SBS's Theo Dorizac makes well-being a work goal for his team, noting that a healthy and happy team is also more engaged.

SB 940's author, state Sen. Tom Umberg, D-Santa Ana, said a voluntary certification program will encourage ADR firms to prove their practices comply with legal ethics rules.

"To stay ahead globally we don't need to protect our monopolies from innovation. We need to protect innovation from monopolies. We need to choose competition over national champions," Lina Khan said.

Alycia Degen, who was a co-leader of Sidley's product liability and mass torts practice, has moved to Shook, as it continues building its Los Angeles office.

The SEC and CFTC cases against Bankman-Fried have been stayed since February 2023 pending the conclusion of his criminal case. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel is presiding over both cases.

"It's a longshot attempt to cloud the issue by saying that attorneys were present," said J. Bruce Maffeo of Cozen O'Connor.

It is that time again! Corporate Counsel is seeking nominations for its Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards, which honors North American general counsel and law firm partners who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law and have shown extraordinary leadership in their careers.

"There are ... bad actors out there, people who were laid off and want to hurt their former employer or want to get a leg up at their new job by using a shortcut from their old job," said Carolyn Luedtke, a Munger, Tolles & Olson partner.

"We did more than our share of capital markets work in the crappiest market we have seen in a long time," said Cooley chair Joe Conroy.

"There isn't a businessperson in the state that's not going to not lose the duty to defend because within [the new criteria," the defendant-appellee attorney said. "They can either have the financial wherewithal or can borrow it. ... It reaches so much further than it needed to go."

The first-ever legal framework on artificial intelligence, the AI Act, could set the tone for AI regulation around the world.

A strong year for litigation and disputes combined with a decent year for M&A and sluggish areas of the real estate practice, global CEO Steve Baumer said.

"The Fifth Circuit decision contradicts federal law and is the latest high-profile decision relating to birth control access since the disastrous (Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health) decision," Democracy Forward Foundation said.

Some attorneys expect work-life balance benefits while others aren't quite sold on the earlier deadline but are getting used to it.

Algorithmic audits are coming up in legislation and state laws. But experts believe that these laws cannot exist in a vacuum, and may need more collaborative, interjurisdictional approaches.

In Logsdon v. U.S. Marshal Service, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit made the seemingly all-but-inevitable decision to refuse to recognize a Bivens claim in a new context. But in doing so, the appellate court offered a surprisingly candid assessment of the current state of the law—and on where the Supreme Court is headed.

Is the lunch meeting still a thing? Is it a lost art? A lost opportunity?

"Everybody wants to learn about what they can do to mitigate the risk," said John Muffler, an expert on judicial security who travels across the country holding seminars for judges.

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

"Your career is a marathon—not a sprint. See every failure as an opportunity rather than a setback."