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  A Brief Look At Delaware's Divisive Corporate Law Bill

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Delaware state Senate Bill 21, up for a Judiciary Committee vote on Wednesday, overturns some provisions of land...(read more)

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  White House Names Ex-Goldman Sachs Atty To Lead USPTO

  By Dani Kass

  U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated John Squires, Goldman Sachs' former longtime chief intellectual proper...(read more)

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• Crypto CEO A 'Grifter' Who Stole Millions, Jurors Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Cryptocurrency company founder Marcus Andrade is a "grifter" who stole millions and left investors empty-handed, a prosecutor told a California federal jury Tuesday during closing arguments while a defense lawyer said his client was a "dreamer" who acted in good faith and was taken advantage of by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

• Trump Admin Shutters EPA's Enviro Justice Office

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday dissolved its more than 30-year-old environmental justice and civil rights office, the latest in a string of EPA actions targeting efforts to ease pollution burdens on historically disadvantaged communities.

• Perkins Coie Slams Trump's Executive Order Retaliation

  By Lauren Berg

  Perkins Coie LLP sued the Trump administration Tuesday over an executive order targeting the firm for its diversity-focused hiring efforts and its representation of certain political figures including former Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, calling the order "an affront to the Constitution" that aims to chill future representation of certain clients.

• 'Congress Never Came Up' In CFPB Firing Talks, Worker Says

  By Ali Sullivan

  A Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee recounted before a D.C. federal judge on Tuesday a frantic effort to fire 1,200 agency staffers before a court order halted it, saying the prospect of first securing congressional approval was never mentioned.

• Senate Confirms Gail Slater To Lead DOJ Antitrust

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate voted 78-19 on Tuesday to confirm Gail Slater to be assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.

• 6th Circ. Won't Revisit FCC's Tanked Net Neutrality Rules

  By Christopher Cole

  The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday turned down a bid by public interest groups for a full-court rehearing of January's decision to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules.

• House Mulls Stablecoin Draft As Senate Bill Heads To Vote

  By Aislinn Keely

  House lawmakers continued to hash out the level of consumer protections and the size of state regulatory power that belongs in a federal framework for stablecoins on Tuesday as the Senate said it plans to push forward with a markup of its own Republican-led proposal.

• Lego Competitor Asks 2nd Circ. To Allow Figurine Sales

  By Aaron Keller

  A Lego competitor on Tuesday urged a Second Circuit panel to reverse a Connecticut district judge's order blocking the sale of figurines designed to fit into the toy company's signature interlocking play system, arguing the threadbare directive improperly modified a prior injunction.

• BigLaw Firms Join To Support Del. Corporate Law Changes

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Twenty-one law firms with Delaware corporate practices have jointly endorsed pending state legislation, S.B. 21, that aims to narrow stockholder avenues for challenging corporate acts and clarify the definition of company controllers.

• FERC Can't Defend Its Enforcement Powers, Energy Co. Says

  By Keith Goldberg

  An energy efficiency aggregator insists that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission doesn't have the authority to pursue a market manipulation case against it, telling a North Carolina federal judge that just because it can contest a penalty in court doesn't mean its constitutional rights haven't been violated.

• Eric Adams Case Dying Slow Death In 'Sovereign' District

  By Phillip Bantz

  Experts say New York City Mayor Eric Adams' criminal corruption case appears on track to be tossed permanently — a looming development that could signal the end of the fierce independence of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

• Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent

  By Tracey Read

  On-campus interviewing — an outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates — is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.