Legal General Interest

The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general today sued Amazon.com, Inc.

Microsoft’s promise to defend customers from copyright infringement lawsuits stemming from its Copilot artificial intelligence tools likely won’t require a mass deployment of its lawyers.

Evidence of self-destructing company chats stands to play a central role in the US Justice Department’s blockbuster antitrust showdown with Alphabet Inc.‘s Google.

Burford Capital’s share of the $16 billion a US judge in New York ordered Argentina to pay over its 2012 seizure of oil company YPF SA is around $6.2 billion, which would give the litigation funder a more than 37,000% return on its initial investment.

New gas-to-crypto projects present a glimpse of innovation between energy and technology. Reed Smith’s Luke Burns, Nicole Soussan Caplan, and Mason Malpass explain the possibilities and risks with this cryptocurrency model.

Trump attorney John Eastman called a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice as his first witness while he defends his law license on state bar claims of ethical and legal violations.

US executives drastically cut back on public discussions of workplace diversity last quarter, in the first earnings season since the Supreme Court’s ruling against affirmative action sent a chill through corporate boardrooms.

This week, our experts covered topics ranging from an upcoming Supreme Court decision on a foreign earnings tax case to downward attribution rule changes. For a look at the latest commentary and analysis, check out our weekly roundup.

A former Greenberg Traurig patent litigator sued a TikTok influencer whose videos about the lawyer’s divorce allegedly cost him his job and led to financial ruin.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday he’s “hopeful that there’ll be some concrete steps taken soon” regarding how the US Supreme Court self-polices ethics.

Moving the case to federal court would have given Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff, one key advantage: a jury pool that was more favorable to Donald J. Trump.

He has no evident desire to exercise the rights that his lawyers fought for over years of litigation.

Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for not complying to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric.

More than 3 million workers would be newly eligible for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week, under a new proposal from the US Department of Labor.

iFixit wants to fix McDonald’s ice cream machines for good.

Grayscale Investments LLC won a key legal fight in its push to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, bringing the crypto industry to the precipice of tapping billions of dollars from everyday investors.

A pension fund sued Peter Thiel and other Palanthir Technologies Inc. board members over claims they made billions in insider trades while jacking up its stock price through a spree of reckless investments with doomed blank-check companies.

The AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. investor whose settlement objections temporarily halted the conversion of its APE preferred units into common stock is seeking a financial reward for reducing the fees paid to the lawyers who negotiated the deal.

Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes....

As a growing share of US companies are forced to tell job applicants and employees upfront how much they’ll pay for work, lawmakers are beginning to ask them to be equally transparent about opportunities to get a promotion.

President Joe Biden said his historic foray into negotiating prices with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Johnson & Johnson and other drugmakers is just the start, vowing to see it through despite fierce industry pushback.

An opioid wholesaler’s insurance win against Chubb Ltd. presents a new avenue for pharmaceutical companies defending themselves in litigation stemming from the opioid crisis to recoup their legal bills.

An expert backgrounder - in light of Mark Meadows' and four other co-defendants' effort to removal Fulton County case to federal court.

In that case, plaintiff Tonya Akes, a consumer, sued Beiersdorf, Inc., maker of Coppertone sunscreen, alleging that Beiersdorf engaged in deception because it sold the SPF 50 Coppertone Sport Mineral Face sunscreen, which she alleges she believed was “specifically designed” for use on the face…

Andrew Coats, the lawyer who convinced the Supreme Court in 1984 to allow universities to maximize football revenue, leading to a sweeping upheaval today, looks back with regret on the landmark case he successfully argued.

Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and…

The Georgia prosecutor who indicted Trump, Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis, is being targeted by the GOP for removal under a new law.

3M Co. has tentatively agreed to pay more than $5.5 billion to resolve over 300,000 lawsuits claiming it sold the US military defective combat earplugs, people familiar with the deal said.

This week, our experts covered topics ranging from the tax treatment of “free bets” to clean energy tax credits for American Indian tribes. For a look at the latest commentary and analysis, check out our weekly roundup.

This week a federal court in the Southern District of New York dismissed a privacy litigation brought against a website operator for claims under the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”), holding the allegation that plaintiffs had electronically subscribed to defendant’s newsletter was not ...