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Attorneys with Susman Godfrey, Merritt Law, and the Civil Rights Clinic of Georgetown Law are bringing additional allegations against the Fairfax County School Board and the Virginia Department of Education on behalf of families with students with disabilities, alleging that the school system was complicit in ensuring students did not receive the necessary services, according to the amended complaint filed Jan. 20.

"If an activist does buy into a company, the company should seek to meaningfully engage with the activist, rather than ignoring them or dismissing them out of hand," the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills said in a client briefing.

"Even though at times hard to hear or read, everything Prof. Wax is accused of saying finds support in social science research and other empirically based sources and has been expressed by various critics and commentators all over the country and the world," Wax's attorney, David Shapiro, wrote in the grievance.

A New Mexico jury hit Public Underwriters Liability Insurance Company with $52 million in punitive damages, finding the insurer violated the Unfair Practices Act in an insurance bad faith case after a decade of litigation.

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"Contrary to the unfortunate remarks of Dr. Brackney and her attorney, the decision was made by a respected and experienced United States District Court Judge, who considered a lawsuit of 73 pages with over 150 pages of exhibits containing facts set forth in 11 counts against 11 defendants and determined that no plausible claims had been stated," said attorney for the defendants, David Patrick Corrigan of Harman Claytor Corrigan & Wellman, of Richmond, Virginia.

Plaintiffs suing over combat earplugs filed a brief on Wednesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to affirm an Aug. 26 bankruptcy decision not to extend a Chapter 11 case's automatic stay to include the debtor's parent corporation, 3M.

Two licensed Virginia attorneys brought their fight over a contingency fee in a civil litigation case before the Virginia Court of Appeals.

That rule requires an insurer to defend all claims brought against an insured if at least one claim falls within the scope of the insurer's duty to defend, but the appeals said it "makes little sense" to extend that concept beyond the insurance context.

But consultancy ODDS Legal found that general counsel based in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru still require assistance on complex matters such as compliance, privacy and ESG.

"The World's First Robot Lawyer" has announced the discontinuance of all "non-consumer legal rights products" effective immediately.

Legal tech layoffs often stay under the radar, but there is good reason for it—revealing a large staffing cut can cause a company a significant financial hit.

Michal Rosenn said she feels fortunate to have built "a world-class legal team that is deftly navigating the challenges and opportunities of today's tech environment."

Buyers of legal services are now a highly sophisticated and connected community. What the clients now not only want but insist on, is operational efficiency, effectiveness and transparency.

Absorbing and learning is one thing. Putting principles into practice for sustained periods of time is something else altogether.

"An employer can incur liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to accommodate an employee's disability," Judge Robert E. Bacharach wrote. "Under the Act, the employee must request a 'plausibly reasonable accommodation.'"

"Other circuits have wrestled with this problem, and they've all agreed is it's not a categorical bar. So we say it's not. Now the question is, do we give guidance. If you'd like guidance, we should have that discussion," said Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer.

Seattle University School of Law Dean Anthony Varona wrote in an email to students and faculty Monday that the school is conducting an internal probe into allegations of racism against a visiting professor that were made public by the university's student newspaper.

The insurance policy phrase "direct physical loss of or damage to" has been prominent in the news the past few years thanks to the spate of business interruption cases stemming from the pandemic, but one state high court recently had occasion to examine that policy language in a different context: cybersecurity.

U.S. Supreme Court reporter Marcia Coyle looks back at her 35 years of coverage here at The National Law Journal.