In the race to increase profits and attract the best talent, law firms are now caught in a conundrum in adjusting partner compensation.

"Law schools are well known for training students to think like lawyers, but there are times when practicing lawyers need to reach outside the traditional legal toolkit and think like a businessperson, and that is where our Business Boot Camp comes in," Michael Gerber, a professor of law at Brooklyn Law and co-founder of the boot camp, said in a statement.

For the third year in a row, court data shows, Philadelphia juries were around twice as likely to award verdicts of $1 million or higher than they were in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Transitioning from Covid lockdown to return-to-office could be a factor in lawyers believing their firm's culture has changed for the worse, according to a survey report this week.

"It is axiomatic that an inferior court lacks jurisdiction to depart from a superior court's mandate. In AWMS, we reversed the court of appeals' grant of summary judgment to the state and remanded the case specifically for the purpose of conducting the proper takings analysis. In this regard, we did not leave the court of appeals' task open-ended," the court said. "Rather, we specified that the court of appeals 'must weigh the parties' evidence relating to AWMS's total-takings claim' and 'must weigh the parties' evidence in accordance with this opinion.'"

At issue is who owns the rights to projects that employees develop on their own time without the use of their company's resources.

Current and former firm personnel say that lawyers participating in the scheme could be limiting their partnership prospects as other industry commentators point to the policy's lack of flexibility.

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The brothers, practicing at Weil and Keker Van Nest, landed on a high-stakes case together—and won. "We resisted any urge to bill during dinner," one quipped.

Lori Cohen achieved an impressive 58 defense verdicts before suddenly and inexplicably losing her voice. Now, with the help of her long-time trial technologist and friend Gerard Buitrago, she's harnessing the power of AI to get back in the courtroom.

The Supreme Court for the state of Washington suspended attorney Michael Olufemi Ewetuga after a formal complaint following allegations regarding his sexual relationship with a client.

"The commission appears to have taken sides in the political debate roiling institutions across the country. Nothing good will come of this," Michigan Supreme Court Justice David F. Viviano said.

"There is no good reason why the judiciary should not have a full complement of judges," former Supreme Court Justice Barry T. Albin said. "There are at least 60,000 practicing attorneys and it is fanciful to think that we cannot find the highest caliber of judges among that number of attorneys."

Defense counsel aimed to demonstrate that someone has not been telling the truth during the trial.

"Out of the $1.3 [million], half a million dollars went to the IRS, and a few hundred thousand dollars went to a home remodel the Lord told us to do," defendant Eligio (Eli) Regalado, a paster at Victorious Grace Church, said in a video.

If user inputs are used to train models such as ChatGPT, can lawyers input their clients confidential information when generating motions, briefs or patent applications? How does scraped data used to train AI co-exist with the right to be forgotten? And when it comes to filing patents and copyrights for works produced by AI, who owns it?

"Just because a company uses an alternative method to go public does not mean that its investors are any less deserving of time-tested investor protections," SEC Chair Gary Gensler said.

Some lawyers have seen a rate increase above 20%. Overall, lawyers in financial services and health care, and in markets such as Dallas and Houston, all saw notable rate hikes.

It seems a bit rushed to fit in the notice and comment period regarding JD-Next ending only days ahead of the February meeting. Will it follow the pattern of what happened with the GRE in 2021? Time will tell.

"The work is very important, of course, but so is meaningful participation in networking and social events, working on firm or bar association committees, and participating in pro bono workshops and opportunities. All these things have added joy to my career and, in my view, are valuable tools for career planning and navigating inside a law firm."