Last week, Legal Speak spoke live on location at the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024 in Chicago with professionals across the legal industry about key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and more.

Last week, Legal Speak spoke live on location at the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024 in Chicago with professionals across the legal industry about key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and more.

The National Law Journal is excited to announce an extended call for nominations for its 2024 NLJ Legal Awards, and this year's event will include

"It can't just be one generation that is making concessions," said Marni Helfand, general counsel and chief human resources officer at The Planet Group. Helfand said in response, adding that ultimately everyone needs to focus on achieving the o

Our goal at ALM Media is to serve the entire legal community and, as part of that, we're adding new wrinkles to our annual Professional Excellence Awards to make sure we highlight the great work and achievements across the full breadth of the legal communities that our publications serve.

The long-time partner will join as senior counsel in September.

Nine partners, and a total of 17 attorneys, are making the move, helping Baker McKenzie meet a goal of becoming full service in Los Angeles. Munger Tolles—with just three transactional lawyers left, none of them partners—is sharpening its focus on complex litigation and crisis management.

The combined firm would have more than 90 lawyers in energy practices, 120 lawyers in life sciences practices, and 100 in real estate, according to an analysis of the firms' head count in these practices.

In separate rulings by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Eastern District of Virginia, both judges ruled in favor of Otis Elevator Co. after the plaintiffs in each suit were injured in hotel elevators and attempted to hold the company accountable for negligence.

The downturn in the Chinese property sector is creating new prospects in Hong Kong, both for firms looking to cash in on the need for professionals with expertise in restructuring and insolvency and for a city looking to cement its status as a legal hub.

The rules cover a range of issues including the protection of proprietary training data and AI models, as well as the knowledge needed to arbitrate disputes concerning AI software.

After topping New York in cases in 2021, the numbers have dipped slightly over the past two years. But law firms in the region are committed to the practice.

"First, in my mind, the plain text of the FTC Act clearly gives the agency the authority to promulgate rules addressing unfair methods of competition," FTC Chair Lina Khan said. Not everyone agrees.

The jury found AIG mishandled part of the claims process for damage to the family's $95 million oceanfront mansion near Miami.

Kevin Iredell, the chief marketing officer at Lowenstein Sandler, said that client-facing chatbots are likely to replace the law firm website search box.

Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn said she'll hear argument April 30 on whether to continue handling the case on an expedited basis.

"Michael Cohen would call me and say 'We would like for you to run a negative article on a certain—let's say it's on Ted Cruz,'" Pecker testified, recalling part of how the arrangement worked. "And then he, Michael Cohen, would send me negative information on Cruz, or Ben Carson, or Marco Rubio." Pecker added his staff would then "embellish" the fictional accounts from there.

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts. Law.com Radar now offers state court coverage nationwide.

Legaltech News caught up with Eric Topel, the first general counsel at Patsnap, to discuss what the next couple of months will look like as he prepares for compliance with the EU AI Act and other upcoming AI regulations.

The Supreme Court appeared to lean toward vacating the Sixth Circuit's more relaxed standard for issuing such an injunction while re-affirming what Starbucks says is the traditional four-part test for such relief.