The Texas Senate has passed SB30 and now the bill goes to the House for consideration. The bill would cap recoverable medical expenses at 300 percent of Medicare rates in many cases, and implement stricter standards for pain and suffering damages. Opposition to the bill is strong among trial lawyers and legal firms who argue it benefits insurance companies and big business at the expense of injured Texans.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland, live from the Legalweek 2025 Conference in New York.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Ashley Picker Dubin, Counsel at Day Pitney, live from the Legalweek 2025 Conference in New York.

       

Sources told Law.com this week some partners and associates aren't taking Trump seriously when he says he wants the firms to work for him and believe it's more bluster from Trump. Others are concerned about what they signed up for.

       

After collecting $4 million in salary two years ago, David Hyman received $1.5 million in 2024.

       

The matter is one of two key cases testing the White House's action to deport migrants to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador.

       

A judge found that two of Icahn's businesses—Icahn Partners LP and Icahn Partners Master Fund LP—had properly alleged that Rialto Capital Advisors LLC's handling over the loans had specifically impacted Icahn, which held the majority of one class of bonds. Icahn was represented by the New York litigation boutique, Pallas Partners, and Garman Turner Gordon.

       

"If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home?” wrote Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan.

       

At least a third of the Am Law 100 has been involved in the ongoing battle with the Trump administration, though that number could change by the day.

       

Judge Jay Bybee said it's “important to have a set of rules for overturning precedent, citing the high court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion established in Roe v. Wade in 1973.        

The group referenced the recent deals made by many law firms with the Trump administration as evidence that law firms "can quickly enact large changes" when they wish to do so.

       

"What we always see is the states rise to fill that vacuum. Where the feds sort of dip down, the states rise up," Troutman Pepper Locke partner Brooke Conkle said on a recent podcast.

       

The Supreme Court will consider President Donald Trump's requests to reinstate his executive order restricting birthright citizenship on May 15.

       

Sixty-eight firms had year-over-year growth rates of at least 10% in PEP, compared to 37 last year.

       

"We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half," Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's vice president of regulatory affairs, said after U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia found Google liable for Sherman Act violations in the combined use of advertising tech.

       

This will be Liu's fifth legal chief post. All have been in different industries.

       

The firm says the memo refers to guidelines for client briefings and its lawyers are free to express political opinions in their personal capacity.

       

"The jury saw through the excuses and deflection and understood that our client's injuries cause her constant pain and interfere with her ability to enjoy time with her family," Morgan & Morgan founder John Morgan and attorney Chase Marshall said in a statement.

       

Two months into Kennedy's leadership of HHS, attorneys say they are still waiting to see where the new secretary might steer the department and the agencies it oversees, and what his decisions could mean for litigation over things like pharmaceuticals and food products.

       

"We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half," Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google's vice president of regulatory affairs, said after U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia found Google liable for Sherman Act violations in the combined use of advertising tech.