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Jonathan Morris, Morgan Lewis New York Transactional Leader, Dies at 50
“He was a soft-spoken guy, but when he spoke, people stopped to listen. What he said was always worth hearing,” said Morgan Lewis chair Jami McKeon.
Brooklyn Judge, Amid Campaign Aimed at Ousting Him, Opts for Retirement
The group took credit for pushing Del Guidice into retirement, although it could not be independently confirmed whether that development was a result of the public pressure.
Supreme Court of Georgia Candidate's Campaign Stance on Abortion Lands Before Federal Judge
“I have never decided or declared how I’d rule on any case,” former U.S. Rep. John Barrow said Monday during a post-hearing press conference.
After Dismissal of Las Vegas Casino Antitrust Case, Algorithmic Pricing Dicey
In her May 8 order, U.S. District Judge Miranda Du, in Nevada, ruled that a “mere use of algorithmic pricing” doesn’t make an antitrust conspiracy.
Big Law's AI Talent War Aims to Influence Software Development
In the last month alone, Latham & Watkins, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, DLA Piper and Reed Smith have hired technology specialists to newly created roles.
'Soccer Through and Through': This Ballard Spahr Partner Just Guided Her 14-Year-Old Son to an Unprecedented Pro Deal
Heike Sullivan, who leads the firm’s private client practice, played soccer at Penn. Now all four of her boys are affiliated with the Philadelphia Union, including her youngest, Cavan, who could be the youngest player to ever appear in an MLS match.
2nd Circuit Clarifies When 'Pay-for-Delay' Deals Are Legal in Tossing Antitrust Claims
The appeals court said the settlement payments in the underlying case represented fair value for goods or services in a commercial relationship, thus justified under the Supreme Court’s decision in “Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis.”
CLOC 2024 Takeaways: Gen AI Is Changing Everything, and 'Data Is the New Gold'
“The future is written in data. There’s no way to engage with the challenges ahead of us if we don’t become masters of collecting and exploiting it,” said Jenn McCarron, CLOC president.
Steno Secures $46 Million in Capital, Launches Gen AI-Powered 'Transcript Genius'
Steno’s new tool, Transcript Genius, uses Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model to generate document summaries, interrogate transcript contents and conduct semantic searches.