The new trial will be the third time that the New York County District Attorney's Office will try Weinstein for the alleged third-degree rape of aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, in a New York hotel room in 2013.

       

Nearly 30 states require medical-malpractice plaintiffs to file expert affidavits about the strength of their case. The Supreme Court will decide whether those requirements apply in federal court in diversity jurisdiction cases.

       

The Supreme Court will consider the appeal of the rescission of Elon Musk's compensation package a week after considering questions on the constitutionality of corporate safe harbor protections passed into law in March.

       

       

"Don't wait to build the culture you want. Focusing only on clients, growth, and cases early on is tempting, but culture will sustain you through every challenge and season of growth. You don't want to figure it out after you're 50 people deep. You want to define it on day one."

       

In an era where data is king—where profitability is paramount, and legal work is being outsourced to AI—"people-first" rings a little differently.

       

In a "transformative moment for law," as one leader put it, "our strategy has been: get there first."

       

With progress in key areas, these 20 firms could climb the ranks to join next year's A-List.

       

The firms topping our annual A-List posted strong results in RPL, pro bono, diversity, female equity partner percentages and associate satisfaction.

       

None of the four most highly compensated legal chiefs in Texas come from the industry the state is best known for.

       

The news will be seen as a major win for AI tool Harvey which has been fending off competion from other offerings such as Legora.

       

“If the collection lag persists or deepens, then I think we will see firms getting anxious, said Kristin Stark, a law firm management consultant at Fairfax Associates.

       

The likely absence of a comprehensive U.S. AI regulatory regime creates the potential for a “guidance gap for the responsible use of AI. Corporate leadership will be called to respond with internal controls intended to assure appropriate AI protections and to reduce the company's exposure to liability.

       

The firm follows Latham & Watkins which announced its own partnership with the platform this week.

       

Market Basket, a New England-based grocery store chain, claims Schmidt and Gordon, a pair of recently terminated former executives, defied orders to stay away from company property after their dismissals and instead entered Market Basket stores in three states a total of 26 times over six days.

       

At a Tuesday hearing, Southern California Edison attorney Douglas Dixon told a Los Angeles judge that his client planned to sue numerous government agencies that he claims share responsibility for this year's Eaton fire.

       

“To come in at the 11th hour on a shell of a company that is all but dead that is not going to do anymore business and now demand a scalp in the form of a hollow guilty plea that will only hurt all of the investors who have waited years for their money, literally flies in the face of doing justice, said Judge Rodolfo Ruiz.

       

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New York's Assembly Judiciary chairman is seeking answers after proctors didn't stop a state bar exam while a woman collapsed from her chair from a cardiac episode.