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Hello Hong Kong: What Five Days Back in the City Told Me About Its Legal Pulse
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (202+ words) Five days of meetings in Hong Kong surfaced a legal market asking hard questions about AI, rethinking its appetite for risk and quietly remaking itself into something leaner and more deliberate. There is something about returning to Hong Kong after…...
Plaintiffs' Lawyers Sanctioned in 2 MDLs for Violating Protective Orders: 'For Me, Professionally, This Was a Big Deal"
36+ min ago (48+ words) U. S. District Court Senior Judge Denite Cote, in the Southern District of New York, sanctioned Ashley Keller last month in the multidistrict litigation alleging prenatal acetaminophen use causes autism and ADHD. Keller told Law. com, "Pointing to the existence of confidential…...
Chinese Firms Enter New Expansion Cycle Driven by Industrial Shifts and Global Compliance Demand
1+ day ago (29+ words) From Hefei to Hanoi, firms are expanding into China's emerging economic centers and key overseas markets as client demand shifts toward cross-border regulatory and compliance advisory work....
PE Firms Turn Asia's Geopolitical Turbulence into Dealmaking Edge
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (183+ words) Top legal chiefs say regulatory complexity and market uncertainty favor firms with sophisticated infrastructure and long-term capital. Legal heads at Blackstone, CITIC CLSA, and Greater Bay Area Homeland Investments told a Hong Kong audience at the Leadership in Law 2026 Hong…...
California Supreme Court Opens Door to Community Justice Workers Proposal
4+ day, 49+ min ago (228+ words) The high court wants to hear public feedback on a plan to allow supervised nonlawyers to offer a limited range of legal help with tasks such as filling out applications and navigating the court system. California's Supreme Court on Thursday…...
Divided Supreme Court Upholds Doctrine Against State Do-Overs in Federal Court
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (195+ words) "The court today neither expands nor constrains Rooker-Feldman," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her decision for the majority. "Instead, the court leaves the doctrine as it found it." A sharply divided U. S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a longstanding doctrine limiting…...
The Ethical Issues of Attorney Use of AI in the Practice of Law in New York State
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (238+ words) Lawyers using AI face ethical challenges, including conflicting disclosure rules and the risk of errors. They must understand and verify AI outputs, protect client data, and routinely disclose AI use. A six-step protocol'knowing the AI tool, securing data, verifying work,…...
'Post-Perlmutter World': Landmark Florida Case Clarifies Punitive Damages Standard
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (296+ words) Within days of its docketing, some attorneys say they've already started citing Perlmutter in their own filings. In a unanimous decision, the Florida Supreme Court clarified the standard to plead punitive damages in Sunshine State trial courts, resolving a split…...
Remedies for Late Payment of Settlement Funds
4+ day, 8+ hour ago (209+ words) In most instances, once a civil litigation matter is settled, the defendant's liability insurance carrier promptly issues payment. In this regard, the carrier has an interest in both protecting its insured in this regard and in closing out another file....
Legal Spend Hits Six-Year Low as GCs Take On More
5+ day, 27+ min ago (28+ words) "The key shift for general counsel is to reframe the discussion around capacity and impact," said Andrew Teig of MLA, which jointly issued the report with the ACC....