A climate activist group has called on Linklaters to decline any further instructions on new fossil fuel infrastructure, after the firm was identified as a top adviser of fossil fuel transactions.  Lawyers Are Responsible, a group which campaigns for top law firms to cut ties to the fossil fuel industry, has…

Major record labels including Capitol Records and Sony Music Entertainment on Monday sued two music-focused generative artificial intelligence companies, accusing the companies of “willful copyright infringement on an almost unimaginable scale.” The lawsuits allege that the generative AI companies, Udio and Suno, copied “decades’ worth of the world’s most popular…

The U.S. government agreed to pay $8.5 million to the estate of a contractor killed while working on a steam boiler at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in West Haven. Christina Weaver, wife of the decedent, filed the action in her individual capacity and as the administrator of the…

Paul Hastings is bringing on a 12-lawyer, three-partner global litigation team from a prominent litigation and investigations boutique in Paris. The group is led by veteran white-collar and investigations partner Antonin Lévy, who brings along partners Ophélia Claude and Joris Monin de Flaugergues, both also joining as partners. They will…

9th Circuit Weighs Whether Hawaii’s Second Amendment Butterfly Knives Case Is Moot | National Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2024/06/25/9th-circuit-weighs-whether-hawaiis-second-amendment-butterfly-knives-case-is-moot/ Daniel Collins testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be a judge on the  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in March 2019. Photo: Diego…

Partners David D. Samani of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith and Kenneth P. White of Brown White & Osborn have stepped in to represent Stein Saks and several of its attorneys in a pending civil RICO lawsuit. The complaint was filed June 3 in California Central District Court by Jones…