J. Edward Moreno

Latham & Watkins LLP on Wednesday announced a new office in Austin, Texas, with the addition of one-time attorneys from DLA Piper and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, joining a rush of firms that have set up shop in that red-hot market for technology and other industries.

The U.S. Department of Justice has assailed assertions by Teva and Glenmark that it inappropriately used its Israeli and Indian sister agencies to force foreign executives to sit for interviews without going through counsel, arguing that the interview requests are legal and it didn’t know executives…

Duane Morris has brought on a former McKool Smith intellectual property principal to its recently formed Dallas office, and a former Wilson Sonsini attorney has joined Perkins Coie’s antitrust litigation team. Here are the details on these and other notable hires.

The U.S. Department of Justice has derided claims by Glenmark and Teva that the antitrust enforcer is trying to assert a much broader price-fixing conspiracy involving more drugs than were included in a federal grand jury indictment.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s pre-trial feud with Glenmark and Teva continued to escalate Friday in Pennsylvania federal court with the generic drugmakers accusing the DOJ of trying to add assertions of a much broader price-fixing conspiracy involving more drugs than were included in a federal gr…

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday trimmed contract claims from a legal malpractice suit alleging Polsinelli PC and an ex-partner underperformed and overcharged a pharmacy and its since-convicted CEO by offloading legal work to WilmerHale for a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investiga…

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has snatched Baker Botts LLP’s former partner-in-charge in New York as a partner in its investment management practice in the Big Apple, the firm said Tuesday.

Clinical-stage biotech firm Aeglea BioTherapeutics has brought on Viela Bio’s top attorney to serve as its new general counsel, while three attorneys have been tapped to preside over the new Copyright Claims Board. Here are the details on these and other notable hires.

Tom Perez, the former Democratic National Committee chair who recently launched a bid for governor of Maryland, has resigned from his position at Venable LLP just weeks after joining its Washington, D.C., office.

Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., a subsidiary of JBS, has reached a $29 million settlement with workers who claim it conspired with other poultry companies to keep their wages low.

Stoel Rives LLP said Friday it will adopt a hybrid work model starting in September, allowing attorneys to have flexible work arrangements while also expecting them to be in the office “more often than not.”

An offer letter does not constitute a contract, Goldberg Segalla LLP told a California federal judge on Wednesday after a former data privacy partner alleged that the firm wrongfully fired him and owed him nearly $300,000 for work done in 2018 and 2019.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP announced Wednesday it has hired former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, a cybersecurity expert, to the firm’s government, regulatory and internal investigations group in Dallas.

O’Melveny & Myers LLP has added two technology transaction attorneys who previously worked at Cooley LLP and Fox Rothschild LLP, respectively, as partners in two of its offices in California, the firm has announced.

In a deal that’s shaking up the legal technology market on Tuesday, private equity firms Stone Point Capital LLC and Aquiline Capital Partners LLC have struck plans to acquire and merge e-discovery companies Xact Data Discovery and Consilio.

A Texas Senate committee will hear public comment Thursday on a controversial proposal to consolidate the state’s 14 intermediate appellate courts into just seven, a move opponents have criticized as gerrymandering but that supporters say will make the courts more efficient and cure knotty court spl…

An “escape hatch” for litigants in Georgia’s new commercial court puts the venue out of step with a growing number of business-focused forums and dockets nationally, where policymakers are prioritizing case predictability and speed over jurisdiction flexibility.

The University of Notre Dame’s president, the Rev. John I.

Attorney General William Barr tested negative for COVID-19 on Friday morning, hours after President Trump and first lady Melania Trump announced they tested positive for the virus,

A defense contractor in Hawaii has been charged with bank fraud and money laundering for stealing more than $12.8 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) money.