Another week, another strong showing for deal activity, with at least seven announced M&A deals over $1 billion in the last seven days, including three over the $5 billion mark. Private equity firms were behind three of those announced deals, including two that Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins…

Law firms are still trying to grasp the implications that artificial intelligence will have on their business. But a new report this week helps paint a picture: decreasing revenue per engagement and declining profit margins, leading to even more intense competition for work and talent. Specifically, according to a Law.com…

Judicial Conduct Commission Gives Harris County Judge Second Sanction | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/04/30/judge-reprimanded-jurist-gets-2nd-sanction-for-being-too-slow/ Harris County District Court Judge Ursula Hall. Credit: Harris County Judicial District Courts One of the complainants against the sanctioned judge was Chief Justice Tracy Christopher of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals. April 30,…

Software technology trade groups are warning that companies could face “inappropriate penalties” under the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed rule that would impose liability on firms with “knowledge or reason to know” that a customer will use their goods or services to perpetrate an impersonation scam.   “While this knowledge requirement may be…

‘Urgent Need for Clarity’: Mass Tort Defendant Presses Superior Court to Examine Pa.’s Registration Statute | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/04/30/urgent-need-for-clarity-mass-tort-defendant-presses-superior-court-to-examine-pa-s-registration-statute/ Syngenta headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Credit: Taxiarchos228 via Wikimedia Commons NEWS “To provide much needed constitutional clarity after Mallory and conclusively resolve the jurisdictional status of nearly…

An appellate court in Florida relied on a state Supreme Court ruling to vacate, in favor of an Am Law 100 client, a nearly $8.5 million punitive damages award that a jury initially returned in an Engle progeny action to the estate of a deceased smoker. Scott Schlesinger of the…