Now plaintiff's counsel says his team plans on pursuing millions in attorney fees and post-judgment interest.

       

“We had to rethink how the data was structured so users could still find what they needed without a steep learning curve," said Abhishek Singh, a vice president on Morgan Stanley's legal matter-management team.

       

Join the webcast and get practical insights from legal industry pros on selecting tools, staying compliant, and setting smart goals.

       

"The second thing is simple: take the help. You don't have to figure it all out on your own. Some people have already been where you want to go. You have to be willing to accept their help when it's offered."

       

Ahead of the damages phase in a landmark Meta data privacy case involving fertility data, experts are eyeing the potential impact the jury verdict may have on the data privacy class action landscape—particularly on cases against Big Tech—amid a backdrop of surging claims under the California Invasion of Privacy Act.

       

On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered about 20 data breach class actions against Coinbase to be transferred for pretrial coordination in the Southern District of New York.

       

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Patrick Smith speaks with DLA Piper litigator Bob Alessi about his work on the highly-charged Karen Read case and how his approach to cross-examination likely turned the tide of the trial.

       

Germany's legal market is splitting: while Cleary Gottlieb and Goodwin pull back from Frankfurt, Kirkland & Ellis, Millbank, and others are expanding with bold hires and new offices—reshaping the future of a legal powerhouse facing economic uncertainty.

       

UGA Law established USG Scholars using the American Bar Association Standard 503 variance that was granted in April.

       

"What matters for attorney-client privilege is not what a company does with its legal advice, but simply whether a company seeks legal advice,” the appellate court stated.

       

In the film "The Burial" on Amazon Prime Video, Hal Dockins is portrayed as "a young, inexperienced lawyer despite his having been a practicing attorney for eleven years when Jeremiah O'Keefe hired him," according to a recent lawsuit.

       

For attorneys, especially those working in and around state governments, where lobbying and practicing law often go hand-in-hand, the writing on the wall is clear: manual research and traditional legal software are not optimized for these tasks. This is why generative AI is starting to establish a presence in the legal and lobbying industries.

       

The aircraft parts maker asserted that former CEO Larry Lawson breached his retirement agreement by becoming a consultant for the activist investor Elliott Management.

       

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Ripple Labs filed a joint stipulation in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday to resolve their multiyear legal battle, which has shaped emerging regulatory law for digital assets.

       

"As we see a lot of competition growing, especially when it comes to midsize firms, I think they're feeling the squeeze in terms of client demand," said one legal recruiter.

       

On average across the Am Law 200, more than 11% of hours billed came from nonlawyers.

       

A Manhattan jury found Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business on Wednesday after a four-week trial, leaving 18 U.S. Code § 1960 at the center of the discussion by legal experts about what they expect will be a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.        

Lawyers with plenty of energy-giving social resources will see the world differently and be better able to navigate the challenges and stressors of life, according to Anne Brafford, co-founder of the Institute for Well-Being in Law.

       

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp of the District of New Jersey ruled that the plaintiffs' steering committee in the talc multidistrict litigation could add Kenvue, Holdco and Janssen as defendants in their master complaint.

       

"The Court maintains serious doubts as to whether Plaintiff can sufficiently amend his Complaint," U.S. District Senior Judge Henry E. Hudson wrote in a memorandum opinion dismissing a shareholder's class action against drugmaker Indivior PLC for failing to meet the heightened pleading standard for securities fraud.