Nock made the move following his reelection in November to a 10-year term on the civil court bench. He said he'd been thinking about returning to private practice and it was the right time.

"I will be nominating Lindsey Halligan to be the United States Attorney in this very important part of our Great Country," President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post after ousting U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert of the Eastern District of Virginia to replace him with someone who may bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

In a motion that also urges the court to find the federal death penalty unconstitutional, Mangione's defense team accused the Department of Justice of a “brazen breach of the death penalty protocol with regard to their client, who is being prosecuted in connection with the fatal shooting of a health insurance CEO.

Youngwood preceded current chair Brad Karp and was the first democratically elected chair in the firm's history.

Dissenting, Justice Elena Kagan said the court's emergency docket should not be used "to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation's separation of powers."

Jessie R. Benavides, who spent the past five years as an associate at Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, has experience with family law, estate matters, guardianships, personal injury cases and other civil litigation, having litigated cases in the Court of Chancery, Superior Court, Family Court and Justice of the Peace Court.

The judge said he would impose a penalty on the low end of the scale, based on the attorney's prompt admission, honest disclosure, apologies and commitment to impose safeguards against future misuse of artificial intelligence.

Federal courts disagree with one another on whether the law allows private rights of action.

At least one investor “was told that a node was mailed to them for safekeeping, and that without that device, no withdrawals could be made.

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"Try to keep your career in perspective and be open to opportunities. There are infinite ways to be successful. I didn't even know ERISA existed when I went to law school, and here I am, two decades later, happy and with a career that I am proud of. Who knew?"

“It's certainly reasonable that some companies will see the numbers and say that it's safer to resolve the cases, because then it becomes a line item, a business cost, rather than a risk that's hanging over their heads for years, said Regina Sam Penti, a partner at Ropes & Gray.

Two judges in the Northern District of California recently issued groundbreaking summary judgment rulings regarding whether an artificial intelligence company's scraping and ingestion of copyrighted works to train its LLMs qualified as fair use. Both decisions carry potentially seismic importance for AI companies and intellectual property litigators.

Most days, preparing and prosecuting patent applications follows a familiar rhythm. Talk with the inventors. Draft the application. Wait for the Patent Office. Argue a few times. Secure the patent. Repeat. But every so often, a case reminds us that our work can mean much more — especially when something has gone wrong, and someone needs an advocate to make it right.

Kirkland's revolver credit is perhaps the largest in the legal industry—more than 10 times the size of the average Am Law 100 firm's revolving line of credit.

Brian Cuban, a Texas-based attorney and brother of billionaire Mark Cuban, recently announced that his novel “The Ambulance Chaser, a thriller starring a personal injury lawyer, is now getting a film adaptation set in Atlanta.

Hawley, a Missouri Republican, sent a letter to Sam Altman on Thursday demanding he produce data about ChatGPT's product design, engagement practices and harms inflicted on minors after an emotional hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Alena Allen, who was allegedly forced out of the deanship in late August, recently reached a settlement with LSU over her removal from the role.

Two wholesale clothing suppliers filed trademark infringement and trade secrets misappropriation claims against a North Carolina-based software company this week and alleged the company's data scraping practices have undermined the control of their e-commerce platforms.

Federal Insurance Co. filed a declaratory judgment complaint this week, arguing that it has no duty to defend or indemnify the polygraph company, John E. Reid & Associates, and others in an underlying wrongful imprisonment suit. After allegedly being coerced into falsely confessing to a 1995 fire, the late William E. Amor spent nearly 20 years in prison before he was acquitted in 2018 and subsequently recovered $25.5 million from the City of Naperville, Illinois.