Staffing reductions at the Labor Department’s benefits regulator have put the agency at a “breaking point” as it attempts to oversee the nation’s vast retirement and health care benefits system, a former senior official said.

The US Department of Health and Human Services and hospitals groups are scrapping a legal fight over a drug rebate pilot after federal officials said they would take another look at the program.

A prominent civil rights attorney in Texas must explain why he shouldn’t be sanctioned for improper use of artificial intelligence after a federal court found he cited a non-existent case and mischaracterized the findings of others.

Elon Musk can be forced to testify in a lawsuit brought by government workers and contractors who accused him of unlawfully directing the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development while he was a senior White House adviser, a judge ruled.

A New Jersey state appeals court has affirmed the dismissal of a long‑running legal malpractice suit against Leeds Morelli & Brown LLP, determining that a former client was unable to show that a judge abused his discretion in declining to accept expert reports as net opinion.

When private equity titan Leon Black needed help with creative tax and wealth strategies, he turned to Jeffrey Epstein. But when Black needed help with Epstein, he turned to a powerful Wall Street attorney and fixer, Brad Karp.

A jury was seated in the first California bellwether trial over claims that Google's YouTube and Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms harm young users' mental health, with the trial to begin Monday and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected to be one of the first witnesses.

Pennsylvania State University’s extension school twice refused to promote a wine teacher because she failed to show “sufficient ideological commitment” to its DEI program, a complaint alleges.

An Arizona state court permanently struck down a slew of restrictions on abortion care in the state, including an ultrasound mandate and a ban on the mailing of abortion pills, finding the restrictions violate the right to abortion enshrined in the state's constitution.

A New York federal court refused to bar Zillow from enforcing its updated listing policy while Compass brings its antitrust case alleging the rules are meant to block competition, after finding the brokerage has not shown its case is likely to succeed.

Reinvigorated lawsuits from federal worker unions and advocates will face a series of hurdles in challenging a new regulation that makes it easier for the president to fire nonpolitical public employees.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected a nursing home operator’s attempt to freeze a long-running National Labor Relations Board case based on alleged constitutional defects with the agency’s in-house judges.

A Texas federal jury has handed an oilfield services company $8.4 million in damages after finding a rival had willfully pilfered trade secrets related to nitrogen rejection unit technology when an employee left to start the rival firm.

The Senate has stepped up confirmations of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, as just a handful now remain in the pipeline with the administration slow to announce new picks.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP brought on three government investigations attorneys from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as practice leaders, and King & Spalding LLP hired the U.S Department of Justice's former top public corruption prosecutor, in some of the latest hires at