Instead of moving lawyers to the equity ranks, or keeping them as associates or counsel, there is a shift inside Big Law to make more lawyers salaried partners.

In less than two years, generative AI providers have racked up at least 20 lawsuits alleging copyright infringement. Experts narrowed down three main commonalities between them.

The complaint alleges that LexisNexis wielded its "trove of PII" to advertise its Lexis Personal Records Products without the subjects' authorization. This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

The appeals court cited numerous critical errors in the Commission for Lawyer Discipline's exhibits in a case against attorney Sidney Powell, a key figure in former President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.

Giuliani targeted poll workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss of Fulton County, Georgia, stating to Georgia lawmakers in a committee of the state Legislature that Freeman and Moss were shown in a video circulating online "surreptitiously passing around USB ports," allegedly manipulating voting results.

The combination would create a firm with more than 1,600 lawyers and would move the firm solidly into the Am Law 50.

The Daily Report and Law.com are pleased to announce its 2024 winners and finalists for the second annual Southeastern Legal Awards. Previously known

When seeing the news last week regarding University of California at Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, two things came to mind. The first one being propaganda. The second thing: time and place.

AI researcher Viviane Ghaderi says Amazon pressured her to quit after she disclosed her pregnancy and fired her while she had discrimination and retaliation claims pending with the company.

"There were pay equity statutes before there were pay transparency requirements which I think are sleeping giants," Christopher T. Wall of Stoel Rives, said. "There is a ton of exposure that, I think, people both on the plaintiff side and on the employer side, are not totally tuned in to. It is good to take stock of pay discrepancies that may exist and to fix those issues. That also helps protect your business from catastrophic liability."

What happens when you talk about various negotiation events, strategies, desired outcomes and potentially low key disasters? How should these items should be discussed and what positions are worth taking and which aren't?

"I have a very varied background that I would not trade for anything," said Angela Steele, a 13-year veteran of the fast-food giant.

The contract, which is for a limited term, relates to past phases of the Horizon scandal inquiry.

The plaintiff-appellee, Armin Oskouei, an orthopedic surgeon, filed libel and slander complaints against defense attorney Zach Matthews of McMickle Kurey & Branch, alleging the latter said the plaintiff-appellee "is performing illegal surgeries," "is a back-alley doctor" and "a crook and a fraud" to a member of opposing counsel in an underlying dispute.

The firm is now adding a large corporate practice in Chicago after its 2021 merger with an IP boutique in the city.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, who is overseeing the paraquat multidistrict litigation, found that Dr. Martin Wells, a biostatistician and epidemiologist at Cornell University, used unreliable methodologies in concluding that exposure to the pesticide increased the risks of getting Parkinson's disease.

After she left the University of Denver Law, "this small group actually sent flowers and candy to the chair of the dean search committee and sent cards to many other faculty members saying, 'Thank you for taking our incompetent dean off our hands,'" she shared, saying that a lot of what happened was very gendered and was a "product of the time."

In the absence of a federal statute, many states have implemented their own data privacy laws, prompting Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Arizona, to cite concerns that a federal law would need strong preemption language.

"We believe that a continuous infusion of judgeships becomes the most critical component in any of our operations, and as you heard in my opening remarks, we need to continuously add new judges to our workforce," Judge Glenn A. Grant said. "We are at 39 [vacancies]. Probably, by the end of the summer, we will have another seven to 10 judges leave, so you are then over 50 again."

They will face more hurdles, however, as Australian regulators, like their counterparts in many other countries and regions around the world, increase their scrutiny of M&A deals.