The merger is set to happen in two weeks.

       

Patent litigation against major carmakers soared in Texas courts over infotainment tech.

       

U.S. District Judge Andrea R. Wood for the Northern District of Illinois denied The Boldt Co.'s motion to alter a $1 judgment in favor of the defendant, Black & Veatch Construction. Boldt moved to amend in an attempt to recover money it believed it was owed for work it performed as a subcontractor for the defendant before it was fired for scheduling issues.

       

In Del Prete v. Villaege of Romeoville, the plaintiff claimed she was wrongfully convicted for the murder of an infant in her care and has sued the investigators overseeing her case for the emotional pain she faced during her 10-year prison sentence. She filed a motion for a proposed protective order covering her health records, where she sought access to mental-health documents before they were disclosed to the defendants.        

The Department of Justice pointed out that the case falls in line with "the government's emphasis on combating health care fraud."

       

Hogan Lovells partner Doug Fellman has recently taken on a new position as a Broadway producer, while maintaining his full-time white-collar practice.

       

“While many D&O policies will respond to securities claims, policyholders need to ensure that AI-related losses are covered and not subject to exclusions addressing AI and similar technologies," said Geoffrey Fehling, a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth.

       

The University of Tennessee College of Law has been renamed the Frank Winston College of Law, an alumnus of the university and law school.

       

The Susman Godfrey Prize has been expanded this year, with the firm increasing the number of award recipients and increasing the award prize.

       

The judge said the plaintiff properly detailed how the university and its supervisors created a hostile work environment by pressuring her into creating a retirement date and separation plan so a younger colleague could assume her position.

       

A U.K.-headquartered firm impressing itself upon Manhattan's elites was previously unthinkable. But the transition brings deep questions about its very constitution. Does the firm stick with the ideology that has made it what it is? Or does it go all out for profitability?

       

"Be engaged and proactive in your career and at your firm. There are many lawyers who have great ideas, but few are willing or able to execute on them. Be the person that others rely on to come up with new and exciting initiatives and to deliver. Bring along others for the ride as much and as often as you can. The more coordinated, cohesive, and invested your team is, the more successful you all will be."

       

"Be engaged and proactive in your career and at your firm. There are many lawyers who have great ideas, but few are willing or able to execute on them. Be the person that others rely on to come up with new and exciting initiatives and to deliver. Bring along others for the ride as much and as often as you can. The more coordinated, cohesive, and invested your team is, the more successful you all will be."

       

"If you read your document, your email or whatever and it wouldn't be appropriate to read in open court, before a jury or a judge, then you better rewrite it," said David Graham, senior counsel at Gardner Law.

       

As a general rule, TROs—short-term orders that pause actions pending preliminary injunction decisions—are not appealable, though courts have recognized exceptions, such as when a TRO threatens irreversible harm or basically functions as a preliminary injunction.

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While the judge endeavored to keep the hearing focused on whether and how Kline & Specter's claims against Terrance DeAngelo should be arbitrated, the acrimonious history of the dispute occasionally bled in.

       

The jury after just over half a day of deliberations found Amgen Inc. liable on 10 of the 11 claims in the complaint, including monopolization and unreasonable restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Act.

       

Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty to federal charges that she obstructed an arrest and deportation operation by U.S. immigration authorities in her courtroom.

       

Vice Chancellor Lori Will took three hours of argument on the case. Lawyers for Trump Media & Technology Corp said the court should rule clearly stating the supremacy clause bars all civil litigation against a sitting president, partly because state court judges would benefit by keeping themselves out of "any political entanglements." But plaintiffs' counsel said civil lawsuits over non-official acts have always been allowed even if a sitting president is a defendant.

       

It's been easier for firms to team up to accede to the Trump administration than to oppose it.