The Florida Bar said it mistakenly wrote in a letter last month that it was investigating former Virginia US Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

Legal tech firm Upsolve Inc. lost its fight against New York Attorney General Letitia James arguing the state’s rules against the unauthorized practice of law violated its First Amendment rights.

ModivCare asked a court to reject White & Case LLP’s $14 million final fee request for its work in the medical transportation company’s bankruptcy, accusing the law firm of deliberately burying the company’s estate in legal fees.

Dealmakers are, for the second year in a row, seeing their chances of a record haul of mergers and acquisitions potentially fizzle out before the end of the first quarter.

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For nearly three years, the two sides have battered each other with relentless legal filings in a New York court, and their war over who should pay at least hundreds of millions of dollars to sex abuse victims shows few signs of abating. Both accuse the other of an underhanded public relations campaign.

A California federal district court denied class certification in a wage and hour action against MarketSource, Inc., finding an employee’s prior supervisory role created a conflict of interest that made him an inadequate class representative. Brum v. Marketsource, Inc., 2026 BL 71092, E.D. Cal., 2:17-cv-00241-DAD-JDP, 3/2/26

President Donald Trump said the largest US defense manufacturers had agreed to boost production of some weapons following a meeting at the White House, amid worries that the war against Iran is depleting Pentagon stockpiles.

The Seventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Ascension on FMLA claims, finding the HR specialist was properly terminated for failing to return to work after leave expired, not for exercising FMLA rights. Chitwood v. Ascension Health All., 2026 BL 71131, 7th Cir., 25-1933, 3/3/26

The Ninth Circuit on Friday paused a federal judge’s order that voided a Board of Immigration Appeals decision used by the Trump administration’s immigration judges to deny bond hearings to detained noncitizens and uphold its policy of mandatory detention.

An unexpected hiring slump threatens to upend the prevailing view among Federal Reserve policymakers that a stabilizing labor market will allow them to keep interest rates steady as they fight persistent inflation.

Anthropic PBC runs the risk of losing a wide range of US government business after the Defense Department declared it a supply-chain risk, a rare designation that until now has only been assigned to companies from adversary nations like China’s Huawei Technologies Co.

President Donald Trump said the largest US defense manufacturers had agreed to boost production of some weapons following a meeting at the White House, amid worries that the war against Iran is depleting Pentagon stockpiles.

A week into one of the biggest ever disruptions to global energy markets, oil prices still remain far below levels seen in previous crises. But a growing chorus of energy executives and traders is warning that every day that war rages on brings the world closer to a tipping point — with several predicting $100 crude within days.

The Iran war rattled but didn’t break Wall Street this week. Instead it exposed the limits of diversification strategies built to cushion investors against chaos.

US oil posted the biggest weekly gain on record as the war in Iran upends critical energy market flows, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz at a near-total halt.

The Trump administration announced a $20 billion reinsurance program aimed at reviving shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has all but stopped amid the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

The US energy secretary and a congressman are calling to restart a shuttered nuclear plant north of New York City, saying it’s needed to meet surging demand for power.

The Ninth Circuit on Friday paused a federal judge’s order that voided a Board of Immigration Appeals decision used by the Trump administration’s immigration judges to deny bond hearings to detained noncitizens and uphold its policy of mandatory detention.

Cellular Connection LLC, which sells Verizon products at retail, won’t face a former regional manager’s appeal from an adverse ruling in his disability discrimination case.

State employment litigation laws can’t impose higher burdens on White workers seeking to bring discrimination cases against their bosses, the Third Circuit ruled Friday.

Republican state legislative efforts to eliminate countywide voting could potentially shape contests across the country as they did in parts of Texas on Tuesday.

Indiana’s abortion law has been halted insofar as it violates the rights of a certified class whose members don’t share the Christian religious belief that life begins at conception, a state trial court said.