Last week, Legal Speak spoke live on location at the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2024 in Chicago with professionals across the legal industry about key insights and practical solutions that today’s general counsel need to manage and better leverage C-Suite relationships, successfully overcome a litigation crisis, do more with fewer resources, and more.        

The issue before the justices is whether removing the federal question from a complaint requires that the litigation be remanded to state court.        

“Neglecting wellbeing within DEI initiatives could undermine efforts to shape a positive firm culture,” writes Lee Ashby Watts of Bass, Berry & Sims.        

“I’ve never died before,” said workers’ compensation attorney Travis Jablonski. “I don’t know how to do it—and I’d like to do it well.”        

“One of my most important responsibilities as chair is to support our attorneys and their needs.”        

The firm, which signed its lease for the space in 2019, said on Monday it completed the relocation.        

Legal groups in the Canadian province call a new bill that would change the regulatory regime “seriously flawed,” arguing that it will put lawyer independence at risk.        

Legal experts are still digesting what they heard Thursday for potential indications of how the justices might rule in Trump v. United States.        

Lawyers ramped up their fight over how to manage the 23andMe Inc. data breach litigation, disagreeing on everything from whether to immediately settle the cases to handling class members who are “truly frightened.”        

Erich Andersen had held the legal reins of the wildly popular social media app for four years. He previously spent more than two decades at Microsoft.