OCC Clears Faster Merger, Licensing Path For Smaller Banks

By Jon Hill

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Tuesday expanded fast-track merger review and licensing pathways for banks under $30 billion in assets, its latest move to advance the Trump administration's deregulatory push for so-called community banks.

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Goldman's Departing CLO, Gates Asked To Testify On Epstein

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday asked outgoing Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others to testify about their connections to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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7th Circ. Expedites Bank Appeal Of Ill. Swipe-Fee Law

By Joyce Hanson

The Seventh Circuit granted banking and credit union trade groups' bid to fast-track their appeal over the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act after they asked to schedule the case for a decision before the law banning swipe fees on tax and tip payments takes effect July 1.

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Ex-Morgan Stanley Adviser Guilty Of Defrauding NBA Clients

By Stewart Bishop

A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former Morgan Stanley investment adviser on fraud charges, for allegedly defrauding NBA player clients by overcharging them for life insurance investments and misappropriating funds.

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Goldman, Former Execs Seek Early Win In 1MDB Bribery Suit

By Katryna Perera

Goldman Sachs and two of its former executives have asked a New York federal judge to grant them an early win in an investor suit claiming losses from the 1MDB bond bribery scandal, saying that what remains in the suit is an "incoherent, reverse-engineered theory of securities fraud that the factual record does not sustain."

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SoftBank-Backed PayPay Launches Plans For $1B IPO

By Sydney Price

Japanese mobile payment app PayPay, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., said it anticipates a $1 billion initial public offering, represented by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and underwriters counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

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Man Gets 6 Years In Prison For $5.6M Fraud

By Zach Dupont

A Pennsylvania man who pled guilty to wire fraud and money laundering was sentenced Tuesday in Colorado federal court to more than six years in prison for his role in two separate schemes that defrauded several government entities and individuals of more than $5.6 million.

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Former Iowa Biz President Convicted Of Bankruptcy Crimes

By Emily Lever

The former president of a defunct Iowa telecommunications and infrastructure business has been convicted by a jury of concealing assets and making false statements in his personal bankruptcy proceeding, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

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Wells Fargo Escapes Ex-Workers' Prescription Cost Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Former Wells Fargo workers on the employer healthcare plan failed to show that the company violated federal benefits law by allowing them to overpay for prescription drugs, a Minnesota federal judge found Tuesday, tossing the proposed class action.

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Wealth Management Firm Sued Over 5.7M Record Breach

By MJ Koo

A wealth management firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court by a client who alleges that an extortion-driven cyberattack by the hacking group ShinyHunters exposed approximately 5.7 million individual records containing sensitive personal information.

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FINRA Guide Refines Rules Of The Road For Negative Consent

A recent Financial Industry Regulatory Authority notice streamlines the use of negative consent letters to customers, particularly for introducing brokers and clearing brokers, but it also attaches greater responsibility to compliance, and firms must ensure use of negative consent remains firmly within FINRA's bright-line rules, say attorneys at Mintz.

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A Tale Of 2 Self-Disclosure Policies: How SDNY, DOJ Differ

Though the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York’s recently announced corporate enforcement and voluntary self-disclosure policy shares many similarities with that of the U.S. Department of Justice, the two programs differ in meaningful ways, including subject matter scope and timeline to declination, say attorneys at Wiley.

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Charges Signal Tougher Stance On Execs' Bankruptcy Fraud

The recent criminal charges stemming from the Tricolor and First Brands bankruptcy cases may represent a sea change in the willingness of federal prosecutors to use bankruptcy fraud as a basis to charge corporate officers more frequently alongside traditional statutes such as wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering, say attorneys at White & Case.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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DOJ Nixes Plan To Drop Law Firm EO Appeals In About-Face

By Emma Cueto

A day after informing the D.C. Circuit that it would no longer seek to defend the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump against four law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course Tuesday, requesting permission to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.

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Early Publicity Could Poison DOJ's Criminal Cases, Attys Say

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has shrugged off long-standing prosecutorial policies against publicizing criminal probes in their early stages and disparaging the targets, an "unusual" and "troubling" development that threatens the integrity of investigations, grand jury proceedings and the right to a fair trial, experts tell Law360.

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Skadden Hit With Sanctions Over 'Vexatious' Gaming Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge has sanctioned Papaya Gaming and its attorneys from Skadden for what the court said was a "blatant" attempt to relitigate claims in Virginia that had already been dismissed in a false advertising dispute in New York with Skillz Platform, one of its competitors.

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NY Judicial Watchdog Says Complaints Break Record Again

By Andrea Keckley

New York's judicial watchdog has reported a record number of new complaints filed against judges for the fourth year in a row in 2025.

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Day Pitney Faces DQ Bid Over Ex-Justice's Role In $1.3M Case

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP should be sidelined from a $1.3 million private equity management company's windup lawsuit because former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a partner at the firm, heard the case before it was earmarked for a new trial, three company owners have argued.

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New Whistleblower Program Adds 'Bit More Stick,' DOJ Says

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's new whistleblower rewards program partnership with the U.S. Postal Service doesn't displace the leniency program by which companies disclose potential price-fixing and other antitrust violations, a DOJ official said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., but it is an important complement.

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DOJ Turns To 2nd Circ. In Bid To Revive James Subpoenas

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the Second Circuit to revive an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James launched by a federal prosecutor later found to have been serving unlawfully, arguing the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York had been rightfully appointed when he launched the probe.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice got its antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster teed up for trial, as a court continues mulling the department's settlement last year in a case challenging a deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and lawmakers call for scrutiny of Paramount Skydance's blockbuster acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Meta Atty's Slip Reveals Social Media Trial Plaintiff's Identity

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Meta Platforms on Tuesday revealed the highly guarded full name of the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial accusing its Instagram platform and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health, prompting the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case to strike it from the record and order everyone in the courtroom not to reveal it.

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