The University of North Texas' Office of General Counsel said the programming would violate the state's new anti-DEI law, an assertion some faculty members doubt.

Facing depleted ranks, Shearman & Sterling's storied Latin America practice convinced a former counsel to return—and business is booming.

Houston litigation partner John Lewis Jr., the managing partner of the Houston office, leads Shook, Hardy & Bacon's new interdisciplinary DEI counseling, compliance and disputes practice.

Attorneys with Seyfarth Shaw, on behalf of CVS Health Corp., moved to dismiss the third count of the complaint brought by the plaintiff, Brendan Baker, who accused CVS of violating a state law known as the "Lie Detector Statute."

As part of the settlement, DoorDash will pay a $375,000 civil penalty and must comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Online Privacy Protection Act.

In a dissent, Sixth Circuit Judge Ransey Guy Cole Jr. shared that he believed that a reasonable jury could find that the Lexington Police Department's reasons for terminating a Black police officer who provided confidential department communications to activists protesting police brutality were pretextual.

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

"Fair use is a notoriously difficult and fact-specific analysis, and the Supreme Court's decision in Warhol did little to un-complicate it," said copyright attorney Cindy Gierhart.

Dorsey wouldn't close the door on any merger opportunities, said managing partner Bill Stoeri, but adding he's probably more amenable to group laterals and smaller firm acquisitions.

The Planet Fitness board in September removed Chris Rondeau as CEO but said he would remain on the board. Rondeau now has resigned as director and sent the board a parting message lamenting the direction of the company.

"The notion that Boeing with its armies of lawyers, bankers, and consultants could be outmaneuvered by a mid-sized Charlotte family investment firm is utterly absurd," said Michael Forde of Forde & O'Meara, who is representing a company claiming the aerospace giant conned the business into buying a near-bankrupt parts supplier.

Roughly 8% of the firm's $2.07 billion in revenue came in the form of contingency fees, according to Michael Carlinsky, one of three co-managing partners at the firm.

The plaintiffs allege that the defendants' intent with the suit was to "financially ruin Ms. Turner and destroy her reputation by bringing the resources of a large law firm to bear against her."

The five-judge panel said the plaintiff presented insufficient evidence to prove that the doctors' negligence caused her mother to experience a diminished quality of life between the eight hours spanning the withdrawal of care and the time of her death.

Bankman-Fried's new attorneys, Marc Mukasey and Torrey Young of Mukasey Young, are set to file his sentencing memorandum.

"Litigation strategy can be much debated among lawyers," Leonard's attorneys, former Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell, Steven Collins and Meredith Kingsley of Alston & Bird, wrote in their appellee brief. "That leaves even seasoned litigators open to second-guessing, especially when their decisions are viewed in hindsight after an adverse ruling."

In addition to highlighting differences in generative AI investments, a LexisNexis survey also found that legal professionals expect generative AI to spur the hiring of more technologists, and the potential loss of some associates and partners.

Precruiting will increase in 2024, Big Law recruiting directors said, despite two law schools' recent efforts to place more students through virtual on-campus interviews.

"There are significant issues which must be addressed related to the security, integrity, scalability, and accommodations available for the JD-Next exam," wrote one commenter.

Hiring data from last year, compensation system changes as recruiting tools, how the world of recruiting really works, how firms evaluate the ultimate success of lateral hires—and of course, the Top Lateral Hires of 2023.