In this first in a three-part series, trends in the trade enforcement and compliance landscape, a fast-moving area marked by unpredictability, are examined.

A Chicago federal judge said a jury will have to decide if a now-defunct group of more than 20 universities, known as the "568 Group," broke antitrust laws by using agreed upon and standardized rules for calculating a student's financial need.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia has fired several of its career prosecutors ever since President Donald Trump effectively installed insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan as its de facto leader.

SB 574 would also bar arbitrators from delegating "any part of their decision-making process" to generative AI.

"My advice is to focus on building expertise, developing strong relationships, and embracing a broader perspective. It's important to master your practice area, but equally essential to mentor and support your team, foster collaboration, and cultivate trust with colleagues and clients alike."

"The Court's thinly veiled threat to use attorney discipline to cudgel the Executive Branch into conforming its legal position in all criminal prosecutions to the views of a single district judge is a gross abuse of power and an affront to the separation of powers," U.S. Department of Justice officials said in a mandatory court filing defending Lindsey Halligan's continued identification as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

W. Mark Lanier, Bryan Aylstock, Sarah London, Alexandra Walsh and Bob Hilliard are vying for leadership appointments in 85 lawsuits, coordinated last month into multidistrict litigation before Chief Judge Richard Seeborg, in California's Northern District.

Aurelio Fernandez-Concheso, partner in charge of the Venezuela office at Clyde & Co, discusses the ups and downs of working in the South American country, which he says has experienced many hardships in recent decades but holds opportunities for those willing to take the risk of doing business there.

Charlotte is the largest city in the country without a law school, having gone without a full-time law school since 2018, when Charlotte School of Law closed after being open for seven years.

These suits represent the next frontier: whether manufacturers of regulated cannabis products may be held liable for injuries allegedly caused by unregulated botanicals they choose to incorporate as ingredients, an issue surfacing in a state widely regarded as a regulatory leader since legalizing adult%E2%80%91use cannabis in 2012.

"These principles flow naturally from the court's interest in vigorously defending the integrity of the legal process and procedural rules. When a party is served properly and fails to appear, as is undisputed here, the party faces the consequences of that failure. One such consequence is that the party is charged with notice of all future proceedings, including any judgment entered," said Chief Judge John P. Torbitzky, who authored the opinion.

Associate work is already being written off at a relatively high pace—realization for associates is only about 85.6%—and this is where AI can help.

It's been one of the more challenging years for higher education and most disruptive years for legal education in the amount of things that have been happening, Austen Parrish told Law.com.

U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, sought leave to appear as amici curiae in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, saying they believe the DOJ requires oversight to comply with the law.

It may be "business as usual" for Greenland's law firms today, but tomorrow's tremors threaten to rewrite legal history.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said there was reason to accept Bruce Fein's request to represent Maduro, after Fein admitted he was neither retained by Maduro, nor Barry Pollack, Maduro's actual attorney.

"If permitted to stand, the secretary's censure and the grade-determination proceedings that he has directed will inflict immediate and irreparable harm," counsel for U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly wrote in a complaint alleging U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unlawfully censured Kelly for recording a video that advised U.S. servicemembers to disregard unlawful orders.

The keynote will take place Monday, March 9 as part of Legalweek's expanded programming. The conference will be held at the Javits Center in New York City from March 9 to 12.

Rate hikes remained the primary profitability driver for a cohort of nearly 150 regional law firms, according to a new Law.com survey.