Dentons US LLP and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP are facing claims by a former client who alleges the firms engaged in racketeering and fraud in connection with their representation of him on a Senegal power deal.

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The world’s biggest brands are reportedly spending hundreds of millions of dollars to associate themselves with the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The flagship L’Occitane brand, despite the fragrance boom, has been expanding sales slowly, given that it operates in the premium segment of the market, rather than the luxury space where demand has been strongest.

Almost nine in ten companies say they’ll disclose extensive carbon-footprint data even beyond what many are required to produce, according to a new study by global consulting firm Workiva.

New York has become the first major US city to embed climate impacts into its budget decisions.

Ozy Media Inc.‘s chief executive officer Carlos Watson failed to convince a federal court to dismiss charges of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

A pair of traders in Hong Kong have left Societe Generale SA after the French bank discovered a batch of risky bets that went undetected by the firm’s risk-management systems, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Several of Glencore Plc’s largest shareholders believe that the company should retain its coal assets, according to people familiar with the matter, throwing a proposed spinoff into doubt.

Almost nine in ten companies say they’ll disclose extensive carbon-footprint data even beyond what many are required to produce, according to a new study by global consulting firm Workiva.

New York has become the first major US city to embed climate impacts into its budget decisions.

Columnist Andrew Leahey says the revenue from vice taxes should be allocated to fund communities that most need education, job training, and public health services.

Morgan Lewis’ August Heckman and Carlyle Edwards-Balfour examine employment litigation trends in New Jersey, saying case law balances discovery needs with individual privacy.

A federal judge in California appeared open to keeping a youth climate lawsuit alive, after an attorney for the plaintiffs argued Monday that EPA policies discriminate against children by placing a lower value on their lives in some cost-benefit analyses.

Former Clayton County, Ga., sheriff Victor Hill lost his Eleventh Circuit appeal to undo convictions for willfully violating detainees’ constitutional rights when the court said he should have known better.

The federal government was ordered to pay the attorneys’ fees for a group of White male business owners who prevailed last month in a constitutional challenge to a Commerce Department agency’s rules favoring minority-owned business owners.

Clearwater Paper Corp. defeated a Black shipping employee’s claim that his termination for refusing drug testing following a workplace accident was racially discriminatory.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants the SEC to disclose how much staff is dedicated to its whistleblower program, writing that investigative delays and a recent dip in the number of awards have raised “concerns” about the agency’s signature enforcement effort.

After helping to transform Houston’s bankruptcy court from a backwater to a boomtown, Judge David R. Jones resigned in 2023 following the disclosure of his long-running romantic relationship with a local bankruptcy lawyer. As the revelations mount, the inner workings and casual approach to potential ethical conflicts of a highly productive and tight-knit legal community have begun to surface.

Columnist Andrew Leahey says the revenue from vice taxes should be allocated to fund communities that most need education, job training, and public health services.

Morgan Lewis’ August Heckman and Carlyle Edwards-Balfour examine employment litigation trends in New Jersey, saying case law balances discovery needs with individual privacy.

Spencer Fane’s Erick Robinson says that increasing disclosure standards for litigation funding relationships would create disadvantages for non-wealthy litigants.

KPMG’s Timothy Nichols analyzes stock-buyback tax proposal, saying a new rule raises the same concerns created by previous guidance on the tax.