How I Made Practice Group Chair: ‘It Is Paramount to Know Your People,’ Says Catie Romanchek of Squire Patton Boggs | Law.com Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/2024/07/19/how-i-made-practice-group-chair-it-is-paramount-to-know-your-people-says-catie-romanchek-of-squire-patton-boggs/ Catherine Romanchek of Squire Patton Boggs. Courtesy photo Q&A “To be an effective leader, it is paramount to know your people.” July 19, 2024…

Tech Outages Close Phila. Courts for the Day | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/07/19/tech-outages-close-phila-courts-for-the-day/ Justice Juanita Kidd Stout Criminal Justice Center. The Philadelphia Courts were closed on July 19 as a result of the worldwide outages that resulted from a CrowdStrike software update. Photo: Max Mitchell/ALM NEWS “We’re…

A federal judge ruled this week that Elon Musk’s X Corp., formerly known as Twitter, will face a trademark infringement suit from a legal advertising company, X Social Media, after determining the plaintiff sufficiently alleged its trademark was entitled to protection and there was a likelihood of consumer confusion between the companies.…

The world’s highest-grossing law firm isn’t the only one trying to make it tougher for partners to leave. But Kirkland & Ellis’ decision to withhold partners’ accrued compensation at the firm’s discretion could expand the pool of law firms using pay levers to dissuade departures. Legal industry sources say the kind of…

Last week the Delaware Supreme Court weighed in with what Bloomberg Law dubbed a “first-of-it-kind” ruling dealing with advance notice bylaws, a subject that has emerged as the latest legal tug-of-war between activist investors and corporate board. Our Litigators of the Week are Teresa Goody Guillén and Richard Raile of…

A woman grand master and chess champion filed a complaint in New Jersey state court this week against U.S. Chess and other leaders, claiming the organization tolerates sexual misconduct and punishes whistleblowers who warn of such abuses. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed…