A malpractice trial against Holland & Knight, in which a jury last week awarded unhappy real estate investors $34.5 million in compensatory damages, resolved quietly Tuesday after both sides came to a confidential agreement while the jury was deliberating over punitive damages.

Adina Broome Parson, an attorney for the Georgia Department of Public Health, remained in critical condition at an Atlanta hospital on Tuesday, four days after being shot eight times outside her suburban apartment complex just before midnight Friday, according to police.

California legislation that would bar current and prospective employers from demanding access to their workers’ social media accounts sailed out of an early committee Tuesday with support from labor groups and business.

Patricia Millett, head of Akin Gump’s Supreme Court practice, made it into the history books Tuesday by arguing her 31st case before the Supreme Court — more than any other woman in history. The milestone argument included a barrage of questions from Justice Antonin Scalia, but Millett more than held her own.

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday filed the first criminal charges flowing from the deadly explosion and leak that became the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history