Ultimately, the two exchanged notes on several subjects not yet fully detailed in media reports to date—including Epstein's own legal issues.

       

A federal jury in Arizona awarded the $8.5 million on Thursday to Jaylynn Dean, who alleged her Uber driver raped her on a ride in 2023.

       

At a news conference Tuesday that was livestreamed on Instagram, attorney Ben Crump called on California Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate the Dec. 31 shooting death of Keith Porter Jr. at the hands of an off-duty ICE agent.

       

Mobile discovery has reached an inflection point. Courts spent 2024 handing out sanctions for two opposite failures: failing to preserve mobile data and collecting far too much of it. Litigants now face a genuine discovery double bind, including being punished for being careless and being punished again for being overly aggressive. That push-pull (collect more vs. collect less) is shaping the 2025 e-discovery landscape more than any technical development or new tool.

       

We'll now see if another year of Big Law chaos—from perpetual free agency moves to the unforeseeable—turns curiosity into something much more.

       

Florida lawmakers are considering bills that would loosen stablecoin regulations, invest state funds in crypto, regulate kiosks and expand the jurisdiction of courts over digital asset disputes.

       

An insurance dispute over out-of-network medical payments between a California hospital and a Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer will partially move forward, an Illinois federal judge held Tuesday.

       

One key change was the organization stopped paying board members.

       

The entire group consists of litigation partners, including a former chair of firmwide business litigation at Perkins Coie, David Perez.

       

In Scott Barshay, the Paul Weiss chairmanship gets someone who “has widely been seen as [Brad Karp's] successor and also widely seen as the power behind the power in recent years, noted one market observer.

       

Collaboration between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a good first step in coordinating their regulation of digital assets, even if it remains unclear how they will delineate clear areas of jurisdiction without congressional action,
capital markets attorneys said.        

M&A rainmaker Scott Barshay is taking over firm leadership, Paul Weiss confirmed.

       

Femi Cadmus says she was terminated after filing a complaint with the university.

       

The lawsuit, brought by Snell & Wilmer and Sullivan & Cromwell, seeks declaratory and injunctive relief to block Nevada officials from enforcing the state's gaming statutes against Coinbase Financial Markets Inc. for offering event contracts to customers in the state.

       

"A lot of the cases my firm is bringing are being brought under state law causes of action," said Michael Gottlieb of Gottlieb & Greenspan, counsel for many medical provider plaintiffs. "We're alleging that [the insurers'] failure to pay federal, binding NSA arbitration awards violates basic state tort principles such as unjust enrichment, among others."

       

At issue is coverage for gender-affirming care in two healthcare plans that provide coverage for around 2 million federal employees, family members and retirees.

       

Emails linking Jeffrey Epstein and firm chairman Brad Karp create the second significant public relations challenge striking the firm in less than a year.

       

"I have no problem standing up for the rule of law, because I know it is the right thing to do," Anna St. John, a former Covington & Burling litigator, said during her nomination hearing as President Donald Trump's pick to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She was one of four nominees to face Senate Judiciary Committee questioning.

       

Senior U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York told defendant Rui-Siang Lin that the site made him “a drug kingpin and was the “most serious drug crime I have ever been confronted with in 27.5 years.

       

"The perception (is) that this administration does not have that sort of default negative approach to private equity," said Qian "Susan" Zhu, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius.