Douglas Heitner has joined Latham & Watkins as a partner in its real estate practice in New York, the firm said Monday.

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Greg Dillard has joined BakerHostetler has as a litigation practice partner in its Houston office, the firm said Monday.

Grace Pan has joined Carlton Fields as a shareholder in the firm’s national intellectual property property in New York, the firm said Monday.

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Ex-Rep. Kevin Brady, who chaired the Ways and Means panel during the 2017 tax overhaul, will join the lobbying firm Akin, steering corporate interests through next year’s mega fight as much of the law expires.

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Technologies to remove carbon from the air and store it in mediums ranging from seawater to concrete are still in their early stages and have drawn criticism that they distract from deploying proven solutions now. But Sant sees these technologies — and other speculative ones he works on — as essential, and to not grow them would be a dangerous misstep.

Shareholders of The Hershey Company, Nestle and a handful of other large chocolate companies on Monday urged the businesses to use their influence in the cocoa market to improve wages and working conditions for farmers in West Africa.

South African economic growth could be severely stunted if carbon taxes are widely imposed on its exports, according to a new report by the country’s central bank.

Shipping’s global regulator is pushing the industry to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century. Getting there will mean transforming a sector that’s still largely powered by fossil fuels and accounts for <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"QEJMGHDWLU6K","_id":"0000018f-9681-de3b-adcf-dea3b9800000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">about 3% of human-made carbon dioxide.

Major UK law firms battling one another over salaries are taking a risk that higher costs hamper expansion plans and impede their ability to compete with US rivals.

Senate Banking Chairman Sherrod Brown wants Martin Gruenberg to step down as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and urged President Joe Biden to “immediately” nominate a replacement.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) and a group that operates crisis pregnancy centers in the state posed competing grounds for ending a suit over a state law that prohibits employers from discriminating or retaliating against employees based on their reproductive health-care choices.

Shareholders of The Hershey Company, Nestle and a handful of other large chocolate companies on Monday urged the businesses to use their influence in the cocoa market to improve wages and working conditions for farmers in West Africa.

States set to receive slices of $7 billion to bring solar power to low-income communities are confronting the construction industry’s nationwide skilled labor shortage.

Squire Patton Boggs’ Keith Bradley looks at the Supreme Court’s decision in a forfeiture case and he says Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence could lead to a new analysis for due process.

A man suing an interstate compact agency didn’t allege facts sufficient to survive the agency’s bid to dismiss his suit, a federal appeals court said.

An appeals court rejected DISH Network LLC’s bid to recover attorneys’ fees from a law firm that represented what the satellite-TV company described as a “judgment-proof shell” company that unsuccessfully sued it for patent infringement.

Massachusetts District Court and Boston Municipal Court judges must consider a plaintiff’s complaint alongside their statement of expected damages when deciding whether a recovery will likely exceed a $50,000 limit, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled.

The US Supreme Court declined to review whether the “discovery rule” applies to belated copyright claims against Hearst Newspapers LLC, just days after the justices found in another case that damages would be available if it did.

A dispute before the Washington Supreme Court about the scope of the state’s investment income deduction likely has wider-reaching implications than the courts realize, tax practitioners say.

Texas and several other plaintiffs were granted a temporary restraining order preventing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ new regulation on gun sales, which was set to go into effect Monday, from being enforced against them.

The US Supreme Court turned away a challenge to a Maryland law that bans semiautomatic assault-style rifles and large-capacity magazines.