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CLOC Restructures Board, Expanding to 16 Members and Adding Legal Tech Vendors for First Time
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) today announced a major expansion and restructuring of its board of directors, expanding it from nine to 16 members, the largest increase in the organization’s 10-year history. In a significant policy shift for the...
Alexi Launches Comprehensive Workflow Library to Automate Transactional and Litigation Tasks
The legal AI platform Alexi has launched what it is calling the most comprehensive AI workflow library on the market, designed to help law firms move beyond risky AI experimentation toward reliable, scalable automation of legal work. The Toronto-based company...
Clio Completes Historic $1 Billion vLex Acquisition, Announces $500 Million Series G at $5 Billion Valuation, Plus Exclusive Interview with CEO and CFO
Legal technology company Clio has completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, marking the conclusion of the largest deal in legal tech history, and has simultaneously closed a $500 million Series G funding round, along with a $350 million debt facility, valuing the...
K2 Services Acquires Epiq’s Business Process Outsourcing Division in Strategic Realignment
Epiq announced today the sale of its Global Business Transformation Solutions (GBTS) division to K2 Services, a managed services provider. The transaction positions Epiq to concentrate more intensively on technology-enabled legal solutions while significantly...
Guest Post: Ken Crutchfield on What Business Robin AI — and Other Legal Tech Companies — Are Really In
What does McDonald’s real estate strategy have to do with legal tech? More than you might think, says Ken Crutchfield. In the wake of Robin AI’s recent struggles to secure funding and reports of potential emergency acquisition talks, Crutchfield draws a compelling...
Harbor Acquires Legal Tech Training Firm Encoretech in First Deal Since BayPine Investment
Harbor, the Chicago-based legal technology and consulting firm, continues its string of recent acquisitions with the addition of Encoretech, a specialized training and user adoption services company focused on the legal sector. The deal marks Harbor’s first...
Callidus Legal AI Rebrands as StrongSuit, Adds Automated Case Validation
Callidus Legal AI has rebranded to StrongSuit and launched a significantly upgraded legal research platform that includes automated case validation — what lawyers traditionally call “shepardizing” — marking the company’s evolution from a legal AI tool into what it...
Jury to Decide if Philips North America Harmed Small Company’s Reputation, Federal Judge Rules
Philips terminated a reseller agreement in 2019 without notice or reason, and its former business partner filed suit claiming the termination actually resulted from disputes over recertifying a Philips product as "airworthy." Philips terminated a reseller...
Lawyer Asks FL Jury for $1.5B in Opioid Damages Against Walgreens, Walmart, CVS
Closing arguments began Wednesday in a 51-day opioid trial brought by 15 hospitals in Florida. Closing arguments began Wednesday in a 51-day opioid trial brought by 15 hospitals in Florida.
Courts More Open to Company-Proposed Merger Fixes, Undermining Agency Challenges, Experts Say
On Monday, the Trump-era Federal Trade Commission lost its first antitrust lawsuit challenging private firm GTCR's $627 million acquisition of hydrophilic coatings producer Surmodics in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. On Monday,...
ABA Committee Floats Accreditation Standards Revisions Ahead of Council Meeting
The American Bar Association Standards Committee met Wednesday for a review of standards that will be evaluated by a not yet established advisory committee, which will be discussed during Friday's Council meeting. The American Bar Association Standards Committee...
Jury in First Boeing Max 8 Crash Trial Returns $28.45M Over Ethiopian Air Passenger’s Death
A federal jury in Chicago awarded the damages to Shikha Garg, who died in the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Air Flight 302, the second of two disasters involving Boeing's 737 Max 8 aircraft. A federal jury in Chicago awarded the damages to Shikha Garg, who died in the...
OCA Argues New York’s Equal Rights Act Isn’t Enforceable, Countering Judge’s Age Discrimination Lawsuit
A trio of trial court judges in their 70s sued New York's Office of Court Administration and the state government, arguing enactment of the Equal Rights Act was an implied repeal of an age cap on judges. The OCA argues the ERA cannot be enforced in court, drawing...
Paramount to Supreme Court: Bright Line Rule Needed for Records Demands
The court has been asked to address whether Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster correctly overruled Senior Magistrate Selena E. Molina's recommendation that the action be resolved in Paramount's favor, finding the shareholder that brought the demand had established a...
Downstate NY Federal Courts to Limit Friday Operations Because of Government Shutdown
Both the Southern and Eastern District of New York will largely suspend operations on Fridays due to the shutdown, per officials. The courts will remain open for emergency matters and hearings and deadlines set for Friday are not impacted. Both the Southern and...
