Mike McNamara, the former U.S. CEO of Dentons, has left the partnership at the global law firm to become the first CEO as well as an equity partner at legal industry advisory firm Baretz + Brunelle. McNamara spent over 20 years at Dentons and its predecessor firms and was appointed U.S.…

For years, the business community has been calling for a comprehensive federal privacy law, frustrated with operating under a patchwork of sometimes-conflicting state laws. Now, Congress is considering one that’s extremely wide-ranging and that observers say has a legitimate chance of passage. The American Privacy Rights Act—unveiled over the weekend by…

Lawyers at tech-savvy law firms say they are more satisfied in their jobs and more efficient at their work than those at less technology-forward firms, according to the 2024 Technology Perceptions Report by Intapp. The report surveyed 805 fee earners in the U.S. and U.K. from accounting, consulting, financial and law…

Silver Golub & Teitell attorneys secured a $14.4 million award in a medical malpractice lawsuit, which alleged an imaging table collapsed under the plaintiff, injuring him and leading to multiple surgeries. On Friday, a Waterbury jury awarded the plaintiffs, James Griswold and his wife Diana Griswold, $9 million. James Griswold…

A New York appeals court heard arguments Monday on whether to allow Syracuse attorney Gary Lavine back onto the state’s ethics watchdog. Lavine, of Bousquet Holstein in Syracuse, served a year on the former Joint Commission on Public Ethics until it was sunset in July 2022.

U.S. District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino on Monday sentenced a former criminal defense lawyer to one year and one day in prison and sentenced a former employee of the Southern District of New York Magistrate Clerk’s Office to two years in prison for the duo’s involvement in a kickback scheme…