“I think that one of the hardest parts of being a general counsel is keeping the team together and making sure everybody understands that you sink or swim together,” Starbucks legal chief Brad Lerman said.        

Merger and acquisition practitioners are having a difficult time figuring out how best to counsel their clients, and litigators are left with questions on how best to make their case to the Court of Chancery.        

The footwear company neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing, but it agreed to a cease-and-desist order.        

“It’s all psychologized,” Wax said. “What the woke catechism, the woke set of precepts, has done is that they’ve taken subjective reactions and made them reign supreme, which is completely contrary to every First Amendment principle that ever existed.”        

Judge Amy St. Eve authored the opinion, which certified two questions posed from the district court, and added a third, after concluding there is no controlling precedent in the Illinois Supreme Court as to questions revolving around the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act.        

Trump lawyer Alina Habba posted the bond just a day after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the defense bid to stay execution of the judgment.        

The fact that the mid-market is increasingly turning heads can be attributed to a wide range of factors. A number of them, though, can be traced back—directly or indirectly—to technology.        

The ultimate guardian of the quality of client service is the partners’ own judgement but properly utilizing AI can set expectations that will benefit the clients and the firm and end forever the “End of the Billable Hour” stories.        

“Asking questions is not a weakness and people are usually willing to help if approached properly, even if they are busy,” says Gang Chen, partner at Crowell & Moring.        

“You need to be a real player to have credibility in this space,” legal recruiter Sean Burke said. “Law firm partners who just add ‘blockchain’ to the bottom of their website bio [will be] discounted.”