By Carla Baranauckas

After failed attempts in previous years, 2024 was the year prosecutors secured convictions in separate cases against a longtime New Jersey senator and a healthcare software executive. In another closely watched white collar matter, a Garden State law firm executive met his fate for stealing from his employer. 

By Daniel Wilson

Here are four lower-profile decisions in 2024 with important legal findings for federal contractors, addressing issues such as when a contractor needs to press an agency for payment and when the government cannot claim sovereign immunity for COVID-19 response.

By Anna Scott Farrell

Over the past year, federal courts have issued decisions further delimiting the power of the Internal Revenue Service, with the First Circuit affirming a decision to allow agency summonses for cryptocurrency account records and an Arizona federal court rejecting a call to lift the agency's moratorium on processing pandemic-era worker credits. Here, Law360 reviews some of the most significant federal tax decisions of 2024.

By P.J. D'Annunzio

This year was a standout for high-profile legal battles in Pennsylvania, from a blockbuster verdict against Monsanto over its Roundup weedkiller to the Philadelphia district attorney's fight with Elon Musk over allegations that he tried to influence the 2024 presidential election with his million-dollar giveaway.

By Amanda Ottaway

Early challenges to workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandates were largely unsuccessful, but pro-plaintiff rulings and verdicts from 2024 showed that employers should give workers broad deference, particularly when it comes to religious objections to vaccines. Here, Law360 looks back at five noteworthy developments that came down this year in vaccination cases.

By Kat Lucero

The Internal Revenue Service's criminal arm is still in the early stage of investigating the most extremely fraudulent claims of a tax credit intended to reward businesses for retaining employees during the COVID-19 pandemic, an official said Saturday.