U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers issued an order granting Meta's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Sept. 17. Meta's counsel included Latham partners Andrew Clubok, Susan Engel and Melanie Blunschi and associates Nicholas Rosellini and Elizabeth Cheng.

From finding ways to hire a diverse pool of candidates after the "Harvard" decision to making tech adoption a consideration in choosing their outside counsel, in-house legal departments are fielding a complex landscape in 2024.

"This fatal and costly disaster could and should have been avoided," according to a claim filed by White and Williams on behalf of Brawner Builders Inc. and Zurich American Insurance Co. "This catastrophic event resulted in the deaths of six Brawner workers and serious and permanent injuries to a seventh worker and halted all commercial traffic into and out of the Port of Baltimore."

Wax has made derogatory comments about Asian immigrants, claimed Black students underperform academically, and invited a white nationalist to her class.

"When considered in the context of the entire policy here, Atain's broad interpretation of the Total Pollution Exclusion as it pertains to C.T.'s claims yields an absurd result," U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry of the Eastern District of Missouri said.

"If you look at not just the number of wins but the significance of the wins in terms of how we're actually advancing the law, I'm pretty thrilled with the progress we've already made," Lina Khan said.

The jury found the City of Quitman, its mayor, the county sheriff, district attorney and district court judge conspired to get the officer fired for stating an acquaintance might not get a fair trial in the state court.

Linklaters, Sullivan & Cromwell, Bracewell, Davis Polk, Milbank, among other firms, are advising financial firms, broker-dealers and companies wrapped up in SEC enforcement actions this month.

Sacha Woodward has been legal chief since 2000, first under Bernie Ecclestone and now under Liberty Media.

The decision, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said was a "close call," hinged on whether an informal communication in the form of a letter the FDA sent to Merck was sufficient to establish preemption.

"We're optimistic that in each of these cases, in FTX, in Voyager, we're going to be able to get people back their damages," said Adam Moskowitz, co-lead counsel in the FTX multidistrict litigation. "But that's looking backward. If you look forward, how will you deal with this situation?"

"The SLC, as they call it, is always the focal point of litigators in corporate governance, and the treatment of the SLC evolves over time," said Cunningham, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware.

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The school's board of directors and faculty will soon begin the search for the next dean, "with plans to involve the entire AJMLS community in this important process," the school said.

Tyler Thompson, Reed Smith's new emerging technologies partner, explained that data privacy and tech regulation attorneys are "going to always need to be learning" given how fast laws are evolving.

In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, every click, share and engagement counts. However, tracking the effectiveness of your social media efforts on a more granular level can be difficult.

"Being an effective firm leader requires a willingness to learn about the business of the firm and its people. In addition, accept leadership roles on committees and make an impact on those committees. Most importantly, contribute positively to the firm culture and cultivate strong relationships with your colleagues."

"It seemed to us from the beginning that this was a logical outcome after the legalization of recreational cannabis. We hold out hope for the cases where the search was allegedly justified by the smell of raw cannabis, which we expect to receive shortly," said the plaintiff's attorney, Bruce L. Carmen of Carmen Law Office in Cambridge, Illinois.

Taft leader Bob Hicks said the firm is also in preliminary talks with two or three other firms for a potential combination, although, "I normally talk to 20 or 30 firms before I find one that's viable."

Tanja Olano has been deeply involved in Los Angeles' Olympic movement since 2015, when she became deputy general counsel of the exploratory committee that helped lead to the city's selection two years later as host of the 2028 games.