Business of Law

  • February 02, 2024

    Mass. Justices Affirm Time Limits In Trials, For Some Cases

    Massachusetts' highest court ruled Friday that trial judges may consider flexible time limits for the presentation of evidence and arguments, but only after what it characterized as an "informed analysis" of the specifics of the case, with input from the parties.

  • February 02, 2024

    Dechert Settles Mogul's UK Hacking Claim For Millions

    Dechert has agreed to pay £3 million ($3.8 million) to resolve claims that ex-partner Neil Gerrard orchestrated the hacking of Farhad Azima and misled the English courts, in a deal that the aviation tycoon estimates could be worth as much as $15 million with costs.

  • February 02, 2024

    Bipartisan Bill Would Add Judgeships In Colorado And Idaho

    A new bipartisan bill would add two additional district judgeships in Colorado and one in Idaho in an attempt to expedite cases in the growing states' increasingly burdened courts.

  • February 02, 2024

    Proskauer Strikes Deal Ending Secrets Suit With Ex-Exec

    A New York federal judge on Friday dismissed a suit Proskauer Rose LLP filed against its former chief operating officer accusing him of stealing firm trade secrets, after the parties told the court a confidential agreement was reached to resolve the case.

  • February 01, 2024

    Federal Courts See Uptick In Sexual Harassment Complaints

    Last year, there were six complaints of "unwanted, abusive or offensive sexual conduct" by federal judges, marking the most reported incidents since the judiciary began tracking harassment in the 2020 fiscal year.

  • February 01, 2024

    Ellenoff Opens LA Office With Ex-Krieger Employment Team

    Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP said on Thursday that it has opened a new labor and employment-focused office in Los Angeles following the addition of an employment attorney team that joined the firm from Krieger & Krieger.

  • February 01, 2024

    Goodwin Cuts Associates After Reviews Amid Bleak Market

    Goodwin Procter LLP has parted ways with some associates following its annual performance review process, the firm confirmed to Law360 on Thursday, amid a job market that has not been kind to the most junior lawyers.

  • February 01, 2024

    5 Mass. Rulings You Might Have Missed In January

    Massachusetts justices in Suffolk County's Business Litigation Session weighed in on the impact of a major ruling involving Robinhood Financial, a proposed class action on overdraft fees charged by a credit union, and two pandemic-related cases. Here are five January decisions that might have flown under the radar.

  • February 01, 2024

    Ex-Trump Org. CFO Faces Possible Perjury Charge, Mulls Plea

    Donald Trump's longtime top financial officer Allen Weisselberg is in plea negotiations related to potential perjury charges stemming from his testimony in the New York attorney general's civil fraud trial, according to a source familiar with the matter.

  • February 01, 2024

    Atty Obligations And Standing Orders: Judges Deliberate AI

    Legal practitioners must still follow key ethical obligations as generative technology is used in litigation and blunders related to ChatGPT capture headlines, a panel of judges said Wednesday at the ALM Legalweek Conference.

  • February 01, 2024

    Atty Reprises Entrapment Claim As Pot Bribe Sentence Looms

    A lawyer convicted of bribing a Massachusetts police chief working on local marijuana licensing approvals asked a Boston federal judge Thursday for a sentence of no more than a year and a day in prison, citing his "imperfect entrapment" defense and insisting that the conduct was permissible lobbying. 

  • February 01, 2024

    Girardi Son-In-Law Is Tom's Honest 'Antithesis,' Family Says

    Tom Girardi's adult children have said that his son-in-law and criminal co-defendant David Lira is kind, honest, and passionate about helping his clients — everything their father is not.

  • February 01, 2024

    Former Gov. Of Puerto Rico Joins Reed Smith From Steptoe

    Reed Smith LLP announced Thursday that it has hired two partners to its Washington, D.C., and New York offices, including a former governor of Puerto Rico.

  • February 01, 2024

    Kirkland Adds 5 Goodwin Investment Fund Attys In DC

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP said Thursday it is growing its investment funds group with the addition of five attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP.

