Claudia Sheinbaum has vowed to continue with the agenda of the Morena party, prompting concern by investors and their legal advisers who have not found the policies business-friendly, and who fear they will further erode checks and balances and weaken the country's judiciary.

This is good news, especially in an industry that is not known for readily embracing change. But in truth, firms don't really have a choice, writes The Global Lawyer.

On Thursday, Beasley Allen and the plaintiffs' steering committee in the talc multidistrict litigation filed motions to quash subpoenas sought by Johnson & Johnson in the talc litigation.

"Using social media and other means, (the defendant) was able to create a dossier on the plaintiffs and use their past trauma for his personal enjoyment," the complaint alleged.

The complaint alleges the new 2023 rule is repeating the errors of the Labor Department's 2016 failed rule.

D.C. authorities said that Giuliani's "effort to undermine the integrity of the 2020 presidential election has helped destabilize our democracy."

"It's incredible, but that is where we are now," said Bilzin Sumberg partner Felix X. Rodriguez.

"You could fashion an argument that the restrictions on speech generally are really geared toward protecting the trial or any interference with the trial, but the jurors' safety issue is one that would continue past them returning a verdict," opined one observer. Trump's defense team did not seek clarification of the orders following his conviction on Thursday.

In a dispute arising out of nonpayment for 1 million bottles of hand sanitizer to be delivered to Reach's customer, Five Below, the U.S. District Court of Minnesota granted summary judgment for brands in the amount of $89,072.64, and $185,000 for attorney fees for Felicia J. Boyd, a partner and head of IP brands, and Jaime Wing, a senior associate at Norton Rose Fulbright in Minneapolis. The Eighth Circuit reversed the attorney fee award.

In this week's Legal Speak episode, O'Melveny COO George Demos, Christina McCarthy of One Mind at Work and Stephanie Hildreth of ThirdHorizon speak with ALM Global Senior Vice President of Content Gina Passarella about mental health and how law firms and lawyers can mitigate systemic challenges and boost individual resilience to help create safer spaces for struggling individuals to get the help they need.

"Corporate America is very risk-averse," which leads companies to hire current GCs for their GC openings over internal candidates ripe with potential, management consultant Jason Winmill said.

"Under the clear language of the policy itself, it's the order of a governmental authority, which prohibits access to the premises, which triggers the coverage. Because there were several different executive orders which were issued, in our view, each order triggered coverage under the policy," plaintiffs attorney Michael Canning said.

O'Melveny & Myers partner David Deaton of San Francisco, chair of the health care practice, invites colleagues to visit EarthSpoke Farms in Northern California to enjoy the flowers or do some farm work, an opportunity that fits with the firm's focus on wellness.

"It's a huge problem kids are suffering from with huge increases in hospitalizations and treatments, it is crushing and ruining kids' lives," Sarah R. London, partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, told Law.com. "[Providing] clear, unambiguous information for anyone to understand the risks of these products is essential. People are trying to get truth information so they can decide what to do when it comes to these products."

An external review at Toronto Metropolitan University concluded the students' letter was "harsh" and "aggressive" in tone but a "valid" exercise of their freedom of speech.

"Surround yourself with smart people—colleagues, clients, even opposing lawyers. If you do that, you'll be forced to keep up."

"We need to partner with hyper-scalers for computing, for distribution, for almost everything. And if we cannot do that, there is a risk that we just do not exist," said Blanche Savary de Beauregard, general counsel at the AI startup Mistral.

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"If you have a good client and a corporate defendant that has not preserved evidence or has mishandled evidence, then a case with bad facts can become a strong case," claimed lead plaintiff counsel Drew Gilliland.

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