At least two associates from legacy Shearman & Sterling have also departed, adding to the firm's ongoing global exodus.

"Approximately 70% of low-income households face at least one civil legal problem annually, 40% of them face more than five significant civil legal problems annually, and anywhere from 50-90% of those people appear in court without the assistance of a lawyer," said Janet Sabel, director of the Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law.

The court, dominated by a Republican-appointed majority and suffering from record low Democratic approval, has leaned into issues affecting trans youth in recent terms.

Johnson & Johnson claims Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will incorrectly applied the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing to override express terms in a contract to continue developing a surgical robot that originated with Auris Health.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments on Friday about whether to reverse a 2022 ruling tossing the plaintiffs' experts in thousands of Zantac lawsuits.

The plaintiffs, which included multiple education organizations and highly ranked colleges, alleged the decision broke both federal law and grant rules, but the Department of Defense argued its decision was within its discretion to allocate research funds as a government agency.

Stephen Thaler, an AI inventor, says artwork created entirely by artificial intelligence should be eligible for the same copyright protection available for photography, paintings, writing and other human-created works.

Guess what it's back! WIPL is back and back where it started.

The appeal, scheduled for argument on Wednesday morning before all five justices in Dover, consolidates several separate challenges to two 2024 decisions from Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick.

"Make yourself valuable in ways other than just billables. Get to know people, both inside and outside of the firm. It is not something you have to force, and you can do it in different ways—find what works best for you."

Tariff-related headwinds trigger lawsuits.

"Whenever a small group of dominant companies gains control of an emerging industry, competitive risks are inevitable," Mogin Law wrote in a note to clients.

A friendly government under Trump, market familiarity and steps toward regulatory clarity have spurred more legal work in the crypto space, which now has a market cap of over $4 trillion.

The firms have been brought in to defend the companies from claims they have caused extensive pollution in the U.K.

In August, the Federal Circuit issued a surprisingly self-critical ruling in the long-standing dispute between Erik Brunetti and the USPTO over Brunetti's efforts to register the term F*CK for a wide variety of goods and services.

Joseph Saveri Law filed the claim on behalf of New York-based neuroscientists Susan Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknick, whose scientific publications were included in the online pirate library known as Books3 that was used to train Apple Intelligence.

Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond Law School professor, applauded the Senate Judiciary Committee for embracing bipartisanship during the hyperpartisan Trump era as Democrats and Republicans advanced the nominations of three President Donald Trump nominees for federal courts in North Carolina.

“Part of the issue is that your face is not actually a very private thing, said Matthew Kugler, a professor at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, who studies privacy litigation. “If there isn't a legal restriction on using the technology, then practically they are always going to be able to get images of your face, so they can always practically do it. Given that we can't protect the secrecy of your face, the only way to protect your privacy is through legal intervention.

“We're almost at year-end. People want to accomplish things before the year ends. If we're shut down all of October, that slows things down and hurts companies, noted Aaron Cutler of Hogan Lovells.

U.S. District Judge Jamar K. Walker, a former Covington & Burling associate and ex-prosecutor who once oversaw the Financial Crimes & Public Corruption Unit in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, will preside over the Trump administration's white-collar criminal case charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud in Virginia federal court.