With its focus on continued growth in the Canadian market, Cozen O’Connor has named new managing partners in its Toronto and Vancouver offices. Kathy Tang was named office managing partner in Vancouver, while Steve Weisz takes the same role in Toronto. They replace Brigeeta Richdale and Shane Hardy, who have…

LTN Startup Spotlight is an ongoing series that aims to amplify startups in the legal tech space, highlighting what they’re working on, how they’re adding to the legal tech market and changing the conversation around legal tech innovation, and what lessons they’ve learned in their startup journey so far. If…

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York on Sunday set a briefing schedule for E. Jean Carroll to respond to former President Donald Trump’s motion for a stay of enforcement of the $83 million judgment against Trump awarded by a jury in January. Trump moved…

Big Law firms in Europe, including Dentons, DLA Piper, Squire Patton Boggs and Paul Hastings, have made a flurry of tax partner hires in the first two months of 2024, with an emphasis on attorneys with expertise in international investment funds and litigation. Dentons in Milan, Italy, last week hired a…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to rehear a case regarding whether Hawaii’s ban on butterfly knives is illegal under the Second Amendment. In a Feb. 22 order, the panel vacated its previous decision that the state’s ban on butterfly knives facially constituted “arms,” and at the…

A National Labor Relations Board decision on behalf of a Home Depot employee disciplined for wearing “BLM” letters on his apron has kicked open the door to future enforcement against employers that prohibit expressions of politics or social activism on the job. Employers wary of politically divisive and distracting speech…