The protection of trade secrets has long been understood to be a legitimate business interest, and, traditionally, companies have used non-competition clauses to protect their trade secrets. Now, with non-competition agreements in doubt and facing greater scrutiny, companies will need to rely on other protection mechanisms.

The justices have called for the views of the U.S. solicitor general, a signal of their interest in perhaps taking up these issues next term.

Marston held the status conference just two weekdays after the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation reassigned the MDL to her. The litigation, which Pratter had overseen since its coordination in February, had gone about three weeks without a judge.

Judge Joel M. Cohen of the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court sided with Chainalysis, who was represented by counsel from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, granting the company's motion to dismiss plaintiff Blake Ratliff's breach-of-contract suit for failure to state a viable claim for relief, and finding the suit untimely, according to a June 7 decision.

"It is a positive step, but probably falls under the category of 'too little too late,'" former activist investor Rosanna Landis Weaver said.

Consumers' online reviews of lawyers have been deemed a matter of public concern for SLAPP purposes in California, New York, Oregon and Washington state, said defense attorney Bruce Rosen.

"Neither Musk's past success nor his importance to Tesla's business gives him carte blanche to treat his fiduciary duties to Tesla as optional," the complaint states.

Counsel for Sun Pharmaceutical and Ranbaxy, Devora W. Allon, a partner with Kirkland & Ellis in New York, said that the plaintiffs hired a regulatory expert to say that the Food and Drug Administration moves as fast as it can and that if there had been an earlier target date, the FDA would have met that date.

Munsch Hardt was able to rebut the allegations because Michaels could show it was developing its own paint-by-numbers product months before it met with the plaintiffs, shareholder Jamil N. Alibhai said.

The court ultimately concluded that the jury properly determined that the committee didn't make fair use of the template because the fair-use test weighs heavily in the plaintiff's favor.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found Judge Brantley Starr likely exceeded his authority when he doled out the contempt sanction last summer in a religious-discrimination case brought by one of the airline's flight attendants.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired former Latham bankruptcy and restructuring lawyers Jo rn Kowalewski, Ulrich Klockenbrink and Hendrik Hauke as part of its new German strategy along with counsel Jan-Philipp Pra and a team of seven associates.

Hit with another group departure, Burns & Levinson said it's exploring a combination, among other growth options.

Diversity Lab's "Moments to Movements Hackathon" convenes more than 100 law firm partners, in-house leaders and others to address leading issues in diversity, equity and inclusion.

The move is being fuelled by an increasing focus on funds work, people with knowledge of the move have said.

Appellate judges questioned whether they have the authority to become involved in U.S. foreign affairs.

The judgment means compensation for families of victims can exceed the $180,00 per passenger set out by Montreal Convention rules.

Jurors award $38.3 million to families of eight Colombians who were murdered by death squads that the banana grower paid to protect its business in the South American country.

The relative success of the overall M&A markets can't reasonably be separated from the private equity industry.

Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and former Secretary of Homeland Security, said AI presented risks as the country is approaching an election likely to come down to a few precincts in a few states.