Kirkland & Ellis LLP moved to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the legal giant of helping to hide a romantic relationship involving a prominent Texas bankruptcy judge and a local lawyer.

Edward S. Sarnowski has been appointed executive partner of Holland & Knight’s Jacksonville, Fla., office, the firm said Wednesday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is poised to block Texas’s challenge to federal restrictions on possessing gun silencers.

Jennifer Dunn has joined Proskauer as a partner in the private funds group in the New York office, the firm said Wednesday.

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.

Microsoft Corp. and <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/BN%20CN%20Equity/FA","_id":"0000018f-3504-d4b6-a98f-f53533fc0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">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.

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The Archegos founder who erased his fortune in a blink — and helped bring down Credit Suisse — heads to trial next week with his faith unshaken.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-351e-d4b6-a98f-f53fdd440000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Edward Ruff has departed Citigroup Inc. after the firm put the senior dealmaker on leave while it was investigating his treatment of a junior banker, according to a person familiar with the matter.

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-3500-d4b6-a98f-f53534a10000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Unilever Plc’s move to dial back environmental commitments drew protests at the company’s annual meeting, even as shareholders of the maker of Dove soap and Magnum ice cream approved the softer targets.

New York police officers arrested almost 300 people as they broke up escalating pro-Palestinian protests at two colleges amid an outpouring of anger over the Israel-Hamas war.

The EEOC’s first update to its harassment guidance in a quarter century gives the document greater relevance in today’s workplace well as a higher chance of a lawsuit from conservative-leaning challengers.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-351e-d4b6-a98f-f53fdd440000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Edward Ruff has departed Citigroup Inc. after the firm put the senior dealmaker on leave while it was investigating his treatment of a junior banker, according to a person familiar with the matter.

New York police officers arrested almost 300 people as they broke up escalating pro-Palestinian protests at two colleges amid an outpouring of anger over the Israel-Hamas war.

A police officer who joked on Facebook about arresting a National Basketball Association player and made racist comments about other Black athletes isn’t legally entitled to get his job back, the Wisconsin high court ruled.

The EPA is requiring states to consider tribal water rights when establishing water quality standards under a new rule finalized this week, according to a Federal Register public inspection notice published Wednesday.

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.

Nova Southeastern University Inc. wants the Eleventh Circuit to place limits on discovery in lawsuits claiming statutory violations of ERISA, saying the circuit’s “unique” approach to administrative exhaustion has created issues that require clarification.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is poised to block Texas’s challenge to federal restrictions on possessing gun silencers.

Allegheny Wood Products Inc. agreed to voluntarily dismiss its case against the US Fish and Wildlife Service for rejecting a permit for the company’s timber harvest and housing development project.

A former Rockford, Ill. worker failed to identify other employees who received better treatment, or provide enough evidence, to secure a new shot at her equal pay and sex bias suit, a federal appellate court said.

A Sarasota, Fla. man on Wednesday lost an appeal to undo his fraud convictions for cheating investors out of more than $80 million.

Argent Trust Co. lost its appeal seeking to force arbitration in a dispute over a $242 million employee stock ownership plan transaction, when the Second Circuit on Wednesday invalidated the plan’s arbitration provision.