Mayer Brown is in the process of breaking away from its Greater China offices, where it counts around 170 lawyers across Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, according to four people at the firm. The U.S.-based firm is set to retain a smaller office in Hong Kong, one lawyer said, with…

A water meter lid was at the center of a nearly $2.4 million judgment before the Court of Appeals on April 24, in a challenge to severe spoliation sanctions for losing evidence and a plea to reinstate nearly a million dollars in attorney fees. However, although the object in question…

A former client of Boies Schiller Flexner and Dentons US claimed in a $300 million lawsuit filed Friday in New York federal court that he was the victim of a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act scheme to generate outsized legal fees for the firms, including being coerced into lying to an International Criminal Court…

Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley said on Monday that she’s self-reporting to the Grievance Committee an incident in which she attempted to leverage her elected position during an interaction with a Webster, New York, police officer who tried to stop her for speeding. The release of police bodycam footage…

New York’s highest court is adopting a rule change that could reduce its reliance on substitute jurists. In the wake of the New York Court of Appeals using three Appellate Division judges for arguably two of its biggest appeals since December, the court will limit its acceptance of amicus briefs going…

A Roundup trial involving three women began on Monday in St. Louis, Missouri. Jury selection began in a case brought by two Ohio women and one woman in Oklahoma who alleged their exposure to Roundup pesticide caused them to get cancer. McDermott Will & Emery partner Anthony Upshaw, in Miami,…