Europe’s top court is weighing a landmark case that could allow private equity investors and other nonlawyers to buy shares in German law firms, radically changing the legal market in Germany and beyond. “Financial sponsors from the city [of London] and the USA are queuing up to invest in firms…

A Massachusetts Appeals Court panel reinstated a portion of a customer’s claims to proceed against a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise, finding the corporate defendants could be held vicariously liable for an employee’s use of a racial epithet following a dispute over a delayed food order. The plaintiff, Gary Pettiford, sued Worcester Donuts, doing…

Several business groups have urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to vacate the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial climate disclosure rule, calling it “unlawful several times over.” In an opening brief Friday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and similar advocacy organizations told the St. Louis-based appeals…

New York Attorney General Letitia James obtained a $50 million settlement with a cryptocurrency exchange, which claimed it offered a “low-risk” investment option to investors but deliberately failed to disclose that its loans were highly concentrated with Alameda Research, the sister firm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX. “Today’s settlement will make…

James Weingarten, the chief trial counsel at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, has re-entered the private sector, joining Milbank as a partner in its global antitrust and competition and litigation groups in Washington, D.C., the firm said Monday.  Weingarten, who led the FTC’s efforts as first chair in its…

Judicial misconduct proceedings for Middle Georgia Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Robert S. Reeves did not get underway Monday before the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia Hearing Panel as scheduled. Rather than livestream the ethics proceeding from the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth beginning at 9 a.m. as previously announced, JQC…