Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced her intent to open an investigation into circumstances leading up to Steward Health Care System’s voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in the Southern District of Texas. “I am deeply concerned about the potential impact this could have on Arizona patients and medical providers,” Mayes said.…

New York’s civil legal services community converged on the Albany Capitol on Monday to back a legislative bill that would ensure that the executive branch’s diversion from a lawyers’ interest-bearing account would be limited to a one-time occurrence. The legal advocates are still stewing about lawmakers signing off on Gov.…

The Georgia Court of Appeals has determined that $1 million is not too much for a nominal damages jury award, as argued by Walmart, represented by Jack Reiter of GrayRobinson, in a Gwinnett County slip-and-fall case at oral argument in December 2023. The court’s disposition, issued May 10 and authored…

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel partner Barry Berke on Monday told a jury in the Southern District of New York that his client Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang did not break the law in the year preceding the collapse of his $36 billion fund Archegos Capital Management in 2021. Patrick Halligan…

The state Solicitor General’s office wants New York’s top court to declare the ethics watchdog a lawful body. On Monday, the Solicitor General’s office filed a motion to leave to appeal the Appellate Division, Third Department’s unanimous determination on May 9 that the New York State Commission on Ethics and…

Squarespace’s $6.9 billion take-private deal, announced Monday, kicked off a flurry of work to several law firms. It was the largest announced transaction in deal value of the past week. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Latham & Watkins; Paul Hastings; Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton…