Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders and Locke Lord are discussing a merger that would place the combined firm among the 30 largest by revenue, boosting the operation’s ability to compete with large rivals.

The US Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to prohibit courts from considering acquitted conduct when calculating a defendant’s guidelines sentence.

Jonathan Barefoot was sentenced to 30 months in prison for conspiring to prepare and file false tax returns for clients in Jackson, Miss., and for preparing false returns, the Justice Department said.

A former Tennessee state senator convicted of two counts of wire fraud must again face another charge related to her alleged mismanagement of federal grants for a for-profit nursing school she founded in Memphis, the Sixth Circuit said.

New York courts can exercise jurisdiction over non-state-based companies that acquire the liabilities and assets of another entity that has done business there, even if they never merge, the state’s top court ruled Thursday.

A judiciary committee is still in the beginning stages of examining a proposal to allow federal criminal trials to be broadcast, even as jury selection begins in former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in a New York state court.