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Booted by Whirlpool in March, Ava Harter Takes Legal Reins of Semiconductor Company on the Rise

Tue, 2024-07-16 16:00

Harter's Whirlpool severance agreement bars her from working in the appliance industry for two years. So she's headed to Lam Research, a maker of tools used in making computer chips, as the AI boom gives that industry an unprecedented boost.

       

Class Action Suit: Amazon's HR App Doesn't Accommodate Employees' Disabilities

Tue, 2024-07-16 15:11

The app allegedly routinely turns down requests for disability accommodation, the lawsuit claims.

       

Ex-Reed Smith Partner Gets Candid About the Back End of Legal Careers

Tue, 2024-07-16 15:03

In a conversation about his new book, Douglas Wood pushes firms to help support aging attorneys as they come to "embrace irrelevancy."

       

Federal Judge Awards $880K Against Cook County Jail in Inmate Wrongful-Death Suit

Tue, 2024-07-16 14:14

In determining how much to allot to the inmate's parents, the court examined the close relationships between the parties, awarding $791,007.50 to his mother, $87,889.72 to his father, and the remainder between two siblings.

       

What Does the Path Forward for Stalled 3rd Circuit Nominee Adeel Mangi Look Like?

Tue, 2024-07-16 14:05

Some court watchers say Senate Democratic leaders could schedule a vote around possible Republican absences to achieve Adeel Mangi's confirmation.

       

Novel Suit Calling Workday's AI-Driven Hiring Tool Biased Advances, Setting Up Precedent-Setting Showdown

Tue, 2024-07-16 14:00

"We're going to be talking about this a lot as employers and companies rely upon technology like this to make their jobs easier," said Jason Tremblay, a partner at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr.

       

'Politics for Profit': Menendez Found Guilty on All Counts in Bribery Trial

Tue, 2024-07-16 13:00

The trial centered on the origin of valuables, including gold bars and cash, discovered by law enforcement officials around the New Jersey home of the senator and his wife.

       

Dow Jones Sues Cision US Over Alleged $174 Million Contract Breach

Tue, 2024-07-16 10:40

The complaint alleges Cision pulled out of an exclusive licensing deal after just one year because the contract was no longer "economically viable."

       

The Increasing Value of Human Time in the Age of Advanced AI

Tue, 2024-07-16 10:10

Guidelines, existing, emerging, and yet to be published, serve to highlight the irreplaceable value of human creativity and inventiveness, asserting that despite AI's growing capabilities, the essence of innovation and artistic creation remains distinctly human.

       

'Deeply Reactive': Are Law Firms Becoming Increasingly Hostile to Lawyers Who Are Looking to Leave?

Tue, 2024-07-16 08:34

Top City partners, ex-lawyers and support staff talk about the averse situations law firms designed to make their exit difficult and how it speaks to the wider issue of clawback in present-day partnerships.

       

FedEx General Counsel Cruising Into Retirement After 42 Years With Shipping Giant

Tue, 2024-07-16 07:55

Mark Allen hopscotched around the globe helping build the company's international operations before taking the legal reins in 2017.

       

Stop and Think About That Sealing Request Before You File It

Tue, 2024-07-16 07:30

U.S. District Judge Joshua Wolson in Philadelphia says lawyers can't "yada, yada, yada" their way into the showing of harm needed to obtain a sealing order in his courtroom.

       

Pillsbury Litigation Leader in Miami Heads to Sidley

Tue, 2024-07-16 06:00

Sidley is nearing the two-year mark in The Magic City, and its office there hovers around 50 lawyers total.

       

Shifting Between Guarantees and Fixed Shares, Law Firms Gets Flexible in Lateral Pay

Tue, 2024-07-16 05:00

Some firms are moving between guarantees and fixed shares to pay laterals, or using a blend of both.

       

Latham's Elisabetta Righini on Why Brussels Is a Must for a Career in Antitrust

Mon, 2024-07-15 19:01

Righini was one of the first WTO litigators in private practice in the late 1990s—an expertise that got her recruited by the European Commission, where she would spend over a decade.

       

Usha Vance Leaves Munger Tolles As Trump Picks JD Vance for Running Mate

Mon, 2024-07-15 16:56

"Usha has informed us she has decided to leave the firm. Usha has been an excellent lawyer and colleague, and we thank her for her years of work and wish her the best in her future career," a firm spokesperson said.

       

Foley Hoag Files Suit on Behalf of Wayfair's $2.1M 'Double Payments' to Unpaid Subcontractors

Mon, 2024-07-15 16:27

To save the project and maintain its opening date, Wayfair paid or is in the process of directly paying $1.99 million to subcontractors to cover the outstanding amount that Generis owed them. Wayfair claims it already paid Generis $1.49 million for invoiced work from December 2022 through the beginning of the year, in essence, requiring the retailer to "double pa[y]," according to the complaint.

       

Report: Securities Fraud Losses Claimed Balloon in First Half of 2024

Mon, 2024-07-15 16:08

The report from securities litigation data analytics company SAR attributes the rise not to a greater number of SEC Rule 10b-5 complaints being filed in the federal courts, but to drops in stock prices growing larger.

       

Am Law 100 Firms Struggle to Meet Plans for Office Efficiency

Mon, 2024-07-15 15:29

"As much as people are trying to skinny-down their offices, getting rid of workrooms, getting rid of administrative stations, the experience of relative inefficiency is still happening," said Thomas Fulcher, chair of the legal tenant practice group at Savills.

       

A Case That Could Impact Insurers' Duty to Defend Is Headed to Texas Supreme Court

Mon, 2024-07-15 15:23

A court of appeals ruled an excess policy did not unambiguously exclude defense costs for the insured, a Houston oil drilling services company involved in a personal injury settlement.

       

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