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  $3.6B Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader Deal To Form Top 5 Firm

  By Kevin Penton

  Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft are planning to combine, creating what the firms describe will be...(read more)

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  Meta Blamed For Teens' Instagram 'Sextortion' Suicides

  By Lauren Berg

  The parents of a 16-year-old boy from Scotland and a 13-year-old boy from Pennsylvania blame Meta and Instagram ...(read more)

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• Plus-Size Fashion Co. Ashley Stewart Hits Ch. 11 To Nix Sale

  By Yun Park

  Ashley Stewart, a plus-size clothing retailer, has petitioned for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey bankruptcy court, listing between $50 million and $100 million of liabilities and seeking to void the sale of its assets to a new operator called G Ashley.

• Calif. AG, Bar Officials Fight Bid To Stop ABS Fee-Sharing Ban

  By James Mills

  Both the California attorney general and the California State Bar are opposing a California attorney's attempt to block a new law preventing fee-sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonlawyers set to go into effect on Jan. 1.

• HHS Proposes Hospital Ban On Gender Care For Minors

  By Dan McKay

  The Trump administration moved to block all hospitals that receive federal funding from providing gender-affirming care to minors and issued warning letters to a dozen companies Thursday as part of a sweeping push to halt the care nationwide, even in states with legal protections in place.

• LinkedIn Data Access Settlement Rejected In Antitrust Case

  By Matthew Perlman

  A California federal court refused to approve a settlement requiring LinkedIn to stop conditioning access to its data interface on rivals agreeing not to use the data for a competing professional social network, a deal that included no damages but up to $4 million in attorney fees.

• Latham, Debevoise Steer Howard Hughes' $2.1B Vantage Buy

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Texas-based Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., led by Latham & Watkins LLP, on Thursday announced plans to acquire private equity-backed specialty insurance and reinsurance company Vantage Group Holdings Ltd., advised by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, in a $2.1 billion deal.

• Compliance Chiefs' Enforcement Risks Didn't Ease Up In 2025

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The landscape for chief compliance officers' liability might relax a bit in the coming years as experts anticipate the Trump administration will rely less on a "failure to supervise" theory of liability that financial regulators used to target one chief compliance officer this year.

• Ringleader Of Beer Train Robbery Crew Gets 63 Months

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday handed down a 63-month prison sentence to a Bronx man who led a crew that stole nearly half-a-million dollars' worth of beer from trains, saying the defendant is fortunate nobody was harmed.

• Trump Media Combining With TAE In $6B Nuclear Fusion Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Trump Media and Technology Group said Thursday it has agreed to merge with TAE Technologies, a privately held fusion power company, in an all-stock deal valued at $6 billion that would create one of the first publicly traded fusion energy companies.

• 5th Circ. Finds 'Truffle,' Reverses Samsung Battery Suit

  By Jonathan Capriel

  A Seventh Circuit opinion has convinced the Fifth Circuit to reverse its decision forcing Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. to face a lawsuit over burn injuries a man suffered when one of the company's batteries exploded in his pocket, suggesting the company didn't do a great job making its case the first time around.

• Justices Asked To Hear $50M Zimbabwe Immunity Feud

  By Caroline Simson

  Two Mauritian mining companies are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve whether countries that agree to arbitrate an international dispute are also waiving their right to assert sovereign immunity in subsequent litigation to recognize a foreign judgment confirming an arbitral award.

• DC Circ. Grants En Banc Hearing On CFPB Layoff Plan

  By Jared Foretek

  Additional D.C. Circuit judges will get to weigh in on the Trump administration's bid to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through mass layoffs, after the appeals court granted the agency's employees' union an en banc rehearing on a lower court's injunction stopping the firings.

• Halt Of Alien Enemies Contempt Probe To Test Judicial Power

  By Britain Eakin

  The D.C. Circuit's second halt of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's contempt inquiry into the Trump administration's Alien Enemies Act deportations has set up a high-stakes fight over how far judges can go when the executive branch defies their orders.