“I don’t think First Amendment rights are a particularly useful way to think about this subject,” said one law school professor.        

“Certainly there is some crossover too from clients with Eckert, and also some clients of Bowman and Brooke I’m getting introduced to,” said partner Dennis Ziemba.        

“As the cannabis market starts to perform better, our services across our entire platform should be in greater demand,” said Seth Goldberg, co-chair of the cannabis industry group at Duane Morris.        

Though there is a strong desire to rapidly tap into the benefits of generative AI, it’s clear that, at least in the legal industry, there is much more work to do to tame this technology.        

Regional Managing Editor Michael Marciano answers some frequently asked questions about this year’s awards        

The 89 lawsuits against a corporate defendant in 2023 that resulted in a nuclear verdict of at least $10 million is the largest number of such cases in a single year since 2009.        

The inaugural Class Action Litigation Report, released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a division of LexisNexis, found class action filings steadily increased from 2014 to 2020, dipped 10% in 2021, then started rising again in 2022. Last year, class action filings jumped 4% to 9,705.        

Judge Yvette Roland said Eastman continues to pose a threat to the public.        

Mark Shaw, 61, is staying on as executive adviser. Southwest CEO Bob Jordan said Shaw “helped us navigate many triumphs and challenges throughout his career.”        

Orrick will once again offer AltaClaro’s prompt engineering and generative AI training at the beginning of its summer associate program, culminating in a summer “AI Day” full of generative AI-related activities designed to educate the next generation of lawyers.