While partner lateral exits were once rare at Cravath Swaine & Moore, the firm has continued to see some decamp for competitors, including three in January. The latest exits illustrate that Cravath is now in the ranks of other New York firms that routinely see partnership shuffles. According to interviews…

Plaintiffs lawyers are fighting new subpoenas from Johnson & Johnson as they prepare for the first bellwether trials in the talcum powder multidistrict litigation in New Jersey. Johnson & Johnson has subpoenaed Northwell Health Inc., the employer of plaintiffs’ expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline, an occupational medicine specialist, to uncover the…

Specific, detailed performance feedback may have led to the quick verdict in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s favor in an ex-associate’s retaliation trial on Monday—and it should be a priority for employers before any lawsuits are filed, said an employment attorney who kept close tabs on the trial that pulled back…

The general counsel of tobacco products giant Altria Group is about to pass the proverbial smoking jacket to a successor. Murray Garnick, executive vice president and general counsel, will retire April 1. He provided four decades of legal guidance to the Richmond, Virginia-based company, first as outside counsel for some…

The legal industry was one of the first to be regarded as an area ripe for generative artificial intelligence disruption. After some industry surveys were released about the overwhelming numbers of legal tasks that could be replaced by the technology, many wondered whether the time for robot-lawyers had finally come.…

Blackbaud Inc. agreed to delete unnecessary personal data and implement stronger cybersecurity procedures under a settlement the cloud computing company reached with the Federal Trade Commission after a hacking incident stole personal information from millions of consumers in 2020. In its administrative complaint, the FTC alleged that Blackbaud failed to…