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Apr 8, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Adolfo Pesquera |Abigail Adcox |Jessie Yount |Justin Henry
U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman of the Northern District of Texas entered an order Monday reopening the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawsuit against the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Pittman was forced to take back a case he tried send to the District Court for the District of Columbia, because over the weekend a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, with one judge dissenting, held Pittman lacked jurisdiction to transfer the case.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Marianna Wharry |Donovan Swift |Jessie Yount |Amanda O'Brien
With double-digit dips in gross revenue, net income and profits per partner, Lowenstein Sandler’s 2023 financials took a hit after an unrepeated contingency fee windfall supercharged its 2022 results. Want to continue reading?
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Marianna Wharry |Jessie Yount |Ross Todd |Andrew Maloney
A group of 185 Chinese investors are suing Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and an investor client for allegedly failing to protect $92.5 million of invested capital in a $2.5 billion redevelopment project in Century City, Los Angeles, according to a complaint filed this month in California federal court.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | David Thomas |Jessie Yount |Patrick Smith |Amanda O'Brien
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders veteran Marion Hack is joining Cozen O’Connor’s Los Angeles office as a shareholder, accompanied by a team of five construction litigators. Hack, who served as a partner at Pepper Hamilton beginning in 2016 before the legacy firm’s merger with Troutman Sanders, will act as co-chair for the Los Angeles construction practice.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Hugo Guzman |Jessie Yount |Charles Toutant |Patrick Smith
Trial attorneys in New Jersey are unhappy with a new court directive that forbids payment of referral fees to out-of-state lawyers. Some trial lawyers think the ethics opinion will do a disservice to clients by pairing them with out-of-state lawyers with limited knowledge of New Jersey courts, rather than allowing them to hire seasoned New Jersey lawyers. Want to continue reading?
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Dan Packel |Alexander Lugo |Amy Guthrie |Jessie Yount
Baker McKenzie and its Brazilian arm, Trench, Rossi and Watanabe Advogados, are leading the United States’ National Football League (NFL) in its first-ever regular season games to be played in Spain and South America. The teams of Spanish and Brazilian lawyers made a joint pitch to the NFL to advise on the league’s debuts in Madrid and São Paulo, and successfully secured what is a new client for the firm, Madrid-based partner David Díaz told Law.com International.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Jessie Yount |Andrew Maloney |Cassandre Coyer |Colleen Murphy
Fennemore Craig, a fast-growing, Arizona-based Am Law 200 firm, announced that its third merger of 2024 will combine the firm with Wagner Kirkman Blaine Klomparens & Youmans, a Sacramento tax-driven practice. Fennemore’s growth-through-merger strategy is emblematic of an active mergers and acquisitions market in the legal industry.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Stephanie Wilkins |Jessie Yount |Cedra Mayfield |Isha Marathe
Legalweek 2024 brought with it a unique set of panels and education and insights as it marked a novel moment in the industry—some time past a global pandemic, and in the throes of an artificial intelligence revolution unlike that which legal tech has ever seen.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Maria Dinzeo |Chris O'Malley |Jessie Yount |Greg Andrews
Dominant tech firms have the advantage when it comes to the data, chips and cloud computing infrastructure necessary to compete on the AI playing field. But antitrust authorities are determined to level it. Speaking at a summit hosted by the Federal Trade Commission’s technology office Thursday, chair Lina Khan framed the fight for fair competition in artificial intelligence as an existential one, pitting the biggest tech companies against the regulators holding them at bay.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda O'Brien |Abigail Adcox |Thomas Spigolon |Jessie Yount |Brenda Sapino Jeffreys
Phelps Dunbar, the New Orleans-based firm that has focused on establishing itself as a regional firm in the south and mid-south, will further build on that strategy by expanding into Tennessee by combining with Farris Bobango, a 28-lawyer firm with offices in Memphis and Nashville. Phelps managing partner Marshall Redmon said the Am Law 200 firm has long had Tennessee in its sights.
