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• Big Law's $3,000-An-Hour Problem

  18-10-2026 07:00 via Law.com
  The price of legal firepower keeps rising, but client appetite to pay is waning. Who'll blink first?       
  
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• Litigation Trends: Cases Surge After Medicare Fraud Crackdown. Plus, AI-Powered Pricing Tools Spur Antitrust Claims.

  23-10-2026 23:06 via Law.com
  Joshua Kushner's health insurance company wants to claw back commissions.       
  
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• Texas A&M Law Grads Score Historic Pass Rate for July Bar Exam

  23-10-2026 21:38 via Law.com
  Texas A&M University School of Law broke a record for first time bar passage rates during July's administration of the Uniform Bar Examination (UBE).       
  
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• Plaintiffs Can Move for Sanctions Against Chicago Attorneys for Subpoena Interference, Judge Rules

  23-10-2026 21:35 via Law.com
  An agent of the Chicago attorneys defied a court order and sent information to a subpoena recipient of which "every element ... was false," according to the plaintiffs.       
  
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• How I Made Law Firm Leadership: 'Always Anticipate the Next Steps,' Says Kerry Price of Bass, Berry & Sims

  23-10-2026 17:59 via Law.com
  "Always anticipate the next steps beyond what it is you're asked to do. Being proactive and a problem solver is almost always welcomed by the people that you're working with and for. Just doing your job is baseline. What else can you do to move projects forward to think about something in a different way?"       
  
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• Weil and Willkie Call Off Merger Talks as More Partners Leave

  23-10-2026 16:08 via Law.com
  Drew Tulumello and Chantale Fiebig are the latest leadership departures from Weil.       
  
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• How to Transition Clients In Smaller Firms When Succession Planning

  23-10-2026 15:23 via Law.com
  A well-planned client transition protects the trust you spent years building, gives your successor a stronger foundation, and helps clients feel cared for rather than simply handed off.       
  
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• 2 Reagan-Appointed Judges Still Dominate Casebooks. What About Newer Judges?

  23-10-2026 14:44 via Law.com
  "It's incredibly hard to get into the casebooks, in part because it is just like a Christmas playlist," said University of Virginia School of Law professor Mitu Gulati.      Related StoriesWhich 1-Judge Division Districts Have Adopted Anti-Forum Shopping Guidance?L.W. v. Jersey City Bd. of Educ.R.S. v. E. Brunswick Sch. Dist. 
  
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• 9/11 Family's Malpractice Claim Against Kreindler & Kreindler Survives Over $13K Recovery on $43M Judgment

  23-10-2026 07:17 via Law.com
  The lawsuit centers on whether the firm should have obtained final judgments and submitted applications to the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (VSSTF) before a February 2020 deadline.       
  
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• Law Firm Disrupted: Clients Want Allies—Not Adversaries—in the Pricing Revolution

  23-10-2026 02:58 via Law.com
  If the pressure law firms and legal departments are feeling comes from the same source, shouldn't that align them?       
  
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• 'A Botch Job': 5th Circuit Reassigns Case After Judge Misused AI to Draft Ruling

  23-10-2026 01:18 via Law.com
  "Given the embarrassment of the AI hallucinations and mistakes of law in the two TROs and the preliminary injunction, it would be an understandable—though obviously unjust—temptation for the judge to want to find a way to prove that, even with correct law and fact, his initial view should prevail," Judge Jerry Smith wrote for the appellate court.       
  
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• MDL Judges Are Becoming More Diverse: Law.com Data Shows 38% Assigned Last Year Were Nonwhite

  23-10-2026 01:10 via Law.com
  Only 62% of MDL judges were white in 2025, and 32% of those were white men, who made up less than half for the first time in 2018, according to Law.com data.       
  
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• As Exits Continue, Weil Works on Merger Deal, Tells Partners to Carry On

  22-10-2026 23:49 via Law.com
  Sources say the next few weeks are crucial, as Weil attempts to close a deal for a firm that just last year generated $2.077 billion in revenue and $5.593 million in profits per partner.       
  
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• Legal Tech Providers Embrace Integrations in the Agentic AI Era

  22-10-2026 23:39 via Law.com
  In the legal tech world, it's all connected. Or at least it's getting there.       
  
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• Weil Management Committee Member Zalka Plans Move to Paul Weiss

  22-10-2026 20:31 via Law.com
  The firm continues to see prominent departures as it looks for a path forward via a merger.       
  
