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This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.        

In a recent ruling, a judge granted The Lubrizol Corp.’s motion to compel the production of documents in support of its claims for spoliation of evidence against IBM, with Ohio being one of the few jurisdictions that permits parties to assert a cause of action for the tort of spoliation of evidence.        

The panel of circuit judges Jose Cabranes, Robert Sack and Myrna Perez, meanwhile, dismissed a parallel action, on grounds that it is not reviewable on appeal. The remanded surrogate’s court portion of the matter was directed to Ulster County, where a music manager resided in Woodstock, New York.        

Perez-Llorca became the first Spanish law firm to adopt Leya, a Swedish generative AI assistant, earlier this month. For the firm, the tool struck the right balance between being able to operate in Spanish-language and being compliant with the GDPR.        

The matter involves a group of consolidated actions brought by members of the U.S. Congress against Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, alleging their actions on Jan. 6, 2021, aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election violated the Ku Klux Klan Act.        

The Savills Legal Tenant U.S. Law Firm Activity Report Q4 2023 found that more than half of the new leases signed in 2023 were by firms staying in their space, and New York was the top market for leasing.        

In a hurry? A single partner can often complete a lateral move in two to six months from start to finish, while groups tend to take anywhere from six months to well over a year.        

“We’re making something people can’t get at home.”        

“It is unclear to the court how a sophisticated litigant can reasonably expect to fulfil its duty to preserve evidence by leaving the responsibility … in the hands of restaurant manager, who is given absolutely no guidance,” the judge said.        

The automaker argues that the racial discrimination lawsuit suffers from “factual vacuity.” Separately, it has asked the court to stay the case, asserting the agency skipped a required “conciliation” process in a mad rush to to outshine the California Civil Rights Department, which had filed its own suit.