Not all data is created equal, and the information stolen in this case is "too mundane" or readily available online to significantly increase an individual's risk of identity theft, the judge said.

       

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“Quite literally, while I was on the courthouse steps, literally, we've reached a deal, said Cravath, Swaine & Moore partner J. Wesley Earnhardt, who represented Disney.

       

“The question now is which investments will deliver lasting value and which ones may fade as AI hype moderates," Goodwin Procter wrote in a client note last week.

       

Butler was Cravath's presiding partner between 1980 and 1998.

       

The Big Four firm is applying for a license under Arizona rules that allow lawyers and non-lawyers to co-own law firms. 

       

James "Jim" Jones, former managing partner of Arnold & Porter who went on to become a management consultant, died last month at the age of 79.

       

Melissa Price Smith has worked in the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's office since 2008, where she served as assistant prosecuting attorney and supervisor of the office's sexual assault and child abuse team.

       

Lateral partner recruiting has "transformed into a distinct professional function" within Big Law, a Leopard report says.

       

Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan had scheduled sentencing for Friday, yet indicated he did not plan to impose jail time.

       

On Jan. 6, San Francisco-based Girard Sharp's Daniel Girard will step down as managing partner.

       

"I would give the same advice to my younger self as I would give to another younger associate: find your niche and become the go-to person at the firm for this specific area."

       

Former pro football players are bidding to compel discovery in a class action that accuses the NFL's employee welfare benefit plans of refusing them disability benefits.

       

"The fact that attorneys' fees can quickly exceed the value of disputes is both a sad fact of litigation and also precisely the reason that attorneys' fees for unreasonable and bad faith litigation are awarded," said U.S. District Judge April M. Perry, noting the Seventh Circuit recognized in Wisconsin v. Hotline Industries that "'improper removal prolongs litigation (and jacks up fees).'"        

"Rule 26 of our Rules of Civil Procedure allow a party to seek documents in the possession of the adverse party; it does not generally require the adverse party to pay for any said documents to be translated into the English language," the court said. "In other words, there is no duty to produce documents that do not exist."

       

The chief justice called out "public officials" for dangerous remarks about courts in his unusually targeted year-end report—and acknowledged a "strained relationship" between the Supreme Court and Congress.

       

From artificial intelligence cases to a federal judiciary pressed to use a years-old high court ruling to curb securities fraud cases, and more—here are the four securities litigation trends to watch in 2025.

       

Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan on Friday declined to dismiss the indictment or guilty verdict against President-elect Donald Trump. He indicated he did not intend to sentence Trump to any jail time, but instead impose a sentence of unconditional discharge. 

       

The jury was told that a defense to the plaintiff's claims may be proving that the trademarks are used only as a model number, not for source identification, and "lack secondary meaning."

       

The National Labor Relations Board ordered PruittHealth to reinstate certified nursing assistant Coretta Jones, provide her back pay and lost benefits and reimburse her for job search expenses.