The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order Monday denying the National Collegiate Athletic Association‘s motion to centralize two lawsuits alleging the association and multiple collegiate athletic conferences engage in antitrust behavior by not letting student-athletes receive compensation for their athletic services. Karen K. Caldwell, the chair of the…

Seven jurors have been sworn in to serve on the Manhattan criminal case of Donald Trump—including two lawyers—after Trump’s legal team sought unvarnished opinions about their client. “You’re not gonna offend me, the Court, the People, by really talking about your opinion of President Trump,” defense counsel Todd Blanche told…

For the full 2024 Am Law 100 report, click here. For more ways to analyze the data, go to Law.com Compass. Six of the top 10 firms in our gross revenue ranking remained the same. In order, they are Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; DLA Piper; Baker McKenzie; Skadden, Arps, Slate,…

Since Thomson Reuters acquired legal research company Casetext last summer, it has gradually been incorporating the startup’s headline-grabbing AI legal assistant CoCounsel, the first legal tech tool to publicly confirm using OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model (LLM), into its broader workflows. Previously, CoCounsel functioned essentially as a chatbot in various Thomson Reuters…

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has added 23 lawyers to its global partnership in its latest promotions round. The new partner additions span the firm’s five practice groups: antitrust, competition & trade; dispute resolution; global transactions; people & reward; and tax. They reflect Freshfields’ “ongoing commitment to invest in talent around the globe”, the…

Up until a year ago, the U.K.’s private equity debt finance legal advisers had an established order. But since September a series of moves involving the biggest names in the market have shaken up the sector. And when rainmakers move, commotion is expected.