third Circuit appeal claiming the prosecution violated double jeopardy.

The US Supreme Court upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding system, lifting a legal threat that could have derailed an agency set up after the 2008 financial crisis to regulate mortgages and other consumer-finance products.