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The firm's results last week show why clients keep hiring them.

As with law firms, many alternative dispute resolution organizations had to transition to fully remote operations to comply with shelter-in-place orders virtually overnight. And some experts predict that these changes could outlast the crisis.

Judge Laura Taylor Swain rules that when three tattoo artists drew on the arms of LeBron James, Kenyon Martin and Eric Bledsoe, they knew the art was going to be displayed in media, including video games.

Daniel Blouin, who spent nearly three decades at Seyfarth, shared what it's like to start at a new firm during a pandemic.

Kazuo Okada claims an arbitration panel that found he owes millions to Bartlit Beck ignored his medical reasons for not traveling to a U.S. hearing.

Honorable mention goes to litigators from Gibson Dunn; Greenberg Traurig; Cravath; Latham & Watkins; Jenner & Block; Kaplan Hecker and Kirkland & Ellis.

"The potential number of companies or recipients is vast, to put it mildly, which makes certain things more important and certain things very different," Jenner' & Block's Neil Barofsky, former special inspector general under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, says. "It's going to be...

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As class actions over COVID-19 already hit court dockets, lawyers expect to see more lawsuits over price gouging and health claims.

"A moment I will never forget is when I first met the chairman of RCBC in Manila,"said Sidley's Tai-Heng Cheng. "She ordered lunch for me and then looked me in the eye, and said, 'You better win this.' I'm glad we didn't let her down."

"There have been mild improvements in his oxygen and his breathing, but he remains intubated and we are still very far from out of the woods," said Zachary Baron Shemtob, Lat's husband, in an interview Thursday.

"It's a great handicap, it's major, and I don't like it," said real estate lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey. "We have been filing, but the only things we're filing are affidavits of service and orders to show cause when we have emergencies."

Attorneys have unanimously said judges have been very accommodating about continuing cases, or handling them through videoconferencing.

"Disruption of the routine, combined with the enormous stresses of this crisis, is a recipe for disaster for those with addictions," Judge Tain Kell said. "We knew we owed it to our participants to find a way to continue their treatments and fulfill our responsibilities, and to do it quickly."

Lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher have once again called Keller Lenkner's motives and credibility into question as the plaintiffs firm seeks to force the company to arbitrate claims for 10,356 Postmates couriers. Keller Lenkner's Travis Lenkner in an email said that Postmates' complaint is...

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Bruce Zirinsky, the former co-chair of Greenberg's restructuring practice, is best known for his work on blockbuster airline restructurings and has been solo since 2015.

'If left undisturbed, the district court's rules will hamper the ability of attorneys, auditors, and other professional advisors to provide effective counsel to a wide range of American businesses,' warned the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of Corporate Counsel.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday charged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and 14 current and former officials with money laundering and other charges in an alleged narco-terrorism conspiracy to "flood" the United States with cocaine.

"Default is the only appropriate remedy here," ITC Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot concluded after reviewing SK Innovation's spoliation of evidence in a trade secrets action.

The agencies are still enforcing antitrust laws, Morrison & Foerster partner David Meyer said. He added, "I think each situation still needs to be evaluated by counsel. These are good tools to use, but they are not a blank check."

Most proceedings at the D.C. trial court have been postponed due to the pandemic. But attorneys for one criminal defendant urged he be resentenced quickly, as it could allow him to be quickly released from federal prison.