Kennedys said Wednesday that revenue in North America grew by more than 22% in its latest financial year, driven by strategic lateral partner and group hires as the firm remains open to more merger opportunities in the world's largest legal market.

Big Law innovation announcements traditionally are not flashy events. That changed last week when Kirkland & Ellis partner Erica Berthou walked onstage at a Palantir Technologies Inc. conference in Miami.

A senior tax barrister told a court Wednesday that HM Revenue and Customs prosecuting him for evading almost £2 million ($2.7 million) in tax was its way of "canceling" a person the tax authority found "extremely inconvenient." #Law360UK

The European Union and four African countries have reached a deal on the bloc's first free trade agreement with sub-Saharan African nations in the hopes of mutual economic benefits, the European Commission said Wednesday.

Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. failed to overturn a patent verdict of more than $25 million over its Rebyota fecal-transplant therapy and must pay ongoing royalties, a federal judge ruled.

Travel marketing platform Sojern Inc. defeated a proposed class action alleging it illegally collected the personal information of consumers booking rooms on websites of hotels using its online tracking tools.

The New Jersey Supreme Court diminished immunity for nonprofit healthcare providers, ruling that the state’s Charitable Immunity Act didn’t insulate a nonprofit from tort claims.

A Georgia school district is immune from some claims in a trio of race discrimination suits brought by Black former principals, a state appeals court ruled, overturning a lower court order it said contained mistakes and at least one "hallucinated" case law reference.

Driven Brands Holdings Inc.‘ $25 million settlement earned a federal judge’s blessing to resolve allegations the automotive-services company overhyped the integration of its glass repair platform and the performance of its car wash business.

A trade association for drug-testing companies and a biopharma firm developing marijuana-derived drugs have urged the D.C. Circuit to hit pause on a DOJ rule rescheduling state-sanctioned medical pot while their challenge to the policy change plays out. https://www.law360.com/articles/2488031

A case alleging BDO USA Inc. discriminated against a managing director based on his age when the firm fired him after he rejected an offer to work with a cut to his pay and benefits will advance to a trial, a federal judge ruled.

California and other states sued the U.S. Department of Education in federal court Tuesday alleging it canceled special education service grants supporting students with disabilities for "political reasons." https://www.law360.com/articles/2488180

The AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest coalition of labor unions, has sued the Department of Labor over a recent final rule that altered financial disclosure forms for labor unions.

A former committee staff director for U.S. Sen. Tim Scott has been hired at K&L Gates LLP, the firm announced Wednesday, following her time as a senior vice president with a bipartisan government relations and lobbying firm.

Real estate data company CoStar Group Inc. is asking a court to reject Zillow Group Inc.'s attempt to gain access to critical home listings, escalating litigation over control of the US residential real estate market.