"Marriott's poor security practices led to multiple breaches affecting hundreds of millions of customers," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

"I would say, strive to be a servant leader. As I see it, our people in San Francisco do not work for me, I work for them."

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts.

A former federal bankruptcy judge and real-life investment bankers helped Quinn Emanuel's junior lawyers gain stand-up trial experience.

The U.S.-led law firm has experienced several senior partner departures in Germany and the U.K., with sources pointing to indecision and a shift away from "less core" regions.

"It is all too easy for in-house teams to continue instructing work to the same firms they have always used, without considering the savings that can be gained from a more structured approach to resourcing," the-e-billing platform Brightflag said in a new report.

"Just because a certain legal market is hot does not mean that you should be there," said Major Lindsey & Africa consultant Jennifer Moss.

Nearly all of Florida is bracing for Hurricane Milton, which forecasters anticipate to be one of the most destructive storms on record. Law firms

A holding that nonconsolidation clauses are enforceable in the multidistrict litigation context could lead more companies to include such provisions in their contracts, said Lindsay Nako, executive director of Impact Fund.

The judge's "conduct ... amounts to willful misconduct in office; a willful and persistent failure to perform the duties of office," according to the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia charging document.

By raising associate pay above market, the boutique's leadership said they're seeking to reward associates for hard work on significant projects this year and also help the firm's recruiting.

At Clio's Cloud Conference 2024, lawyers were wondering what impacts AI will have on their industry—and how they can prepare.

"This case is an unprecedented attempt to hold an individual criminally liable for the way a company handled and reported a cybersecurity incident," Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partner Chris Cariello said in court Tuesday.

A panel of federal and state judges at Relativity Fest 2024 discussed how social media has resulted in a spike in harassment and threats against judges and their families. They called upon lawyers and the bar association to help.

"We have had extreme difficulty representing our client base from other jurisdictions in their work in California," Lewis Roca managing partner Kenneth Van Winkle says.

GenAI's ability to produce highly sophisticated and convincing content at a fraction of the previous cost has raised fears that it could amplify misinformation. The dissemination of fake audio, images and text could reshape how voters perceive candidates and parties. Businesses, too, face challenges in managing their reputations and navigating this new terrain of manipulated content.

"The outcome of this case could have far-reaching implications, not just for Crypto.com, but for the broader crypto industry, particularly as it relates to secondary-market transactions and how they're regulated," said Tonya M. Evans, a professor at Penn State Dickinson Law whose research includes digital assets.

Partner Scott Musoff, who worked on five of the six cases, said the rate of dismissals is in part due to the firm's caseload, which has included the defense of at least 60 foreign securities issuers in the past few years, most of which are in Asia.

"A stand-alone website is not a place of public accommodation under Title III of the ADA," Chief Judge Laura Swain of the U.S. District Court wrote in her ruling.