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A new report by PwC stresses that law firms should incorporate ‘human cyber risk’ into their cyber strategies.        

Rosato Perea is “a brilliant and highly effective leader, a broadly experienced legal scholar, teacher and law school administrator, and a history-maker and ceiling-shatterer as one of the longest serving law deans of color, and women law deans, in history,” Anthony Varona, dean of Seattle University School of Law, told Law.com.        

“Here, nobody disputes that thousands of different compounds fall under the heading of PFAS; one of the defendant’s experts puts the number of different PFAS at 5,000-10,000, which is roughly the number of known species of mammals on Earth,” U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Raymond M. Kethledge for the Sixth Circuit said. “To allege simply […]

Big Law white-collar defense groups are busy. Is enforcement rising or are clients just more proactive?        

“Taken together, the final rule will help address conflicts of interest arising when securitization participants take positions against ABS [asset-backed security] investors’ interests,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said.        

“If Lexington Coal was attempting to comply with its obligations in good faith, the court expects it would be actively engaging with the Special Master’s concerns and seeking to address any noted deficiencies,” U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers said. “Instead, it appears to be looking for shortcuts and simply hoping disaster does not result.” […]

The dispute is between a proposed leadership team and lawyers at four firms spearheading the California state court cases against Uber, particularly involving William Levin and Rachel Abrams, a former partner at San Francisco’s Levin Simes.        

A trio of professors at the University of Southern California and University of Minnesota called their effort the first randomized controlled trial studying the effects of large language models on legal analysis.        

“This was the first case to actually succeed in using our product liability theory that we’ve been using since 2014,” said victims rights attorney Carrie Goldberg, of C.A. Goldberg Law Firm in Brooklyn.