Sara Hellstedt joined Fisher Phillips as a partner in its Higher Education, K-12 Education and Workplace Investigations practices in Portland, ME, the firm announced Monday.

Anthropic PBC sued the Defense Department for declaring that the artificial intelligence giant posed a risk to the US supply chain, further ramping up a high-stakes dispute with the Pentagon over safeguards on the company’s technology.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc. has reached a settlement with federal antitrust authorities, the Justice Department said Monday, throwing a wrench mid-trial into an antitrust case that accused the company of illegally monopolizing the live music industry and sought to force a sale of its Ticketmaster subsidiary.

Christopher Odell joined Akin as a tax partner in Chicago, the firm announced Monday.

Matthew Galeotti joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in its litigation practice in New York, the firm announced Monday.

Alex Dimock and Sam Murphy joined Bracewell as partners in its Dallas office, launching the firm’s new real estate special situations practice, the firm announced Monday.

A Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. unit is off the hook for defense costs in an underlying case over a butane leak and subsequent explosion at a cannabis product manufacturing facility.

Sara Hellstedt joined Fisher Phillips as a partner in its Higher Education, K-12 Education and Workplace Investigations practices in Portland, ME, the firm announced Monday.

Anthropic PBC sued the Defense Department for declaring that the artificial intelligence giant posed a risk to the US supply chain, further ramping up a high-stakes dispute with the Pentagon over safeguards on the company’s technology.

Lockheed Martin Corp. must again defend against a whistleblower’s claims that the contractor improperly billed the government for military fighter aircraft parts, a federal appeals court said Monday.

OpenAI has agreed to buy Promptfoo, a startup that enables large businesses to find and fix security issues in artificial intelligence models during their development, part of a push to help corporate customers reduce possible risks from deploying AI software.

Insurance and risk management company Lockton Inc. was hit with two proposed class actions challenging the target-date funds in its employees’ 401(k) plan.

The EPA under President Donald Trump notched higher enforcement numbers across several key metrics in fiscal 2025 than it has in a decade, Jeffrey Hall, head of the agency’s enforcement division, said in an interview.

The owners of a family farm in New York sued a group of six leading fertilizer companies in a proposed class action, the first such case filed by a private plaintiff following reports of a Department of Justice probe over possible collusion.

US President Donald Trump confronted mounting pressures on the 10th day of the Iran war as oil prices surged past $100 and the Islamic Republic announced the hardline son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as its new supreme leader.

A federal judge on Monday allowed two Ohioans to intervene in a lawsuit over the 2023 trail derailment in East Palestine, a move that could extend the time it takes to rule on a pending $310 million settlement between the United States and Norfolk Southern Corp.

Oil gave up some of its gains after smashing through $100 a barrel as the world’s largest economies consider a co-ordinated release of emergency oil stockpiles, with a standstill of tanker traffic through the vital Strait of Hormuz choking off supplies to the rest of the world.

A New York federal court ended a manufacturer’s suit against a Chubb Ltd. unit over pollution liability coverage after the parties reached a settlement.

Sara Hellstedt joined Fisher Phillips as a partner in its Higher Education, K-12 Education and Workplace Investigations practices in Portland, ME, the firm announced Monday.

President Donald Trump said the US would take in the Iranian women’s soccer team if Australia did not provide the players with asylum, amid fears over their safety if they return home.

Two transgender women accusing Aetna Life Insurance Co. of unlawful sex discrimination secured a court order blocking the insurer from applying an internal guideline treating gender-affirming facial reconstruction as cosmetic and thus not covered.

A Massachusetts federal court dismissed a Babson College freshman’s challenge to the government’s deportation of her, because she didn’t return to the US from Honduras.

Uber Technologies Inc. said that a feature designed to match female riders and drivers will be available nationwide, expanding access to a safety measure as it seeks to resolve thousands of sexual assault complaints from passengers in the US.

A federal judge barred the Trump administration from implementing most of a new regulation that would overhaul how deportation appeals are reviewed, siding with immigration advocacy groups that argued the rule violates federal law.