Final IRS Pass-Through Deduction Rules Snub Team Owners

Skadden’s unregistered lobbying work for the Ukrainian government has cost the law firm $4.6 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, but could the debacle cost the firm even more in reputational damage?

A California federal judge has tentatively found that Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s equipment's vulnerability to falling tree limbs has been "the single most recurring cause" of the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires to which the company has been linked.

There’s an old joke among attorneys who have specialized in the Foreign Agents Registration Act: The only people who ever get hit with violations are KGB officers and Washington, D.C., lawyers. Yet BigLaw powerhouse Skadden may have ruined the punchline Thursday with news it had settled FARA allegations brought by the government.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's risky plunge into the Ukrainian criminal justice system ended Thursday with a $4.6 million fine from the U.S. Department of Justice over the firm's failure to register as a foreign agent. Here, Law360 examines how the seven-year episode went down.

Roughly 5 million people who applied for a job at Walmart Inc. can pursue a class action alleging the retail giant added extraneous material to background check notices it issued to applicants and new hires in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a California federal judge ruled Thursday.

The trustee tasked with winding down convicted insider trader Raj Rajaratnam’s defunct Galleon Group hedge fund told a New York bankruptcy court on Thursday he’d reached a nearly $450,000 settlement with Rajaratnam and two former executives being sued for fraud, and that money should be enough to pay off the fund’s remaining creditors.

A government watchdog report published Thursday found that the Trump administration began separating immigrant families in detention long before it announced a "zero tolerance" policy of prosecuting all unauthorized border crossers, meaning that many more families may have been separated than was previously known.

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board is refusing to let Walmart register the phrase "Investing in American Jobs" as a trademark, ruling that consumers would see it as a common expression of patriotism.

Less than a year and a half after leaving Chapter 11, children’s clothing retailer Gymboree Group Inc. reentered bankruptcy Thursday with $212 million in debt, saying this time it will not be coming out the other side.

A Manhattan federal judge ordered Seat Scouts LLC effectively closed Thursday after a jury smacked the ticket tech concern and its CEO with $4.5 million of damages, finding they pilfered technology from competitor Broker Genius Inc. that allows resale brokers to easily reprice sports and entertainment stubs.

A Missouri federal judge granted preliminary approval on Thursday to a $60 million deal to resolve a proposed class action claiming SSM Health Care Corp. misused an Employee Retirement Income Security Act exemption intended for churches and their affiliates.

Delaware’s Supreme Court on Thursday vacated a Chancery Court order for a potential multibillion-dollar sale of William I. Koch’s Oxbow Carbon LLC, rejecting the lower court's finding that the forced sale was a justifiable fix for a gap in contract provisions for investors seeking to cash out.