By Amanda Bronstad | July 22, 2020
In her Tuesday order, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh signed off on the $117.5 million data breach settlement with Yahoo Inc. but slashed attorney fees by more than $7 million after concluding the deal was "unexceptional" and the legal work "not particularly novel."
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dylan Jackson | David Thomas | July 20, 2020
The firm's managing partners say that the "vast majority" of the firm's 80 partner and of counsel departures since January last year have been planned, a line that several former attorneys dispute.
By Marcia Coyle | July 14, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court had a chance to confront the merits of nationwide injunctions in several cases this term, including a DACA dispute with ties to California.
By Frank Ready | July 10, 2020
Corporate legal departments want law firms to step up their game with technology, but outside counsel may not have enough incentive to change or even a concrete idea of how they can improve their tech posture moving forward.
By Victoria Hudgins | Dan Clark | July 6, 2020
Tech companies want a national facial recognition law that balances consent and transparency. But keep Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act and its private right of action out of the discussion, they say.
By Frank Ready | June 30, 2020
The California Consumer Privacy Act requires companies to disclose the value that consumer data holds to their organization, but for many businesses, those numbers don't yet exist on paper or anywhere else.
By Ben Seal | June 29, 2020
"Now that I'm a recruiter, I hear my story over and over and over again. In all these years, very little has changed," said Merle Vaughn, who is managing director and national law firm diversity practice leader for Major, Lindsey & Africa in Los Angeles.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Packel | June 25, 2020
Faced with an expanding field of competitors, law firms are branching out, forming ancillary businesses that they hope can help them secure a place in the growing market for alternative legal services.
By Alaina Lancaster | June 23, 2020
"If you're a company who is hoping to bring intracompany transferees into the U.S. or new H-1Bs into the U.S., it's going to hit your bottom line," said Kelli Duehning of Berry Appleman & Leiden in San Francisco.
The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Packel | June 23, 2020
In the midst of an economic crisis, the traditional operating model, in which firms strip the balance sheet clean at the end of each fiscal year, distributing all the profits to the partnership and starting fresh, looks more and more like a liability.
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