Along with cybersecurity, data privacy was one of last year’s hottest issues aside from generative AI (which raises privacy concerns of its own). From biometric data to online child safety and everything in between, the focus on protecting data, including PII, ratcheted up in 2023. Tools allowing bad actors to improperly access…

A restaurant owner has sued Cole Schotz in Florida state court, alleging negligence over a lease agreement drafted by an associate attorney. Steven Scaggs and DSS Restaurant Management filed the lawsuit in Palm Beach County on Monday against the law firm and former associate Tereina Stidd. Scaggs alleges that he hired Stidd to…

Representing three divisions of the firm’s real estate and finance department, Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg has selected partners Hercules Grigos, Jonathan Maslow and Lee Sussman as department co-chairs, effective at the start of 2024.  Grigos represents the zoning element of the firm’s real estate practice, while Maslow handles transactions, and…

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton is merging with a 58-lawyer Chicago law firm focused on mergers and acquisitions and private equity, in a move designed “to significantly increase the combined firm’s presence and corporate-focused practice,” the firms said Wednesday. The Chicago firm Horwood Marcus & Berk Chartered, which does business as HMB Legal Counsel,…

Several California law firms are kicking off the year by beefing up their litigation capabilities in the Golden State. Jenner & Block this week hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney Carolyn Small as a special counsel in Los Angeles. Small’s addition comes just days after partners Alex Romain and Jennifer Lee…

As Big Law firms push a return to the office, law firms in Washington, D.C., continue downsizing their physical footprints, in line with a trend of fitting lawyers and staff into less space. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner signed a lease renewal in the fourth quarter for 73% smaller space in its Washington,…