In a 6-1 ruling, the court suspended Paul Petruska indefinitely with no leave to apply for reinstatement for three years after he offered opposing counsel a $120,000 injury crash settlement despite lacking the authority or permission to do so.

       

"You will see most firms take a more conservative approach to taking on matters that piss off the administration," noted one firm leader.

       

"Until someone disincentivizes the plaintiffs not to bring the cases and there's no real opportunity for making money from it, the ambiguity and angst surrounding the statute is going to encourage more filings," said Sean G. Wieber, who serves as the co-chair of Winston & Strawn's global privacy and data security practice.

       

C.J. Grisham, a civil rights attorney in Texas, talks about how he trained AI to be an indispensable utility in his solo practice.

       

An accounting manager embezzled $2.7 million from a Lubbock law firm. The embezzlement came to light after the personal injury law firm hired an forensic accountant to investigate accounting manager, Emily Ann Anderson. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix sentenced Anderson to five years in federal prison.

       

Toronto is home base to Canada's BigLaw firms, so the Ontario Law Society (LSO) has powerful enemies as well as allies in a controversy that is exposing deep divisions within the legal profession.

       

Trump's pick to be U.S. solicitor general revealed his firm income last year and said he would sell off millions in stock holdings in new public disclosures.

       

A judge's ruling reinstating NLRB board member Gwynne Wilcox sets the stage for a battle over the agency's future, which could end up at the Supreme Court.

       

The Midwest-born middle market firm also pushed profits per equity partner past the $1 million mark for the first time.

       

The jury assigned 65% of the fault to the defendant and 35% of fault to the plaintiffs regarding their daughter's death, resulting in the $25 million award being reduced to about $16.5 million.

       

A new Senate Bill, SB 29, seeks to make Texas the preferred choice for publicly traded companies to establish their headquarters. In particular, the law could make Texas a more attractive incorporation jurisdiction for businesses seeking protection from shareholder litigation.

       

Take a moment to scan every matter you have open at the moment. Now ask yourself, how many of these contacts will still be my clients in five years?

       

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Russian lawmaker Anton Gorelkin wrote on Telegram that it is “impossible to completely block this market for Russia."

       

“These large-scale, indiscriminate firings are not only subjecting the Plaintiff States and communities across the country to chaos. They are also against the law, the lawsuit states.

       

Bart Volkmer joined the company in 2011, four years after its launch, and "has been one of Dropbox's biggest champions since the early days," co-founder and CEO Drew Houston said.

       

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"Allowing a suit of this type to proceed on this basis would basically open the door to enabling any purchaser of any consumable product to file a lawsuit simply saying, 'I bought product X, and it contains microplastics' ... and thereby get a past a motion to dismiss and into discovery and class certification proceedings," wrote U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly.

       

As firms seek to drive business development, client engagement and revenue growth, customer relationship management needs to evolve into a strategic growth platform.

       

A gay-rights student organization at Texas A&M is suing the university over a newly adopted resolution that bans drag shows on any of its 11 campuses. The student group asserts the ban is a violation of their First Amendment rights and is unconstitutional. They are requesting a temporary restraining order to let a planned March 27th event called Draggieland to take place.