The lion’s share of proposed mergers the federal government flagged as posing a potential competitive threat in their market were either abandoned or restructured in 2023, a report to Congress shows.

A legal operations team can boost the efficiency and productivity of in-house legal departments, one reason for the growing popularity of this professional function at large and medium-sized companies ...

ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and other oil majors lost a bid to squash climate change-related lawsuits initiated by the state of California and eight local governmental entities, according to a ruling issued ...

Laura Richardson is general counsel of legal technology company Agiloft. Views are the author’s own. The traditional role of the chief legal officer and general counsel is undergoing a shift. No ...

Sports betting company DraftKings agreed to settle for $200,000 charges it violated Regulation FD disclosure rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced September 26. The regulation ...

An Uber-led ballot initiative in Nevada would impose the strictest contingency fee limit in the country, potentially helping companies if it were to deter complex class action lawsuits by making it ...

As a consequential U.S. election nears in less than a month, determining political control of Congress and the White House, political speech in the workplace is rising. Millions of voters — especially ...

Legal action against companies will have a ransomware-like quality pretty soon as bad actors leverage artificial intelligence to make the filing of complaints quick and cheap, the founders of a risk ...

It’s the first time a U.S. community has sued a gas utility for allegedly deceiving the public about the climate impacts of fossil fuels, advocates say. “NW Natural has routinely misrepresented to the ...

The threat of subpoenas comes as the USDA deepens its investigation into whether consolidation in the meatpacking and grocery industries has allowed big companies to manipulate prices through illegal ...

A jury should decide whether the Society for Human Resource Management maliciously engaged in race discrimination, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Based on the facts alleged, a reasonable jury could ...

RepRisk’s latest report found 1,841 documented events of misleading communications by companies, with 56% of those — 1,038 — related to environmental claims, constituting greenwashing. Private ...