The six-person team is departing ahead of the firm’s merger with Allen & Overy, which will see A&O leaders take charge of the combined firm.        

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton in Los Angeles unsealed her competency order, concluding that the arguments of Girardi’s lawyers were “wholly lacking in credibility,” and some evidence showed “no more than normal age-related decline.”        

A Utah appeals court tossed a defamation suit against the NBA player stemming from a courtside spat with a couple.        

Keep up with Law.com’s coverage of the cases here.        

“I felt a tingle up my spine and my first thought was the worst…they are going to take hostages and they are going to occupy Congress to prevent the Electoral College from certifying the election and basically force the re-inauguration of Trump,” said John Anthony Castro. “It was basically a hare-brained coup d’etat.”        

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is considering whether Uber’s pop-up screen gave reasonable notice of the rideshare company’s updated terms that would limit a registered rider’s $63 million damages claim to arbitration after he suffered paralyzing injuries in a crash.        

“Answer your phone when it rings, return your messages and emails promptly, and become the person your colleagues can rely on even if that means spending time on non-billable matters such as serving as a sounding board for others.”        

“We feel like there’s a lot of allegations here that would show that the school district really deliberately went after [the plaintiff] and retaliated against him for exercising his constitutional right,” The Fairness Center’s Nathan McGrath said.        

After being reelected to a second term, Gov. Brian Kemp appointed more than two-dozen judges to Georgia state, superior and appellate courts in 2023.        

Attorney retirement and succession planning are critical issues that are often overlooked at the management level of law firms. A key question arises: What should come first, retirement or succession planning? Although they go hand in hand, many firms avoid addressing both.