The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.
The U.S. Department of Labor failed to show it would be necessary to push back litigation challenging a Biden-era H-2A wage rule, especially in the context of farm groups' ongoing harm allegations, a Florida federal judge ruled.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled the Trump administration can revoke the temporary status of nearly half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela even as the decision is being challenged in federal court.
Florida's attorney general told a federal judge on Thursday that a letter he sent to law enforcement agencies saying he could not force them to comply with a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants did not rise to the level of civil contempt.
Attorneys representing Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil submitted a Freedom of Information Act request on Thursday seeking communications between the Trump administration and anti-Palestinian groups they say targeted him before his arrest.
EDITING -- A Massachusetts federal judge ordered the Trump administration to resume processing applications for parole and benefits filed by noncitizens already in the U.S. under certain categorical parole programs, saying it's necessary to prevent irreparable harm.
Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr Barnes & Thornburg.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday said she will issue a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from ending Harvard University's ability to accept international students, even as the government moved to withdraw its original notice of termination and called the case "moot."
The Trump administration's inability to explain why numerous foreign students' visa records were terminated has landed the federal government multiple losses in courtrooms across the country, with federal judges unwilling to presume the government had a good reason for the cancellations.
Billionaire Elon Musk is ending his work with President Donald Trump and the federal Department of Government Efficiency, a White House official confirmed Wednesday evening.