"I just want to commend this nominee for her comportment because what her comportment says to me is that she is going to be a damn good judge," Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said of Sarah Netburn, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The Senate has approved the constitutional measure, but its fate in the state Assembly is uncertain.

The class action, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey by five plaintiffs in talcum powder lawsuits, names Johnson & Johnson, its subsidiaries and several current and former officers and directors.

ALM litigation reporter Emily Saul has been in the courtroom every day of the trial and gets us up to date about what is going on, including bizarre behavior by Robert Costello and what we can expect in the coming week.

Counsel for AMC said court interference might hinder the possibility of the Chancery court ever again certifying a shareholder class that didn't vote unanimously on an issue.

Cannabis companies argued in federal court Wednesday that widespread state legalization of marijuana has outpaced existing case law on prohibition.

"We are very pleased the court granted class certification to more than 1,700 CITGO employees and pensioners in this important ERISA case," one of the plaintiffs' counsel, Michelle C. Yau, chair of Cohen Milstein's ERISA practice, said in a statement. "This ruling and the court's recent order denying summary judgment pave the way for the class claims to move forward to trial and affirm our confidence that our clients will prevail."

The U.S. Chamber and other plaintiffs complain the rule will give plaintiffs' attorneys "a front-row seat on inspections to ferret out potential opportunities for litigation against employers."

The two Republicans on the five-member commission blasted the enforcement action as an overreaction, likening it to a "regulatory foot fault."

The two Republicans on the five-member commission blasted the enforcement action as an overreaction, likening it to a "regulatory foot fault."

The Dallas Court of Appeals ruled a SCOTUS 2023 opinion on business registrations was specific to a Pennsylvania law and could not be used in Texas to assert personal jurisdiction.

Rob Rakochey quit his Calgary firm after a misogynist and anti-trans email he sent became public.

Law.com is accepting nominations for the New England Legal Awards, celebrating legal excellence in Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

A startup and its two founders sued Michael Best & Friedrich and two lawyers in Chicago, alleging they mishandled a business reorganization.

Sophia Contreras is stepping in as general counsel in the wake of John Orta's departure early this month as chief legal officer and head of corporate development.

A statutory predicate to the contractual outcome regarding ownership of patent rights is the requirement of a sufficient contribution by a natural person in the effort that yielded the invention. The issues implicated by this requirement are one development among more to come as patent law and policy try to catch up to proliferating AI technology.

"My advice for those looking to become practice leaders is this—don't be afraid to take risks, embrace challenges, and learn from failures. Being a practice leader requires resilience, adaptability, empathy, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset."

"Whether it's due to redundancies, retirement or switching firms, support staff turnover seems to be fixed at a high rate for the foreseeable [future]," a recent report concluded.

"Teva stifled would-be generic competitors to QVAR because the drug laws do not allow for generic substitution of a given drug-device combination unless the generic is approved for that specific drug-device combination," the complaint alleged.

Gavel CEO and founder Dorna Moini said the new model by OpenAI increased accuracy by 25% , and cut costs in half when compared to GPT-4.