Paul Hastings, which has more than tripled the number of lawyers in Texas since 2023, will move into 609 Main in Houston and the under-construction Knox Street Development in Dallas.

      

Law firm leaders, litigators and key industry stakeholders weigh in on the business, regulatory and legal implications of second Trump administration going forward.

      

Sitting jurists are opening up about the impact former Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings-Moore had on both the court and their legal careers.

       

Thomas Bosworth, who started his own firm after his contentious split with Kline & Specter, requested that the court put him next in line to bring his Roundup case before a Philadelphia jury.

       

Daniel Kramer and Karen Dunn of Paul Weiss, finalists for The American Lawyer's 2024 Attorney of the Year honor, discuss their "role in the effort to address hate."

       

The judge's ruling delayed his decision on whether to set aside the guilty verdict.

       

“This is one of those cases that when it first comes in the door, you know it's going to go to trial, attorney Sean K. McElligott said. “It's going to be a challenge, and those types of cases tend to go the distance."

       

“The only people that benefit from this are the lawyers, which is unfortunate, said Gibson Dunn labor & employment co-chair Jason Schwartz of the uncertainty in the laws governing DEI issues.
       

"We have always been adamant that the Senate must confirm all of President Biden's nominees and fill every possible vacancy, regardless of who wins the election," said Jake Faleschini, of Alliance for Justice.

      

Attorneys working in private and public practice spoke to Law.com about the devastation left by Helene, reflecting how their day-to-day legal operations were affected and how their professional community pulled together in the aftermath.

       

While dismissal of the case was seen as unlikely, observers said Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan would be disinclined to impair the president-elect from discharging his duties.

      

The circuit court concluded that two of the jury instructions at trial didn't adequately define the relevant community of interest requirement and that the prejudicial error had a domino effect on all of the claims submitted to the jury.

       

“Firm leaders just aren't talking about it, said Katherine Wilson, co-founder of Fractional CMO. “In the quest for unity, they tend to say, 'Well, it's just better to not say anything, because I don't want to offend anyone.'"

       

Energy lawyers are focused on how the policy of the second Trump administration may affect clean energy projects supported by tax credits via the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

       

“The allegations in the complaint are about investors being bullied into signing these conversions and being lied to about the use of this money, said Eric Rosen, a partner at Dynamis.

       

FTX and its affiliates, represented in the bankruptcy court by Sullivan & Cromwell and Landis, Rath & Cobb, have filed a total of 36 adversary actions since Oct. 28, 25 of which were filed on Nov. 8.

       

“Although we are disappointed that the preliminary injunction was denied without prejudice and as premature, which we intend to appeal, this denial has no bearing on the merits of our case, Winston & Strawn partner Jeffrey Kessler said in response to a district court ruling in his NASCAR antitrust lawsuit.

       

"It is too easy to get complacent working for the same lawyers, on the same matters, for the same clients. Take on that new matter that you know nothing about or team up with that new partner you've never worked for. It'll almost always work out just fine. At worst, you'll learn something you don't like. But it's more likely you'll learn something you do like. Or something you can use in another case. Perhaps most importantly, it's valuable to get comfortable being uncomfortable."

       

The firms are to combine into one fully-integrated organization known as Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, in one of the industry's most significant transatlantic combinations.

       

"I think as a whole, there was a lot of resiliency and we bounced back pretty well," attorney Steve Cash of Searson, Jones, Gottschalk & Cash in Asheville, North Carolina said.