Counsel for the ex-congressman had asked the judge to toss charges of theft of public money and aggravated identity theft against their client. Santos is scheduled to face trial in September.

The case was dismissed without prejudice and the filing did not provide any additional information.

Recent media coverage makes it clear that the time for law firms to embrace the disruption of AI is now. If you wait, from the looks of it, you risk losing business, and perhaps credibility.

In large law firms, the measure of one's worth can often boil down to a single figure: hours billed. This may seem harsh, but in many firms, this rings true. This standard metric, while undeniably important, often overshadows the diverse array of skills and individual contributions that attorneys bring to their roles.

"Trump-backed Republican candidates bankrolled by Kemp, through and in coordination with Georgia First, are able to spend exponentially more than what they would have been able to spend on their races if they were limited to just the money that they were able to spend on their own," said the executive director of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

"Be open to innovating. (...) You won't make progress if you aren't willing to try something different once in a while."

"You have a combination of doing the strategy and the management pieces, but also getting your hands dirty. And I really love that," said Sarah Tinsley, general counsel of Culture Amp.

Chief Legal Officer Amanda Oliver, who joined the company's legal department in 2005, is one of just three executives reporting to President Steve Phelps in the new structure.

The clinic will develop digital tools to help unrepresented litigants in family law cases in Massachusetts. But the AAA and Suffolk Law plan to grow the effort to cover different jurisdictions and legal areas.

Adele Maloney will replace Paul Hastings general counsel Mark Pollack, who will retire from the firm.

"Big law firms are pricing themselves out of quality work, yet mid-market firms are failing to capitalize on this dynamic due to structural headwinds," said the firm's managing partner.

Court leaders said the ransomware attack does not appear to be related to the worldwide outages caused Friday by a CrowdStrike software update problem.

"Some partners feel like lesser-class citizens than other partners" in some two-tier partnerships, noted one Am Law 200 firm leader.

A restrictive move by Kirkland & Ellis on exiting partners could precipitate a culture of staying put, writes The Global Lawyer.

The unanimous jury verdict was released Thursday following a two-week trial in federal court. Plaintiff Michael Ho, formerly a co-founder and CEO of US Bitcoin Corp. and now chief strategy officer at bitcoin mining company Hut 8 Corp., was represented by David Affeld and Edward Johnson.

Atlantic County Superior Court Judge John Porto concluded on Friday that Johnson & Johnson hadn't provided evidence that its former attorney had shared confidential information with Beasley Allen.

"The Americans with Disabilities Act was passed to address profound discrimination against individuals with disabilities and to allow people with disabilities to use their potential, their knowledge, their talents to make the world better for everyone," said plaintiff's counsel, Mary Vargas, a partner at Stein & Vargas, in Washington, D.C. "This decision clears the way for state professional licensing entities to discriminate and in so doing deprives all of us of the gifts that people with disabilities have to offer."

"Within this 50% affirmance rate, which is itself surprising to most people, you have individual cases that depart from the pattern one has come to expect in Ninth Circuit cases in the Supreme Court," said professor Arthur Hellman. "[But] I think it may be simply happenstance."

Hundreds of filings in June and July have been made in connection with the motions to block expert testimony. Meanwhile, both sides have filed motions for summary judgment that haven't been decided, and both have moved for the other to be sanctioned or held in contempt.

"Due to the worldwide Microsoft outage, all Maryland courts, offices, and facilities will be closed to the public today but will remain open for emergency matters," a spokesperson for the state's judiciary said. "All clerks' offices are closed."