James Schneider has signed on with Cooley as a partner in Boston, where he’s joined the firm’s emerging companies and venture capital practice, the firm said Tuesday.

Donald Trump once vowed to take the witness stand in his hush money criminal trial in Manhattan, but his defense case wrapped up Tuesday morning without jurors hearing from the former president.

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense case in the hush-money trial on Monday without calling the former president to the witness stand.

Eva Temkin has joined Arnold & Porter as a partner with the firm’s life sciences and healthcare regulatory practice in Washington, the firm said Tuesday.

US prosecutors have charged Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange with espionage offenses over his role in the release of classified documents with the help of US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. But the case has dragged on for years, with Assange’s lawyers persuading British judges to delay handing him over to US authorities over concerns he may not get a fair trial, might be a suicide risk or may face potentially inhumane conditions in a US jail.

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Electricite de France SA warned that it could end up losing “huge contracts” abroad if convicted as part of a Paris criminal trial over accusations it favored several consultants by awarding them advisory deals without putting them up for tender.

Walt Disney Co.’s Pixar subsidiary, the pioneering animator that made Toy Story and Finding Nemo, is cutting 14% of its staff, part of an ongoing belt tightening by its parent.

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Governments and companies need to spend an extra $34 trillion on the clean energy transition between now and 2050 to reach net-zero emissions, according to BloombergNEF.

JPMorgan Chase investors on Tuesday voted against proposals pressing the financial institution on its climate and human rights commitments.

Credit Agricole SA is under pressure to reveal the carbon footprint of its bond business, becoming the latest bank to be targeted by climate activists during shareholder meetings.

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JPMorgan Chase investors on Tuesday voted against proposals pressing the financial institution on its climate and human rights commitments.

Walmart Inc. failed to shake off claims that it was negligent in selling a firearm to an employee who was experiencing a mental health crisis and used the gun to take his own life.

A new Kansas law that requires abortion providers to ask patients why they want to end their pregnancies is unconstitutional, a proposed amended complaint filed in a state trial court says.

Columnist Andrew Leahey says the IRS must be more transparent about what led to taxpayer audit rates’ racial disparities against Black taxpayers.

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose “immortal cell line” has led to medical innovations, such as the polio vaccine and gene mapping, can proceed with its lawsuit against Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc., a federal court ruled Monday.

House Republican leaders asked the chief judge of the Washington federal appeals court for information about the status of a misconduct complaint against Judge Beryl Howell over her speech decrying the effect of “big lies” on Capitol rioters.

SpaceX’s constitutional challenge to the National Labor Relations Board had its transfer to a California federal court canceled again after a Texas federal judge rescinded his order that would have sent the case westward.

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Donald Trump once vowed to take the witness stand in his hush money criminal trial in Manhattan, but his defense case wrapped up Tuesday morning without jurors hearing from the former president.

Drugmakers notched a victory against the US Tuesday when the D.C. Circuit said a federal discount drug program doesn’t curb their ability to limit legally mandated deliveries of steeply discounted drugs to contract pharmacies.

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense case in the hush-money trial on Monday without calling the former president to the witness stand.