Five Big Law firms steered investment firm Sixth Street’s acquisition of Enstar, a deal to take the insurance company private for $5.1 billion.

Peter Meyer rejoined Faegre Drinker as a partner in the product liability and mass torts group in Indianapolis, the firm announced Monday.

A Michigan township’s general counsel lost an appeal over a claim that his firing violated his federal due process rights because he was let go without “an opportunity to be heard.”

Javier Lopez joined Vedder Price as a shareholder in Miami, the firm announced Monday.

Garrett Reuter, Jr. has joined Husch Blackwell as a partner in its financial services and capital markets industry group and as a member of its private wealth team in its St. Louis office, the firm announced Monday.

David Cayce joined Bradley as a partner in the economic development and renewable energy practice group in Atlanta, the firm announced Monday.

A Pennsylvania federal district court denied summary judgment to Humphrys - CoverSports on the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, state and local law claims of a Black utility employee that she faced racial discrimination and was discharged due to her race. Smith v. Humphrys - CoverSports, 2024 BL 256691, E.D. Pa., 23-701, 7/26/24

An Energy Transfer LP subsidiary won a court order blocking the National Labor Relations Board from proceeding with an unfair labor practice case, making it the second company to score an early win in a constitutional challenge against the agency.

Yellow Corp. urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to set aside regulations asserted by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. to calculate the defunct trucking company’s pension withdrawal liability, saying the agency is unilaterally changing applicable rules.

Terran Orbital Operating Co. and its directors are free of an investors’ securities fraud lawsuit alleging the satellite manufacturer misled them on its merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

An electric utility delivery company is Dallas discharged a repair employee for testifying about the potential safety hazards of a product commonly used by the company, in violation of the NLRA. Oncor Electric Delivery Company, L.L.C., 2024 BL 256249, N.L.R.B., 16–CA–103387 , 7/26/24

A California employee who alleged her coworker called her an anti-Black slur can bring a hostile work environment claim, the state’s top court ruled Monday, saying an isolated incident of harassment can draw a legal claim if it’s severe enough.

CapCut, a video-editing app owned by Chinese tech powerhouse ByteDance Ltd., is rapidly gaining steam, threatening to lure users away from Adobe Inc. and Canva Inc.

Ransomware attacks have exploded in popularity among cybercriminals looking to extort small and large businesses alike. The victims may change from one attack to the next, but the story tends to stay the same, as was the case for this year’s attacks on CDK Global and Change Healthcare.

Employees and customers of David’s Bridal Inc. hit the bridal shop with two proposed class actions Saturday over the company’s alleged failure to protect personally identifiable information after two subsequent data breaches.

Lawyers need to “fully consider” their ethical obligations when using generative AI tools, especially as the tech evolves quickly—indeed is “a rapidly moving target"— the American Bar Association says in an ethics opinion released Monday.

The title of chief privacy officer is fading away, signaling that privacy may not be as important to the C-suite as it once was even as new laws proliferate and regulators keep watch.

Sidley Austin’s Randi Singer and Liz McLean examine the push to change Section 230 and urge that any solution continues to balance online safety, speech rights, and the advantages of platforms self-policing.

A Georgia prison and its officers are entitled to qualified immunity after subjecting a woman to a body cavity strip search while she was visiting her husband in prison, the Eleventh Circuit said.

A split Sixth Circuit panel on Monday left in place an Ohio school district’s policies that prohibit bullying transgender students, ruling that the challengers didn’t show they were going to soon be harmed by the prohibitions.

A California employee who alleged her coworker called her an anti-Black slur can bring a hostile work environment claim, the state’s top court ruled Monday, saying an isolated incident of harassment can draw a legal claim if it’s severe enough.

The Bronx District Attorney’s office must face racial discrimination and retaliation claims brought by a former employee, a federal judge ruled Monday.

The Massachusetts Trial Court is immune from a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff alleging she was sexually assaulted by a court officer while in custody with pending criminal charges, the state supreme court ruled Monday.

It’s an election year, which means we’ll be hearing a lot from both Democrats and Republicans claiming that their party is the one true champion of working-class Americans. Sure, but what does it mean to be part of the working class in America these days? It means being female.