"By continuing to administer arbitrations of 'stay or pay' provisions, however, the [American Arbitration Association] essentially facilitates indentured servitude and endangers its legitimacy as an impartial tribunal," the ACLU letter claimed.

       

“The content of the amended complaint from page 53 to page 71 is just concise and direct enough to avoid violating Rule 8, U.S. District Judge John A. Ross said.

       

Quinn Emanuel also lost its Brussels managing partner to an antitrust boutique and appointed a new office managing partner in the city.

       

UCLA and Pepperdine, both located just outside the perimeter of the Palisades fire, have moved classes online this week.

       

The justices denied the petition for review without explanation, as is customary, declining to inquire further into Binance's arguments that purchases made over its platform are extraterritorial and beyond the scope of U.S. securities law.

       

With the Los Angeles wildfires expected to cause billions of dollars in damages, insurance lawyers are keeping an eye on a probable surge in litigation, possible insurer exits and potential regulatory responses from the state.

       

"I must acknowledge the complexity and challenges of our work. Building for everyone, listening to everyone, and meeting the needs and expectations of our global community is pretty much impossible," Roy Austin wrote on LinkedIn.
       

"These are serious breaches of privacy, and it frankly shocks the court that Mr. Kretchmar 'had either forgotten or never noticed that the 677 pages revealed anyone's' [personal identifying information] or nude photographs," U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis for the Northern District of Illinois wrote in an order sanctioning a Chicago-area attorney.

       

From pro bono work to emergency funds for staff, firms have been quick to offer help.

       

The Supreme Court turned away a pair of appeals from the oil and gas industry seeking to defeat a lawsuit from Hawaiian municipal authorities over the companies' alleged cover-up of their products' environmental effects.

       

A final misconduct hearing has been set for March 5 for a Fulton County judge accused of engaging in ex parte communications, failing to timely issue final orders and failing to remain impartial in how she decides child custody matters, according to formal ethics charges.

       

In a posted letter on X (Twitter), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) have urged the respective heads of the U.S. federal antitrust agencies, that is, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to investigate DraftKings and FanDuel. The senators expressed considerable concern that these two leading online fantasy sports companies are coordinating to exclude innovative rivals in a manner that violates federal antitrust laws.

       

This article first discusses the legal backdrop of the UK's new strict liability law and then summarizes what companies need to know about the new UK guidance, with particular emphasis on the areas where it expands on the ECCP.

       

Kate Adams was the highest-paid U.S. legal chief in 2022 and the second-highest in 2023 and 2024.

       

TikTok, the viral video-sharing app beloved by millions, will soon "go dark” if the Supreme Court does not act soon to block a law requiring it be sold by a Chinese parent company. The justices appeared in no rush to do so Friday.

       

"I am worried that, given it's Bondi and Blanche and Sauer, all of them have been his personal lawyers,” noted a former federal judge.

       

While partner bonuses remain a strong and flexible tool to reward lawyers, the more firms lean on them, the more likely it is they can cause confusion or dismay, some observers say.

       

"Collaboration is essential. Every successful practitioner is guilty at some point in their career of becoming a “silo on a project; this makes sense, as you don't get to be a partner at a law firm unless you are pretty darn good at something and, at one point or another, you will feel like you can handle it all alone. Yet whenever I collaborate with one of my peers, they always add something of value that I have not. Perhaps most importantly is that collaboration actually makes the job fun."

       

Lawyers are already getting calls from prospective clients and eyeing potential defendants in lawsuits that could come out of the Los Angeles wildfires, which JP Morgan has estimated could end up costing $50 billion in damages.

       

"The term 'DEI' has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others," Meta said in a memo to employees.