Blank Rome is on a transactional practice hiring spree this year, most recently tacking on three energy and natural resource partners from Reed Smith, including the firm’s former energy and natural resources practice co-chair Ryan Purpura. Purpura, who will be operating in both Pennsylvania and Texas, is joined in the…

With the demise of Chevron deference, regulated entities are emboldened to challenge—and judges more free to question—U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations as beyond the EPA’s statutory authority, environmental law experts said this week. Their comments followed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturning what…

Rejecting Nationwide Insurance’s arguments brought by a midsized regional firm that an ordinary person would understand that a “post third sale offering” of a tax-delinquent home is considered a “public auction,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court’s order siding with the insurer. In…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Miami businessman Patrick Orlando alleging the former CEO of Digital World Acquisition Corp. made false statements concealing his alleged plan for acquiring Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. “As part of this scheme,” the SEC alleged in the complaint filed Wednesday, “Orlando…

Washington, D.C., attorney Laura Dunn has sold her Title IX practice to a New York law firm, partly because a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling limited opportunities to recover damages for her clients, she said. “This was kind of like a slow time bomb,” Dunn said about the ruling. “The…

Linklaters, Al-Tamimi, and AS&H Clifford Chance advised on energy projects in Saudi Arabia worth $3.9 billion, which are part of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 and the Saudi Green Initiative. The Taiba-2 and Qassim-2 are Independent Power Plant (IPP) projects in Saudi Arabia. With a combined capacity of 3.96 gigawatts (GW),…