Girardi, 85, faces up to 80 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors. But one former federal prosecutor said the sentencing guidelines put him in the range of nine to 14 years.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent...

The president picked Elizabeth C. Coombe, the first assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York since 2018, for a seat on the federal district court there located in Syracuse.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not...

Several of the parties' attorneys met behind closed doors for hours while engaged in settlement talks in acting state Supreme Court Justice Roger D. McDonough's chambers in the Albany trial court.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was...

"The validity of the rule is likely to come before the Third, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, and the possibility of circuit conflict also means that the issue could potentially receive Supreme Court review," according to an analysis from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher...

The $140 million lawsuit accuses Chinese Construction Bank Corp. and related entities of issuing the "lion's share" of phony letters of credit that facilitated Vesttoo's alleged multibillion-dollar fraud.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will...

"The risk has been in the back of people's minds, but it has not been the same type of issue as creating a cryptocurrency," said Cameron Pick, a partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun.       The chief executive officer of the largest nonfungible token marketplace...

In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the Lanham Act's provision that prohibits the registration of trademarks consisting of or comprising the name of a particular living individual without the individual's...

"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.       Premium...

Burns Charest is leading a legal team suing CrowdStrike for Delta Air Lines passengers who had to spend funds to cope with the disruption of their travel plans caused by the July global computer outage.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive...

"When we first saw AFAs hit the market, it was totally client-driven. With this new shift, it could be law firm-driven, because their profitability is at stake," said Barnes & Thornburg's Cassie Vertovec, one of the authors of the study.       A new survey found...

The suits cite the holding from Jarkesy that the Seventh Amendment requires the SEC to bring civil penalty proceedings for security fraud in federal court, where the defendant is entitled to a jury, rather than do so in an in-house administrative...

Cannon, in dismissing the case, found Smith wasn't put on the case in accordance with the Appointments Clause.       Special counsel Jack Smith urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit to revive the classified documents case against Donald Trump,...

The nine justices are set to consider the legality of a Tennessee law preventing doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria in trans youth.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access...

       Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.This week: Tom Girardi, founder of Girardi Keese, was convicted of four counts of wire fraud on Tuesday. Johnson & Johnson claims a group of...

"At the end of the day, my priority needs to be making sure that this court's contempt power is wielded when it ought to be wielded," said Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn said.       Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn ruled at an Aug. 27 hearing not to hold the entity that owns...

Nordea, which has had a branch in New York City for decades, said it has since fortified those efforts, while its former processes, policies and controls involved a shuttered brank in Denmark and Nordea's former operations in the Baltics.       Hi there.The email you...

Take a look at the ongoing coverage from across the Law.com Newsroom on the potential impact of November's election.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from...

They won't get paid. It's going to be extremely time-consuming. There is no prior counsel to review their work. And they'll spend months drafting briefs and preparing for an argument where the best case scenario is achieving a victory on behalf of a client that does...

The firm stands accused of failing to flag a conflict of interest and safeguard confidential client information.       Holland & Knight is being sued in Pennsylvania state court by a client for failing to flag a conflict of interest and safeguard confidential...

LinkedIn IP head Renee Brown said she wants emails from outside counsel that tell her what she needs to know in no more than two paragraphs. "I can't get into the weeds—I just don't have that kind of time," she said.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link...

A federal jury in Los Angeles deliberated for less than five hours before issuing their verdict at about 11:30 a.m.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from...

Murphy held that "compelling arbitration in the present action could impair the PHRC's interest in investigating future charges of discrimination filed by individuals who are subject to an arbitration clause."       An attempt from Uber to evade an employment...

O'Carroll, who formerly worked in a legal-ops role at Google and at CLM provider Ironclad, believes that law firms are at an inflection point when it comes to meeting the business needs of their clients.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will...

The hire is part of the firm's plan to expand on the East Coast and in New York.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party who is not using FeedBlitz to send their emails...

"Consumers are caught in a maze of 'What do I do?' Nobody has good answers and even the realtors themselves have no clue what's going on," said University of Buffalo School of Law professor Tanya Monestier.       As new rules went into effect this month following a...

With the threat landscape changing quickly, security awareness training should include more than just a click-through video. There needs to be a focus from leadership on protecting firm assets and a near constant diligence on ensuring users know and understand the...

"At the end of the day," prosecutor Scott Paetty told jurors on Monday, "this trial is a simple and sad story of betrayal of trust and greed."       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an...

Attorneys from more than a dozen Big Law firms are involved in the planning and hosting of upcoming fundraisers for Harris.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party who...

Generation Z is tech-savvy, purpose-driven, and demanding a new leadership style. Are law firms ready?       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party who is not using FeedBlitz...

