The large law library and excess file drawer and storage space in the current office “are no longer relevant," according to the firm's COO.

       

DeHeng is one of China's top five largest law firms by revenue. Last year, it also set up in South Korea and Laos.

       

Plaintiffs counsel said it is believed to be the largest ever reached in a case stemming from poor performance of a 401(k).

       

"This complaint is touching on things that have happened in the traditional tech space, but not the crypto space yet," said Kevin Kneupper, a partner at Kneupper & Covey.

       

The SEC said two Cantor Fitzgerald-controlled blank check companies failed to inform investors of ongoing talks with acquisition targets before going public.

       

The deal grants Korean Air a 63.9% stake in Asiana Airlines, solidifying the merger as one of the most significant in the aviation industry in recent years.

       

In a motion made public earlier this week, Manhattan prosecutors suggested the judge not dismiss Trump's guilty verdict, but instead conclude the case as if the defendant had legally died.

       

At least 29 patent suits were filed in the District of New Jersey in November, reflecting a jump from the rate of 18 suits per month in the period from December 2023 to November 2024. The multitude of suits include many that stem from generic drugmakers' plans to sell lower-priced versions of recognized pharmaceutical products.

       

"Overfield did not need to present evidence that either the vest or the working conditions of the locomotive were inherently unsafe, or that they each constituted an independent cause of his damage, in order to submit the verdict director in the disjunctive," Missouri Appellate Judge Gary M. Gaertner said in Overfield v. BNSF Railway.        

Ice Miller, luring two transactional attorneys from Greenspoon Marder, is expanding rapidly in Florida.

       

The 14-lawyer Denver office will open on Jan. 1, following new office openings in New York and Honolulu earlier this year.

       

"It is unfortunate Tekion has resorted to using a legal filing as a marketing stunt in an attempt to bypass contractual terms and industry practices, but we are confident our industry will see this for what it really is," CDK Global stated.

       

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Legal spending is expected to grow from last year. About 65% of respondents in a Harbor survey anticipate an increase in in-house spending, while 58% foresee a rise in outside counsel spending.

       

"It is clear on the face of Section 1155 [of the Immigration and Nationality Act] that the revocation provision is a quintessential grant of discretion to the Secretary," Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote for the court.

       

“The way the crypto Ponzi schemes seem to be evolving is that they appear to be a lot more sophisticated, said Marcelo Diaz-Cortes, a partner at Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider + Grossman in Miami who is an expert not involved in the matter.

       

NLJ 500 firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna will combine with litigation boutique Nolan Heller Kauffman at the start of 2025.

       

"It's got a horrible reputation for bad verdicts and it's a very antilawsuit place, but this case just transcended all of that," plaintiffs attorney Frank Swarr said of the wrongful-death case handled in St. Tammany Parish court in Louisiana.

       

K&L Gates scored a $10.5 million jury verdict on behalf of a Washington poultry and meat retailer in a suit against two companies in its supply chain that falsely advertised their chicken products as "boneless."

       

Chinese law firms continue to push for growth beyond its domestic borders.