U.S. District Judge Jessica Clarke of the Southern District of New York sent the jurors home after they delivered a note stating they wished to be adjourned after three days of deliberating the fates of Anton and James Peraire-Bueno. Despite many sleepless nights and a session where half of the jury broke down crying, they "are not making any progress," said the note, which was signed by all members of the 12-person jury.

       

Dovel & Luner partners Christin Cho and Rick Lyon were sanctioned by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in the Central District of California for pursuing a class action despite knowing the lead plaintiff was subject to arbitration.

       

“So, this document could turn out to be relatively benign, or it could turn out to be the beginning of major change in disruption, and, you know, potentially harm to the students at UVA, a law professor, who is a member of the executive council, told Law.com.

       

The case was the first enforcement action under Connecticut's Student Data Privacy Law and California's K-12 Pupil Online Personal Information Protection Act. Along with New York, all three states' student privacy laws require online educational providers to have adequate protections and security measures for education data.

       

"Context matters. The activity in dispute was not a display at a random location in the United States; it was not at a normal moment in time; and it was not a generic message for equal rights or employee protection," Judge James B. Loken wrote. "Home Depot's restriction on how employees may display messages surrounding the movement shows only that it 'did not want to allow the mass expression of a controversial message by employees in their stores."        

I came to realize that law schools do not tell their students, much less teach them about, at least three important facts that every future lawyer should know to succeed in the profession to which they are committing themselves. For better or for worse, lawyers are also salesmen, teachers, and bill collectors.

       

The suit may help set the terms of engagement for AI agents as they take on more of the shopping tasks currently handled by human beings.

       

“Your day is full. Sometimes your nights are full. So from a cultural perspective, you have to make it clear that this is important, said Horacio Gutierrez, chief legal and compliance officer at Disney.

       

"Sometimes juries return $100,000 in punitive damage ... that's not even a traffic ticket to Philip Morris," Celene H. Humphries, an appellate attorney from Spring City, Tennessee, told the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court this week. "We think that the jury's verdict was supported by the evidence. This [verdict] didn't even amount to 17 days of revenue for them—that's shorter than the trial."

       

"It was the first time that a court ... analyzed the application of ending forced arbitration in a situation like this," said Pat Huyett, a partner at Anapol Weiss who is representing plaintiffs in litigation against Roblox.

       

In this podcast edition, Supreme Court Brief analyzes the most notable questions from the justices during Wednesday's blockbuster hearing on tariffs.        

The ruling came after lawyers for the defendants threatened to seek sanctions against the plaintiffs for a frivolous appeal.

       

Washington state expanded the breadth of its sales tax laws, which could catch professional service firms off guard. While traditional legal and accounting services are exempt from sales tax, the ripple effects of this change could still substantially impact professional services firms, albeit in subtle but significant ways.

       

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Texas Lawyer litigation reporter Laura Lorek explores what motivated Jackson Walker partner John Jackson to build a wine empire and online following of millions.

       

"Advice for aspiring GCs re: work-life balance—there's no one solution for stress management. Be prepared to adopt new strategies throughout your career. It's not uncommon that certain strategies will work for a season, and then you might need to adopt something new."

       

The deal will require all residents, many in their 80s and 90s who have lived at the Pierre for decades, to vacate their homes within one year of closing.

       

"Maune and Raichle had no corporate capacities separate and apart from their individual capacities such that they can act solely 'on behalf of' MR Law. Instead, they were MR Law. They signed the OA as individuals, and, because they comprised all the partners of MR Law, they had the authority to and, therefore, did submit partnership claims and liabilities between them to arbitration under section 358.090.3(5)," the court said.

       

"The imposition of the maximum sentence seems appropriate given the money involved," said criminal defense attorney Sam Bassett of Minton, Bassett, Flores & Carsey.

       

Look to the example of accounting firm Citrin Cooperman, says one investment banker who's placed a bet on legal.

       

“Until some relevance to the issues before the court is made clear, the court is unwilling to follow the parties down this rabbit hole, Judge Joan Gottschall wrote on Thursday.