Baker McKenzie is suing a tax lawyer for defamation after she said she was sexually assaulted by the head of the firm’s Washington, DC office.

Two executives will leave Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith in the coming months as the law firm’s leader continues to overhaul its business operations.

Welcome to This Week in the Circuits, a look at the most significant cases before federal appeals courts.

Acting US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said in court documents filed Friday that he’s qualified to prosecute cases as a valid acting US attorney.

Francesca Ugolini joined SouthBank Legal as a partner in its tax controversy practice in Washington, DC, the firm announced Friday.

Lawyers from Willkie Farr & Gallagher are advising a subsidiary of Meta Platforms Inc. in an effort to receive federal regulatory approval to sell energy as Facebook’s parent company invests tens of billions in data centers that require vast amounts of power.

President Donald Trump suggested that Fox Corp. Chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his father Rupert Murdoch are involved in the US takeover of the video app TikTok from its Chinese owners.

Venture capitalists in clean tech are starting to say out loud what they’ve suspected for a while: China’s dominance has left key sectors in the West uninvestable.

The tech sector and other companies rushed to warn employees with H-1B visas against foreign travel as they responded to the chaos created by President Donald Trump’s move to slap a $100,000 application fee on the widely used program.

Baker McKenzie is suing a tax lawyer for defamation after she said she was sexually assaulted by the head of the firm’s Washington, DC office.

The US operations of TikTok will be majority-owned and controlled by Americans under a deal reached this week to spin off the platform from its Chinese ownership, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

Creditors to First Brands Group are tallying paper losses in the billions of dollars and trying to assess the widening damage from unanswered questions swirling around the auto-parts supplier.

Baker McKenzie is suing a tax lawyer for defamation after she said she was sexually assaulted by the head of the firm’s Washington, DC office.

When Ted Cruz’s strategy to defund the Affordable Care Act led to an epic government shutdown fight a dozen years ago, Democrats excoriated him as a villain. Now, they’ve adopted the same tactic, though with the opposite goal — preserving Affordable Care Act and other health-care subsidies.

The National Endowment for the Arts violated the First Amendment by requiring grant recipients to comply with all executive orders, including President Donald Trump’s directive barring any federal funds from going to projects that “promote gender ideology,” a federal court said Friday.

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Fluent Servicing LLC, alleging that the company discriminated against a former employee because of her disability in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

A former employee of a Eurofins Viracor LLC subsidiary can proceed with her age bias and hostile work environment claims, a federal court said.

The Trump administration on Friday again asked the US Supreme Court to allow it to suspend renewed protections for Venezuelan immigrants, after a federal judge found the move was unlawful.

Baker McKenzie is suing a tax lawyer for defamation after she said she was sexually assaulted by the head of the firm’s Washington, DC office.

President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate Lindsey Halligan—a White House aide spearheading the ideological review of the Smithsonian Institution—to be US attorney in Eastern Virginia, replacing a prosecutor who was forced out for not bringing fraud charges against New York’s attorney general.

A US appeals court judge called it “really unfortunate” for Justice Neil Gorsuch to admonish jurists not to “defy” orders, saying it added to a feeling that the Supreme Court and lower courts are adversarial.

Two executives will leave Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith in the coming months as the law firm’s leader continues to overhaul its business operations.

Welcome to This Week in the Circuits, a look at the most significant cases before federal appeals courts.

Acting US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli said in court documents filed Friday that he’s qualified to prosecute cases as a valid acting US attorney.