"As we see a lot of competition growing, especially when it comes to midsize firms, I think they're feeling the squeeze in terms of client demand," said one legal recruiter.

       

On average across the Am Law 200, more than 11% of hours billed came from nonlawyers.

       

A Manhattan jury found Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business on Wednesday after a four-week trial, leaving 18 U.S. Code § 1960 at the center of the discussion by legal experts about what they expect will be a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict.        

Lawyers with plenty of energy-giving social resources will see the world differently and be better able to navigate the challenges and stressors of life, according to Anne Brafford, co-founder of the Institute for Well-Being in Law.

       

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp of the District of New Jersey ruled that the plaintiffs' steering committee in the talc multidistrict litigation could add Kenvue, Holdco and Janssen as defendants in their master complaint.

       

"The Court maintains serious doubts as to whether Plaintiff can sufficiently amend his Complaint," U.S. District Senior Judge Henry E. Hudson wrote in a memorandum opinion dismissing a shareholder's class action against drugmaker Indivior PLC for failing to meet the heightened pleading standard for securities fraud.

       

An Ohio state trial court ruling has ended the long-running Triad v. Westlake litigation, and confirmed a $70 million jury verdict and judgment against Westlake Chemical Corp. Houston's Yetter Coleman won the unanimous verdict for Expand Energy, formerly known as Southwestern Energy, after a three-week trial in 2022. After three years of unsuccessful appeals, Westlake paid the $76 million judgment, including interest, in full.        

Thus far, most of the firms adopting more stringent office attendance policies are in the Am Law 50. Duane Morris, No. 82 in this year's rankings, is an exception.

       

"The new giant would have significantly increased power to extract favorable conditions with manufacturers,” Sen. Warren wrote in a letter to federal antitrust regulators.

       

Leaders contend that, due to conflicts, the managed care attorneys who left prevented the firm from serving many of its health care clients more broadly.

       

Whether you think the nine justices are doing a good job has a lot to do with which side of the aisle you're on, Gallup found.

       

The office closing comes about a month after the Trump administration reached a deal with the University of Pennsylvania.

       

After the leak of a trove of racist and sexist emails sank their spinoff firm Barber Ranen, both lawyers remain active in employment law matters across the state of California.

       

Defense attorneys are grappling with pressure from clients, citing the speedy and highly-public disposition in the political corruption case of NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

       

The special bonus schedule ranges from $6,000 to $25,000.

       

"As the court warned the parties nearly a year ago, Daubert only allows challenges to an expert's methodology," the judge wrote. "The defendants' motion overlooks that ... as a general rule ... '[t]he fact that an expert's testimony contains some vulnerable assumptions does not make the testimony irrelevant or inadmissible.'”        

Local authorities said the death was classified as "person fallen from a height" and a suicide note was found, according to local reports.

       

A year ago, three firms were racing to bring transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices to market. The FTC said allowing Edwards Lifesciences to buy JenaValve would reduce that number to one.

       

A divided Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday finalized a rule prohibiting employers from imposing noncompete agreements on their workers, a controversial

       

Former Red Cat CTO George Matus, who founded Teal Drones while still in high school, is alleged to have misled company leaders about his move to Vector Defense, taking with him trade secrets and luring away key engineers.