Recent News
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut efficitur condimentum mauris. Mauris in consequat mauris.
Houston Bar Foundation opens second annual Community Grants Program
The Houston Bar Foundation (HBF), the charitable arm of the Houston Bar Association, is now accepting applications for the second year of its Community Grants Program.This program aids projects that advance the HBF’s mission of supporting legal representation...
Trump Administration Imposes New Section 301 Tariffs on 60 Trading Partners, New Section 338 Tariffs on Canada
For more insights and analysis from Cleary lawyers on policy and regulatory developments from a legal perspective, visit What to Expect From a Second Trump Administration.On July 23, 2026, the Trump administration announced new tariffs (Forced Labor Tariffs) on...
Pistachio Nut Butter recalled over Salmonella
Boticelli Foods of Melville NY, is recalling 1 lot of bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter, NET WT 6.7oz (190g), UPC 194346207961, Lot LB028ACP04, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down NLRB’s Successor Bar, Changing Labor Analysis for Business Acquisitions
Key Takeaways: A divided panel of the D.C. Circuit held that the NLRB cannot prevent a successor employer from challenging an incumbent union’s majority support for up to one year after a change in ownership. The successor bar rule, which had been in its current...
SEC Stays Nasdaq’s New $5 Million MVLS Listing Standard Pending Commission Review
On July 29, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced that it stayed its July 22, 2026 order (Release No. 34-105971) approving The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC’s (“Nasdaq’s”) rule proposal to adopt a new continued...
Matthew Thomas Is Right: Good Legal Judgment Can’t Be Automated
For years, legal departments hired for expertise. They still do, of course. But expertise is no longer the differentiator it once was. Today, AI can summarize a contract in seconds. It can draft a clause, compare agreements, identify missing provisions, and even...
The Trump Slush Fund Is Dead. Long Live The Trump Slush Fund.
Late Sunday night, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche posted a signed order to X rescinding the Anti-Weaponization Fund. The death of the Trump slush fund, that is, the fund personally created by Blanche earlier this year as part of a deal to drop Trump’s $10...
Counting Trump’s Many Victories
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Conservative commentators howled about the specter of Dr. Anthony Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself more than 100 times during his Congressional testimony last Wednesday. Disgraceful! And then I...
Donald Trump Likely To Fire Jeanine Pirro For Having One Foot In Reality
For 14 months, it didn’t seem as though there was a case too ridiculous for Jeanine Pirro to bring. Grand juries no-billed her office dozens of times. D.C. juries have acquitted her defendants at the drop of a sandwich. At one point, her office’s lack of...