Aurelio Fernandez-Concheso, partner in charge of the Venezuela office at Clyde & Co, discusses the ups and downs of working in the South American country, which he says has experienced many hardships in recent decades but holds opportunities for those willing to take the risk of doing business there.

Charlotte is the largest city in the country without a law school, having gone without a full-time law school since 2018, when Charlotte School of Law closed after being open for seven years.

These suits represent the next frontier: whether manufacturers of regulated cannabis products may be held liable for injuries allegedly caused by unregulated botanicals they choose to incorporate as ingredients, an issue surfacing in a state widely regarded as a regulatory leader since legalizing adult%E2%80%91use cannabis in 2012.

"These principles flow naturally from the court's interest in vigorously defending the integrity of the legal process and procedural rules. When a party is served properly and fails to appear, as is undisputed here, the party faces the consequences of that failure. One such consequence is that the party is charged with notice of all future proceedings, including any judgment entered," said Chief Judge John P. Torbitzky, who authored the opinion.

Associate work is already being written off at a relatively high pace—realization for associates is only about 85.6%—and this is where AI can help.

It's been one of the more challenging years for higher education and most disruptive years for legal education in the amount of things that have been happening, Austen Parrish told Law.com.

U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, sought leave to appear as amici curiae in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, saying they believe the DOJ requires oversight to comply with the law.

It may be "business as usual" for Greenland's law firms today, but tomorrow's tremors threaten to rewrite legal history.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said there was reason to accept Bruce Fein's request to represent Maduro, after Fein admitted he was neither retained by Maduro, nor Barry Pollack, Maduro's actual attorney.

"If permitted to stand, the secretary's censure and the grade-determination proceedings that he has directed will inflict immediate and irreparable harm," counsel for U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly wrote in a complaint alleging U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unlawfully censured Kelly for recording a video that advised U.S. servicemembers to disregard unlawful orders.

The keynote will take place Monday, March 9 as part of Legalweek's expanded programming. The conference will be held at the Javits Center in New York City from March 9 to 12.

Rate hikes remained the primary profitability driver for a cohort of nearly 150 regional law firms, according to a new Law.com survey.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases involving state bans on trans athletes competing on girls' sports teams.

When managing associate Tanya Sadoughi found a recurring problem in the banking and finance practice, she put her newfound coding skills to the test and created a tool that is now used across the firm globally.

The record figure is a 7% jump from the previous year.

The claims by a former counsel—strongly denied by Latham—have ignited debate across Asia's legal community about opaque promotion processes, origination%E2%80%91credit practices and deeper systemic flaws in Big Law.

The state bar's leaders must decide soon what its future bar exams will look like, and how they will be administered, if they are to comply with a new law requiring two years' notice before changing the licensing test's format.

Elizabeth Burch, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, and expert on mass torts, talked to Law.com about her new book, 'The Pain Brokers,' which is about a sordid scheme within the pelvic mesh litigation that shocked the mass tort world.

"As we told the judge, what happened with the dissolution was like if Tim Cook started a company called Apple 2.0, transferred all of Apple's assets to the new company, and told the existing Apple shareholders, 'Oops, your stock is worthless now,'" plaintiff's attorney Michael Forde said.

"A lot of the men involved in this case are older, and dozens have died during the bankruptcy proceedings. My first thought after seeing the decision this morning is that it finally gives these men closure and the ability to move forward," said Ken Rothweiler, of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck in Philadelphia.