Meet The Attys Arguing EB-5 Biz Damages Fight In Delaware

By Rose Krebs

Weir LLP and Prickett Jones & Elliott PA attorneys with experience handling corporate and shareholder disputes involving companies such as Insys Therapeutics and Tesla are set to bring before Delaware's justices next week a damages fight stemming from a case involving ownership interests in a venture focused on investment opportunities for foreign nationals.

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Offit Kurman Adds Gordon Rees' Delaware Office Leader

By Rose Krebs

Offit Kurman has added the former leader of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP's Delaware office to bolster its capacity to advise clients in various types of corporate disputes, including those involving poultry companies.

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Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

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Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

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Niche AI Legal Tools Gain Ground At Law Firms

By Steven Lerner

While general legal artificial intelligence assistants like Harvey and Legora dominate headlines, law firms are increasingly betting on practice-specific AI platforms designed for particular legal tasks.

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Del. Judge Recuses Herself From Apollo $570M Payout Suit

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware vice chancellor presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to Apollo Global Management Inc. insiders has disqualified herself from the case after a possible conflict of interest arose due to her former role as an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, which was involved in a merger with ties to the payout.

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Summer Lull Fades As BigLaw Partner Hiring Intensifies

By Aebra Coe

A lot has changed in BigLaw recruiting as firm leaders increasingly look strategically to partner hires to add revenue. For instance, the summer lull in hiring is gone, top recruiters say.

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Moving Jobs The Norm For Young Lawyers, Survey Finds

By Emma Cueto

Young lawyers continue to be very mobile, with roughly two-thirds of new graduates saying they have already held two or more jobs in a report released Tuesday by the National Association for Law Placement, which also found high levels of job satisfaction and large but decreasing amounts of law school debt.

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In-House Impressions

Painful Reality — When In-House Counsel Blow The Whistle

By Sue Reisinger

It is exceedingly rare when in-house counsel snitch on their own company. But when they do, in-house whistleblowers often suffer severe consequences.

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Law Firm AI Rollouts Depend On Buy-In, Not Bigger Budgets

Recent research demonstrates that the organizational qualities that make for a good associate experience, like strong leadership, are also strengths that prove critical to successful artificial intelligence implementation, say Cait Evans at Chambers and Partners, and Vivek Mohan and Meredith Williams-Range at Gibson Dunn.

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RFP Reset: Standardize Pricing Requests

To keep up with rising legal costs amid an industry overhaul fueled by artificial intelligence, legal departments can make outside counsel requests for proposal more defensible and cost-effective by making pricing requests uniform, requiring comparable fee templates and evaluating staffing assumptions, says Colin Levy at Malbek.

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Trump's EO Puts AI Agent Governance On GC Agenda

Section 4 of President Donald Trump's executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a federal baseline around AI agents, so general counsel cannot wait for enforcement to define the standard, says Camilo Artiga-Purcell at Kiteworks.

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