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"In a market with significant price compression, real regulatory costs, real taxation costs and the high cost of capital, the business failures we're seeing were inevitable," said Dykema partner R. Lance Boldrey.

The judges of the Eighth Circuit courts will host a judicial conference from July 11 to 14 at the Radisson Blu Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota,

"The thousands of talc claims asserted against our company are premised on 'junk science' fabricated by so-called 'experts,'" a Johnson & Johnson vice president said.

Fenwick & West is the third tech-focused law firm to defer its incoming class.

'This case really shows that trend, that lawyers can make a difference through aggressively handling declined litigation,' Kang Haggerty's Kandis Kovalsky said.

A Massachusetts federal judge awarded Benchmark Technologies $835,002 in attorney fees and $105,104 in costs in a trade secret misappropriation case, slashing the requested $1.7 million in attorney fees by 50%.

An extra week has been added to the nominations period to make room for late entries.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday found that U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers violated the due process rights of Dechert partners Kimberly Branscome and Jay Bhimani when she imposed sanctions in 2021.

"Is the security being offered designed to protect or being designed to aggrandize? That is an important distinction," corporate governance expert Charles Elson said.

Law.com recently interviewed Alex Geisler, London-based litigation partner with Duane Morris and creator of Lean Adviser—a structured program that helps lawyers efficiently and consistently deliver high value to clients resulting in repeat business and long-term profitable relationships for all parties—to discuss how Lean Adviser could supplement traditional legal education.

"The trial court was required to determine defendant's mental state for the value of the stolen property; thus, the trial court erred in declining to instruct itself as requested by defendant," said Judge Tookey.

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"We respect the Court's ruling. It is a very difficult decision to make in the heat of a trial after defense counsel violates motions in limine. Our client waited over 10 years, including a prior trial and appeal, only to have that happen. Unfortunately, between a rock and hard place is no place to be," said the plaintiff's attorney, Christopher J. Finney of Finney Injury Law in St. Louis.

It is the Big Four firm's latest hire of a person with significant private practice experience.

Mediation of employment disputes is not an exact science, there is no magic formula, and to paraphrase the song from the Broadway show Hamilton, no one

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Law firms have invested in competitive compensation packages for business managers, one of many indicators of raising the profile of nontimekeeping staff in the legal industry.

Unanimous decision could make a novel stock offering known as a "direct listing" even more enticing for tech companies.

A parents' lawsuit against social media giants Meta Platforms and Snap Inc. was remanded to Connecticut Superior Court last week after the companies

"You don't expect to go into a store and find something similar to heroin between energy drinks and breath mints," said Georgia attorney Matt Wetherington of the Wetherington Law Firm.