Law firms are increasingly using lateral departure deterrence methods, such as punitive non-competes or debits for unpaid bills, legal industry sources say.

The New York firms are betting that the tech industry, and the talent necessary to work its matters, are bouncing back in San Francisco.

Punitive measures for departing partners are on the rise.

The Environmental Protection Agency will "face a much more skeptical federal judiciary," said Robert Glicksman, a George Washington University law professor.

"The Sixth Circuit has telegraphed that the expansion of Bostock v. Clayton County's definition of sex discrimination into other areas, including Title IX, is likely dead on arrival or at least in for a substantial uphill battle," Patricia Hamill, a member and co-chair of the Title IX and campus discipline practice at Clark Hill, said.

The Eighth Circuit considered whether Nationwide met its burden to show that an ordinary person would understand that a post third sale offering of a tax-delinquent house is a public auction.

But Judge Paul Engelmayer's ruling did not challenge the SEC's decision to include Chief Information Security Officer Tim Brown as a defendant—a decision that has rattled the cybersecurity industry.

The SEC seeks disgorgement of any alleged "ill-gotten gains" from Miami businessman Patrick Orlando and civil penalties on allegations he gave false statements concealing a plot to acquire Trump Media.

The ruling represents an exception from the court's customary pro-contract mentality.

The judge explained that under the American Bar Association's "shadow guidelines"—an alternative the United States Sentencing Commission's sentencing guidelines—he felt that Anatoly Legkodymov had already served a sentence in that range during pre-trial detention.

"One important consideration was addressing the subjects Florida attorneys have identified as necessary for entry-level attorneys to know," Bar Examiners said.

The reinforcements are expected to ease a crisis of thousands of backlogged cases.

Julie Glynn is boomeranging back to FINRA, where she spent seven years as an enforcement attorney before joining the banking giant in 2011.

Kirkland & Ellis isn't the only Big Law firm offering $50,000 for successful placements in today's market.

"If it's going to cost us more to litigate than we can win, you've gutted Title IX without it being obvious," said Washington, D.C. plaintiff lawyer Laura Dunn.

Even the slower growing Am Law 100 firms that have arrived since 2018 have avoided major setbacks. "Miami has just become more sophisticated as a legal market," explained one local recruiter.

Plaintiff's counsel with Ice Miller submitted a list of the work performed by four attorneys, which included 65.2 hours over the course of six months preparing and litigating the second motion to compel. The court concluded this was a reasonable number of hours, and agreed that the requested hourly rates ranging from $395 to $693 were lower than rates in a 2023 case in which the district court approved the rates of $1,085 for a partner and $735 for a senior associate.

As Brazilian legal industry eyes more automation to ease its caseload, CLM provider netLex hopes to accelerate its growth inside and outside the country with its latest funding round.

"We believed in our case, and that is why we committed so many resources to litigating it. And in the end, you know, I believe that we got a very excellent result," said Sherrie R. Savett of Berger Montague, who represented the plaintiff.

"We reject that result because the U.S. Constitution cannot properly be so interpreted," the court majority said. "The Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not bar states from permanently disenfranchising felons."