After about five years in Miami, Morrison & Foerster will not renew its office lease in Miami to transition into a hybrid work model there. Because the firm uses Miami as a springboard into Latin America, its nine local attorneys will work remotely and use WeWork offices whenever they need to…

Welcome to the Law Firm Disrupted, a briefing from Law.com editor Dan Packel that surveys new competitive pressures on law firms and how their managers are coping, plus insights on the tactics and tech employed by would-be disruptors. Have an opinion? Email me here. Want to be alerted to this dispatch…

Creating rules around how businesses can use consumers’ personal information is proving to be easier said than done, as privacy regulators wrestle with how to rein in AI and automated decision-making tools, or ADMT. Regulations intended to protect consumers from having significant decisions made about them by machines are a…

Advocates who filed amicus briefs in two landmark children’s online privacy suits discussed potential outcomes for the cases, NetChoice v. Bonta and X v. Bonta, in a briefing on Wednesday. They said the questions raised by the constitutional challenges represented “uncharted territory” for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and…

Pursuant to major legislative reforms addressing an alleged crisis in rising medical malpractice premiums and health care costs, Judiciary Law section 474-a was amended effective July 1,1985 substantially reducing contingency fees allowable in medical malpractice cases. NY CLS Jud §474-a. The statute, previously allowing a 1/3 contingency fee retainer on…

New York law firms Debevoise & Plimpton and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton see opportunity in San Francisco, which felt the impact of the pandemic as much as any other in the United States. While its effects linger, the firms—and others—see a comeback for the city and are investing resources…