Consumer Class Action Alleges Bank of America Payment Schedule Doesn’t Adjust Midcycle
Consumer Nicholas Sdoucos filed a class action complaint against Bank of America this week, alleging the bank fails to adjust scheduled automatic payments when customers pay their statement balance before the due date, resulting in duplicate charges. Consumer...
NordVPN Accused of Deceptive Subscription Practices in Class Action
The litigation against the company seems to be a growing trend, with similar suits accusing NordVPN of engaging in deceptive subscription renewal practices being filed across the country. The litigation against the company seems to be a growing trend, with...
‘Sabotaging’ a Settlement: Judge Sanctions Defendants $18K for Bad-Faith Practices
"Here, defendants took a decidedly puerile approach—they chose to irritate and annoy the other side, rather than to invite engagement. They also impaired their credibility with this court," wrote U.S. Magistrate Judge Young B. Kim of the Northern District of...
McDermott Considers Taking On Private Equity Investment
Chairman Ira Coleman acknowledged Wednesday that the firm is "fielding inbound interest," becoming the first Am Law 50 firm to publicly comment on the prospect of establishing a managed services organization. Chairman Ira Coleman acknowledged Wednesday that the...
Live from GCC East with Stefani Schwartz
Stefani Schwartz joins Legal Speak co-host Patrick Smith during the General Counsel Conference East in New York. Stefani Schwartz joins Legal Speak co-host Patrick Smith during the General Counsel Conference East in New York.
AccessLex Institute Partners With Southwestern Law for Admission Project
"We launched the Admission Innovation Project to support law schools that select students in ways that truly capture the important principles of holistic admission,” said Aaron N. Taylor, senior vice president and executive director of the AccessLex Center for Legal...
Exit of Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Highlights Talent Risks Facing All the Key Players
The number of researchers with the skills to build frontier AI models is estimated at fewer than 1,000 worldwide. Those in that elite group can negotiate compensation packages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The number of researchers with the skills to...
Phila. Struggled to Keep Up With Med Mal Backlog. Now It’s Leading Pa. in Case Clearance Rates
Here's how the judges overseeing Philadelphia's medical malpractice program sped up case timelines and what attorneys can expect from the program next year. Here's how the judges overseeing Philadelphia's medical malpractice program sped up case timelines and...
Call for Nominations: Southeastern Legal Awards 2026
Nominations are open until January 27 for Southeastern Legal Awards Nominations are open until January 27 for Southeastern Legal Awards
$4B Sex Abuse Settlement Scandal Spurs California State Bar Complaints
Lawyers behind a record $4 billion sex abuse settlement with Los Angeles County have brought in a second mediator to oversee potential fraud after an article in the Los Angeles Times last month revealed that recruiters paid cash to potential plaintiffs on behalf of...
NJ Electric Cable Manufacturer May Be Liable for $2.5M for Faulty Product, Judge Rules
U.S. District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins for the Northern District of Illinois declined to grant summary judgment on plaintiff American Wire's claims for breach of an indemnification clause against Wind Turbines and Energy Cables Corp. (WTEC), which had previously...
Bath & Body Works Seeks $74M in Overpaid Royalties, Lawsuit Says
According to the complaint, one of those air diffuser patents expired five years ago, but Bath & Body Works was still paying royalties. Now, it wants its $74 million back. According to the complaint, one of those air diffuser patents expired five years ago,...
Seven Ways Lawyers Can Reduce Clients’ Stress
We can't alleviate all the stressors felt by clients in the course of their legal matters, but there are ways stress can be reduced and effectively managed. The post Seven Ways Lawyers Can Reduce Clients’ Stress appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms...
Critical Mass With Law.com’s Amanda Bronstad: Capital One Settlement ‘Neither Reasonable Nor Adequate,’ First Lawsuit Filed Over UPS Crash
How I Made Office Managing Partner: ‘Invest in the People With Whom You Work,’ Says Carter Dugan of Norton Rose Fulbright
"Also, take the time to invest in the people with whom you work. Having strong working relationships leads not only to career longevity and a happier career, but also to having the support to be appointed or elected to leadership positions when those opportunities...
Morning Docket: 11.11.25
* Supreme Court to hear major mail- in ballot election case. What could possibly go wrong? [Law.com] * Donald Trump treats the Supreme Court like his personal fixers, again. Probably because that’s how they act… [Law360] * Major legal tech player Clio get $5 billion...
Funding For SDA’s Next Missile Tracking Contracts Diverted To Troop Payments: Sources
The post Funding For SDA’s Next Missile Tracking Contracts Diverted To Troop Payments: Sources appeared first on Above the Law.The post Funding For SDA’s Next Missile Tracking Contracts Diverted To Troop Payments: Sources appeared first on Above the Law.
