The Latest
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2025 in-house legal conferences
General counsel can plan their team’s conference budget for next year by seeing all the top events at a glance using Legal Dive’s list of 2025 conferences for corporate lawyers.
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California Gov. Newsom greenlights climate disclosure acts by signing new bill
Senate Bill 219 includes a series of amendments to climate bills SB 253 and SB 261, originally approved by Newsom last October, while retaining a 2026 start date.
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Visa boosts litigation funding ahead of US antitrust fight
The company added $1.5 billion to a litigation escrow account as it battles a Justice Department lawsuit and ongoing legal case with merchants.
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Elon Musk takes campaign against the regulatory state from labor to aviation
SpaceX has filed two lawsuits seeking to dismantle the NLRB, and Musk is now in a new conflict with the FAA over rocketry regulation.
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FCC reaches $31.5M settlement with T-Mobile over rash of data breaches
The company agreed to a major change in board-level governance and will make a series of upgrades to boost its cyber resilience.
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TD to pay regulators $28.5M over spoofing scheme
The broker-dealer arm of the Canadian bank will pay penalties to the DOJ, SEC and FINRA over a former trader’s scheme to place hundreds of fraudulent spoof orders amounting to billions of dollars.
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Berkeley settles ADA lawsuit over remote attendance for commission members
City representatives approved requests but required commission members’ home addresses be publicly posted and that they allow members of the public into their homes, the complaint alleged.
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California governor vetoes controversial AI safety bill
Silicon Valley had largely opposed the measure, which would have imposed liability and civil penalties on companies developing the largest AI models.
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Independent boards found to enhance worker safety
The positive impact is heightened in companies dominated by long-term investors, researchers say in an academic paper.
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Privacy laws raise questions for advertisers: Here’s what the numbers say
A majority of advertisers have changed their strategies to comply with new legislation, while nearly half have adjusted their number of data partners.
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Michigan towns sue Republic Services to prevent interstate shipment of hazardous waste
A site owned by Republic Services in Wayne County, Michigan, was set to receive radioactive waste from New York this fall before towns sued the company, seeking to halt the disposal plan.
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Social media posts cost DraftKings $200,000
The company’s PR firm posted new information in the name of the CEO on sites that hadn’t first been disclosed as places where such information would be released, the SEC says.
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Higher GC compensation usually means less cash and more equity, bonuses
As in-house counsel assume more roles, companies are focusing their compensation on performance metrics, two executive pay experts said.
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A look at 7 Supreme Court cases Big Business will be watching
The court’s term begins Oct. 7 with a docket that involves corporate securities, labor, RICO and environmental questions.
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Uber turns Nevada into contingency fee-cap battleground
A ballot initiative pushed by the company would cap contingency fees at 20% for all civil litigation, sparking an outcry by plaintiff’s attorneys in the state.
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Wells Fargo faces new class-action suit over cash sweeps
A lawsuit filed Tuesday accused the lender of underpaying interest “to enrich itself at its customers’ expense.”
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What to know about privacy laws when collecting personal data on shoppers
Retailers have moved away from collecting identifiable information from consumers, but need to be aware of requirements for the personal data they do collect, an Albertsons privacy official said at IAB's summit last week.
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Boosting D&O protection with entity investigation coverage
Market competition has made it more affordable for general counsel to get the costs of complying with SEC or DOJ investigations covered under their directors and officers insurance, a broker says.
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Elon Musk asks court to dismiss former CNN anchor’s fraud lawsuit
Their business relationship fizzled after Don Lemon’s “invasive and inappropriate interview,” the billionaire says in his response to the complaint.
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DoorDash, Uber Eats win NYC customer data court battle
New York City’s rule requiring delivery apps to give restaurants consumer information violates the First Amendment, a judge found Tuesday.
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DOL rolls out inclusive hiring framework focused on employer AI use
The Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology and the Office of Disability Employment Policy developed the learning and development resources together.
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Major companies keep hiring North Korean IT workers
Dozens of Fortune 100 organizations have inadvertently hired workers from North Korea applying for remote jobs, Mandiant said.
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Companies’ reduced penalties show benefit of clawbacks: DOJ’s Argentieri
SAP and Albemarle had FCPA fines reduced by $109,000 and $763,000, respectively, for going after the pay of culpable employees.
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DOJ suit accuses Visa of illegal monopoly for debit payments
The company threatens merchants with high fees, and "makes its potential rivals business partners to thwart competition in debit card processing," the DOJ says.
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Google’s legal hold policy figures into a third federal antitrust trial
Another U.S. judge has criticized Google’s legal approach for preserving employee communications as the company defends its online advertising dominance.