  • February 01, 2024

    Senate Confirms Commerce Dept. Alumna To Trade Court

    The Senate voted 53-42 on Thursday to confirm Lisa Wang, assistant secretary of commerce for enforcement and compliance in the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, to serve on the U.S. Court of International Trade.

  • February 01, 2024

    NC Judge In John Edwards Case To Take Senior Status

    Chief Judge Catherine Eagles of the Middle District of North Carolina, who presided over the criminal trial of former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, will take senior status at the end of the year.

  • February 01, 2024

    Workday Says Md.-Based Atty Can't Allege Calif. Bias Claims

    Workday has urged a California federal judge to toss a Black company attorney's suit claiming the business discriminated against him and harassed him with a police wellness check at his home, arguing that the Maryland-based employee can't keep his Golden State law claims in play.

  • February 01, 2024

    How Attys Can Be Ethical When Using Gen AI In Litigation

    Current advances in generative AI have the potential to alter legal practice. Still, attorneys must follow ethical guidelines to minimize risk and ensure compliance when using this new technology in litigation, a panel of experts said Wednesday.

  • February 01, 2024

    Gibbons' Exec Chair Departs After Over 3 Decades With Firm

    Gibbons PC announced on Thursday that a longtime leader who shepherded the firm through a merger, expansions and a rebranding has departed after more than three decades with the firm, including the past 20 years in leadership posts.

  • February 01, 2024

    Ex-McElroy Deutsch Exec Wants Amex Info In NJ Firing Suit

    A former McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP executive accused along with her husband of stealing $3.2 million from the law firm has demanded financial information about firm employees in her discrimination countersuit, shortly after a similar discovery request in a suit where she is the defendant was tossed.

  • January 31, 2024

    When Managing Partners Watch, Trial Attys Face 2 Juries

    When top managing partners show up in court to sit in on trials, it can provoke angst for rank-and-file trial lawyers, but a recent example in an employment trial against Robert De Niro gave three name partners the rare treat of seeing their team in action.

  • January 31, 2024

    Ill. Voters Take Trump Ballot Challenge To State Court

    A group of Illinois voters took their fight to keep ex-President Donald Trump from the state's primary and general election ballots to court late Tuesday after the Illinois State Board of Elections dismissed their objection to his candidacy, arguing that the board's insistence that it can't engage in constitutional analysis "has no basis in law or logic."

  • January 31, 2024

    Widow Of Nelson Mullins Partner Says Firm Owes $2M

    The widow of a Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP partner who died last year of brain cancer says the firm has refused to pay an estimated $2 million in compensation and a bonus for his final year of work there, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in Massachusetts state court.

  • January 31, 2024

    American, UPenn Snag $10K In ABA's Inaugural M&A Tourney

    Students from American University's law school took first place at the finals of the American Bar Association's first-ever mergers and acquisitions invitational over the weekend, edging out a team of runners-up from the University of Pennsylvania, with the two schools earning a combined $10,000 in prize money.

  • January 31, 2024

    Ranking NJ Judge Cited Over Secretary's Remote Work

    New Jersey Superior Court Judge Douglas Hurd, the presiding jurist of the Mercer County Civil Division, was hit with a complaint by the judicial conduct watchdog for allowing his secretary to work remotely despite a policy prohibiting that arrangement for her position.

Expert Analysis

  • A Cautionary Tale On Diversity Jurisdiction From The 6th Circ.

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    The Sixth Circuit’s recent opinion in Akno 1010 Market St. v. Pourtaghi highlights the importance of properly establishing citizenship of all parties before filing a federal lawsuit under diversity jurisdiction rules, and shows how overlooking jurisdiction issues could undo years of litigation, say Lauren Snyder and Charles Loeser at Harris Wiltshire.

  • What Litigators Can Really Learn From Rambo

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    A Rambo litigator is a consistently overaggressive and dishonest attorney, but the John Rambo of "First Blood," which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, has several excellent qualities worth emulating in the legal profession, including professional competence, mental resilience and improvisational ability, says Christopher Van de Kieft at Gitlin Horn.

