By Ross Todd | July 23, 2024
In a 103-page report released earlier this month, RAND Corporation researchers took a look at changes in court filings, jury verdicts in personal injury cases and insurance claims and concluded that the trendlines were "consistent with an upsurge in social inflation during the 2010s."
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Roe | July 23, 2024
Judge Stacey Jernigan claims the "bombastic" hedge fund managers in her books are pure fiction, but ethics experts argue they violate her responsibility to appear impartial.
National Law Journal | Analysis|News
By Abigail Adcox | July 22, 2024
"We have always known that this race would be a dog fight to the end," said Hunter Bates of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, which, along with Brownstein, broke lobbying revenue records in the second quarter.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman | July 22, 2024
"It's no secret that a future Republican administration is widely expected to seek to rein in the aggressiveness of antitrust enforcement from the past four years, particularly on the part of the FTC," said Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Winston Y. Chan.
New York Law Journal | Analysis|Slideshow
By Ryland West | Mimi Lamarre | July 22, 2024
"We want people to feel like they can come and do everything they need to do in their day," said Blank Rome's Shonette Gaston.
By Maria Dinzeo | July 22, 2024
"You have a combination of doing the strategy and the management pieces, but also getting your hands dirty. And I really love that," said Sarah Tinsley, general counsel of Culture Amp.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert A. Schwinger | July 22, 2024
Even under the 2023 amendment to Rule 702 that attempts to curtail some courts' overly permissive approaches to 'Daubert', recent rulings show that expert blockchain analysis can indeed satisfy the gatekeeping threshold for admissibility in litigation.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Robert S. Kelner, Gail S. Kelner and Joshua D. Kelner | July 22, 2024
Often, when larger personal injury or wrongful death cases are resolved, the plaintiff's counsel will be asked "Would your client be interested in a structured settlement?" The purpose of this article is to assist counsel in understanding structured settlements and how to avoid certain pitfalls.
By Ross Todd | July 22, 2024
Retracing the unique professional journeys that have led Fenwick's Saina Shamilov, Robins Kaplan's Brendan Johnson and Pryor Cashman's Ilene Farkas to practice group leadership posts.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Samson Amore | Mimi Lamarre | July 22, 2024
"Some partners feel like lesser-class citizens than other partners" in some two-tier partnerships, noted one Am Law 200 firm leader.
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