Microsoft Corp on Wednesday asked a U.S. judge in California to pause a private antitrust lawsuit over the company's $69 billion bid to buy "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard Inc while a related U.S. regulatory action challenging the deal moves ahead.

Law firm associate diversity ticked up in 2022 as the pace of change at the partner level remains slow, new figures from the National Association for Law Placement showed on Thursday.

A U.S. government panel tasked with crafting federal sentencing policy on Thursday proposed curtailing the ability of judges to impose longer sentences on criminal defendants based on conduct for which they were acquitted at trial, a practice that the U.S. Supreme Court is considering addressing.

Bankman-Fried did not directly address many of the other charges against him, namely that he misled investors about the financial conditions of FTX and Alameda. He wrote he had "a lot more to say."