The Court of Appeals had been charged with answering whether "the actual, suspected, or threatened presence of COVID-19 in the restaurants had caused direct physical loss or damage.

Roundup trials are scheduled to start in the coming week in California, Pennsylvania and Arkansas. A fourth trial began earlier this month in Delaware.

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Partner lateral moves fell in 2023 but remained robust, according to data from Law.com Compass. And it's still a fragmented industry, including in lateral hiring.

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"Our talent levels became misaligned with our existing and projected client demand, particularly in our large transactional practices. I take responsibility for this and am truly sorry that those decisions have led to a significant impact on our people today," said Fenwick & West's chair.

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Though law firms' structures have long been an obstacle to successful unionization efforts, generative AI could push the legal industry to consider collective bargaining.

"The people who regulate the profession are the profession. They are judges and members of the bar. So what incentive do they have to give away that control to the machine?" said Foster Sayers, vice president of legal ops at health tech company symplr.

The country's bar association said it intends to challenge Tuesday's bilateral trade agreement between the countries up to the Supreme Court.

Harvard Law Dean John Manning further pointed out, sharing similar concerns with Yale Law Dean Heather Gerken, that the U.S. News ranking methodology works against law schools' commitments to enhance the socioeconomic diversity of classes and to allocating financial aid to students based on need.

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Gary Born, chair of the international arbitration practice group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, discusses the development of the Middle East as an arbitration hub, how the region sets standards in commercial arbitration, and why state-to-state proceedings could be effective even in the most intractable cases.

"In our case, a Fortune 500 CLO was not what we needed. Somebody who had been part of a large legal department was not what we needed," said Richard Parr, a senior adviser at TAG.

"This is a new tool for bad actors to do bad things to the American public," Gary Gensler said.

Hindering the agency's efforts to crack down on shady reviews is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which provides online platform with immunity to claims stemming from third-party content.

"They were one of the most attentive juries that I've had," plaintiffs attorney Alfred R. Bell, Steinger, Greene & Feiner.

As the world ushers in a new era post-pandemic of hybrid operations, it's really no surprise that workplace experience is a top, strategic lever law firm leaders are driving in conjunction with re-envisioning the space their professionals are occupying.

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