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Future partners will be identified, developed, and elected from the associate ranks, so they truly represent the future of the firm. Reducing the number of associates from which to choose future partners is a risky undertaking.

At one point during trial, the judge said to the prosecutor, "I practiced law for 20 years and been on the bench for 12. I have never as a lawyer or a judge allowed someone to be tried in prison garb," according to the appellate decision.

The Wall Street beasts are stirring in London after 50 years of relative dormancy—but is the fanfare warranted, asks the London Lawyer Briefing.

The Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations, the Third Circuit Bar Association, the Department of Justice and the Pennsylvania ACLU were among the organizations to submit public comment to the court objecting to the change.

A combination with Hogan Lovells would have helped Shearman & Sterling return to where it stood among the largest firms in the world over two decades ago. But was that the only reason it made sense?

One lawyer compared the hospital suits to data breach litigation, where "courts have been all over the place" about what compensation to award to claimants.

Oklahoma voters overwhelming rejected a measure to legalize adult-use marijuana. The election results may spell trouble for legalization efforts in other red states, an industry lawyer says.

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Lawyers expect a wave of demand for advice from companies that need to strengthen their internal safeguards in order to avoid fines and restrictions on handling personal information

Co-founded by LegalZoom's Brian Liu, Overture Law looks to leverage an invite-only membership together with billing and collection automation technology to empower attorneys to ethically share fees with one another.

"When you see a judgment like this one for $131 million, that's really meaningful and in some respects, it is as powerful or nearly as powerful as criminal prosecution," said Jason Mehta, a partner at Foley & Lardner and an expert not involved in the matter.

The firm's move, expanding in Chicago, is the latest sign that some Am Law 200 firms are keeping up growth partly through combinations this year.

U.S. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, made the statement as the committee, which he chairs , voted out only a single judge during the 30 minute hearing despite nearly a dozen scheduled for their first vote in the confirmation process.

In a suit filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit recently affirmed a district court's reliance on the relatively obscure "effective vindication exception," first announced a decade ago by the U.S. Supreme Court, as the basis to refuse to enforce an arbitration provision in a defined contribution retirement plan.

The release of Viet Dinh's deposition on Tuesday and a court filing by Dominion on Wednesday are throwing scrutiny on Viet Dinh, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former assistant attorney general who's been the media giant's legal chief since 2018.

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"In any event, it was the role of the jury to determine whether to award prejudgment interest," Judge Paul Niemeyer wrote for the panel.

"DoNotPay is merely a website with a repository of—unfortunately, substandard—legal documents that at best fills in a legal adlib based on information input by customers," the complaint says.

U.S. District Judge Benita Pearson, who sits in Youngstown, Ohio, is now overseeing 18 lawsuits filed against Norfolk Southern over its Feb. 3 derailment.

The Eighth Circuit has affirmed the grant of a permanent injunction against the enforcement of South Dakota's one-year filing deadlines for submitting petitions to initiate state statutes and to amend the state's constitution, holding that both statutory deadlines violate the First Amendment.