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• Illinois Judges are Using AI Tools, Misuse Scenarios Yet to be Tested

  22-10-2026 14:59 via Law.com
  "Even a very professional, high-end product can still produce inconsistent results. You have to be aware of that, as a judge, sycophancy is a real side of most AIs. They're looking at language to see what it believes you want, and it tries to prove that to you," a recently retired Illinois judge told Law.com.       
  
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• Billable Hours and Lawyer Stress Have Long Been Intertwined. Can AI Provide a Solution?

  22-10-2026 14:05 via Law.com
  “If AI allows attorneys to complete certain tasks in a fraction of the time they previously required, the question becomes how we compensate lawyers for the value they provide, rather than simply the hours it takes them to provide it," said one Big Law associate.       
  
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• The Week in Data Oct. 22: A Look at Legal Industry Trends by the Numbers

  22-10-2026 12:59 via Law.com
  Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, including rising legal talent in Texas and New England.       
  
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• Meta Hit With $25B Judgment After New Mexico Judge Finds 'Systematic Pattern of Deception'

  21-10-2026 22:42 via Law.com
  At a press conference on Wednesday, New Mexico Attorney General Rau l Torrez said the award was the “one of the single largest, if not the largest single state verdictagainst a company in U.S. history and a “clear warningagainst Big Tech, including other social media and artificial intelligence companies.       
  
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• Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Judge Orders Financing Disclosures in Hundreds of Paraquat Cases, OpenAI Hit By 8 State Suits & Novel Class Action

  21-10-2026 18:29 via Law.com
  A federal judge in the paraquat multidistrict litigation ordered a second lawyer to explain why his clients aren't participating in a proposed settlement.       
  
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• How I Founded a Law Firm: 'A Good Deed Can Impact Someone's Life,' Says Rob Nestico of Kisling Nestico & Redick

  21-10-2026 17:59 via Law.com
  "I wish I would have known sooner how much a good deed can impact someone's life. Do as much as you can, as early as you can."       
  
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• Legal Educators Raise Concerns Over Law Degree Portability, Standardization as ABA Awaits DOE Decision

  21-10-2026 14:59 via Law.com
  Experts say the pending DOE decision regarding ABA Council accreditation poses no immediate crisis, but they warn that states abandoning the council's accreditation could disrupt legal education oversight and portability of degrees.       
  
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• Midsize Firms Embrace Outside Hires for C-Suite, Freeing Top Lawyers for Revenue Generation

  21-10-2026 07:07 via Law.com
  Experts say business management expertise and the need for lawyers to bill hours make professional staff worth the overhead increase.       
  
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• Trump's ‘Not Very Nice' Remarks About Justices Show Court's Independence, Kagan Says

  21-10-2026 02:39 via Law.com
  “That's why the president, sometimes, has not very nice things to say about the court and its decisions and about some of my particular colleagues because the court, of course, has pushed back," Kagan said Tuesday.       
  
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• US Judge in Roundup MDL Calls for Amici to Provide Briefing on SCOTUS Impact

  21-10-2026 01:39 via Law.com
  An order from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, of the Northern District of California, sought to resolve whether the Supreme Court's June 25 ruling in Monsanto v. Durnell wiped out all lawsuits over Monsanto's Roundup.       
  
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• Tennessee Supreme Court Rejects PE Law Firm Ownership

  20-10-2026 23:50 via Law.com
  "From our perspective, the Tennessee order is a positive development," said Nesheba Kittling, senior vice president of loss prevention for the Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society.       
  
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• NYC Proposes First-of-Its-Kind Automated Customer Service Chatbot Regulation

  20-10-2026 21:33 via Law.com
  The chatbot rule would require businesses to provide timely and reasonable customer service in addition to offering customers access to a human representative if that service falls short.       
  
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• Former MIT Professor Wins $6M Defamation Verdict Against Colleague Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment

  20-10-2026 21:33 via Law.com
  The jury, composed of seven women and six men, unanimously awarded David Sabatini $6 million in damages, plus prejudgment interest, after determining Kristin Knouse had defamed him and interfered with his career.       
  
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• Pace University Names Texas A&M Law Dean as Next President

  20-10-2026 21:26 via Law.com
  Texas A&M University School of Law Dean Robert “BobbyAhdieh has been named Pace University's ninth president, effective Jan. 1.       
  
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• Inside Jones Day's Fintech Startup Accelerator

  20-10-2026 21:00 via Law.com
  Fewer than 10% of applicants were accepted to this week's event, where Jones Day partners and institutional clients will bolster the next generation of fintech players.       
  
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