The suit may help set the terms of engagement for AI agents as they take on more of the shopping tasks currently handled by human beings.

       

“Your day is full. Sometimes your nights are full. So from a cultural perspective, you have to make it clear that this is important, said Horacio Gutierrez, chief legal and compliance officer at Disney.

       

"Sometimes juries return $100,000 in punitive damage ... that's not even a traffic ticket to Philip Morris," Celene H. Humphries, an appellate attorney from Spring City, Tennessee, told the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week. "We think that the jury's verdict was supported by the evidence. This [verdict] didn't even amount to 17 days of revenue for them—that's shorter than the trial."

       

"It was the first time that a court ... analyzed the application of ending forced arbitration in a situation like this," said Pat Huyett, a partner at Anapol Weiss who is representing plaintiffs in litigation against Roblox.

       

In this podcast edition, Supreme Court Brief analyzes the most notable questions from the justices during Wednesday's blockbuster hearing on tariffs.        

The ruling came after lawyers for the defendants threatened to seek sanctions against the plaintiffs for a frivolous appeal.

       

Washington state expanded the breadth of its sales tax laws, which could catch professional service firms off guard. While traditional legal and accounting services are exempt from sales tax, the ripple effects of this change could still substantially impact professional services firms, albeit in subtle but significant ways.

       

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Texas Lawyer litigation reporter Laura Lorek explores what motivated Jackson Walker partner John Jackson to build a wine empire and online following of millions.

       

"Advice for aspiring GCs re: work-life balance—there's no one solution for stress management. Be prepared to adopt new strategies throughout your career. It's not uncommon that certain strategies will work for a season, and then you might need to adopt something new."

       

The deal will require all residents, many in their 80s and 90s who have lived at the Pierre for decades, to vacate their homes within one year of closing.

       

"Maune and Raichle had no corporate capacities separate and apart from their individual capacities such that they can act solely 'on behalf of' MR Law. Instead, they were MR Law. They signed the OA as individuals, and, because they comprised all the partners of MR Law, they had the authority to and, therefore, did submit partnership claims and liabilities between them to arbitration under section 358.090.3(5)," the court said.

       

"The imposition of the maximum sentence seems appropriate given the money involved," said criminal defense attorney Sam Bassett of Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey.

       

Look to the example of accounting firm Citrin Cooperman, says one investment banker who's placed a bet on legal.

       

“Until some relevance to the issues before the court is made clear, the court is unwilling to follow the parties down this rabbit hole, Judge Joan Gottschall wrote on Thursday.

       

"Ultimately, the client sets the destination," ethics attorney Ellen Brotman said. "The lawyer sets how we get there."

       

Western New England Law School's JD Access, a part-time evening online hybrid J.D. launching next fall, is the 21st distance J.D. program in the U.S.

       

A fifth case over the 737 Max 8 crash of Ethiopian Air Flight 302 is on hold given the government shutdown, which hit its 37th day on Thursday.

       

The investigation comes at a time of transatlantic tensions over the extraterritorial effects of the EU's digital rules on U.S. companies.

       

The decision kicks the case back to U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who in 2024 denied Trump's second motion to remove the state case to federal court, in light of the last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision broadening presidential immunity. "The district court did not grapple with any of the central issues," the appeals court wrote.

       

The National Law Journal celebrated exemplary lawyers and law firms from Washington, D.C., and around the country at our 2025 National Law Journal Legal Awards.