Long tagged as a cost center, the legal department can unlock savings and monetize assets by being creative, in-house lawyers say.

Legal action against companies will have a ransomware-like quality pretty soon as bad actors leverage artificial intelligence to make the filing of complaints quick and cheap, the founders of a risk ...

Americans purchase more than $4 trillion worth of goods and services with debit cards each year, according to the complaint. Visa’s monopoly in the debit card payments market adds billions of dollars ...

A jury should decide whether the Society for Human Resource Management maliciously engaged in race discrimination, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Based on the facts alleged, a reasonable jury could ...

Shareholders have gotten better at getting anti-ESG proposals into company proxy statements for a vote but they remain widely unpopular, two analyses of the 2024 proxy season show. Between January 1 ...

RepRisk’s latest report found 1,841 documented events of misleading communications by companies, with 56% of those — 1,038 — related to environmental claims, constituting greenwashing. Private ...

As a consequential U.S. election nears in less than a month, determining political control of Congress and the White House, political speech in the workplace is rising. Millions of voters — especially ...

Binding arbitration clauses have increased significantly in corporate user agreements and employment offer letters as companies seek to resolve disputes in a forum that offers less legal expense and ...

Over the years, industry stakeholders have raised concerns about the large disparity between fed cattle and wholesale beef prices, resulting in separate investigations by the U.S. Department of ...

An Uber-led ballot initiative in Nevada would impose the strictest contingency fee limit in the country, potentially helping companies if it were to deter complex class action lawsuits by making it ...