Plaintiff's counsel was was part of the team that persuaded a Missouri jury to award three plaintiffs who had non-Hodgkin lymphoma a total of $1.56 billion in November.

Kimberly Branscome joins Paul Weiss's Los Angeles office after nearly four years at Dechert.

Last week, Legal Speak was live on location at Legalweek 2024 in New York City, where we interviewed professionals from across the legal industry about everything from the practical applications of generative AI to the benefits of sharing ideas and advice with both colleagues and competitors.

The American Bar Association's House of Delegates on Monday adopted Standard 208, which the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar sent to HOD in November for consideration.

Upcoming changes to the regulation disallow permitted language exceptions related to common law or unregistered trademarks. However, the Québec government recently published draft amendments to the regulation that would be favorable to businesses that have not yet secured registered trademarks in Canada.

Gil Perez will bring more than 25 years of innovation experience to the role, and will work both with clients and internally across the firm.

"It has taken some education or orientation by the bankruptcy legal community to see the value of it, but it caught on fast," said Soneet Kapila, president of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

HBCUs are so underresourced that it makes it very difficult to get to the place of success, Keller told Law.com in 2022 in a report identifying the many challenges that the six schools face.

The study, by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, also shows competition enforcers are "back," and are carrying out more coordinated "dawn raids."

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Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick found Maron was "totally beholden" to the billionaire and that three of Tesla's eight board members were as well.

Given the cost and technical expertise required to develop large language models, it's not surprising the majority of firms interviewed by The American Lawyer are relying on tech vendors with pre-existing clout in the industry.

U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the District of Massachusetts denied Meredith's motion to dismiss the Video Privacy Protection Act claim, but granted its motion to dismiss the state law claim.

On Friday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered 55 cases filed against Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk over Ozempic, Mounjaro and other medications be coordinated into multidistrict litigation.

"Respondent's conduct undoubtedly harmed the public's perception of the legal profession by making offensive and disrespectful statements in court and in public about opposing counsel, members of our judiciary, and other government officials. Respondent's statements were republished in various news outlets, widely circulating her misconduct and casting a negative light on New Mexico lawyers," the New Mexico Supreme Court said in a per curiam censure order.

Colorado says its Supreme Court "acted well within" its authority in finding Trump ineligible for the state presidential primary ballot.

"Our goal is to use community-based services to decrease the time needed to restore defendants to competency, thus minimizing delays in moving these cases forward while also reducing recidivism for those who are dealing with substance use and/or behavioral health challenges," said Judge Russell Klein, who will preside over the docket.

The Massachusetts Supreme Court noted that evidentiary principles were "at least one source of a judge's broad discretion to impose time limits as necessary."

A group of homegrown Texas firms did better than the industry average in a number of financial metrics in 2023, according to a Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group year-end survey.

Farhad Azima had accused the law firm of paying an operative to steal his computer information on behalf of its client, the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.