"Jurors know what it means when someone is trying to mislead them," Iddo Harel said, "and they know what it means when someone is trying to blame others."

"Plaintiffs and the class allege that Defendants' anticompetitive conduct has caused them to sell their labor for below-competitive prices, to lose out on valuable athletic scholarships, and to be excluded from Division I," according to the allegations in the amended complaint against the NCAA. "Such injuries are plainly of the type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent."

Town Justice Donald Spaccio announced his resignation amid a probe that also looked into verbal clashes with local police and regulatory officials.

Groups of attorneys have received offers from Barclay Damon and McCarter & English, sources confirmed.

"We're handling more trade controls investigations than we ever have before," said Eric Sandberg-Zakian, chair of Covington's trade controls enforcement practice group.

The court heard oral arguments Wednesday in an attorney disciplinary case, where it was asked to consider if attorney Todd N. Agron violated Rules of Professional Conduct in an apparent referral scheme, and what discipline would be appropriate.

Well-known as the immediate past president of the Boston Bar Association, Chinh Pham has been lauded for representing meaningful change and inclusive leadership.

Defense attorney Alex Spiro said he plans to file a motion to dismiss the case as early as next week.

The plaintiffs, by not paying attorney fees, may not be motivated to settle, some observers noted.

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"My best piece of advice is to not shy away from getting involved with conflict or offering to improve something that you know could be done better. If you are aware of areas for improvement and you can play a role in that, speak up."

"Even the best trial judges make mistakes," said plaintiffs co-counsel Tyler Ulrich about the lawsuit loss.

U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appeared to grow frustrated with attorney Julie Negovan as she sought to explain why she refused Kleinbard's offer of payment to her client and former law firm, Griesing Mazzeo, in a dispute over a subcontracting agreement between the firms.

Top Big Tech attorneys are seeing "there's another alternative where they can make a similar salary or compensation at private practice," one recruiter said.

"In my job, you lose a lot of friends and that's just the reality of it," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.

"Biogen's anticompetitive conduct, and the PBMs' participation in it, delayed and substantially diminished the sale of generic Tecfidera in the United States, and unlawfully enabled Biogen to sell Tecfidera and Vumerity at artificially inflated units and prices," according to the allegations in three complaints accusing Biogen of monopolizing the multiple sclerosis drug market.

The shift toward brevity in law firm names may be at odds with another tendency in the legal world: a seeming unending wave of mergers and consolidations.

The trans-Atlantic firm seeks to offer top-shelf arbitration practitioners, combined with a competitive rate structure and substantive acumen in key industries that regularly find themselves in disputes.

A spokesperson for Smartmatic said the company is not able to provide details on the value of the settlement or any non-monetary terms that may have been agreed to.