Attorneys working in private and public practice spoke to Law.com about the devastation left by Helene, reflecting how their day-to-day legal operations were affected and how their professional community pulled together in the aftermath.

       

While dismissal of the case was seen as unlikely, observers said Acting Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan would be disinclined to impair the president-elect from discharging his duties.

      

The circuit court concluded that two of the jury instructions at trial didn't adequately define the relevant community of interest requirement and that the prejudicial error had a domino effect on all of the claims submitted to the jury.

       

“Firm leaders just aren't talking about it, said Katherine Wilson, co-founder of Fractional CMO. “In the quest for unity, they tend to say, 'Well, it's just better to not say anything, because I don't want to offend anyone.'"

       

Energy lawyers are focused on how the policy of the second Trump administration may affect clean energy projects supported by tax credits via the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

       

“The allegations in the complaint are about investors being bullied into signing these conversions and being lied to about the use of this money, said Eric Rosen, a partner at Dynamis.

       

FTX and its affiliates, represented in the bankruptcy court by Sullivan & Cromwell and Landis, Rath & Cobb, have filed a total of 36 adversary actions since Oct. 28, 25 of which were filed on Nov. 8.

       

“Although we are disappointed that the preliminary injunction was denied without prejudice and as premature, which we intend to appeal, this denial has no bearing on the merits of our case, Winston & Strawn partner Jeffrey Kessler said in response to a district court ruling in his NASCAR antitrust lawsuit.

       

"It is too easy to get complacent working for the same lawyers, on the same matters, for the same clients. Take on that new matter that you know nothing about or team up with that new partner you've never worked for. It'll almost always work out just fine. At worst, you'll learn something you don't like. But it's more likely you'll learn something you do like. Or something you can use in another case. Perhaps most importantly, it's valuable to get comfortable being uncomfortable."

       

The firms are to combine into one fully-integrated organization known as Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, in one of the industry's most significant transatlantic combinations.

       

"I think as a whole, there was a lot of resiliency and we bounced back pretty well," attorney Steve Cash of Searson, Jones, Gottschalk & Cash in Asheville, North Carolina said.
       

"This is a topic that seems to cross partisan divides. It is a benefit that enough constituents in Missouri and Alaska and Nebraska voted for it to pass. That's a telling sign,” said Josh Seidman, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw.

       

The firms are to combine into one fully integrated organization known as Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. In the U.S., it will be called HSF Kramer.

       

“The campaign we have all just gone through has not been very focused on a lot of policy detail," said Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney life sciences industry group co-leader Jason Parish. "There's a lot of ambiguity.

       

"We now join the modern trend adopted by the majority of jurisdictions that have considered the issue and retire the concept of fault in this context; where, as here, the planned wedding does not ensue and the engagement is ended, the engagement ring must be returned to the donor regardless of fault," Associate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt wrote on behalf of the Massachusetts court.

       

The president also renominates district court judge in Guam.

       

Legal chiefs said they want collaboration and transparency from outside counsel when it comes to deploying generative artificial intelligence during a recent Association of Corporate Counsel event.

      

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Catch up on data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including the appeals courts reversed most often.

       

In this week's episode, Joseph Moreno, who currently serves in the Army Office of General Counsel at the Pentagon, joins Legal Speak to discuss the implications of President-elect Donald Trump's win on his pending criminal cases.