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Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is expected to be called to the witness stand in the US government's blockbuster antitrust case against the social media empire as soon as Monday, an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission said.Daniel Matheson, the lead lawyer in the FTC's lawsuit against Meta, revealed the anticipated scheduling of Zuckerberg's testimony as…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday added Susman Godfrey to the list of law firms he's targeting with the weight of the White House's bully pulpit.According to a White House fact sheet, Susman is being targeted over what the White House has called its work to "weaponize the American legal system and degrade the quality of…

More than 500 law firms — including some of the country's most prominent — signed onto a legal brief Friday to oppose Donald Trump's executive orders attacking law firms that hired his political enemies.Absent from the list, however, were America's 27 highest-grossing law firms.From Kirkland & Ellis, which reported $8.8 billion in revenue last year…

Delaware's reputation as the country's most corporate-friendly state has taken another hit.Roblox is now the latest company to propose leaving Delaware, according to a note it sent to its shareholders this week. Numerous other major corporations — like Dropbox and Bill Ackerman's Pershing Square Capital Management — have also said in recent months they planned…

A Rippling employee accused of being a corporate spy for a rival HR software company admitted to secretly working for Deel, according to a new legal filing.The employee, Keith O'Brien, wrote in an affidavit made public in an Irish court Wednesday that he was recruited as a corporate spy by Alex Bouaziz, Deel's founder and…

With the fourth executive order, Donald Trump's plans came into focus.The president's executive order last week targeting Jenner & Block specifically called out the Big Law firm's "powerful pro bono practices," which he said "undermine justice and the interests of the United States."And Trump's deals with other Big Law firms — Paul Weiss and Skadden…

Willkie Farr & Gallagher, the law firm where Doug Emhoff, former Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, is a partner, is pledging at least $100 million in pro bono legal work for causes aligned with "conservative ideals," President Donald Trump said on Tuesday via social media.Willkie would be the third top law firm to formalize such…

Convicted JPMorgan fraudster Charlie Javice will have a tougher time teaching Pilates, at least for now.US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled Tuesday that Charlie Javice must wear a GPS ankle monitor in the weeks prior to her August sentencing, at which she faces a possible maximum of 30 years in prison.He also invited Javice's legal…

An attorney for Luigi Mangione accused the Justice Department of backing a "murderous healthcare industry that continues to terrorize the American people." The comment came after Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the accused killer."While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored…

The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling on Sunday, declined to block Elon Musk from giving away $1 million checks to voters at a town hall in Green Bay — in advance of a pivotal race for one of the court's seats on April 1.Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, had asked the…