California’s state bar and Kaplan Exam Services have reached a five-year, $8.25 million deal authorizing the testing giant to write the Golden State’s future bar exam, the state bar announced Tuesday. Kaplan will create the multiple-choice-questions portion of the test starting in February 2025. Kaplan-drafted essays and performance test questions…

The NCAA faces new allegations of antitrust violations following its revolutionary May settlement agreement to share revenue with college athletes for their name, image and likeness. Freedman Normand Friedland and Berger Montague filed a class action Monday alleging the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which governs college athletics, violates the Sherman…

Covington & Burling represented Babcock & Brown Aircraft Management, one of the world’s largest aircraft lessors, in a lawsuit against a group of nine insurance companies who allegedly refused to pay claims for aircraft seized by Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. A summary judgment ruling in BBAM US LP v.…

After the state court in Miami awarded a Coral Gables lawyer her full 25% referral fee from Podhurst Orseck, its client and one of its ex-partners for settlements obtained in aviation litigation, which are estimated at over $6 million and more than $3 million, she is now moving for quadruple…

Indian firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has been dominating legal industry headlines. Last month, the firm hired a team of more than 50 capital markets lawyers led by nine partners from smaller rival practice IndusLaw, depleting the latter firm’s capital markets offering entirely. Over the past two weeks, it has continued to aggressively hire…

A New York judge has narrowed the claims at issue in a family dispute over control of the $2 billion real estate empire left behind by the late Sol Goldman. Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Melissa Crane of the Commercial Division dismissed multiple causes of action, including breach of contract, inspection…