An 11-0 determination by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct said the alleged transgressions of a Herkimer County town justice "render him unfit for judicial office."       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by...

"Now virtually every case that goes to trial, there is information relevant to that case available in seconds at [jurors'] fingertips, and the only thing preventing them from searching is the judge's instructions and admonitions," John Gismondi said.       Hi...

"It's the same as blaming a car manufacturer, some giant auto concern, for the fact that its cars are used for criminal purposes, or blaming them for an accident," Dmitry Agranovsky told Russian media about his client's arrest.       Hi there.The email you just...

The growth in "rack" billing rates remains the "primary contributor" to revenue growth and "was considerably higher for the Am Law 1-50 (10%) than for the other tiers, said Wells Fargo in its first-half report.       Evidence of a historically strong year for the...

The door has been left open to an amended complaint and defense lawyers from Nixon Peabody say they are contemplating a motion seeking sanctions.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand...

Nickolas Bogdanovich's move comes less than five months after Cleary M&A partner James "Jim" Langston decamped for Paul Weiss.       Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has added another M&A partner from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, this time...

"It is not realistic to think that you will do great work, and someone will notice and promote you; you have to make your goals be known."       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown...

This article explores the importance of client retention, strategies to nurture client relationships, and how to leverage those relationships for business development.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It...

Executive search giant Russell Reynolds Associates has issued reports in recent months describing the key challenges professional sports leagues must navigate in the coming years, and laying out what skillsets general counsel must possess to thrive in their...

Management committee chair Yvette Ostolaza said Sidley has seen 869 attorneys pass through its Built to Lead development program so far and that the internal reviews were "extremely positive."       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not...

Several Am Law 200 law firms with roots in Kansas City are quickly attracting talent and clients across the U.S.       Am Law 200 law firms have been on a growth spree this year. But a handful of law firms from the same state have taken expansion to another level,...

Dig into must-see data from the Law.com Newsroom.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party who is not using FeedBlitz to send their emails or manage their RSS feeds....

Tom Girardi, 85, was charged on Feb. 1 with stealing at least $18 million from clients of his Los Angeles law firm, Girardi Keese, over the past decade. Others have been indicted. Here, we compiled the reporting in one place.       Hi there.The email you just opened,...

Lawyers associated with firms such as Covington, Perkins Coie, Wilmer, Jenner & Block and Munger Tolles have all landed roles in her campaign.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an...

Bas Boris Visser, the firm's global head of innovation, had served as Amsterdam managing partner twice over the course of his long career at the U.K. firm. The announcement of his death came just days after Clifford Chance lost another partner, Christopher Morvillo,...

The 110-page document contends that RealPage, which is based in Richardson, Texas, and is owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, violated Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and "has built a business out of frustrating the natural forces of competition." Counsel...

Former CVS executive Adam Korn allegedly divulged confidential information about the company's reimbursement practices to support a suit filed by the Chickasaw Nation.       CVS Pharmacy has filed a trade secrets complaint against a former executive who allegedly...

Attorneys with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher recently filed a patent infringement lawsuit in a Massachusetts federal court on behalf of SharkNinja, which seeks a declaration of noninfringement for five vacuum cleaner patents...

"While that behavior does not violate the civil rules, it does affront the goals and values of the civil-justice process," a concurring justice wrote.       The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed that a medical malpractice lawsuit should be dismissed for failure to...

"Viewed as a whole, the District's allegations about Amazon's market share and maintenance of its market power through the challenged agreements plausibly suggest that Amazon either already possesses monopoly power over online marketplaces or is close to a 'dangerous...

U.S. District Judge John Sinatra Jr. wrote that "falsity alone may not suffice to bring the speech outside the First Amendment," and said the state conceded that no one had experienced actual harm.       A western New York judge has authorized two anti-abortion...

Catch up on this week's data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including a shake-up on the 2024 General Counsel Compensation Report.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an...

According to the medical examiner, the attorney's death was ruled a homicide, the result of multiple gunshot wounds.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from...

The Wacks Law Group of Whippany discovered suspicious activity on its network on March 9. A short time later, a ransomware group called Qilin claimed responsibility for the breach, according to the suit.       A New Jersey law firm that was the target of a data breach...

The county's main argument was that the state constitution requires every court of appeals district is limited to a subdivision of the state's territory.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent...

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, contends that Invoca covertly intercepts and eavesdrops on these phone conversations, thereby violating California's "wiretapping" laws.       Artificial intelligence-fueled...

"We could not be more pleased for the client to be part of this amazing trial team," Maynard Nexsen shareholder Susan McWilliams said in a statement. "Securing this win was a gratifying end to a long and arduous litigation."       Hi there.The email you just opened,...