Thus far, most of the firms adopting more stringent office attendance policies are in the Am Law 50. Duane Morris, No. 82 in this year's rankings, is an exception.

       

"The new giant would have significantly increased power to extract favorable conditions with manufacturers,” Sen. Warren wrote in a letter to federal antitrust regulators.

       

Leaders contend that, due to conflicts, the managed care attorneys who left prevented the firm from serving many of its health care clients more broadly.

       

Whether you think the nine justices are doing a good job has a lot to do with which side of the aisle you're on, Gallup found.

       

The office closing comes about a month after the Trump administration reached a deal with the University of Pennsylvania.

       

After the leak of a trove of racist and sexist emails sank their spinoff firm Barber Ranen, both lawyers remain active in employment law matters across the state of California.

       

Defense attorneys are grappling with pressure from clients, citing the speedy and highly-public disposition in the political corruption case of NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

       

The special bonus schedule ranges from $6,000 to $25,000.

       

"As the court warned the parties nearly a year ago, Daubert only allows challenges to an expert's methodology," the judge wrote. "The defendants' motion overlooks that ... as a general rule ... '[t]he fact that an expert's testimony contains some vulnerable assumptions does not make the testimony irrelevant or inadmissible.'”        

Local authorities said the death was classified as "person fallen from a height" and a suicide note was found, according to local reports.

       

A year ago, three firms were racing to bring transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices to market. The FTC said allowing Edwards Lifesciences to buy JenaValve would reduce that number to one.

       

A divided Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday finalized a rule prohibiting employers from imposing noncompete agreements on their workers, a controversial

       

Former Red Cat CTO George Matus, who founded Teal Drones while still in high school, is alleged to have misled company leaders about his move to Vector Defense, taking with him trade secrets and luring away key engineers.

       

U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said he was considering sanctions against Steve Berman and his Seattle-based firm, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, as well as a former partner at his firm, Tyler Weaver, in dozens of thalidomide lawsuits.

       

Several law firms have launched since the start of the year, including some by former Big Law lawyers.

       

As state bar leaders ponder the future of California's bar exam, ABA-approved law school deans said they want a permanent move back to in-person tests written by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

       

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.

       

"Google's anticompetitive conduct has crippled competitors like OpenX at every turn, preventing them from competing on a level playing field and leaving them with fewer resources to develop groundbreaking innovations," counsel for OpenX alleged in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia mirroring claims the U.S. Department of Justice made in a related case.

       

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