Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk has filed an amended complaint in his ongoing suit against OpenAI, naming Microsoft and California Attorney General Rob Bonta as additional defendants and adding both federal and state antitrust allegations to his original fraud and breach-of-contract claims against the ChatGPT maker.

       

Susman Godfrey partner Bill Carmody said the $266 million “verdict was an important step toward helping Baltimore recover so that it can continue to be one of the best cities in America and a place where all of its citizens can be healthy and succeed."

       

X owner Elon Musk says the so-called Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act violates the constitutional right to free speech as well as content-platform protections in Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act.

       

A jury returned a defense verdict on Friday in the seventh Roundup trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

       

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As he fights disbarment and criminal charges, John Eastman has continued to apply his legal efforts in a forum where he remains technically a member in good standing: the U.S. Supreme Court.

       

News that Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin are combining has sparked a wide response, with some pointing to the single profit pool and how it could deliver 'the missing piece'.

       

"At this stage, the teams are no closer to irreparable harm than they are to the command, 'Drivers, start your engines,' at the first race of the 2025 season," U.S. District Judge Frank Whitney wrote in a Nov. 8 order.

       

“Many retail investors rely on statements that celebrities make in public, which is different than your generic meme coin minted and launched by an anonymous developer, Peter Grazul of Fitzgerald Monroe Flynn said.

       

“I urge any of you who are defenders of the First Amendment," said Edith Jones. "It's a case called NAACP v. Alabama, which says that that violates the First Amendment—that kind of compelled disclosure.        

The South Africa investigation found no client information was compromised, according to the firm, but others say the matter has raised tensions.

       

Tom Girardi's attorneys said that a member of their team, Alejandro Barrientos, is leaving the federal public defender's office on Monday.

       

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Texas is set to get more than $83 million from the national $1.37 billion settlement agreement with Kroger, a retail pharmacy giant.

       

“The activists are very press-savvy. They know how to leak to the outlets. They're quite often quite good on CNBC. And CNBC becomes almost like their megaphone," said Steve Lipin, CEO of Gladstone Place Partners.

       

Noah Hurwitz told Law.com that he believes the decision issued last week by a Michigan federal jury is just the fourth religious accommodation case to reach a jury trial since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

       

Multidisciplinary demands call for a new kind of legal professional who is not only an expert legally but also possess sharp business acumen. About 63% of CLOs agree, identifying business acumen as a skill they most wish to develop in their lawyers.

       

The rule allows panels to treat “well-reasoned dicta as precedential.

       

"When the firm needs something done, raise your hand, even if (and especially when) it is uncomfortable or otherwise challenging."

       

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will name D. John Sauer, who argued his immunity appeal to the Supreme Court, to be U.S. solicitor general. Todd Blanche, Trump's defense lawyer in the New York hush money case, will be named deputy attorney general.