A Tuesday panel that included a member of the DOJ's Procurement Collusion Strike Force outlined some overlooked current and emerging antitrust traps being set by ambitious regulators.

The 3M petitions attempt to make the case the attorney possibly knew more than what he has admitted about a co-counsel's fraudulent acts, and was possibly a co-conspirator.

In first-of-its kind legislation, the updated Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) will consider consumer neural data as "sensitive information." California and Minnesota are likely to follow suit.

Chancellor Kathaleen St.J. McCormick concluded that shareholder plaintiffs failed to adequately plead that JPMorgan's directors knew of and ignored concerns about the bank's compliance with reimbursement laws.

Like so many other features of the MHMDA, data subject rights are deceptively complicated and have the potential to create significant administrative hurdles to getting it right. In this article, we examine the tricky issues in our MHMDA FAQs and take a deep dive into data subject rights.

Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and his GOP colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee raised a case Kevin Gafford Ritz handled in which a public defender accused the then-assistant U.S. attorney of making misrepresentations to a defense attorney to elicit a guilty plea.

Karen K. Caldwell, the chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, issued the order on behalf of the six-judge panel and said centralization is currently not necessary for the convenience of the parties and witnesses in order to conduct the litigation.

Two Am Law 100 firms and several plaintiff firms have entered appearances. Observers expect more lawyers to enter as litigation and investigations mount.

"Preparation is crucial, and there is no substitute for credibility in the courtroom," said defense counsel Mark Trigg of Dentons in Atlanta.

New Hampshire and Kentucky are the latest states to pass comprehensive data privacy laws, bringing the number of states with privacy statutes to 15.

In addition to introducing three new skills for legal and tax professionals in the U.S. and U.K., Thomson Reuters announced plans to roll out the CoCounsel generative AI assistant across every professional line it serves, including risk, fraud and media.

"To make out a Title VII discrimination claim, a transferee must show some harm respecting an identifiable term or condition of employment," Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court. "What the transferee does not have to show, according to the relevant text, is that the harm incurred was 'significant.'"

"We're optimistic that after consideration of the briefing and oral arguments, the Court will agree that the Maryland General Assembly acted within its constitutional bounds. This will ensure that survivors of childhood sexual abuse can finally seek relief through the courts and hold their abusers fully accountable," said the plaintiff's legal team.

One man is corporate counsel at Gunderson Dettmer and previously worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, while another is a civil litigator at Hunton Andrews Kurth.

This week, Legal Speak spoke live on location at the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024 in Chicago with professionals from across the legal industry about key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and more.

This week, Legal Speak spoke live on location at the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024 in Chicago with professionals from across the legal industry about key insights and practical solutions that today's general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and more.

"It seems to us that, as an investor in Akorn whose shares' value was affected by the merger and the mootness fees, Frank has a claim in common with the main action; how could it be otherwise?" Judge Frank Easterbrook wrote for the court.

The firm says it was contacted by someone who purportedly sought help collecting severance pay from his employer, John Deere.

Both the DOJ and the SEC have made it clear that they will look at company BYOD policies when assessing how to resolve matters under their purview. To avoid pitfalls — and sanctions — counsel must take proactive steps to ensure proper preservation and collection of personal mobile data and verify that clients comply.