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business of law

 

Sidley Continues Lateral Hiring Tear, Amid 2025 Financial Growth

 

Hall Booth Smith Sees Demand in Health Care, Litigation as It Promotes 12 to Partner

 

Law Firms Allocate More Shares, Equity to Some Partners in Efforts to Retain Top Talent

Litigation

 

Federal Judges Nix Trump Administration Appointment for U.S. Attorney in Upstate New York

 

‘How Many Gajillion Expert Witnesses?’: Tornado Cash Crypto Laundering Case Set to Kick Off

 

Warned for Years: Federal Court Consolidates Surging Data Breach Class Actions Against Aflac

Corporate

 

DOJ: Media Coordination to Combat Misinformation Could Violate Antitrust Law

 

UFC Hires Legal Chief Who Could Hold His Own in the Ring

 

GC of Aerospace-Parts Supplier to Receive Severance After Abruptly Exiting

Legal Technology

 

Law Firms, Legal Tech Providers Embrace Agentic AI At Record Pace

 

Legaltech Rundown: Relativity Launches Gen AI Products in Asian Markets, Robin Launches New Contract Platform, and More

 

Prenup Agreement Startup HelloPrenup Announces Investment From the LegalTech Fund

US

 

Judge Orders Sanctioned CFTC to Pay Up $3.1M to Big Law Counsel

 

Judge Rejects Defendants' Renewed Bid to Transfer Chocolate Factory Explosion Suits Out of Philadelphia

 

Judge Rules Don Lemon's Case Against Elon Musk May Proceed to Trial in San Francisco

WORLD

 

Taylor Wessing Munich Losing Two Partners and Life Sciences Team to Heuking

 

Big Law’s Biggest Team Raids So Far in 2025

 

Denmark Tackles Deepfakes With Unique Strategy, Treating Personal Identities as Copyrighted Creations

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Reed Smith Welcomes Two New Senior Management Team Leaders

Cindy Schmitt Minniti and Perry Napolitano are the two newest members of Reed Smith's management team. Schmitt Minniti has been with the firm for 20-plus years, while Napolitano's career with Reed Smith dates back more than three decades. Read More

 

Pa. Joins Growing Number of States Adopting NextGen Bar Exam

Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Alabama are the most recent states to adopt the NextGen bar exam, beginning in July 2028. Read More

 

K&L Gates Names New US Regional Managing Partner

David Wochner, a 12-year-veteran of K&L Gates, will head up U.S. operations at a time of strategic growth and enthusiasm for the global law firm. He succeeds Thomas Smith in the role. Read More

 

'VIP Products v. Jack Daniel's': A Look at the Legal Landscape for Parodies Sold as Commercial Products

The most recent decision of the trial court in the VIP Products v. Jack Daniel's saga holds that VIP's product is a successful parody yet is still vulnerable to a dilution by tarnishment claim, seemingly landing on the fence. Had Jack Daniel's... Read More

 

Rationalizing Discrimination: How 'U.S. v. Skrmetti' Endangers Trans Youth—and Rewrites the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

In choosing to review SB 1 under the Constitution's least demanding test—rational-basis review—rather than the heightened scrutiny the court applied to LGBTQ-related claims in Bostock v. Clayton County five years earlier, the majority... Read More

 

The Forgotten Need for Welfare Plan Documents

Many employers do not realize that welfare plans also require written plan documents and are shocked when they learn that their welfare benefit plans are not in compliance with the Internal Revenue Code and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)... Read More

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