"Morgan Lewis' work on discrete corporate law issues during the 2019 transactions appears entirely unrelated to the issues in the instant patent infringement dispute," the federal judge said.

       

The appellate court concluded this week that there was sufficient evidence to support the award and that it didn't violate due process.

       

A new Thomson Reuters report says legal departments tend to highlight tasks completed when they should be highlighting what they're doing to enable the success of the business.

       

The law firm's cyberattack exposed 10 of its clients' data, the firm confirmed in a statement, and the attack appears to have come from a hacker group that targets law firms.

       

"This blatant attempt to dissuade a witness from providing truthful testimony through intimidation is intolerable," counsel for defendants Live Nation and Ticketmaster alleged in a motion requesting sanctions against state plaintiffs after a Live Nation fact witness testified at the antitrust jury trial in Manhattan federal court.

       

The cases combine two trends in digital privacy litigation: using California's anti-wiretapping law in new digital contexts, and bringing claims against software companies over their product design.

       

"The government says the harms are speculative because the orders haven't been fully enforced, but our members didn't need enforcement to change their behavior, because the risk alone was enough, and that's the key issue here," said 10x Genomics chief legal officer Eric Whitaker, one of the founders of General Counsels United.

       

The growth metrics spanned the full bell curve, and there were outliers in each direction, as the transactional market last year was unpredictable in the first half, and some countercyclical practices didn't perform as expected.

       

President Donald Trump elevated Erickson in 2017 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from a federal trial court in North Dakota.

       

Deans state that the rankings only offer a glimpse of what a law school has to offer.

       

This year's law school rankings saw a handful of notable changes, drawing criticism from some industry observers.

       

State attorneys general defended their witness, economist Rosa Abrantes-Metz, and said that if her trial testimony was ambiguous, confusing or misleading it was because Live Nation's attorneys asked her unclear questions.

       

DLA Piper and the former associate alleging pregnancy bias led to her termination gave opening statements to a federal jury Monday in New York as the trial for those bias claims began.

       

The federal appellate court upheld the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri's decision approving a $5.8 million attorney fee award after concluding the lower court properly rejected a 1.5 times lodestar multiplier and didn't abuse its discretion in excluding evidence from a withdrawn sanctions motion.

       

"Because Kalshi's sports-related event contracts are traded on a [Commodity Futures Trading Commission-licensed designated contract market] and depend on event outcomes associated with economic consequences, they fit within the [Commodity Exchange] Act's definition of 'swaps' subject to the CFTC's jurisdiction,” the appeals court held in its 2-1 decision.

       

"I think it's worthwhile that the Seventh Circuit recognizes that there's something going on and that these aren't just regular cases," a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law told Law.com. "We have so few Seventh Circuit decisions that even talk about Schedule A, [and] even fewer presidential ones."

       

The U.S. Supreme Court held that intent is required and that mere awareness of infringement does not establish secondary liability.

       

Eric Grossman joined the investment bank right before the 2007-2008 financial crisis and has been its legal chief since 2010.

       

An influx of cases asserting product-type claims—grounded in the use of AI tools and “defects in their development—is changing how these technologies are treated in litigation.

       

The landmark verdicts holding Meta and YouTube liable for failure to protect children from the harmful effects of social media could serve as a blueprint for Nippon's case against OpenAI, some legal observers say.