A staggering $1.2 trillion in mergers and acquisitions transactions announced and pending or completed so far in 2021 have involved a private equity party. That dollar amount, which is already equal to 2020’s total annual PE deal volume, represents 40% of global M&A volume in 2021 thus far.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Starbucks Corp. must reinstate and compensate baristas at a Wisconsin store after a National Labor Relations Board judge concluded the company had engaged in a “scorched earth campaign” against their unionizing workforce.| news.bloomberglaw.com
A look at how much time AI could cannibalize from a law firm and how to address it.| news.bloomberglaw.com
More than 500 threats were made against federal judges over the past 11 months in an uptick from last year, according to recently posted US Marshals Service data.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The US Supreme Court had several opportunities to address the issue, but declined each time, said Holly Doremus, an environmental law professor at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law.| Articles Archive - UC Berkeley Law
After a day of sentencing criminal defendants, Judge Lee Yeakel made a ritual of replaying each hearing in his head and worry whether he’d gotten them right.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Companies are spending record amounts to keep their top officers physically safe, reflecting an era of heightened security concerns.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has closed out virtually all pending regulatory issues flagged by the agency’s bank examiners as Trump-appointed leaders prepare to fire most remaining staff members.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Opinion: Erwin Chemerinsky and Miles Mogulescu write that Emil Bove has won a lifetime appointment to the Third Circuit but will be required to recuse himself from any case that involves President Donald Trump.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The federal judge overseeing Anthropic PBC’s proposed $1.5 billion copyright settlement is concerned class lawyers are striking a deal behind the scenes that will be forced “down the throat of authors.”| news.bloomberglaw.com
Chicago-founded McDermott Will & Emery is in talks with Manhattan’s Schulte Roth & Zabel to combine, the law firms confirmed on Thursday.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Trucking and freight businesses that once thrived on the pandemic e-commerce boom and high spot prices are increasingly seeking bankruptcy protection, with more stress looming as the Trump administration’s tariffs derail business plans.| news.bloomberglaw.com
US Customs and Border Protection unlawfully let Apple Inc. reactivate a blood-oxygen tracking feature on Apple Watches that infringes patents for the technology, Masimo Corp. said in a federal lawsuit.| news.bloomberglaw.com
US banks will now have to give customers access to their financial data after the top consumer watchdog finalized a long-awaited rule aimed at fueling more competition for financial products and services.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The Trump administration is poised to reopen a Biden-era rule allowing customers to share their sensitive bank data with third-party fintechs and potentially vacate it, according to multiple sources.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and banking trade groups agreed to pause litigation over a Biden-era open banking rule while the agency decides whether to revoke it.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Former congresswoman Barbara Comstock argues that the DOJ’s case against Google proves that consumers prefer it to all other search engines.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Businesses sponsoring foreign workers for the H-1B program have begun receiving surprise requests for biometric data like fingerprints from US Citizenship and Immigration Services.| news.bloomberglaw.com
USCIS data show a growing backlog for immigrant petitions and work permits and a crucial NLRB nominee gets some movement.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The federal agency charged with administering green cards and work permits dramatically scaled up its role steering immigrants into deportation proceedings long before its incoming director declared to lawmakers that it must be an enforcement body “at its core.”| news.bloomberglaw.com
Retiree Frank Deni wanted to cut expenses at his California home in 2023 by installing solar panels. He chose SunPower Corp., one of the largest US solar companies, which offered a 25-year “complete confidence” warranty.| news.bloomberglaw.com
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to ask a federal judge in Kentucky to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing customers to freely share their bank and credit card account details with financial technology companies, multiple sources told Bloomberg Law.| news.bloomberglaw.com
President Donald Trump on Monday terminated three Democrats from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, as part of the president’s sweeping recalibration of government entities aimed at internal transparency.| news.bloomberglaw.com
OpenAI Inc. is allegedly transcribing millions of YouTube videos without the consent of their creators to train its generative AI software products, according to a new federal lawsuit.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Roughly 4 million workers will take home more money when they work more than 40 hours a week under a new US Labor Department rule that expands overtime pay eligibility under federal law.| news.bloomberglaw.com
North Carolina’s attorney general is investigating whether software company RealPage Inc.'s use of private data violates antitrust laws, allowing property managers to artificially raise rents.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Three law professors analyze the public’s declining opinion of the US courts. They say the best path forward is to empower people to play a central role in juries and the administration of justice.| news.bloomberglaw.com
A Texas federal judge temporarily halted implementation of the US Labor Department’s new overtime rule for the state of Texas just before it was set to go into effect July 1—a win for the state which had said the change would drive up payroll costs and destroy its budget.| news.bloomberglaw.com
Jerico Pictures Inc., a background-check company doing business as National Public Data, exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion individuals in an April data breach, a proposed class action says.| news.bloomberglaw.com
A Northern Texas federal court that has come under fire for judge shopping practices by litigants won’t change its case assignment policies — leaving few other plausible pathways to address the issue.| news.bloomberglaw.com
