Houston-founded trial firm Susman Godfrey nearly doubled its revenue in 2023, and more than doubled profits per equity partner as lawyers handled high-stakes, high-profile matters.        

A March 15 sanctions motion accused the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s lawyers of a “bad-faith course of conduct” that includes libeling class counsel, disseminating the wrong information to class members and filing frivolous objections.        

Law.com is accepting nominations for the New England Legal Awards, celebrating legal excellence in Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.        

Despite having to fight off implicit bias and the challenges that come with that, Testy said the rewarding part was that so many women alums and women students were rooting for her.        

Some rising attorneys are struggling to adapt when work takes them beyond a computer screen and into an actual courtroom.        

The firm says it is focused on ‘increasing co-operation between India and the UAE’, in light of increasing investment by UAE-based entities in India.        

More and more, firms are understanding that it’s the firm’s ability to convert its agreed rates through billing and collections to collection realization that really counts. So why is it such a challenge for firms to solve it?        

“I think there is a point that they become so large that they encourage executives to take the deal, regardless of whether it is in the best interests of the shareholders,” said Cindy Schipani, a professor of business law at the University of Michigan.        

The plaintiff argued in a post-trial motion that the court’s entry and application of global orders regarding evidence in Philadelphia’s Roundup trials resulted in the jury receiving a skewed picture of scientific research on the Monsanto-produced weedkiller.        

“HP needed someone to blame. They had an $11 billion debacle on their hands. They were actually better at finding a scapegoat than at integrating a company,” Reid Weingarten, lead attorney for Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, told a jury Monday.