California has enacted first-of-its-kind legislation governing attorneys’ use of generative artificial intelligence tools in their work, banning them from delegating the practice of law to AI and from entering confidential or personal information into an AI tool.

An information technology recruiting firm discriminated against American job candidates in favor of H-1B workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a new lawsuit.

A Labor Department regulation that’s expected to make it easier for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees has arrived at the White House’s regulatory review office, its last stop before final publication.

Amazon.com Inc. faced off in Delaware’s top legal tribunal Wednesday against an investment trust pushing for internal records related to the e-commerce giant’s antitrust problems at home and abroad.

A federal judge in California blocked federal agencies’ implementation of a $100,000 Trump administration charge for businesses to hire workers on H-1B visas.

The Justice Department accused Minnesota federal judges of misconduct by speaking to the New York Times about government lawyers violating court orders during the Trump administration’s immigration surge in the state.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is blocking President Donald Trump’s pick for a trial court judgeship in the state, an unusual display of defiance from a Republican who has reliably backed confirmations of his judicial nominees.

The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and other artificial intelligence companies about the safety of their products amid high-profile cybersecurity incidents, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The US Supreme Court included an unusually broad invitation to the government in its decision to review the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy in its upcoming term.

The EEOC asked a Massachusetts federal judge to compel Harvard University to produce documents related to its diversity and inclusion programs as part of an agency investigation into alleged bias against White, Asian, male, and heterosexual workers on campus.

The Trump administration finalized on Wednesday a new drug payment modeldesigned to help carry out its most-favored-nation policy, cementing a plan that pharmaceutical companies have signaled are ripe for legal challenges.

A California federal judge cleared the way for Paramount Skydance Corp.to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. by signing off on a deal to resolve the lawsuit filed by 12 state attorneys general who had opposed the $110 billion media merger.

The Trump administration’s new foreign tourist fees at national parks have been bad for business and constitute an overreach of the executive, an Arizona tour group said in a complaint.

Louisiana announced on Wednesday that it has asked the US Supreme Court for permission to file a complaint challenging New York, California, and Massachusetts laws that protect in-state abortion providers from legal liability in other states.

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said his withdrawal from a high-stakes climate change case involving the oil and gas industry was a “difficult judgment call” he made even after the court’s legal office said he didn’t have to disqualify himself.

Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling cleared a procedural hurdle for a final confirmation vote after the Senate closed debate on his nomination to permanently take the Labor Department’s top job.

Attempts to ban the “recruitment” of minors to get abortions face significant headwinds after Tennessee lost a First Amendment challenge to its law, observers of the litigation say.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating the American Bar Association over how the organization oversees law schools, he announced Wednesday.

A model’s right of publicity lawsuit accused Victoria’s Secret of using roughly 95% of her face in an Instagram perfume ad after contractually agreeing to show less than 30% and keep her unrecognizable.

Independent investigators couldn’t verify that the Department of Government Efficiency protected sensitive federal data at half a dozen agencies at the beginning of the Trump administration, according to a new report from congressional auditors.

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. is leaning on DLA Piper to push back against a lawsuit over a move to sell quicker access to President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts.

The Justice Department accused Minnesota federal judges of misconduct by speaking to the New York Times about government lawyers violating court orders during the Trump administration’s immigration surge in the state.

A Labor Department regulation that’s expected to make it easier for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees has arrived at the White House’s regulatory review office, its last stop before final publication.

Thirty-seven people have died while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since last fall, the deadliest fiscal year on record for the agency.

The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing OpenAI, Anthropic PBC and other artificial intelligence companies about the safety of their products amid high-profile cybersecurity incidents, according to a person familiar with the matter.

TikTok Inc. can have a temporary pause from trial court proceedings while it appeals a Texas state court’s ruling that it lied about its ability to keep harmful material from children, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The EEOC asked a Massachusetts federal judge to compel Harvard University to produce documents related to its diversity and inclusion programs as part of an agency investigation into alleged bias against White, Asian, male, and heterosexual workers on campus.

