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With a greater number of older attorneys expected to age out of the profession and succession planning earning an increased focus in the legal world, law firms will need to ramp up talent recruitment and retention, and observers envision Gen Z attorneys, with their heightened familiarity with technology, as a particularly critical asset.
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Events have moved swiftly and symptomatically lately in the Fifth Circuit. Long known as the circuit with the greatest skepticism of federal regulation of the economy, it turned its attention to the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires non-exempt companies to report the identity of their beneficial owners.
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Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.
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The U.S. patent legal landscape in 2025 is poised for change. The incoming presidential administration is coupled with interim changes in leadership at the USPTO after Kathi Vidal’s departure, and several newly vacant, fillable commissioner seat openings at the ITC. Amid that backdrop, many pieces of proposed patent legislation are pending in Congress which could further — or possibly stifle — modern trends in American patent law, and could alter our innovation landscape for years to come. This article surveys that pending patent legislation.
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Beyond alternative fee arrangements, firms should consider hourly rate adjustments with three factors in mind: psychological pricing, client feedback and growth. All three are vital for aligning fees with perceived value while supporting the firm’s financial health.
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In late January, Edge Marketing unveiled the implementation of generative AI into its legal marketing practice, and along with it, a refresh of its brand. I spoke with Edge’s CEO, Amy Juers, MBA, about what AI can do for legal marketers in general and what went into the decision to implement AI and how Edge did it.
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Because franchise brokers have been historically free from making any type of disclosures about their pre-exiting relationship with the franchise companies they are marketing to the prospect, the prospect often feels that the broker is working for them, when in fact, the broker has a financial incentive to make a sale.
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The objections, filed ahead of a key hearing on whether to confirm the Chapter 11 plan, cite the Supreme Court’s decision in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, which invalidated nonconsensual releases in the $6 billion bankruptcy plan granted to Purdue’s founders, the Sacklers.
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Contract workers who say they suffered severe psychological harm by being exposed to “deeply unsettling” and traumatic scenarios used to train generative artificial intelligence models filed a class action complaint on January 17 against three Bay Area firms for alleged negligence and unsafe working conditions.
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Employment and labor and cybersecurity, data protection and data privacy remain top of mind for in-house lawyers focused on litigation. Still, there’s mounting concern about the threat of large damages verdicts.