A federal judicial panel ordered the transfer of more than 50 class actions brought over AT&T Inc.’s data breach to Texas. In a Wednesday order, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation assigned U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas to oversee the AT&T data breach…

With the Indian election now concluded, the country is set for massive growth, Indian lawyers say. Although the election was closer than expected, Narendra Modi has once again secured the position of India’s prime minister, his third consecutive win in a decade.

A white former employee of multinational information technology company HP Inc. claimed he lost his job and was allegedly accused of racism after he said the company was spending too much time on its diversity, equity and inclusion practices. The plaintiff, Evan Arsenault, was a solution architect at HP, and worked…

Two partners in a Westchester accounting firm have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, acknowledging that they helped clients fraudulently reduce their tax liability between 2012 and 2018. Certified public accountants Jack Sardis, 66, and George Sanossian, 70, also agreed to pay $652,883.60 in restitution to…

More law firms are investing in white-collar defense and investigation practices, adding laterals or creating dedicated practices, amid robust enforcement activity. Shook, Hardy & Bacon, which has traditionally focused on civil and product liability litigation, also sees the potential in the practice, launching this week a government investigation and litigation group.…

Since ChatGPT took the world by storm, there’s been no shortage of stories about lawyers behaving badly and using it to submit hallucinated cases to the court, and courts, in turn, issuing standing orders to restrict its use. Far fewer are the stories of judges embracing the use of generative…