Harvard University lost its appeals court bid to continue excluding psychology PhD students from the union that represents thousands of graduate student-workers at the school.

Federal lawmakers’ move to permanently raise debt limits for bankruptcy relief will give more small businesses and individuals access to options that were previously out of reach under current economic pressures and persistent inflation.

A union’s efforts to represent Stanford University students working at residential halls present an opportunity for the Republican-controlled National Labor Relations Board to roll back organizing rights in higher education.

The Senate’s passage of the Protect College Sports Act drew scorn from some observers who say the bill, if passed into law, would unfairly shield the NCAA from antitrust liability and leave student athletes vulnerable.

As federal authorities work to issue permits for mining in and beyond US waters, industry officials are making plans to build infrastructure the country lacks to process what’s recovered from the ocean floor.

Opinion: As AI tools improve and spread, deepfake fraud becomes more foreseeable, Segal McCambridge attorneys say.

Opinion: When an industry transforms, companies must decide whether to chart a new course that sacrifices near-term stability for a chance at a long-term edge. We are at this point in the legal industry, writes former McDermott Chair Peter Sacripanti.

Thirty-seven people have died while detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since last fall, the deadliest fiscal year on record for the agency.

A federal judge in Georgia tossed a lesbian nurse’s claims that a hospital discriminated against her by requiring employees to engage in “procreative sex” before qualifying for fertility benefits.

The head of the US Labor Department’s employee benefits regulator took over the subagency last year and has reshaped its regulatory and enforcement landscape around employer-sponsored health and retirement plans.

Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc. failed to convince a federal judge in Delaware to toss a pair of lawsuits from Bayer accusing their Covid-19 vaccines of infringing a crop-based genetic-engineering patent.

Opinion: Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's Martin Weinstein reflects on his experience as a federal prosecutor and argues that DOJ service, despite current controversies and job losses, remains one of the legal profession's most valuable training grounds.

Factual disputes about Washing Systems LLC technical consultants’ daily work prevent either the US Labor Department or the laundry chemical supplier from claiming an early win on overtime exemptions, according to an Ohio federal court hearing the agency’s wage and hour suit.

A New York City attorney came under fire Tuesday from federal appeals court judges questioning whether municipal rules requiring for-hire luxury car drivers to report every pickup and drop-off location enhance public safety more than they invade privacy.

The Trump administration’s pullback from food stamp funding expands this week, leaving states and counties facing higher costs to feed more than 36 million low-income people.

Carlyle Group Inc. prevailed in court Tuesday against the founder of an AI-driven health data platform, winning more than $7 million over the revenue recognition scheme he ran after its private equity sale.

Processing of visas for tourists and business travelers coming to the US has surpassed pre-Covid levels, but staffing at consulates has failed to meet demand, a Government Accountability Office report found.

Two MyFitnessPal Inc. users advanced claims that the company failed to protect their information from being shared with third parties after they opted out of non-essential cookies.

President Donald Trump endorsed using outside auditors to assess the safety of artificial intelligence systems through an accord with Silicon Valley leaders that seeks to sidestep new government rules in addressing a groundswell of concern over AI risks.

Sullivan & Cromwell’s collaboration with OpenAI gave the powerful Wall Street law firm access to some of the most sought-after specialists in law and tech: the company’s engineers.

An en banc Ninth Circuit panel appeared willing to scrap a long-criticized copyright infringement test used to determine whether works are substantially similar Tuesday, spending considerable time asking what should replace it.

The Treasury Department must prove to a federal judge that it is distributing $289 million Congress pegged for community lenders despite its assurances in previous court filings that the money will go out the door.

Boeing Co. defeated claims from Southwest Airlines pilots that the aircraft manufacturer induced them into a collective bargaining agreement with misrepresentations about the 737 MAX airliner, a Texas Business Court judge ruled.