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Thor Alden, associate director of innovation at Dechert, recently gave Legaltech News an inside look at the suite of homegrown generative artificial intelligence tools the firm has been internally rolling out since April 2023.

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Marlon Hill, of Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman, shares why he thinks Black History Month can be an opportunity to learn about how we can do better and make better policy.

An Oregon jury on Tuesday awarded more than $29 million to nine individuals who survived three wildfires in 2020.

Collectively, the firms took on nearly 300 debtor retentions in two jointly administered bankruptcies.

The SEC's case against Terraform is scheduled to go to trial March 25, and the debtors' counsel moved last week for the bankruptcy court to allow Dentons to serve as special counsel.

"The unanimous Kline verdict is the first to follow significant rulings in the Philadelphia litigation clarifying which scientific and regulatory conclusions could be admitted, a much-disputed issue in prior trials," a Bayer spokesperson said in a statement.

A slow year for contingency collections contributed to the IP firm's 2.4% decline in gross revenue, firm president and CEO John Adkisson said.

Miami-Dade Circuit Judge William Thomas declared a mistrial after the jury sent him a note Tuesday afternoon that said: "We are hopelessly deadlocked with absolutely, positively, no way to resolve it."

Ken Fulginiti accused Thomas Duffy Jr. of understating profits and spending revenues on "vanity expenses" and personal needs.

"Extending the crime-fraud exception to claims like MacDonald's would risk deterring clients from seeking legal advice, chilling lawyers from giving advice, and eroding the attorney-client privilege's protection of legitimate communications," Justice Michael B. Hyman wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel.

"Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President," Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a concurrence.

"Here, based on the facts alleged in the Complaint, Micah was at the address as part of his business driving for Uber and assaulted Plaintiff to coerce payment of a debt owed to Uber; therefore, a reasonable jury could determine that ... the assault was in furtherance of Uber's business," U.S. District Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. said, denying Uber's motion to dismiss on the plaintiff's vicarious liability claims.

Here's a first look at the law schools that sent the highest percentage of 2023 graduates to associate jobs at the largest 100 law firms.

Foley Hoag filed on behalf of Brazil and Uruguay, while Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe filed for Chile and Ecuador in support of a Sullivan & Cromwell attempt to reverse the verdict against Argentina.

"By adopting this design, we're not only enabling individuals to have a more authentic voice in their argument, but we are also better positioned to evaluate the writer's ability to employ various rhetorical techniques, evidentiary strategies and other important aspects of argumentative writing," said Susan Krinsky, executive vice president for operations and chief of staff at LSAC.

Defense lawyers argued that the restraint would effectively mute their client as a presidential candidate during a critical point in his campaign.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the decision "yet another victory for the Justice Department's work on behalf of American consumers," claiming execution of the deal "would have caused tens of millions of travelers to face higher fares and fewer choices."

Raphael Janove, who launched his own firm last month, said he plans to focus largely on mass arbitration to pursue consumer claims against mobile games developers.

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has played Kirkland & Ellis at its own game in London: aggressively hiring a who's who of top partners, mostly from Kirkland, to build out an office from scratch.