The lawsuit alleges that if Uber's board members and executives had made a point to implement safety measures like screening drivers more carefully, the company might not now be facing liability in the hundreds of cases in which riders, primarily women, say they were sexually assaulted.

Law firms with between 400 and 800 lawyers are especially hungry to acquire smaller firms right now, noted Lisa Smith at Fairfax.

"Simply put, a sales employee's commissions are one type of compensation, and overtime and Sunday pay are separate types of compensation that require employers to make additional payments to employees. By attempting to allocate amounts owed to its sales employees in commissions toward their overtime and Sunday premium draws, Jordan's did not provide its sales employees with separate and additional overtime and Sunday pay, thereby violating the overtime and Sunday pay statutes," Justice Serge Georges, Jr., said.

It's getting increasingly difficult to operate a law firm in Greater China, writes The Global Lawyer. How long can Big Law last?

An ABA council has not articulated a rationale for departing from the current practice or identified the problem that the proposed revisions to Standard 102 and 306 are intended to solve, according to a comment signed by 26 law deans from schools across the country.

"Within the next several months, the court will be closing the Risperdal, Essure and Elmiron mass tort programs, as the lawyers and self-represented parties work through the remaining cases on the docket," Judge Joshua Roberts, head of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Complex Litigation Center, said.

After years of declining head count and revenue, the litigation shop is back in growth mode.

Tesla had struck a dismissive tone in its motion to dismiss, saying the suit lacked required specificity. But a judge ruled that the automaker had misstated the standard the EEOC had to meet.

"Always be available and responsive, always be on time with work product, and always take the initiative."

The Am Law 200 firm is planning a move to the Neuhoff, a former meatpacking plant under development north of downtown Nashville.

The lawyers were chief and assistant chief in the Washington criminal II section of the DOJ's antitrust division.

"Given the equity partner promotion ratios, [firms] could be looking at a long-term problem," said law firm consultant Brad Hildebrandt.

"We've found this mass lateral hiring works depending on the situation," said Fennemore CEO James Goodnow. "It's a very clean way to do a transaction."

American law firm brands have not penetrated the Southeast Asian market in the same way that American consumerism has. It's a brand issue. And it's also a commitment issue., writes Law.com International Asia Editor Jessica Seah in this bimonthly column.

The regulator said Google failed to notify it or news publishers that it was using their content to train its AI platform.

The justices' intense questioning suggested skepticism, even by members of the court's conservative majority, of the plaintiffs' theory of standing in the case.

Trump's lawyers say prosecutors are misinterpreting the order.

"Because this is such a big case, ... we expect other suits to follow," said Ricardo Martinez-Cid, of Miami's Podhurst Oreck.

Origis USA's attorneys at Latham & Watkins, in a motion to dismiss, argued that their client "is not, and has never been, a proper party to this lawsuit."

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Chanel T. Rowe, of Johnson & Johnson, shares why she thinks promoting "comfortable diversity" can improve firms' bottom lines and how she's helping level the legal playing field.