Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan resigned Saturday, following her conviction for obstructing federal law enforcement officers.

Spencer Fane LLP is merging with intellectual property boutique Global IP Counselors, the firms confirmed Friday.

W. R. Berkley Corporation announced new leadership appointments, with Lee Iannarone named executive vice president and Stephen Kennedy named senior vice president and general counsel, the insurance company said Monday.

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The Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs near national political committee offices in January 2021 must be detained while awaiting trial, a Washington federal judge ruled.

The US Supreme Court will hear argument in March over whether the Second Amendment allows a federal law banning firearm possession by drug users.

A Michigan resident failed to convince a federal appeals court to deem cannabis licensing schemes that favor in-state applicants unlawful, establishing a circuit split over the role of the dormant Commerce Clause in state-legal marijuana markets.

State regulators are abandoning a plan to rehabilitate PHL Variable Insurance Co. and may pursue liquidation instead, after finding that the struggling life insurer — acquired by private equity firm Golden Gate Capitala decade ago — is in worse shape than previously thought.

European developers Orsted A/S and Equinor ASA filed legal challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to halt construction of their US offshore wind projects.

Empire Offshore Wind LLC is challenging the Interior Department’s decision to suspend its project offshore of New York.

Bridgewater Associates’ flagship money pool posted record gains, while D.E. Shaw & Co.’s strategies soared as much as 28% to rank among the biggest hedge fund winners of 2025 when tariff-fueled market uncertainty presented a fertile hunting ground for traders.

WorldWideMarkets Ltd., a related company, and their principal are liable to the government in a civil enforcement suit alleging they misappropriated $4 million from foreign exchange customers.

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan resigned Saturday, following her conviction for obstructing federal law enforcement officers.

A law barring undocumented immigrants from possessing guns is valid under the Second Amendment, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found Friday, aligning with other circuits.

The US government’s termination of temporary deportation protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal was unlawful, a San Francisco federal judge ruled, the latest setback in the Trump administration’s legal defense of its immigration policies.

Significant developments are anticipated this year over legal requirements to sustain discrimination claims involving religious accommodation requests, diversity practices, and gender-based harassment.

There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires.

The NCAA and major sports leagues are girding for new legal fights over athlete pay, college eligibility, and rules of competition—a jumble of cases whose outcome could reshape the business of sports.

The US raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro put America’s allies and adversaries on notice: President Donald Trump has a new world order of his own.

President Donald Trump said the US would run Venezuela until a leadership transition could be organized, hours after a US operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power and delivering him to US soil late Saturday.

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is unlikely to escape prosecution in Manhattan federal court on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges, even if his overnight capture by US forces breached international law principles.

The US Department of Justice on Saturday accused Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro of playing a key role in a broad conspiracy over 25 years to traffic cocaine into the US with the help of regional drug and terrorist groups.

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan resigned Saturday, following her conviction for obstructing federal law enforcement officers.

With the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, President Donald Trump dramatically raised the stakes of his long-running disregard of Congress and assertions of presidential power.