In this week's Legal Speak episode, Dechert global managing partner Vince Cohen discusses his D.C. roots, his time in the U.S. Attorney's Office and his decision to make Dechert his home, all while paying homage to the city that raised him.

"This change in this reorientation has happened against a backdrop of a very organic sense that something was not working, that we were not adequately preserving competition across these markets," Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said.

The consequence of a professional "wall" is usually turnover, noted an industry observer, about the fast pace of c-suite moves.

While the new model—OpenAI o1—could expand the number of legal use cases generative AI can tackle, certain barriers may make it less ubiquitous in legal tech.

"We continue to see women not being given opportunities, not being paid properly, and pregnancy accommodations not being provided for at respected and large law firms," one employment lawyer said.

Take a look at the ongoing coverage from across the Law.com Newsroom on the potential impact of November's election.

Rising costs and a lukewarm local economy continue to push firms with roots in the City of Brotherly Love to seek growth elsewhere, but some firm leaders remain bullish on their home city.

Boomers "are doing their less experienced colleagues a disservice if they can't be a good example of what values-based behavior looks like" LRM Corp. said in a report exploring how different generations approach workplace rules.

Academic journal publishers "essentially agreed to hold the careers of scholars hostage" and "force them to provide their valuable labor for free" in violation of the Sherman Act, according to the complaint, filed by Lieff Cabraser lawyers.

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"People skills are key. So much of our business success depends on relationships—relationships with clients, with our partners, with associates and our Global Operations team. None of us succeed alone."

"We are delighted that the Court is entering a permanent injunction prohibiting Leon Capital and Tiltbot from engaging in further wrongdoing, and ordering that they pay $10,000 each time they access the database and $50,000 for each record they download in violation of that injunction," CoStar said in a statement shared by Latham & Watkins.

A U.S. District Court in Atlanta says the plaintiffs could be harmed by having the song associated with Trump. It rejected the defense's argument that use of the song was political speech.

Freyr Battery, hurt by weaker-than-expected demand for electric vehicles, hopes to find solace in the United States, which is doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to challenge China's supremacy in lithium-ion battery production.

Although pay for equity partners is going up, "we are seeing some firms that are not raising compensation for nonequity partners or, in some cases, cutting comp," observed a recruiter.

Big deals were few and far between in the Sydney office.

Most of the investigations are reportedly in the SDNY U.S. Attorney's Office, where several defense counsel have significant past experience.

"A law clerk who applies for a job with a political organization risks linking the judge's chambers to political activity, which could compromise the independence of the judiciary," the advisory opinion states.