The National Law Journal highlights the biggest outstanding cases from the October 2024 term.        

Renee Meisel had been general counsel of UnitedLex for just four months when she landed the top job.

       

The complaint claims that Fidelity's lack of restrictions on the board's ability to award compensation allowed chairman William Foley and nine non-employee directors to be overcompensated. The case has been assigned to Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will.

       

U.S. Justice Department attorney Dana Walsh Kumar told the appeals court that without a stay of a federal judge's preliminary injunction, the government will be forced to pay the states millions of dollars that it won't be able to recover even if the lawsuit is unsuccessful.

       

"There is much to be said about contracts that use brightline rules to establish certainty. That is not this contract. Instead of setting a firm timeline, the contract created a continuing obligation for reclamation that survived its termination," said Judge Joshua P. Kolar, who authored the opinion.

       

The decision to disbar a Marietta attorney has reignited concerns that the State Bar of Georgia is handing down disparate disciplinary measures—enforced by the Supreme Court of Georgia.

       

In his opinion, Judge Serge Georges Jr. said Massachusetts employers can enforce the forfeiture of severance payments, or other conditions, when an individual violates a nonsolicitation agreement or other restrictive covenants.

       

Some partnership agreements include notice periods if departing partners wish to leave their firms in good standing and have their capital contributions returned.

       

Akin, Arnold & Porter, and Norton Rose Fulbright have added lawyers in the Windy City this month, while more midsize firms are launching in the market.

       

"The biggest challenge has been scaling myself—and the team—with the company," Tia Sherringham said.

       

In the past, presidents believed preventing foreign corruption was in the nation's best interest, but the Trump administration is now ensuring that it will prosecute only cases directly relevant to U.S. economic and national security interests, a former Justice Department official said.

       

Apple was slapped with a proposed class action in San Jose federal court last week that accuses the Big Tech giant of misleading users about the security of its app store vetting protocol and failing to shield them from cryptocurrency theft through "pig butchering" scams.

       

3M's RICO suit said the actions of the three lawyers—Glenn Hammond in Kentucky, Johnny Givens in Mississippi and Mike Martin in Texas—"far exceeded the bounds of lawful, zealous advocacy."

       

       

"The district court's final judgment here was silent about the disposition of the defendant's counterclaims. After that omission was identified, the parties and the district court proposed four separate solutions. That number suggests some clarification might be helpful to parties and district courts," the per curiam opinion said.

       

The Third Circuit, in a complicated five-year old case, avoided the merits of two groups of appeals from an order confirming the debtor's reorganization “Plan. In In re Boy Scouts of America (BSA), the majority used statutory mootness, while a concurring judge would have used equitable mootness to dodge the issue of nonconsensual third-party releases in the Plan and Confirmation Order.        

Posing as firm IT departments, hackers are initiating remote sessions and encrypting or exfiltrating client data.

       

New Jersey is set to obtain $124.5 million from the settlement and has overall collected $1.3 billion in settlement funds involving the opioid crisis.

       

A New York judge agreed to step down at the end of 2025, rather than defend against charges he made offensive and inappropriate comments to prosecutors and court staff for more than a year, and even after he had been cautioned by a judicial misconduct watchdog.

       

First Choice Women's Resource Center claims the subpoena from New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin has chilled its First Amendment rights and disrupted its associations with donors.