Corporate Counsel is pleased to announce the finalists of our 2025 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards! The WIPL awards honor in-house and law firm women leaders and allies who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law. The winners in each category will be announced at an awards dinner on Oct. 7 as part of our Women, Influence & Power in Law Conference in Washington, D.C.        

By targeting the top end of the legal industry, the company believes it is gaining the market credibility it needs to remain the premier AI platform in the market.

       

The Boston-based law firm also added attorneys in New York.

       

Neal & Harwell will shut down Aug. 31 after 54 years of being part of some of the highest-profile civil cases of the past half-century in the U.S., according to a source.

       

Overall, lateral compensation “has gone up across the board for the top players at any stage, said Sabina Lippman, a recruiter for elite firms.

       

“If you're known to be a firm when it's a Republican administration, and you're known to be a firm that works in that space, then I think clients are mindful of that, said Jill Holtzman Vogel, of Holtzman Vogel.

       

The partners of Schulte Roth & Zabel will “assume key roles across the management, executive, and compensation committees" of the new firm and will also serve as co-leads of its New York and London offices, the firm said.

       

The regulatory agency created to enforce the watershed $2.8 billion House v. NCAA class action settlement, said NIL collectives and other school-affiliated entities may ink deals with student-athletes—as long as those transactions meet the benchmark of serving a "valid business purpose."        

The College Sports Commission, a regulatory agency created to enforce the watershed $2.8 billion House v. NCAA class action settlement, on Thursday revised its guidance for name, image and likeness (NIL) payments, permitting NIL collectives and other school-affiliated entities to ink deals with college athletes—as long as those transactions meet the benchmark of serving a "valid business purpose."        

A San Francisco federal court jury on Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act in a landmark data privacy class action, which accused the Big Tech giant of illegally mining sensitive sexual and reproductive health data from Flo Health Inc., an app-based online fertility tracking platform.

       

"Violations of court orders that span multiple jurisdictions are difficult to detect, particularly in Schedule A cases where forum shopping is rampant and defendants rarely appear." U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp Jr.

       

In a racketeering suit 3M filed against three lawyers who brought hundreds of black lung lawsuits, a federal judge ordered preservation of evidence contained in a storage unit belonging to one of the defendants, Glenn Martin Hammond.

       

The 65-attorney firm has had a strong year and added multiple new major clients in the private credit and banking sectors, firm chair Richard Stehl said.

       

An electricity provider is facing heat over a Texas fire.

       

"Oftentimes, you may have negligence or the accidental failure to adequately secure cybersecurity systems," Adam Polk of Girard Sharp, counsel for the plaintiffs in multiple class actions against insurers, said. "Here what you have are tracking technologies that are placed on the website and that are specifically designed to help the website publisher optimize their advertisements."

       

New York Democratic lawmakers and sports law practitioners are monitoring whether Congress will enact NIL regulations, on urging from President Donald Trump.

       

After a day and a half of deliberations, the Miami jury found Tesla partly liable in a fatal 2019 Florida car crash.

       

Nixon Peabody intellectual property attorney Michael Gray's passion for scuba diving closely parallels his approach to litigation strategy and trial preparation. Gray has been practicing in Texas for more than 10 years, but he had a non-traditional route to the legal profession. Before going to the University of Houston Law School, he built a career in mechanical engineering as a drilling engineer.

       

The Second Judicial Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York said that the law—Section 7003(c) of the Civil Practice Law and Rules—violated the separation of powers, by incentivizing judges to decide one way while considering petitions for writs of habeas corpus.

       

McDermott Will & Schulte was created on Friday, creating a new major player in the Am Law 100.