DLA Piper last week unveiled plans to move away from its verein structure and towards closer financial integration. Observers say that challenges inherent in the verein model—as employed in multiple firms—have rendered it increasingly unsustainable.

       

As AI compels high leverage firms to restructure, elite firm partners reckon they will extract a generational benefit—but it's not so simple, writes The Global Lawyer.

       

The two jury notes came on the first day of deliberations in the first-ever trial alleging social media caused a teen's mental health problems.

       

"[T]he Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that [Federal Reserve Chair Jerome] Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President,” U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg wrote in a decision preventing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia from enforcing two grand jury subpoenas demanding Federal Reserve materials.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Greg Mazares, CEO of Purpose Legal, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Exterro Chief Marketing Officer John Vincenzo and Senior Product Marketing Manager Bryant Bell, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

The Massachusetts Appeals Court partially revived an estate's wrongful death case and vacated a defense judgment alleging Philip Morris violated the state's consumer protection law.

       

A new line of privacy litigation centers on surveillance cameras sold by Flock Group.

       

“The case's consequences for the financial industry and its impact on the state-federal balance in banking regulation make it exceptionally important," U.S. Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich said in his dissent to the majority's ruling.

       

Judge Lawrence VanDyke called the matter "a case of swinging dicks," prompting fellow judges to write, "We are better than this."

       

Erin Nealy Cox succeeds Rachel Brand, who stepped down in January after nearly eight years in the role.

       

While there's growing buzz about private equity investment in law firms, there's been limited discussion of the potential impacts on the talent market.

       

"Focus on building a very solid and technical knowledge in your practice area while cultivating interpersonal relationships inside and outside the firm. A well-rounded lawyer with the right combination of hard and soft skills is most likely to make partner and succeed at it."

       

One critic of the Justice Department settlement, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, called it “barely a slap on the wrist.


       

Dubai International Financial Center is home to many Global 200 law firms, many of which have shifted to remote work or are sheltering in place as the ongoing conflict disrupts the region.

       

The full court on Tuesday vacated a stay of a removal for a Peruvian family that was in place for more than a year.

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There is a paradox at the heart of AI trustworthiness: The path to being trusted is admitting when you are uncertain. Uniformly confident AI that never acknowledges doubt is, counterintuitively, less trustworthy than the humble AI that flags its own weak spots. We would never tolerate an associate who delivered every statement with identical certainty. We should not tolerate it from our AI tools, either.

       

The American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released its annual bar passage rate data for all ABA-accredited law schools Wednesday, with four schools attaining 100% ultimate bar passage rate.

       

"The request is not out of the ordinary in this circuit, where source code is discoverable as long as adequate protection for such trade secret information is in place," the magistrate wrote.

       

Average PEP surged by nearly 22% to $3.2 million, as it expanded its single-tier partnership by about 2% to around 324.