  • Attorneys Should Note Judges' Financial Conflicts Of Interest

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    The Federal Circuit's recent ruling vacating a $2.75 billion judgment in Centripetal Networks v. Cisco should be a wake-up call for lawyers that they and their clients could pay a heavy price if a judge with financial ties to a litigant fails to take appropriate action, says Deborah Winokur at Cozen O'Connor.

  • A Law Firm's Guide To Avoiding Client Conflicts

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    With the pace of law firm mergers accelerating, Mark Hinderks at Stinson reviews the conflict of interest rules that may derail a deal or cause a firm to lose a new or existing client, and how courts have filled in perceived gaps in the rules.

  • Understanding DC Circ.'s Agency Rule Withdrawal Debate

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    The D.C. Circuit's recent ruling that an agency must provide notice and an opportunity for comment when withdrawing a rule that has been filed for public inspection but not yet published in the Federal Register features a vigorous debate on the "point of no return" issue that has significant practical consequences whenever there is a change in administration, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

  • Considerations For Associates As Lateral Hiring Cools Down

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    Law firms are offering fewer signing bonuses and moving back to slower, more deliberate interview processes — a cue for associates to follow suit and consider the long-term advantages of a move instead of short-term financial gain, says Leeron Molloy at VOYlegal.

  • Justices' EPA Ruling Didn't Move Needle On Chevron Doctrine

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    Though some suggest the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in West Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency marked the end of a doctrine requiring judicial deference to federal regulators, the ruling merely articulated well-developed precedent on the limits of agency authority, say Dan Wolff and Eryn Howington at Crowell & Moring.

  • Ethics Lessons From The Alex Jones Discovery Debacle

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    The botched production of a cache of texts and emails prior to Alex Jones' defamation trial, and a failure to take corrective actions, should remind attorneys of the potential pitfalls of discovery, their professional responsibilities throughout the process, and the possibility of severe sanctions, say attorneys at Harris Wiltshire.

  • Combating Implicit Bias In Alternative Dispute Resolution

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    Alternative dispute resolution requires a high degree of trust and belief that proceedings will be fair, so confronting implicit associations among neutrals through systemic and personal efforts is even more important in the ADR world, say arbitrators and mediators at JAMS.

  • How The Metaverse Will Affect Business And Legal Processes

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    It is time to start thinking about virtual reality's effects on cybersecurity, business dealings, case strategy and more, as the metaverse takes shape and organizations open banks, host law firm offices and create retail strategies digitally, says Samantha Green at Epiq. 

  • Navigating Arbitral Subpoenas In A Post-COVID Landscape

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    Courts’ mixed enforcement during the pandemic of physical presence and territorial requirements for arbitral subpoenas shows that the rules were not built for a virtual world, making it critical for lawyers to understand the possible limitations on third-party evidence, say Emily Kirsch and Craig Tarasoff at Kirsch & Niehaus.

  • How Lawyers Can Set Ethical Boundaries Post-Pandemic

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    The COVID-19 pandemic and remote work have made it harder for lawyers to leave their problems at the office, so legal professionals must establish and adhere to ethical boundaries in order to combat increasing levels of stress and burnout, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.

  • A Lawyer's Guide To Collecting Fees From Nonpaying Clients

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    You've done the work and sent the bill, but haven't been paid. What do you do? Joshua Wurtzel at Schlam Stone offers recommendations on how lawyers — from solo practitioners to BigLaw partners — can avoid leaving significant receivables on the table from clients who have the ability to pay.

  • How Lawyers Can Benefit From TikTok Without Being 'Cringe'

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    TikTok should be on every attorney's radar as a digital branding opportunity, but it's important to understand the app and some best practices before diving in, says Cecillia Xie at Yale University.

  • Must Your Client Pay An Opponent's Expert For Prep Time?

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    For parties seeking discovery from an opponent's expert, the law on compensating the expert for preparation time is not settled, and in certain jurisdictions, there are strong arguments that favor avoiding or at least limiting such fee shifting, say Gregory Ruehlmann and Nicholas Mecsas-Faxon at King & Spalding.

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