The Office Strikes Back: More Top Law Firms Embrace A Four-Day Attendance Mandate
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The pendulum is absolutely swinging back toward the majority of partners’ and associates’ time being in person, in the office. — Rachel Nonaka, a Washington, D.C.-based recruiter at Macrae, in comments given to...
The Transgender Boogeyman
Those seeking to consolidate power often make it a sport to pick on a small group of people, claiming that the small group wields disproportionate power and is out to transform your children into something you don’t want (and probably don’t understand). In the 1950s,...
Mind The Gap: Why In-House Counsel Often Don’t See The Innovation They Want From Law Firms
Another week, another study demonstrating the gap between what in-house legal professionals want from their outside law firms and what they’re getting when it comes to innovation and technology. Despite all the AI talk, we aren’t there yet. This time, the study...
Kim Kardashian Failed Bar After Psychics PROMISED She’d Pass
When I took the bar exam, a friend of mine started drinking coffee brewed with caffeinated water. For his sake, that’s no longer the worst bar exam prep strategy out there. Apparently Kim Kardashian relied on a veritable coven. Kim Kardashian recently failed the bar —...
Former Judicial Clerks: Creating Legacies For Generations
Legacy Matters Among a president’s most enduring legacies are the federal judges they appoint—particularly Supreme Court justices. This permanence stems from life tenure, a constitutional provision that ensures judicial independence but also transforms each...
Does This Count As A ‘Meeting Of The Minds’ Problem? — See Also
Kim K’s Psychic Promised That She’d Pass The Bar: She better get a spiritual refund! First They Came For The Trans Students…: Universities set themselves up for the chopping block if they don’t protect their vulnerable. Who You Pick Matters: Judges replace themselves...
Jurisdiction: Major Insurers Avoid $25M Bond Claim in Indiana
"It is clear that simply having named an agent for service of process pursuant to the Admittance Statute does not constitute consent to personal jurisdiction," the high court held. "It is clear that simply having named an agent for service of process pursuant to...
Judge Orders Additional Discovery Disclosures in Walgreens Prescription Class Action
A Chicago federal judge said Prime Therapeutics' confidentiality and disclosure concerns could not prevent discovery from moving forward in a lawsuit over Walgreen Co.'s Prescription Savings Club. A Chicago federal judge said Prime Therapeutics' confidentiality...
‘Short and Distort’: AI Company Defamation Claim Alleges Bad Review Caused Stocks to Drop
According to the plaintiff, Datavault AI, all it took was a bad review and a barrage of negative social media posts from the financial research and due diligence firm, Wolfpack Research, to put the company's reputation in a tailspin. According to the plaintiff,...
Trump Asks Supreme Court to Throw Out E. Jean Carroll Verdict
The president has had mixed success in challenging his legal travails at the Supreme Court. The president has had mixed success in challenging his legal travails at the Supreme Court.
Law Firm EO Cases Remain on Pause Amid Government Shutdown
Despite the appeals cases being on hold for over a month, the federal government has tapped a new attorney to argue on its behalf, with Deputy Associate Attorney General Abhishek Kambli entering a notice of appearance. Despite the appeals cases being on hold for...
A Judge Who’s Seen It All Shares the Ways She Sees GCs Bungle Cases
"Inconsistent messaging is one of the biggest pitfalls,” Judge Paula Patrick of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas said during her keynote at General Counsel Conference East on Tuesday. "Internal documents, witnesses and experts might all be saying different...
How to Create a Law Firm Annual Plan that Doesn’t Die in a Drawer
Karen and David Skinner's reality-proofed, six-step approach to annual law firm planning. The key to success: Make goals simple, achievable — and visible. The post How to Create a Law Firm Annual Plan that Doesn’t Die in a Drawer appeared first on Articles, Tips and...
Federal Judge Points to CFTC, Congress on Regulation of Event Contracts in Tribal Ruling
"This was a very significant win for Kalshi and the predictions market space more generally," said Renato Mariotti, a partner at Paul Hastings who closely follows prediction markets and is not involved in the case. "This was a very significant win for Kalshi and...
Cracker Barrel Urged by Shareholder Advisory Groups to Oust Director Tied to Rebranding Debacle
"The logo fiasco may be a single incident, but in the public eye it has come to define the company," Institutional Shareholder Services said in a note to clients. "The logo fiasco may be a single incident, but in the public eye it has come to define the...
Abusing the Captive Framework: How Estate Planning Schemes Continue to Threaten the Industry
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Alex Grishman joins Legal Speak co-host Patrick Smith during the General Counsel Conference East in New York. Alex Grishman joins Legal Speak co-host Patrick Smith during the General Counsel Conference East in New York.










































