The Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted to extend the enforcement of Standard 206, which had required schools to commit to diversity and inclusion, until Aug. 31, 2026.

       

Steven Wall, the global managing partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner litigation partner Jim Lawrence and Dechert associate Casey Miller all discussed their respective recoveries from addiction as part of a Well-Being Week in Law forum.

       

The sentence comes after Alex Mashinsky pleaded guilty in December to commodities and securities fraud in connection to Celsius Network LLC, a crypto asset platform that held $25 billion at its height.        

Maintaining an effective privacy program while balancing compliance with 19 comprehensive state privacy laws is an ongoing challenge for privacy attorneys. Gavin George, partner with Haynes Boone discussed how to navigate those laws effectively during a talk at the University of Texas at Austin's 38th annual Law Tech conference.

       

“Until new regulatory guidance is issued, the crypto world will continue to operate in a vacuum, said Arlo Devlin Brown, a partner at Covington & Burling and ex-chief of the Southern District of New York's public corruption unit.

       

"We actually have a paper showing that more junior people are worse at using AI than more senior people because they don't know what 'good' looks like. They get a legal memo and it's like, 'This is a great memo!'" said Ethan Mollick, co-director of Generative AI Labs at the Wharton School.

       

Law firms, based on precedent, steeped in tradition, and historically resistant to disruption, often struggle with change management. Yet, in today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, adapting to new technologies, processes and client expectations is no longer optional — it's essential for survival.

       

On Tuesday, U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts granted Insulet Corp.'s motion for post-verdict discovery against the defendants and their ability to pay a $59.4 million trade secrets judgment for an insulin patch pump.

       

"The best opportunities in my career came from unexpected conversations in hallways and socializing with partners that I did not necessarily work with at the time. It is much easier to plan and shape your career if you proactively seek the opportunities that you want."

       

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently reinforced the importance of a plaintiff asking for a jury trial either in the pleadings or within 14 days after service of the pleadings, as required by Rule 38(b)(1), or through a formal motion, as allowed under Rule 39(b). Relying on an opposing party's consent to a belated request for a jury trial—without making a formal submission to the court—is not enough.

       

Earlier this spring, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson signaled his commitment to cleaning up unfair and deceptive auto-renewal practices by suing Uber and striking a $17 million settlement with an online cash advance company.

       

"He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service," Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. sad. "After retiring to his beloved New Hampshire in 2009, he continued to render significant service to our branch by sitting regularly on the [U.S.] Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for more than a decade. He will be greatly missed."

       

The company also claimed Sugar Felsenthal fraudulently concealed its relationship with its former executive while helping her establish her competing business and said the firm's actions caused it to wrongfully incur legal fees and outside investments.

       

Pirro served as a former state judge and former top prosecutor for Westchester County, New York, before becoming a television host and Trump's next interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

       

An alphabetized listing of the Am Law Second Hundred firms and their core financial and census data.

       

The legal dispute dates back to 1997, when Cuba's state-owned company attempted to register its Cohiba mark but was turned away because of General Cigar Company's registration. The court found Cubatabaco has the right to seek cancellation of the mark held by its U.S. rival.

       

For the last few years, it's seemed like nothing could stand in the way of rising billing rates. But they may have met their match in a global economic disruption.

       

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton, in downtown Los Angeles, rescheduled Girardi's sentencing for June 3, his 86th birthday.

       

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule on the validity of nationwide injunctions by July after the justices hear arguments May 15 on whether a U.S. district court judge properly issued such a broad mandate in rejecting as unconstitutional Trump's executive order to limit birthright citizenship.

       

How will morale issues and turnover among Department of Justice lawyers impact the course of litigation over hot-button issues in the Trump agenda?