"When an attorney leaves a firm, there are rules in our profession, where every client that I was representing should have had an opportunity to pick Ken Nugent or Eric Sterling," Sterling said during a hearing this week.

"This is looking to be a brutal year for applicants and admissions outcomes," because schools "have more high-quality applicants," and in the last several years "medians for both LSAT and GPA have risen at almost all schools," one expert said.

Partner votes will be held in spring 2026, with the firms aiming to complete their combination and launch on July 1, 2026.

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, on Tuesday, declined to create multidistrict litigation over Salesforce's data breach, but coordinated cases brought specifically against one of its clients, TransUnion.

“Chairman Atkins has signaled a laser-like focus on those who lie, cheat or steal—and this complaint alleges a trifecta where the defendant managed to do all three, said Jason Spitalnick, who previously served as enforcement counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Regardless of how this challenge unfolds, it has the potential to reshape the future of workplace safety regulation and test ... the outer limits of congressional delegation to administrative agencies, Morgan Lewis & Bockius attorneys wrote in a recent client alert.

Businesses across all sectors of the economy should be knowledgeable about how best to respond to a Congressional investigation, and ultimately, if the investigatory Committee is not satisfied with voluntary compliance efforts, the options available to them for objecting to a Congressional subpoena.

The malpractice lawsuit arises from an underlying case in which Dickinson Wright was disqualified for alleged conflicts of interest.