At least five law firms are helping to steer Denny's Corp.'s new agreement for the diner chain operator to go private through a $620 million sale to investment firms TriArtisan Capital Advisors and Treville Capital Group and Denny's franchise operator Yadav Enterprises.
At least five law firms are helping to steer Denny's Corp.'s new agreement for the diner chain operator to go private through a $620 million sale to investment firms TriArtisan Capital Advisors and Treville Capital Group and Denny's franchise operator Yadav Enterprises.
Alcohol industry trade organizations on Tuesday urged congressional leaders to close the federal policy loophole that allowed for the proliferation of loosely regulated products containing intoxicating THC derived from hemp.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with whether a suit against Hain Celestial Group and Whole Foods over allegedly tainted baby food was properly removed to federal court, as some justices voiced concerns about depriving plaintiffs of their choice of forum.
A Papa John's franchisee will pay $2.1 million to nearly 3,000 workers to end an 8-year-old wage and hour suit claiming minimum wage and overtime violations, after an Idaho federal judge preliminarily approved the deal.
A California company urged the Eleventh Circuit Tuesday to reverse a lower court's decision denying a preliminary injunction against a Florida state law banning lab-grown meat, arguing the Sunshine State's prohibition is federally preempted.
Bimbo Bakeries in Horsham, Pennsylvania, is facing a potential class action lawsuit alleging that the company failed to pay employees for the time it took them to gather equipment and get dressed for work, in violation of Pennsylvania's wage laws.
Illinois-based bowling-and-bistro operator Pinstripes has asked the Delaware bankruptcy court to convert its chapter 11 proceedings to a Chapter 7 liquidation, saying the move will allow a trustee to complete the wind-down process after the sale of its assets and the exhaustion of its financing.
In addition to the well-known problem of AI-generated hallucinations in legal documents, AI tools can also hallucinate metadata — threatening the integrity of discovery, the reliability of evidence and the ability to definitively identify the provenance of electronic documents, say attorneys at Law & Forensics.
Dechert LLP joined a growing list of BigLaw firms increasing their office attendance requirements, rolling out a new policy requiring rising second-year associates and all nonattorney business professionals to work in person four days a week beginning next year.
Winston & Strawn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy court to toss a lawsuit from the trustee of self-styled "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi, saying that holding the law firm responsible for the company's failure would set "extraordinary and dangerous precedent."
The federal judge overseeing GWG Holdings' bankruptcy case has been removed because of his professional relationship with embattled former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, a decision the chief bankruptcy judge attributed not to the GWG judge's "own actions," but to Jones's "abuse" of judicial authority.
The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to provide New York Attorney General Letitia James access to documents related to her October indictment on mortgage fraud charges, arguing Tuesday that a Virginia federal judge was too early in making the discovery order.
An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday that attorneys representing a proposed class of individuals detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in suburban Chicago had presented a "disturbing record" of the conditions at the facility that likely justifies a temporary restraining order in some form, but held off ruling until Wednesday.
Dechert LLP's latest merger review report counted a dramatic decrease in the number of significant U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission tie-up investigations between July and September and year-to-date, coming in at just two-thirds of the average over the last 15 years.
Amazon and Apple have told a Seattle federal judge that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP should cover nearly $2 million in defense costs because of the firm's "misrepresentations" while litigating a lawsuit accusing the two companies of conspiring to limit device sales on the e-commerce platform.
Sabrina McKenna, acting chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court, had been on the bench for about three decades before she decided to go back to school to study the work of judging.
How can a U.S. Supreme Court advocate persuade the justices to spurn the near-universal views of circuit courts? One option appeared Tuesday at arguments over deadlines to vacate judgments, as a Williams & Connolly lawyer invoked Justice Antonin Scalia's influential methods — and seemingly found a receptive audience.
A case before Massachusetts' top appellate court over whether more safeguards are needed to cap runaway punitive damage awards has divided attorneys, with some saying the big-dollar verdicts can be skewed by improper evidence and others calling the matter a solution in search of a problem.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's information security program has weakened under the Trump administration and is "no longer effective" amid staff departures and loss of contractor resources, according to a new inspector general report.
End payors in a generic drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation are seeking a Pennsylvania federal court's approval for a $66 million award of attorney fees, representing one-third of the $200 million settlement between the classes and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. and Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday made precedential his September declaration that an invention shouldn't be deemed unpatentable just because it involves machine learning.
Boston University School of Law will begin offering a certificate in artificial intelligence for law practice in fall 2026 to prepare students for using the technology in their legal careers.
