“Being in-house has given me a unique perspective into how companies launch new and innovative products, navigate regulatory requirements, meet compliance obligations and develop and implement complex business strategies, said incoming McDermott Will & Schulte partner, Steve Knipfelberg.

       

Huel faces more than half a dozen class actions after an Oct. 14 report in Consumer Reports found more than two-thirds of the 23 protein powders and ready-to-drink shakes tested, like its Black Edition product, had 10 times the recommended daily amount of lead in a single serving.        

The rapid turnover of the legal chief post is a first for the satellite radio company. Its initial general counsel, Patrick Donnelly, held the position from May 1998 to March 2025.

       

“Academic freedom is this special duty that we have, Conway said, explaining that it “allows us to investigate. It allows us to search for truth. It allows us to use facts and data to come up with ideas, to come up with concepts, to come up with discovered knowledge that we use to create knowledge, disseminate knowledge, and then distribute it as a feature of education.

       

“It's something I've been thinking about and talking about with management, partners and my executive committee for nearly the last 14 years, firm chair and managing partner Michael S. Stein said. "We finally got it into the end zone."

       

The firm's average PEP climbed over 15% to $2.39 million, amid a slight decline in equity partners.

       

U.S. District Senior Judge John A. Gibney Jr. ordered the state of Virginia to permanently end its absolute all-felon voting ban by May 1, 2026, ruling the policy violates a longstanding federal law that guarantees voting rights for more than 260,000 Virginians convicted of nonviolent criminal offenses not deemed common-law felonies in 1870.

       

The defendants include Husch Blackwell's former chair Catherine Hanaway, now Missouri's attorney general.

       

The controversial agreement created a settlement fund equal to a 23% stake in Clearview AI while resolving claims that the company broke state privacy laws and unjustly enriched itself by scraping and creating a database made of class members' biometric facial images from the internet without consent.

       

The lawsuit was filed in August 2023, accusing Prime Hydration of containing toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances, which have been shown to cause cancer.

       

Bankruptcy Judge David Jones observed that the plaintiff's effort to obtain class-wide relief over Citibank's treatment of bankruptcy discharge orders. He said he would welcome an application to seek interlocutory appeal.

       

Despite the rosy metrics, law firms faced a 10.2% overall expense increase, helping to curtail net income growth below the levels seen the previous year, Wells Fargo said.

       

Manhattan prosecutors asked a state court judge to set a July 1 trial date for Luigi Mangione, who is accused in the killing of UnitedHeathcare CEO Brian Thompson, saying state interests would be unfairly prejudiced if the feds tried him first.

       

Plaintiff firm, Hecht Partners in New York, says the case is venued in New Jersey, where a similar antitrust suit against Apple by the Department of Justice and 12 attorneys general in March 2024 survived a motion to dismiss.

       

A federal judge's jurisdiction ruling sparks a new legal fight over where Voyager investors can sue Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks.

       

More than 130 Fortune 500 legal chiefs have hit 60, which is putting legal department succession-planning into overdrive.

       

The tractor-maker, which acknowledged last year that there was no stance it could take on diversity, equity and inclusion that would satisfy all of its constituencies, will face more DEI friction at its annual meeting next month.

       

       

The consortium is focused on bringing judges of different jurisdictions together to bridge knowledge gaps surrounding AI.

       

The victims on the plane include Tara Arnold, the wife of Arnold & Itkin founder Kurt Arnold, according to a report by KPRC-TV in Houston.