Am Law 50 CFO Madhav Srinivasan's latest effort to apply Wall Street valuation techniques to the country's largest law firms offers a rosy picture.

       

Among those presenting during the Philadelphia Bar Association's webinar was U.S. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel of the Southern District of Illinois.

       

"Because the brands are maybe working with influencers that aren't trained, there's risk to the brand," said Jennifer Santos, an attorney for the BBB's National Advertising Division.

       

TaxProf Blog 2.0 launched Thursday with a new team of editors from 10 law schools across the country.

       

President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, who was convicted over a single count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act and failing to maintain proper anti-money laundering controls as the CEO of Binance, the company he founded.

       

"Not to be glib with Scripture, but let he who has never attached the wrong PDF to an e-mail cast the first stone," defendant-appellant attorney, Miles Skedsvold, of Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, said during oral arguments this week.

       

“If you treat generative AI as a free intern, you'll soon pay for it with client churn," the marketing firm OutreachX says in a new analysis.

       

Piero Bussani has been the top lawyer for two hotel companies, two homebuilders and two firms in the investment industry.

       

In the minds of your clients, trust and security are intertwined. As stewards of confidential client information, law firms must go beyond minimum compliance. The following seven strategies, drawn from real-world experience in legal technology, outline actionable ways law firms can fortify their defenses while making security a pillar of client trust and firm reputation.

       

In Locke v. County of Hubbard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, in an opinion authored by circuit court Judge Jonathan Kobes, reversed the dismissal of a protester's lawsuit against the county and two of its police officers related to excessive use of force in violation of 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 and Minnesota law.        

The Utah attorney general's decision this month comes after one of the defendants, OptumRx, moved to disqualify Motley Rice for conflict-of-interest reasons.

       

The WIPL Awards return in 2026 on an earlier schedule to align with next year's General Conference Midwest Conference taking place in April in Chicago        

The long-running case, which has opened up a debate about the nature of verein law firms, will return to court next month for a case management hearing.

       

"As Virginia Surety recognizes, if a ruling denying intervention is overturned on appeal, the trial court can reopen discovery to allow the intervenor to catch up and, to the extent needed to avoid unfair prejudice, permit the intervenor to relitigate issues decided in its absence," U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the Northern District of Illinois wrote.

       

White graduates and those with at least one lawyer as a parent saw higher employment rates, particularly in sought-after roles.

       

In Ortega v. Grisham, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that New Mexico's statutory seven-day “cooling-off period before a consumer may obtain a firearm was likely an unconstitutional infringement of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.        

"For media lawyers, at least, I would encourage actively participating in bar organizations, both locally and nationally. The D.C. Bar's Arts, Entertainment, Media, and Sports community and the ABA's Forum on Communications Law have both been great ways to strengthen my connections within the tight-knit media law ecosystem of law firms, news organizations, non-governmental organizations, and insurers."

       

       

“CFTC expertise is more in demand now than it ever has been, Behnam Dayanim, a partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, observed in an interview.

       

Many law firms have had their own general counsel for several years, but some believe the role has never been more crucial.