New York would require businesses to provide paid prenatal leave for pregnant employees in addition to the state’s existing paid sick time mandate, under a state budget agreement close to final approval.

Lowe’s Cos.’ legal chief received more than $12.1 million in compensation after joining last year, including a bonus and stock to help offset awards she forfeited by leaving Albertson’s Cos. Inc.

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders and Locke Lord have entered into merger talks, the firms confirmed Thursday.

A trader accused of exploiting Mango Markets rules to steal $110 million from the exchange was convicted of fraud in the first US trial involving criminal charges tied to <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"SBND97T0G1KW","_id":"0000018e-f23e-d583-afbf-f2fe811e0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">cryptocurrency manipulation.

Jeffrey H. McClelland has joined Lewis Brisbois as a partner with the labor and employment practice in Denver, the firm said Wednesday.

Rudolph Giuliani wants to hire a friend and associate as “special litigation counsel” while the former New York mayor takes on multiple legal challenges.

A California nonprofit in charge of maintaining a wetland preserve was mostly successful in its bid for a quick win against a public works department that allegedly discharged polluted stormwater from a waste facility.

An EU value-added tax exemption for companies’ foreign operations that aren’t considered “fixed establishments” may need to be redefined in the context of increased automation.

A Biden rule imposing stricter tailpipe emission standards on automakers for new vehicles survived a Senate vote on a measure that would have gutted it.

The Biden administration is weighing ways to support the market for critical materials such as copper, nickel, silicon and electrical steel, as the industry faces price pressures and outsize influence from China.

Renewable energy company Siemens Energy Inc. and Danish electrolyzer manufacturer Topsoe A/S are among dozens of recipients of around $2 billion in clean energy tax credits set to be announced Friday by the Biden administration.

Solar developers are lobbying the Biden administration to bolster support for domestic manufacturing in a long-shot bid to discourage panel makers from seeking additional tariffs on imports.

Investors’ claims that Six Flags Entertainment Corp. misrepresented the progress of theme park projects in China were improperly thrown out, the Fifth Circuit said Thursday, reinstating the proposed class action for the second time.

Lowe’s Cos.’ legal chief received more than $12.1 million in compensation after joining last year, including a bonus and stock to help offset awards she forfeited by leaving Albertson’s Cos. Inc.

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders and Locke Lord have entered into merger talks, the firms confirmed Thursday.

AST SpaceMobile Inc. and two of its top executives concealed information about delays in completing and launching the cellular broadband company’s first five satellites due to problems with component suppliers, an investor alleges in a proposed class action.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is confronting shareholders at a moment when investors and executives alike are clamoring for clarity on potential penalties in a US probe and the future of the firm’s leadership.

California’s already strained property insurance market is facing a new challenge as two more insurers, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co., plan to withdraw from the wildfire-prone state entirely starting in July.

Leidos Inc. says it was improperly denied a contract under the US Department of Veterans Affairs’ nearly $61 billion information technology procurement, known as Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2, or T4NG2.

Hetal Doshi is the top antitrust litigator at the Department of Justice and she says she tries to make the cases her team tries easy for the average person to understand. Doshi speaks on this episode of our podcast, On The Merits, about how this philosophy played into recent cases that blocked mergers in the airline and publishing industries, . Doshi also talks about the idea that antitrust laws are meant to protect not only consumers from higher prices, but also to protect workers from lower wages.

The US Supreme Court’s new standard for the harm a worker must show to challenge allegedly discriminatory job transfers contains enough ambiguities to spark further debate over what’s necessary to bring a viable bias claim, lawyers and law professors said.

Illinois’ South Suburban College saw its win upheld against a vice president who claimed she was fired for complaining about race discrimination to federal and state authorities.

The Trustees of Dartmouth College shook off sex discrimination claims by a former medical student who said he was wrongfully expelled for allegedly sexually assaulting his roommate.

Investors’ claims that Six Flags Entertainment Corp. misrepresented the progress of theme park projects in China were improperly thrown out, the Fifth Circuit said Thursday, reinstating the proposed class action for the second time.