A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated for one day before awarding $40 million, all compensatory damages, to two women.

       

The JPML's order, issued Friday, consolidates 31 actions against Roblox pending in 12 districts in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.        

The executive order, titled “Protecting American Investors from Foreign-Owned and Politically-Motivated Proxy Advisors, was issued on Thursday, continuing a line of action against proxy advisers. However, this order includes a novel securities theory that, if accepted, would be "utterly unworkable" for proxy advisers' clients, according to one law professor.

       

The National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States alleges President Donald Trump's White House ballroom construction project violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

       

A three-judge panel found that the tech giant willfully violated a 2021 antitrust injunction by imposing 27% commission and restrictive link designs for non-App Store purchases

       

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation picked U.S. Senior District Judge John Bates to oversee class actions alleging racketeering and antitrust claims against claims administrators Epiq Systems, Angeion Group and JND Legal Administration, plus several banks.

       

The deregulation trend is comparable to the period prior to the worst market collapse in American history in 1929, Crenshaw warned.

       

The 15-year prison sentence places Do Heong Kwon among a growing list of high-profile figures in the cryptocurrency industry who have received significant prison terms since 2024 for fraud and money-laundering schemes.

       

The court's decision is a case of first impression and marks the first time an Illinois appellate court has addressed whether a certificate of good conduct can shield a witness from impeachment.

       

Following budget cuts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, the Wisconsin State Public Defenders office is partnering with the school to help run the school's Public Defender Project.

       

About 82% of surveyed large firm leaders said they planned to increase their equity ranks over the next two years, compared with 73% saying the same in last year's report.

       

“It's not at all surprising that you remove the headwinds and you're going to get more boats sailing along, said Stephen Calkins, a former Federal Trade Commission general counsel who's now a Wayne State law professor.

       

The New Benchmark for Legal AI

       

Partners will vote next summer on creating a financially integrated firm, with many onlookers saying the cultures will align well, but others sound a note of caution about market combinations.

       

A new wrongful death lawsuit filed in California state court claims that both OpenAI and Microsoft are liable for a man's decision to kill his 83-year-old mother, and then himself, after interacting with OpenAI's flagship artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.

       

The ‘Click to Cancel' rule may be down, but it's not out—and the FTC appears to be keeping its options open," Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz partner Holly Melton wrote in a note to clients.

       

“[T]here will be questions from reasonable and unbiased observers as to whether Judge Bove's attendance imperils his impartiality when assigned cases in which Trump is on either side of the v,' the complaint reads.

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Wilmer, Covington, Morgan Lewis, Latham, Holland & Knight, Hogan Lovells, and Jenner were among the top employers of government laterals in the D.C. region this year.

       

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Texas Lawyer litigation reporter Laura Lorek explores Venable partner Derek Smith's passion for high-energy concert photography.

       

"My advice would be to make time to deeply understand the law in your field so that you can do all of the things that a practice group leader needs to do from helping shape the litigation positions in your group's cases, to writing articles and policy papers, to answering client questions on the spot about questions or uncertainties in the law. There is no faking it,"