The 10th-anniversary Legal Innovation Awards highlighted the year’s brightest ideas in legal tech and the successful execution of those ideas. Among the winners were law firms, in-house legal departments, individuals and other organisations across 26 different categories. Law.com International asked the winners what it was about their entries that made…

Mike Lynch has spent more than a decade defending the sale of his software startup Autonomy to HP. Now he’s been vindicated. A federal jury on Thursday found the British tech tycoon not guilty of 14 counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy for padding the revenues of…

A woman who was raped on a SEPTA train failed to make allegations against the transit agency that could support a state-created danger theory of liability, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled.  U.S. District Judge Juan Sanchez of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed plaintiff K.B.’s claims Tuesday, holding that she failed to demonstrate that…

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Ryan Nelson recused himself Thursday from hearing a case in which Palestine human rights groups claim U.S. military aid to Israel’s war efforts in Gaza has violated international laws barring genocide. The groups said Nelson’s impartiality could be questioned based on…

Former New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal on Thursday testified that U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, twice approached him to discuss a pending criminal matter, a type of conversation that Grewal said he had a policy of avoiding. Menendez is on trial in the Southern District of New York…

A reworked bill that aims to broaden the ability to bring wrongful death claims in New York will be headed to Gov. Kathy Hochul for a third straight year—and litigators remain divided on whether she should sign it. The Grieving Families Act bill, whose legislative history dates to the mid-1990s,…