Jeff Symons has joined Foley & Lardner as an M&A partner in the transactions practice in New York, the firm said Wednesday.

Daniel N. Lerman has joined Kramer Levin as a partner in its litigation department in Washington, D.C., the firm said Wednesday. He will focus on trial and appellate matters involving criminal, intellectual property, securities, bankruptcy, environmental, and administrative law, as well as commercial litigation, said the firm.

Thomas J. McCaffrey has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a partner in the corporate and financial services department and private equity practice group in the Houston office, the firm said Wednesday.

Johnson & Johnson will ask thousands of people suing over its allegedly tainted baby powder to vote for a settlement that would resolve all litigation for $11 billion — $2.1 billion more than the company offered last year.

Jared Nagley has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the antitrust and competition practice group and healthcare industry team in the New York office, the firm said Wednesday.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett will open an office in Boston later this year, the firm said Wednesday.

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Microsoft Corp. and Brookfield Asset Management’s green energy arm signed the biggest corporate clean-energy purchase agreement ever announced, as the technology giant ramps up its investment in artificial intelligence.

The US Treasury asked an advisory group of securities dealers and investors to assess whether the federal government should start selling green bonds, potentially moving the US closer to joining other nations that have been marketing their debt to funds focused on evironmental causes.

Delaware’s top court revived shareholder litigation Wednesday over Inovalon Holdings Inc.'s $7.3 billion sale to a private equity consortium led by Nordic Capital.

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Tesla Inc. eliminated almost its entire Supercharger organization, which has built a vast network of public charging stations that virtually every major automaker is in the process of tapping into in the US.

Louisiana can’t use a newly-minted second Black-majority voting district in any future elections because it is an impermissible racial gerrymander that violates the Equal Protection Clause, a federal district court ruled.

Dozens of New York City police officers surged onto Columbia University’s campus late Tuesday to clear out pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had barricaded themselves in a building, while violent clashes broke out at a separate protest at UCLA in Los Angeles.

People with disabilities are getting updated protections against discrimination in health care under a Biden administration rule unveiled Wednesday.

Reed Smith LLP shook off a Black paralegal’s employment bias lawsuit alleging she was treated differently from her younger, white colleagues in training and advancement opportunities, and was laid off due to her age and race.

Five Jones Day attorneys took to the US Supreme Court lectern this term, making the DC-based giant the firm with the most arguments.

North Carolina laws exceeding US Food and Drug Administration limitations on the prescribing of the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone are preempted by federal law, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

Texas’s law banning people under 21 from working in strip clubs is constitutional, a federal judge said.

Delaware’s top court revived shareholder litigation Wednesday over Inovalon Holdings Inc.'s $7.3 billion sale to a private equity consortium led by Nordic Capital.

Johnson & Johnson will ask thousands of people suing over its allegedly tainted baby powder to vote for a settlement that would resolve all litigation for $11 billion — $2.1 billion more than the company offered last year.

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A federal district judge in Texas will have to decide whether to put the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s $8 cap on credit card late fees on hold, a federal appeals court ruled.

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