A federal judge in Illinois concluded a customer, who claims she was injured when a display door fell on her while shopping at Menards, has provided sufficient evidence for a jury to consider whether the home improvement retail company could be held liable in a premises liability suit. In a…

Three California law firms have hired partners in their intellectual property litigation practices in recent weeks, underscoring companies’ growing need for IP, trademark and patent services.  There’s increasing demand for intellectual property litigation as companies begin to embrace the importance of protecting their assets, said Jason Gersting, a newly hired partner…

According to the 2023 Thomson Reuters Marketing Partner Forum Survey, of all the tools in the marketing mix, CRM (customer relationship management) was considered one of the two “least effective.” In 2024, it hit rock bottom, ranking “not effective at all.” Why? For starters, CRMs for legal just seem really…

Esports company Skillz Platform has filed a lawsuit against mobile gaming company Voodoo SAS, which operates the “Blitz Win Cash” app, for allegedly fixing games and defrauding players with bots. The complaint, filed Monday by King & Spalding in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges…

Herbert Smith Freehills has hired two veteran technology, media and telecommunications partners away from Eversheds Sutherland for its 60-year-old Paris office. Emmanuel Ronco and Vincent Denoyelle join from Eversheds’ intellectual property/information technology and data privacy group in Paris, where Ronco co-led the global IP group and Denoyelle was international head…

Firms including HFW, Fieldfisher, Osborne Clarke, Stephenson Harwood LLP and Kennedys are among the first to report their financials for 2023/24, and all of them posted double-digit revenue growth. How? Wasn’t 2023 a “high inflationary”, “high rates”, “impending recession” doom and gloom year? In the video, Law.com International managing editor…