A jury has found Westchester Medical Center owes $23.3 million for failing to prevent a man being treated for a traumatic brain injury from suffering a fatal pulmonary embolism. The May 10 verdict for the family of Jesus Eduardo Espitia, who was 48 when he died in November 2018, is the second…

California is leading a coalition of 22 Democratic states and the District of Columbia to defend in court the Environmental Protection Agency’s rule setting stringent greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, joined by Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, filed a motion last…

White & Case has been named in a lawsuit initiated by Malaysia’s state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) against the chief investment officer of Saudi’s oil services company PetroSaudi, Patrick Mahony. The case comes amid a larger fraud scheme that has been called one of the world’s greatest financial scandals.

Freeman Mathis & Gary relied on its core litigation practices to help drive big revenue and net income increases last year, but the addition of lawyers and new offices cut into the growth of funds it dispersed to attorneys. The litigation-focused firm, founded in Atlanta, entered the Am Law 200…

On Friday, A&O Shearman announced the eighth cohort of startups in its Fuse incubator, including many companies innovating with blockchain technology, as well as legal tech startups that focus on a variety of areas, from analytics to workflow automation. The law firm’s Fuse incubator runs for seven months and allows startups…

In her first few months after joining the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Judge Lara Montecalvo started an Excel spreadsheet to help her track cases. On Friday, she told Boston College Law School graduates about a special tab in her spreadsheet labeled “lessons learned” and encouraged them…