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"The whole idea of firing the firms or hitting them with a punitive measure like that undermines what we're trying to achieve together, honestly. Can I give you specifics about why I think that? No. It's just sort of a gut feel," BASF legal chief Matt Lepore said.

"It is my mission to ensure that inclusive design and the needs of the disability community are at the forefront of all decision-making," said Edward Friedman, a 1L at Yale Law School with cerebral palsy.

When deciding whether to apply for patent protection on an innovation or whether to keep the innovation confidential as a company trade secret, there are many considerations that a business must take into account stemming from the different characteristics of each.

Partner concerns around merging profit pools include possible de-equitisation of partners in the non-U.S. arm.

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The case revolves around a federal law that says workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce can sidestep arbitration and instead use the courts. The question is how broadly to define that group.

As regulators and litigators hem in their legal theories against cryptocurrency marketplaces and exchanges, attorneys can get a better picture of the potential risk for clients dealing in NFTs.

San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju said that at the end of last year there were 475 people with cases past their statutory last day for trial, including 207 people in custody,

Amy Keller, of DiCello Levitt Gutzler, said an "intellectually curious" judge and Marriott's "aggressive" litigation strategy contributed to a May 3 ruling that certified subclasses of plaintiffs suing over its 2018 data breach.

Michael Sussmann is set to face a jury over allegations that he lied to the FBI during a meeting about Trump-Russia allegations in 2016.

The students sought to recover the costs of services and activities for the spring 2020 academic semester and alleged that they lost the benefits of those services and activities on account of Liberty's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Isha Kamara filed a complaint against her employer, the University of Maryland, but missed the 90-day window to serve process. The district court found "no reasoned basis" to extend the deadline, despite Kamara's argument that service was impeded by the pandemic-related shutdown of the university campus.

Law firms are taking advantage of favorable market conditions and making longer-term commitments amid an apparent shift toward "densification."

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has declined to rehear a case over what constitutes a "controlled substance" for sentencing purposes, but one judge dissented, arguing that the court was passing up an opportunity to settle an issue "with far-reaching implications in our circuit and nationally."

U.S. District Judge John Lee in May 2020 upheld Governor J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order that limited religious gatherings to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

News organizations were frustrated when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court implemented its electronic case filing system, making some civil case filings inaccessible for more than 90 days due to the new rules.

"I chose paths after exploring options and based on my gut of what felt 'right,' which was often driven by the people I would be working with."

The Fourth Circuit dismissed an investor's lawsuit against a hotel chain that had been subject to a data breach, ruling that the company had not made false or misleading public statements about its protection of customer data, its privacy practices, or its cybersecurity risks.

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Some lawyers are concerned that policies will discriminate against women, though one female partner quipped if she worked from home all of the time, it would give her male colleagues "a chance to crawl out from under my shadow!"