The president put Netflix on the hot seat as the Justice Department scrutinizes whether it should greenlight the company's proposed $82 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets.

       

"Lateral hiring isn't simply a recruiting function — it's a capital allocation decision made with partners' own earnings."

       

Often used by European firms as a tool to disincentivise partner departures, the move to use the full extent of the firm's contractual notice period marks a shift in normal practice, and follows the exits of several high profile partners from across the firm's Europe offices.

       

The Epstein files expose the extent of the Big Law firm's involvement in a plea deal that, 17 years after it was finalized, garners worldwide attention for its perceived leniency.

       

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would review whether local governments and private plaintiffs may bring climate change lawsuits in state court against major fossil fuel producers.

       

A Sutton Place couple is suing their co%E2%80%91op board, its managing agent and several pump manufacturers over a 2023 plumbing failure that flooded their duplex and derailed a pending $6 million sale. The complaint alleges years of ignored expert warnings, defective pump components and negligent maintenance resulted in more than $3.5 million in damages.

       

"It was consistent performance and reliability over time. Being an associate is a protracted interview in many ways, and I have always approached it that way—showing up day after day as someone colleagues and clients can count on."

       

Former Cravath business development and communications chief and current founder and president of Farone Advisors, Deborah Farone, discusses her new book, which lights a path for women attorneys looking to build their own sustainable legal practices.

       

The American Bar Association's accrediting council voted Friday to send a repeal of Standard 206 for notice and comment.

       

The plaintiff claimed the utilities company paid its salaried employees on a monthly basis in violation of the Massachusetts Wage Act.

       

Several recruiting and staffing experts in touch with big firms said AI isn't alone leading to cuts, and some firms could simply be using AI as a public justification for cuts, even if slower performance, large staffing overheads or inefficiencies are the primary drivers.

       

The way legal value used to be measured was hours billed by private practice lawyers and strong business partnerships for in-house teams, but as technology reshapes workflows, globalisation accelerates complexity, and clients demand clarity as much as expertise; those traditional markers no longer capture the full scope of what modern organisations need from their legal advisers.

       

In the past few months, several firms from outside the Garden State have set up a presence, expanded or moved operations to the state of Delaware, including Ice Miller, Bernstein Litowitz, JVK Law and Akerman.        

The council voted Friday to send the proposed changes out for notice and comment, which are intended to “modernize the language to “explicitly recognize that law school graduates may achieve attorney licensure through means other than a bar exam.

       

The court allowed a plaintiff to continue with his claim alleging a workstyle assessment Amazon requires its job applicants complete functions as a "lie detector test" in violation of Massachusetts law.

       

FedEx delivery drivers launched a wave of lawsuits alleging wage-and-hour violations by third-party hiring agencies.

       

A new report paints a picture of rapid AI adoption colliding with fragile governance frameworks, leaving enterprises vulnerable to lawsuits and regulatory actions.

       

A healthcare technology firm was hit last week with a novel class action that accuses it of illegally mining Illinois residents' genetic testing data to train its artificial intelligence algorithms.

       

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff program is illegal, a stunning rebuke of the defining economic policy of his second term by a conservative court he helped reshape.

       

“If you're reading the tea leaves, it's a meaningful leaf, said Elizabeth Goldberg, a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.