A former top Federal Reserve official told Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that if President Donald Trump succeeds in quickly ousting Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, it could unlock an obscure mechanism for his allies at the Fed to sway future interest-rate decisions.
A former top Federal Reserve official told Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday that if President Donald Trump succeeds in quickly ousting Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, it could unlock an obscure mechanism for his allies at the Fed to sway future interest-rate decisions.
The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a banking industry challenge to Biden-era Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guidance that cautioned banks about charging recurring fees on declined transactions, ruling the matter not ripe for court review.
The trustee of bankrupt "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi on Wednesday launched malpractice litigation against Winston & Strawn LLP in Texas bankruptcy court, accusing the firm and one of its managing partners of putting the interests of the company's founder first and costing the business $1.7 billion in valuation.
A lawyer for billionaire Alexander Vik told a Connecticut appeals panel Wednesday that a judge should have followed Turks and Caicos Islands law to award more than $11.5 million in attorney fees when he beat Deutsche Bank in a long-running lawsuit that sought to collect on a $243 million judgment over unpaid margin calls.
Companies are likely to increase their spending on litigation next year, some by over 10%, as legal disputes become more complex, more contentious and more high-stakes, according to a new report out Thursday.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is asking a D.C. federal judge to toss green groups' effort to block $4.7 billion in financing for a liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique led by TotalEnergies SE.
New York's Department of Financial Services on Wednesday emphasized that it expects banks under its purview to incorporate blockchain analytics tools as part of their compliance programs if they're engaging in crypto activities.
A Connecticut branch of UBS faces a credit-investment firm's claims that UBS breached the terms of a loan participation agreement funding bottled juice company Naked Juice LLC after a restructuring of the agreement resulted in less favorable terms for the limited partnership.
Housing loan servicer Selene Finance LP must face most of a putative class action accusing it of sending false and deceptive notices regarding loan defaults, with a North Carolina court finding that the plaintiffs have shown various elements of deception.
A Pennsylvania state court has ordered four cryptocurrency companies to release more than $4.3 million in funds to a Pittsburgh attorney who claims the companies unjustly froze his accounts when he tried to make withdrawals.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has told Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges that they must now explain any decisions that have a different outcome from an earlier ruling on the same patent or similar patent claims, either by the patent office or in litigation.
Womble Bond Dickinson LLP has hired a career Clifford Chance LLP lawyer in Washington who served in a number of leadership roles with the firm in his more than 35 years there, including most recently as the global co-head of its risk team and leader of its U.S. regulatory investigations and financial crime group.
The pace of change in digital asset policy, including the recent arrival of the Genius Act, suggests that strategic planning should be a near-term priority for community banks, with careful attention to customer relationships, regulatory developments and the local communities they serve, say attorneys at Jones Walker.
Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.
Former California state court judge Jeffrey M. Ferguson lost his bid for a new trial Wednesday and was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison for shooting his wife to death at home in a drunken rage, with the presiding judge expressing sympathy for his "extraordinary" son who tried to save his mother's life.
Tom Girardi's son-in-law should receive a three-year prison sentence for his admitted role in helping the once-celebrated plaintiffs' lawyer steal millions from Lion Air crash victims, federal prosecutors in Chicago argued Wednesday.
During her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin tapped for the Seventh Circuit, fended off opposition to her nomination from conservative groups, antipathy that the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee called a "new low" for the committee.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-211 along party lines on Wednesday to eliminate the commission that vets and picks potential judicial nominees for Washington, D.C.'s local courts.
More than 40 retired federal judges appointed by presidents of both parties released an open letter Wednesday, the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, saying they sought to underscore the importance of the rule of law at a time when the nation's ideals "are under historic strain."
Delaware's chief district judge, a Trump appointee, is seeking applications for the state's U.S. attorney position to prepare for an upcoming vacancy in the interim position, a move that drew the ire of Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday.
A New York state judge has awarded nearly $1.4 million to Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP in its lawsuit accusing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani of racking up unpaid legal bills for the firm's work in various criminal, civil and administrative matters.
Federal criminal restitution often fails to benefit victims of crime and throws defendants into a "Sisyphean struggle" with debt, with $100 billion in outstanding restitution deemed uncollectable, according to a report released this week by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a policy statement Wednesday that allows the use of mandatory arbitration by new publicly traded companies as its chief seeks to "make IPOs great again," but Democrats warned the move could shut the door to shareholder class actions.
A Black former student at Washington University School of Law shouldn't be able to revive claims that she was suspended from campus and lost her scholarship after complaining about a professor's race bias because she filed the suit in the wrong state, the law school told the Fourth Circuit.
