As authoritarianism spikes, legal professionals are increasingly in peril because of the clients they are willing to defend, said members of a panel at this week's IBA conference in Toronto.

       

"At the center is a novel jurisdictional conflict around whether contracts predicting sports outcomes are a form or regulated commodity trading under exclusive federal oversight, or are a form of sports wagering that states can outlaw or regulate," Troutman Pepper Locke wrote in a note to clients.

       

Nominations are now open for the 2026 Florida Legal Awards, honoring attorneys in the Sunshine State.

       

Starting Feb. 2, rising second-year associates and all business service professionals will be expected to be in the office four days a week. All other associates remain expected in the office three days a week.

       

"It takes hundreds and hundreds of hours to work these cases," said Willkie Farr & Gallagher litigation partner Nick Reddick, who helped 36 plaintiffs secure an $841 million damages award holding Iran liable for multiple international terrorist attacks that killed Americans in Iraq.

       

The two questions the court has been asked to consider are related to the constitutionality of changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law that were passed into law earlier this year as Senate Bill 21 and have set members of the corporate bar at odds.

       

U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel of the Eastern District of Missouri threatened to disqualify Doe Run's lawyers in an Oct. 29 order as part of long-running litigation involving lead exposure from a Peruvian land mine.

       

The beta testing for the NextGen UBE will be conducted starting on Jan. 8 and running through Jan. 10.

       

The double-digit increase is projected to keep growing this year and, according to median motion resolution times gathered in this data set, the increase is already causing delays in court.

       

The double-digit increase is projected to keep growing this year and, according to median motion resolution times gathered in this data set, the increase is already causing delays in court.

       

At a hearing Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to a former soldier claiming that a contractor's negligence led to a Taliban suicide bombing on a U.S. base in Afghanistan.

       

The change was revealed in a recent court filing in a case between the American Bar Association and the American Alliance for Equal Rights.

       

There is a "huge line of cases" that discuss the concept of substantial truth, said Bruce S. Rosen, a partner at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden in New Jersey who specializes in defamation law. "And this definitely fits in."        

Personnel in the U.S. and U.K. will be expected to work from the firm's offices from Monday through Thursday starting in January.

       

“If you're looking to minimize litigation risk, opt-in consent is realistically the only thing that works, said Elliot Golding, a partner at McDermott Will & Schulte. “But that's a tough pill for a lot of marketing teams.

       

Preparing Law Firms for 2026: Embracing AI, Strengthening Cybersecurity, and Modernizing IT Strategies.

       

The two firms, which previously held merger talks as far back as 2013 and 2014, will combine at the start of 2026.

       

"Millions of people and partners worldwide use Uber every day to go anywhere, get anything, or earn, and as the innovation in this space accelerates, data privacy, security and AI governance will continue to be essential," said Krystal Denley Bowen, Uber's chief privacy officer.

       

"You need to have a good understanding of what your colleagues want from those in leadership positions. And you need to have that understanding well before you are promoted into those positions. The only way to do that is to be willing to take the time to help your colleagues when they ask for help and listen to them when they want to discuss an issue."

       

There are sound reasons for partnering with PE, but they largely fall apart at law's elite level, writes the Global Lawyer.