An update on the legal tech market's past week, from product launches to new partnerships.

Jonathan Larsen alleges the firm fired him abruptly and without cause.

"You need to stay up to the minute on developments," said Mark S. Goldstein, a labor and employment lawyer at Reed Smith. "We have to be able to be flexible and pivot quite quickly, with the patchwork of employment laws at the state and local level."

Firms are having to think about who should be tasked with the growth and implementation of generative AI at their firms, according to Carlos Pauling, executive director of Major, Lindsey & Africa's partner practice group.

Morrison & Forester's James Brosnahan and Latham & Watkins' Sean Berkowitz discuss how they use their voices as effective professional tools and how, yes, you likely can too.

"There were several dips in law firm pro bono engagement during and immediately after the pandemic, but that appears to be turning a corner."

Fish & Richardson's appellate group gives the lawyers dedicated resources to better market the practice both internally to existing clients and externally in a formal way, according to the firm.

"Because a circuit split exists and there is no binding federal jurisprudence on this issue, the court must make its own interpretation as to the applicability of Bostock to Title IX ... the court finds that Bostock does not apply to Title IX," U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty said.

An investment fund is seeking an order requiring Dendreon to perform its obligations under the agreement and pay the $9 million plus accrued interest, along with attorney fees and costs.

"We disagree the court lacked appellate jurisdiction. As we explained in our brief, appellate courts consider district court decisions that go to the merits of the case, which the Wyoming decision certainly did," May Mailman, who represented the sorority sisters, told Law.com in a statement. "Women deserve the camaraderie and safety of sororities, but unfortunately, it also appears they first need courts brave enough to say so."

The vote doesn't negate the Delaware Chancery Court's decision faulting the process by which Tesla's board originally approved the CEO's pay package.

Appeal of the record verdict has drawn amicus briefs from the American Tort Reform Association, the Georgia and United States Chambers of Commerce, Georgians for Lawsuit Reform and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation.

The Office of Court Administration pushed back, saying court leaders are prioritizing these complicated cases that often involve decades-old allegations.

"Eleven nearly identical putative class action complaints have been filed against defendants, alleging a conspiracy to constrain the production of shale oil to increase the price of oil products," the oil company defendants said.

"Audiobooks are listened to by millions of Americans. We are proud to represent a proposed class of authors who create the content we enjoy and are striving in this case to unwind and undo the harm authors have suffered by amazons' abusive monopoly practices. Taking 60 to 75 percent of sales is outrageous and amazon is able to do so only because of its monopoly power," Reiss' attorney, Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, in Seattle said.

On May 23, the first verdict in the nation over Zantac came out in Illinois, while a Delaware judge's May 31 decision allowed plaintiffs' experts for thousands of cases.

The judge gutted a provision that permitted the New York City comptroller to issue judgments against developers for underpaying workers. The decision was a win secured by lawyers from Pryor Cashman.

The spot that Boston's Burns & Levinson finds itself in feels distressingly similar to Philadelphia's Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis a year ago.

"Be reliable and responsible. Trust is so important, and the way to build that with your colleagues is by being reliable. If you are someone that your colleagues can count on, they are going to want to work with you and will invest in you as someone they see as a future partner."

U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte of the District of Maryland ruled the plaintiff pleaded facts clearly to suggest USAA "knew full well that they had the use of the late fees," and "they understood the time-value of the fees" and their interest-bearing potential, according to a June 11 opinion.