EJ Evans joins Legal Speak co-host Patrick Smith during the General Counsel Conference East in New York.

       

Shelby Boyd joins Legal Speak co-host Patrick Smith during the General Counsel Conference East in New York.

       

The prospect of a 3,000-lawyer firm caps a difficult year and a decades-long effort to transcend the Emerald City and compete for the industry's most elite clients.

       

In oral arguments on Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit criticized aspects of U.S. District Judge Denise Cote's 2023 ruling tossing all five plaintiffs' experts tying acetaminophen to autism and ADHD.

       

Apple said the single patent at issue in the case expired in 2022 “and is specific to historic patient monitoring technology from decades ago. We plan to appeal.

       

Former Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General Matthew Guarnieri has joined the plaintiff-side appellate boutique Gupta Wessler as its newest principal.

       

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"We really can hold Blue Cross Blue Shield to account for failing to pay for so many bills over many years," Raoul Cantero of White & Case, counsel for the plaintiff, said.

       

A preliminary draft of the study analyzed the performance of all federal judges under age 55 who were active between January 2023 and December 2024, using total opinions as a measure of productivity and out-of-circuit citations as a measure of influence, among other data points.

       

"Northwestern knew that NDR planned to give Northwestern a $12.5 million donation solely for the purposes of funding research conducted by Dr. Siddique. NDR justifiably trusted that Northwestern would use NDR's donation to fund research conducted by Dr. Siddique, and Northwestern had reason to know that Dr. Siddique might be unable to conduct that research," the court said.

       

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“What you see in final settlement with the parties is an acknowledgment that the judge who heard this matter was very skeptical of the complaint, said Sheila Millar of Keller and Heckman.

       

The president backed away from Donald Korb after the conservative social media influencer Laura Loomer asserted that he was chummy with Democrats and had donated to Democratic candidates.

       

The mega-merger is could create a global top 20 firm, but it will be far from straightforward.

       

The justices will be considering whether immigrants stopped near the U.S. border have a right to apply for asylum, or whether they can be flatly turned away without any processing.

       

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York sentenced Joseph James O'Connor, 26, in June 2023 to five years in prison for various charges.

       

A long-delayed U.S. push for Ashurst and a turbulent year for Perkins Coie have converged. Now both firms are betting that a transatlantic merger can steady their futures.

       

"The court's ruling preserves the core of the case—allowing key Title IX claims to proceed and recognizing that Loyola's alleged failures, including delaying and mishandling investigations, failing to implement and enforce no-contact directives, and allowing known offenders continued access to campus, plausibly amount to deliberate indifference," one of the plaintiffs' attorneys said.

       

A combination will create a major international firm with revenues of $2.58 billion, about 3,000 lawyers and about 700 partners across 47 offices.

       

"Firms requesting four days in-office aren't really expecting it or are likely to achieve it, noted Jeff Lowe, of CenterPeak. “But it's the hope that, The more days we ask for, the more days they're likely to show up.'