The record year included 33% growth in average profits per equity partner and a 23% rise in gross revenue.

       

Houston trial lawyer Don Foty has sued his partner David Hodges for access to bank accounts as they dissolve their trial firm, Hodges & Foty.

       

"Always be willing to work harder than the person next to you and do the job no one wants to do. Everyone wants to do the work that sounds the most exciting, but when a partner asks associates to do the tedious research, and everyone is looking down at their shoes, the person who raises their hand gets noticed."

       

Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island gave the Department of Justice until Sunday to respond to allegations federal agencies are not complying with his order blocking a Trump funding-freeze directive.

       

Microsoft has been hit with at least three class actions in Washington federal court, becoming the latest tech company—after fintech giant PayPal and credit card company Capital One Financial—to field claims it stole marketing commissions from online influencers via its shopping browser extension.

       

"The Court's order ensures that FBI Agents who are keeping our country and our communities safe can continue to do their jobs without fear of public exposure or retaliation," Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder partner Chris Mattei said on behalf of his client the FBI Agents Association.

       

A total of six law firms served as lead class counsel in cases that were resolved with "mega-settlements" of $100 million or more. Jurisdictionally, the Southern District of New York and Northern District of California were the most popular venue for filing new securities class actions in 2024.

       

"The statute's plain language clearly suggests that § 1831a(j)(1) is meant to ensure that out-of-state state banks can compete with nationally chartered banks. This means that because the court granted the preliminary injunction with respect to nationally chartered banks, forcing out-of-state state banks to comply with the IFPA would run afoul of § 1831a(j)(1)," said Chief U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Kendall for the Northern District of Illinois.

       

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin pressed the government about long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent that the 14th Amendment ensures citizenship for anyone born in the United States.

       

A Berlin court ruling will force social media giant X to release key data, allowing researchers to combat potential election interference and increase transparency. 
       

Target's under fire after its LGBTQ+ Pride Campaigns triggered backlash and boycotts.

       

“As the industry matures and more crypto mergers and acquisitions occurs, the boards and leaders of crypto companies will need to prioritize higher standards of rigorous disclosure and good corporate governance," said Mike Katz, a partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. "Such efforts will be essential in avoiding lawsuits and enabling successful exits.

       

"We also see 'a reasonable connection between the fees and the amount involved in the litigation,' given that the tenants faced an abrupt end to their source of livelihood, and that the total amount awarded ($21,525) was much less than the amount of rent that was at stake in the suit (36 additional months x $1,600 = $57,600)," Justice Margaret Stanton-McBride wrote on behalf of an Illinois appellate panel.

       

Davis Building Group surrendered after the Indiana attorney general alleged violations of the Indiana Deceptive Sales Act and the federal Consumer Review Fairness Act.

       

"Without court intervention, Defendants will continue to unlawfully terminate career civil servants for political reasons on a mass scale unprecedented in American history," counsel for two nonprofits alleged in a complaint seeking to strike down President Donald Trump's Executive Order 14171.

       

"The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic," a top lawyer in the U.S. solicitor general's office told the U.S. Supreme Court Friday.

       

The suit represents the second time that courts will hash out the question of transgender service members. A similar suit followed Trump's 2017 executive order on transgender Americans serving in the military.

       

"Not a single one of defendants' actions to dismantle USAID were taken pursuant to congressional authorization," counsel for two foreign aid member groups alleged in a complaint seeking to prevent President Donald Trump from dissolving the U.S. Agency for International Development.

       

"While plaintiff repeatedly asserts that his suspension from the practice of law created a new cause of action with a new statute of limitations, these assertions are not accompanied by any relevant legal authority," Lampkin said.

       

"Recommending that a user join a group, connect with another user, or attend an event is Facebook's own speech, for which it can be held liable, even under this Court's precedent," Judge Allison Jones Rushing wrote in a dissenting opinion. She was arguing for the revival of negligence claims against Meta for promoting hate speech that allegedly fueled a massacre of Black churchgoers in South Carolina.