Big Law has been hit with a wave of lawsuits in recent months, with discrimination and compensation claims from both current and former employees front and center. Am Law 200 firms such as Duane Morris, Foley Hoag, Armstrong Teasdale and Thompson Hine have found themselves at the center of disputes, with…

A U.S. bankruptcy Judge has formally terminated Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy proceeding, following a period of legal uncertainty prompted by assertions from the former U.S. attorney that he was unable to cover the administrative costs associated with dismissal. The move, announced Friday, allows litigation across the country to resume against the…

Latham & Watkins is advising Australian gas and oil producer Woodside Energy on its $2.35 billion purchase of OCI Clean Ammonia Holding and its low-carbon ammonia project under construction in Texas. OCI is advised by Vinson & Elkins and A&O Shearman

Despite a division in one of the two panels of judges to reinstate religious discrimination lawsuits against a Wisconsin hospital system, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit aligned with its sister court’s decisions over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In two separate panels, Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Y. Scudder authored the…

More than 50 class actions have been filed over an April data breach now connected to cloud storage software firm Snowflake Inc., with big companies such as Ticketmaster and AT&T named as additional defendants. On July 29, plaintiffs lawyer Jeff Ostrow, of Kopelowitz Ostrow Ferguson Weiselberg Gilbert, in Fort Lauderdale,…

Most companies know the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay employees a minimum hourly wage plus overtime, unless an exemption applies. What may be surprising, however, is how broadly the FLSA and courts applying it define who is an “employer.” The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals addressed…