The city of Chicago is set to pay $22 million to the family of a 25-year-old man who died after a teenager fleeing police crashed into his car as an officer pursued the vehicle against city policy, the family's attorneys announced Wednesday.
The city of Chicago is set to pay $22 million to the family of a 25-year-old man who died after a teenager fleeing police crashed into his car as an officer pursued the vehicle against city policy, the family's attorneys announced Wednesday.
The federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to hold that federal law unequivocally shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims, throwing its support behind broker and logistics giant C.H. Robinson in a closely watched case.
The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.
A class of truck delivery drivers asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to grant preliminary approval to a $975,000 settlement resolving their lawsuit alleging a logistics company they worked for misclassified them as independent contractors.
A BP unit facing a proposed class action over oil refinery fumes urged a Washington federal judge to flush the suit, arguing that the plaintiffs' proposed class definition is flawed because individual residents would be affected differently based on wind direction, distance from the facility and other factors.
An Ohio company that claims it helped cannabis giant Cresco Labs LLC build its medical and retail marijuana operations in the Buckeye State alleges in a new federal lawsuit that the company bilked it out of promised fees when it expanded its business into adult-use cannabis.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has announced it has engaged an attorney from Kirkland & Ellis LLP to join the firm as a partner based in its Chicago office, where it anticipates he will make a successful contribution to a growing corporate restructuring platform.
As higher education institutions face new litigation risk on antitrust grounds, practitioners should familiarize themselves with the types of recent claims that have alleged competitive harm in the higher education space, and expect some combination of other, traditional antitrust tenets to surface as well, says Kendrick Peterson at Baker McKenzie.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
A former Baker McKenzie associate who was sued for defamation over a series of social media posts accusing the firm's Washington, D.C., managing partner of sexual assault has brought her own lawsuit, marking the first time she publicly detailed her allegations in court records.
Shortly after former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first public congressional testimony on the Trump cases, in which he warned the rule of law should not be taken for granted, President Donald Trump said he should be prosecuted.
The American Bar Association said attorneys have a limited responsibility to convey information to former clients or successor counsel that was not within the client's file, when doing so is necessary to protect a client's interests and reasonably practicable, according to a new ethics opinion.
Pennsylvania's highest court has adopted a balancing test for restricting a sitting judge's free speech outside the context of an election and, in doing so, affirmed the suspension of a state court judge who it said damaged the court's appearance of impartiality by making political posts on social media.
