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The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has significantly expanded its Cuba sanctions regime, introducing sweeping new rules effective 30 September. OFAC issued a new Cuba Sanctions Regulations framework under

Attorneys routinely leave substantial sums of money uncollected by failing to record minor but legitimate increments of billable time each day. A review of another lawyer’s invoices revealed dozens of 0.1-hour time

A major new study reveals that workplace stress is driving lawyers out of their jobs at a striking rate, with younger attorneys feeling the pressure most acutely. Seventy percent of lawyers said

The Auto Care Association has moved to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s extended producer responsibility law, alleging members are being charged twice for the same product packaging. The association filed

The Auto Care Association has moved to intervene as a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging Colorado’s Producer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling Act. The trade group filed its motion on October

Cooley has moved to match Milbank’s associate salary scale, doing so without waiting for the traditional signal from Cravath to set the market standard. The development marks a notable shift in how

The Department of Homeland Security has finalised its 2025 interim rule that materially affects individuals applying to renew their employment authorization documents, known as EADs, as well as their employers. The rule

On October 14, 2026, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced the creation of a new Corporate Crime and Antitrust Task Force at his office. The Task Force signals a growing

Baker McKenzie traces its origins to 1949, when a Chicago lawyer who grew up poor in New Mexico founded the firm on a then-radical premise. That premise was simple but audacious: a