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“My amici clients, who are manufacturers, are concerned about whether manufacturers will receive the tort liability insurance coverage that they paid substantial premium for and that they expected,” said Sherilyn Pastor, an insurance recovery partner at McCarter & English in Newark, New Jersey, who authored the amicus brief on behalf of the Product Liability Council […]

“So, under your reading, there is no protection at all under the Ohio health privacy law for someone, once they die, for their health information?” Justice Pat DeWine asked plaintiffs counsel.        

A recent ruling allowing Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to continue representing Google in antitrust litigation, despite not seeking a waiver from former client Yelp, shows it takes more than alleging an inherent client conflict to get a large firm kicked off a case.        

Firms with aging managing partners should develop a succession plan for transferring clients and management responsibilities (over a five-to-ten-year transition period) to the firm’s younger attorneys.        

U.S. Judiciary’s rules panel considers amending the ban on airing criminal proceedings for Trump’s trials, and Feinstein’s successor is seated on the Senate Judiciary Committee.       Related StoriesAI in Arbitration? and Judicial Nominations Roundup – EnclosureBiden Judicial Noms Withdraw + Alternative Vetting Process – EnclosureAccommodating Clerks + Outside Research in Judicial Opinions – Enclosure 

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This article addresses why difficult conversations are especially challenging in the legal environment, the value of having them, and offers a framework with a few extremely valuable tools for navigating these sticky situations to engage in these dialogues more directly and effectively.        

“I’ve never encountered a problem that a little humility can’t help us solve,” said Brad Smith, Microsoft’s legal chief.        

The high court’s decision denied the plaintiffs’ contention that state’s dram-shop liability statute violated a provision of its constitution which limits legislators from passing laws that could abrogate any right to bring a legal action before Arizona’s statehood in 1912.