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Dorsey wouldn’t close the door on any merger opportunities, said managing partner Bill Stoeri, but adding he’s probably more amenable to group laterals and smaller firm acquisitions.        

The Planet Fitness board in September removed Chris Rondeau as CEO but said he would remain on the board. Rondeau now has resigned as director and sent the board a parting message lamenting the direction of the company.        

“The notion that Boeing with its armies of lawyers, bankers, and consultants could be outmaneuvered by a mid-sized Charlotte family investment firm is utterly absurd,” said Michael Forde of Forde & O’Meara, who is representing a company claiming the aerospace giant conned the business into buying a near-bankrupt parts supplier.        

Roughly 8% of the firm’s $2.07 billion in revenue came in the form of contingency fees, according to Michael Carlinsky, one of three co-managing partners at the firm.        

The plaintiffs allege that the defendants’ intent with the suit was to “financially ruin Ms. Turner and destroy her reputation by bringing the resources of a large law firm to bear against her.”        

The five-judge panel said the plaintiff presented insufficient evidence to prove that the doctors’ negligence caused her mother to experience a diminished quality of life between the eight hours spanning the withdrawal of care and the time of her death.        

Bankman-Fried’s new attorneys, Marc Mukasey and Torrey Young of Mukasey Young, are set to file his sentencing memorandum.        

“Litigation strategy can be much debated among lawyers,” Leonard’s attorneys, former Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell, Steven Collins and Meredith Kingsley of Alston & Bird, wrote in their appellee brief. “That leaves even seasoned litigators open to second-guessing, especially when their decisions are viewed in hindsight after an adverse ruling.”        

In addition to highlighting differences in generative AI investments, a LexisNexis survey also found that legal professionals expect generative AI to spur the hiring of more technologists, and the potential loss of some associates and partners.        

Precruiting will increase in 2024, Big Law recruiting directors said, despite two law schools’ recent efforts to place more students through virtual on-campus interviews.