U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said he was considering sanctions against Steve Berman and his Seattle-based firm, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, as well as a former partner at his firm, Tyler Weaver, in dozens of thalidomide lawsuits.

       

Several law firms have launched since the start of the year, including some by former Big Law lawyers.

       

As state bar leaders ponder the future of California's bar exam, ABA-approved law school deans said they want a permanent move back to in-person tests written by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

       

Nearly 30 states require medical-malpractice plaintiffs to file expert affidavits about the strength of their case. The Supreme Court will decide whether those requirements apply in federal court in diversity jurisdiction cases.

       

"Google's anticompetitive conduct has crippled competitors like OpenX at every turn, preventing them from competing on a level playing field and leaving them with fewer resources to develop groundbreaking innovations," counsel for OpenX alleged in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia mirroring claims the U.S. Department of Justice made in a related case.

       

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The competition, which was won by an interactive HR document generator, provided summer associates with hands-on experience and illustrated the need for firms to lead on legal tech training.

       

Law firms are being more “cautious and deliberate in their hiring of private equity partners, while partners aren't as active in moves, sources say.

       

Gov. Kathy Hochul and statewide prosecutors celebrated the changes as “modest and for making “common sense with respect to balancing the scales of justice. However, a leader of the defense bar said they're a fair cry from a full-bore repeal that advocates requested at the outset of state budget talks in January.

       

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U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said President Donald Trump is "installing MAGA loyalists as interim U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation," justifying Senate Democrats' procedural hold tactics making it difficult for the full chamber to confirm Trump's nominees.

       

NYU Law professor Stephen Gillers called on the legal profession to do more to combat what he said is efforts to consolidate power and silence critics by the Trump administration. A slip into autocracy will only happen, he said, because “lawyers and judges have made it possible."

       

Porter Wright announced a tie-up Wednesday with Chicago litigation boutique Scandaglia Law, the latest combination in the Windy City.

       

Jurors had deadlocked on whether Roman Storm had conspired to launder money or to evade sanctions with the co-creators of Tornado Cash, which allows users to anonymously send cryptocurrency and which U.S. officials have linked to North Korean hackers. But the jurors did convict Storm had a lesser charge of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.

       

“Some of World Vision's donors may wish to learn about the Christian faith,' and the CSRs [customer service representatives] are responsible for teaching curious donors about World Vision's Christian faith and mission," the appeals court held.

       

"If you want to just be a lawyer, fine. But I think it's an excellent use of your talent to expand beyond legal if you're interested," said Laura Schumacher, former chief legal officer of AbbVie.

       

Hearing details have been finalized for a Georgia judge accused of letting probate cases drag on for years.

       

"Be someone that others can confide in and learn how to use the information you receive to try to achieve common goals. You are privy to a wide array of information daily and must learn how to navigate it to be an advocate, not only for clients but for the firm as well."

       

The firm first entered the Los Angeles neighborhood roughly 40 years ago.

       

Charter is designed to provide real-time enforcement of law firms' internal AI policies, blocking users from inputting prompts or text that could potentially violate the firms' guidelines.