Pillsbury is opening a Boston office with four partners and a senior counsel, including a former Latham & Watkins lawyer, the firm announced Monday.

The stage is set for a wave of legal tech consolidation long anticipated by industry founders, users, and investors.

Federal law draws careful distinctions between contractor entities and individuals, between contributions and independent spending, and between prohibited and permitted political activity. Understanding those distinctions will help companies know where compliance traps lie, writes McDermott’s Llewelyn Engel.

Recent SEC reform efforts are welcome news for any corporation that has found itself in the SEC’s crosshairs but don’t do enough to give companies wiggle room to defend themselves in court, writes Milbank’s George Canellos.

Corporate law has for decades been taught and studied with Delaware as the default framework, and other jurisdictions treated largely as variations on that model. That framing is convenient, but it is also wrong. When Delaware is treated as the default, jurisdictional competition becomes a debate about perception rather than substance.

AI assets should be treated as operationally material technology that requires validation before closing any merger, write Quarles & Brady’s Hannah Ji-Otto, Jianfei Chen, and Heather Buchta.

Cerebras Systems Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in an initial public offering, as the artificial intelligence chipmaker and data center operator looks to counter rivals in the red-hot sector.

The US denied a report by Iranian media on Monday that the country had struck an American naval vessel with missiles, Axios reported citing a senior official. Oil prices and stocks pared back some of their earlier moves.

Odyssey Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology firm focused on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, is seeking to raise $238.3 million in an initial public offering.

After a remarkably successful effort to extinguish diversity, equity and inclusion programs at US employers, federal officials are stepping up their push against corporate America’s remaining DEI initiatives.

The SEC appears likely to retain its power to recover money snatched by fraudsters in a case before the US Supreme Court, but there’s still a wide gap between what the Wall Street regulator collects and what it can return to any investors who end up on the losing end.

A group of settlement trusts created to handle claims against manufacturers of cancer-causing asbestos want the Delaware Supreme Court to intervene mid-case in a dispute over data retention.

The Trump administration has left sections of the Department of Labor under-staffed and sidelined, raising questions around whether the agency is spending the money Congress has appropriated for it.

Recent cases striking down state provisions barring mid-level clinicians—such as advanced practice nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives—from performing abortions have opened a new path to expanding access for people seeking to terminate pregnancies.

Federal immigration agents arrested a Nigerian national in Brooklyn late Saturday, setting off a confrontation with protesters outside a local hospital and sparking criticism from some New York City officials.

Sweeping new US economic sanctions on Cuba could chase international companies off the island as Donald Trump’s administration continues to threaten military force to dislodge the 67-year-old regime.

Ashley Romanias has departed from her role as director of the Labor Department’s gutted federal contractor watchdog, according to an internal email obtained by Bloomberg Law.

The manufacturer of the abortion pill mifepristone asked the Supreme Court to pause Friday’s decision by a federal appeals court that blocked mailing of the medication.

Pillsbury is opening a Boston office with four partners and a senior counsel, including a former Latham & Watkins lawyer, the firm announced Monday.

Recent cases striking down state provisions barring mid-level clinicians—such as advanced practice nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives—from performing abortions have opened a new path to expanding access for people seeking to terminate pregnancies.

The SEC appears likely to retain its power to recover money snatched by fraudsters in a case before the US Supreme Court, but there’s still a wide gap between what the Wall Street regulator collects and what it can return to any investors who end up on the losing end.

A group of settlement trusts created to handle claims against manufacturers of cancer-causing asbestos want the Delaware Supreme Court to intervene mid-case in a dispute over data retention.

Federal law draws careful distinctions between contractor entities and individuals, between contributions and independent spending, and between prohibited and permitted political activity. Understanding those distinctions will help companies know where compliance traps lie, writes McDermott’s Llewelyn Engel.

Recent SEC reform efforts are welcome news for any corporation that has found itself in the SEC’s crosshairs but don’t do enough to give companies wiggle room to defend themselves in court, writes Milbank’s George Canellos.