"If you are going to lead, you need to be present to get to know your team personally and get a feel for the office and firm dynamics. Also, learn early on to take on responsibility for the firm's non-billable issues, such as participating in marketing efforts and recruiting."

As the job market no longer produces the same volume of direct hire fully remote opportunities, job seekers in privacy are more readily considering working contract and contract-to-hire to maintain fully remote employment.

Pratter, who died May 17—a day after she issued two opinions in cases she was handling—was a 20-year veteran of the federal bench.

The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, has announced arrest warrant applications for three Hamas leaders as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his minister of defense.

Succeeding as general counsel now requires a much broader range of skills, "making the step up for internal candidates from deputy to GC a much bigger gap to bridge," a report from the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates says.

Several C-suite roles were filled in the last few months amid high demand for the right talent in firms' business ranks.

Washington, D.C.-based partner George Clarke had sought to obtain a paper about document requests the agency made of partnerships, after an IRS lawyer at a conference mentioned plans to increase efforts to audit these entities.

Do U.K. firms have what it takes to join the likes of Kirkland & Ellis at the bustling intersection of private funds and energy transition, asks the Global Lawyer.

Scott Morgan announced on LinkedIn Friday that he was leaving the data platform after 12 years.

The subpoenas, requested in a Friday letter, would focus on Beasley Allen's litigation financing arrangements with Fortress Investment Group and its purported relationship with news agency Thomson Reuters.

"Now, they don't have to worry about catching a (constitutional) challenge every time they put a rule out there," attorney Dennis Merkley said of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

"I think that we know best what we need moving forward with no disrespect to the legislative branch," Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero said at a Judicial Council meeting Friday.

Due diligence, done early in merger talks, should prevent any surprises about litigation against a law firm.

The complaint accuses Spotify of using the launch of its audiobook access product to categorize its $10.99 Premium subscription as a "bundled" subscription, reducing the amount of money reported to the plaintiff nonprofit, the Mechanical Licensing Collective.

"Civil antitrust cases brought by the United States have historically been tried to the bench—not to a jury," Google stated.

According to the defendant, the consent judgment "is a direct result of the insurers' failure to provide a defense and a failure to provide indemnification for the claims brought by the plaintiffs."

"I think the industry would like more clarity from the FDA on what exactly its position is on its authority over social media," said Mahnu Davar, a partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.

At stake is the fate of Roman v. Roman, a 2006 First District Court of Appeals ruling that treated embryos as property in a divorce and allowed the discarding of embryos per terms of a storage contract.

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Florida class action attorneys Jean Martin and John Yanchunis of Morgan & Morgan in Tampa open up about how they have leveraged their nearly 60 years of combined legal experience to help build their firm's cybersecurity and data privacy practice.

An update on the legal tech market's past week, from product launches to new partnerships.