In today's climate of rising interest rates, stretched borrower balance sheets, and starkly uneven recovery across asset classes, defaulted loans have emerged as a prime hunting ground for investors with legal acumen. Capturing this opportunity requires more than a blunt foreclosure “hammer — it demands a surgical enforcement playbook.

       

AI has seen demand for data centres spike—and Kirkland is riding the wave.

       

Big Law's emphasis on improving the billing and collections process is confronting challenges and variance in practice area performance.

       

Fears that a lengthy government shutdown could grind the civil docket to a halt or cause the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to demand more information from merging parties have not materialized, according to Big Law antitrust litigators.

       

The District of Columbia has postponed registration for the February bar exam due to the government shutdown and Maryland is restricting seating to 400, with priority being given to those retaking the UBE.

       

"Technology has essentially erased the relevancy in most instances of geographical borders in business transactions," said Alan Rosenberg, a partner at Markowitz Ringel Trusty + Hartog who is an expert not involved in the matter.

       

On Thursday, the Washington Supreme Court reinstated a $185 million verdict against Monsanto over PCB exposure at a school near Seattle.

       

Contracts that once were perfunctory now are getting parsed and recast.

       

Law professor Dan Epps joins the Supreme Court Brief podcast to discuss why he thinks the case over President Donald Trump's tariffs is a test of jurisprudential consistency for the conservative majority.        

“When you have so many organizations depending on a single provider, the risk is high, said F. Paul Greene, a partner at Harter Secrest & Emery.

       

Some of today's midlevel associates are lagging in personal and professional skills, but midlevels say their firms aren't invested enough in their success.

       

Law firms Honigman and Stradley Ronon have developed their own methods for giving in-house teams guidance on how to adopt and use gen AI.

       

A U.S. District Court Judge in Long Island, Gary Brown discovered magic as a child. He says learning about the ‘art of deception' has made it easier to uncover the truth.

       

At least five of the nine law firms that reached deals with Trump could fulfill their pro bono pledges within a year, according to a Law.com analysis.

       

One chief legal officer said her strategy is to control what she can while scenario-planning for the unexpected.

       

On Tuesday, the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled that the case will return to the State Court of Fulton County to determine if Oskouei's claims can make it past an anti-strategic lawsuits against public participation motion to dismiss under the state Supreme Court's newly codified standard of review.

       

"[W]e hold that under West Virginia common law, the conditions resulting from the over-distribution of opioids can constitute a public nuisance," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled, reviving a public nuisance lawsuit against opioid distributors represented by Reed Smith; Williams & Connolly; and Covington & Burling.

       

“Often what you hear from victim advocates is it can happen to anybody, said Daren Firestone, a Levy Firestone Muse partner and crypto expert who is not involved in the case.

       

The financially strapped South American country, which is represented by Sullivan & Cromwell Chairman Robert Giuffra, has received support from the Trump administration as it attempts to knock down the enormous judgment.   

       

The unusual order came Wednesday afternoon in response to the Trump administration's request for immediate permission to deploy troops throughout the city in response to immigration protests.