The second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial gave jurors first-hand accounts of negotiations for payments to two women and how the former president’s 2016 campaign reacted when news of their alleged affairs leaked out anyway.

OpenAI, creator of the popular tool ChatGPT, registered its first lobbying presence in Sacramento last month as it looks to increase its influence on AI policymaking.

Donald Trump lawyer John Eastman has been temporarily suspended from practicing law in the District of Columbia in response to a similar prohibition by a California judge.

Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Salesforce Inc. made their in-house legal leaders among the companies’ top-paid executives last year.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer boosted pay for its newly qualified lawyers in London by 20%, setting a new standard for UK-based firms.

New York litigation firm Moses Singer LLP and a former partner, who alleged the company unjustly fired her after she requested workplace accommodations while pregnant, have agreed to settle, according to court documents.

Perimeter Solutions LP sued a Compass Minerals International Inc. unit for allegedly stealing its trade secrets after hiring a former executive to help create a competing aerial fire-retardant system in hopes of winning a government contract.

The sudden shutdown of what the SEC dubbed a “sham audit mill” will force hundreds of companies, including Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., to hunt for new auditors, scour old audits for potential problems, and scramble to meet public company regulatory deadlines.

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Oklahoma State Treasurer Todd Russ announced on Friday that Barclays Plc would be added to his <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"RU3TEST0AFB4","_id":"0000018f-4030-d4b6-a98f-f53510df0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">list of companies that he claims have boycotted the fossil fuel industry — a gesture that aims to limit the governmental business the bank can conduct in the state.

Pattern Energy Group LP will pay a historic $100 million to resolve class action litigation in two Delaware courts over a 2020 take-private buyout of a wind and solar company by Riverstone Holdings LLC and Canada’s public pension fund.

Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Salesforce Inc. made their in-house legal leaders among the companies’ top-paid executives last year.

New York criminal defendants serving sentences enhanced by prior, now-vacated marijuana convictions are entitled to new sentences, New York’s intermediate appellate court ruled Friday.

CT Transit, a subsidiary of Connecticut’s Department of Transportation, lost its bid Friday to avoid a trial over claims brought by bus drivers alleging they unlawfully lost pay after having allergic reactions to disinfectants used to clean buses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A state court clerk in Missouri failed to allege an adverse employment action stemming from a state judge’s push to hold her in contempt for not properly responding to a records request, a federal judge ruled.

The Colorado state Senate on Friday passed sweeping legislation targeting discrimination by companies using artificial intelligence.

Lowe’s Home Centers LLC will face a trial on whether age discrimination caused it to terminate a long-time employee soon after putting him on a performance improvement plan and a fire occurred at his store while he was on vacation.

California police officers can’t detain people solely because of “nervous, evasive behavior” in an area with high crime rates, the state’s top court ruled, reversing an appeals court judgment.

CT Transit, a subsidiary of Connecticut’s Department of Transportation, lost its bid Friday to avoid a trial over claims brought by bus drivers alleging they unlawfully lost pay after having allergic reactions to disinfectants used to clean buses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Biden administration told Iowa it will sue to block a new law that makes it a crime to reenter the state after being deported from the US, saying it is preempted by federal law, undermines foreign relations and effectively creates a second immigration system.

The top lawyer for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation said she would encourage the agency to take an even more deliberate approach to explaining the rules it promulgates if the US Supreme Court weakens its Chevron doctrine in a ruling expected in the coming months.

The second week of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial gave jurors first-hand accounts of negotiations for payments to two women and how the former president’s 2016 campaign reacted when news of their alleged affairs leaked out anyway.

The US Army Corps of Engineers can start a construction project in Puerto Rico’s San Juan Harbor, beating a second challenge from environmentalists who said federal agencies failed to properly assess environmental impacts, the D.C. Circuit ruled.

A group of gun publications and rights organizations asked a US district court in Los Angeles to issue an injunction against a California law banning firearm advertisements targeting children.