Kate Adams was the highest-paid U.S. legal chief in 2022 and the second-highest in 2023 and 2024.

       

TikTok, the viral video-sharing app beloved by millions, will soon "go dark” if the Supreme Court does not act soon to block a law requiring it be sold by a Chinese parent company. The justices appeared in no rush to do so Friday.

       

"I am worried that, given it's Bondi and Blanche and Sauer, all of them have been his personal lawyers,” noted a former federal judge.

       

While partner bonuses remain a strong and flexible tool to reward lawyers, the more firms lean on them, the more likely it is they can cause confusion or dismay, some observers say.

       

"Collaboration is essential. Every successful practitioner is guilty at some point in their career of becoming a “silo on a project; this makes sense, as you don't get to be a partner at a law firm unless you are pretty darn good at something and, at one point or another, you will feel like you can handle it all alone. Yet whenever I collaborate with one of my peers, they always add something of value that I have not. Perhaps most importantly is that collaboration actually makes the job fun."

       

Lawyers are already getting calls from prospective clients and eyeing potential defendants in lawsuits that could come out of the Los Angeles wildfires, which JP Morgan has estimated could end up costing $50 billion in damages.

       

"The term 'DEI' has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others," Meta said in a memo to employees.

       

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Witness testimony may influence whether the jury finds the defendants liable for Sherman Act violations. The jury may view video depositions of key witnesses in the trial, including MLS Commissioner Don Garber and United Soccer League CEO Alec Papadakis.

       

In a 50-page complaint, James outlined a complex fraud scheme that ensnared at least seven people in New York, Florida and Florida and ran from at least January 2024 through June 2024. Various aspects of the operation were conducted through cryptocurrency, a technology with which many of the targets were unfamiliar, according to the lawsuit.        

Fenwick & West launched its Shanghai office in 2014 with a team of five lawyers from Covington & Burling.

       

"By the plain language of § 1447(c), then, once the district court determined it lacked jurisdiction, it was required to remand the case to state court—which has congressional authority to hear it," Judge Amy St. Eve said.

       

Among the false representations the defendants allegedly made was that a crypto investment firm was sponsored by the “All-Party Parliamentary Group in London and it had retained the legal services of an Am Law 100 firm, according to the complaint.

       

Priya Aiyar joined American in 2019, just before COVID-19 walloped the entire airline industry.

       

The Supreme Court seemed skeptical of TikTok's appeal to block a law requiring it to be divested from its Chinese parent company or else shut down by Jan. 19.

       

The appellate panel remanded the case to the district court to decide whether the nonprofit Do No Harm has sufficient evidence of standing, overturning a previous decision upholding the case's dismissal because anonymous members who alleged injury refused to give their names to the trial court.

       

“Menendez's conduct may be the most serious for which a U.S. senator has been convicted in the history of the Republic, prosecutors wrote in their submission to the judge.

       

"In the end, there was never anything more to this than minor accounting errors with regard to some personal payments that I made several years ago when I was CEO of WWE," McMahon said on social media.

       

University of Masssachusetts Amherst political science professor Paul Collins Jr. wrote that public records show numerous amici supporting Google in the underlying antitrust case have had financial ties to the company. He urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to view those filings with skepticism.

       

"The abortion ban violates the fundamental right to practice one's faith, forcing plaintiffs to choose between observing their religious duties but risking imprisonment and professional discipline or reneging on their religious obligations but preserving their freedom and livelihood," a press release from The Lawyering Project said.