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• Law.com's Top 100 Verdicts of 2025

  09-07-2026 15:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The nation's highest-ranking verdicts were compiled by Law.com analyst team VerdictSearch.       
  
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• Litigation Trends to Watch: Lawsuits Center on AI Trainers, Surveillance Pricing and Last-Mile Delivery Drivers

  10-07-2026 21:49 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  A new wave of litigation is taking shape as workers who train AI models claim they were misclassified as independent contractors.       
  
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• How I Made Partner: 'Build Relationships With Attorneys in Other Practice Areas,' Says Drew Newman of Moore & Van Allen

  10-07-2026 17:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "Build relationships with attorneys in other practice areas at your law firm as soon as possible. Looking back on my career, I wish I had started networking with attorneys outside the litigation group sooner. These attorneys become part of your client portfolio and often are a great source of potential work. In addition to the professional benefits, it is always nice to hear what attorneys in other practice groups work on at the firm."       
  
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• From Rankings to Responses: AI Is Changing How Law Firms Get Found

  10-07-2026 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  In this week's episode, Legal Speak how the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is reshaping law firm marketing and public relations.       
  
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• Big Law's Trump Deals May Face More Lawmaker Pressure After Midterms

  10-07-2026 07:37 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Democratic lawmakers are expected to revive congressional investigations into nine law firms that made deals with the Trump administration, if Democrats gain a majority in one or both chambers of Congress. Law firms could be the subject of congressional subpoenas or public hearings.       
  
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• Law Firm Disrupted: The 'Ask Jeeves' Phase of Gen AI Evolution?

  10-07-2026 07:03 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  While most lawyers are using generative AI, many say inefficiencies reduce its effectiveness, for now.       
  
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• Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal Exits After 6-Year Run Marked by SEC Victory

  10-07-2026 01:56 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The former federal judge helped steer the crypto exchange through its public listing and a high-stakes regulatory showdown with securities regulators       
  
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• Victoria Sigeti: Freshfields' New UK Leader on Being Loyal to London and Patient on US Private Capital

  10-07-2026 01:11 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The U.K. managing partner discusses assuming the top role, Europe and whether the practice area she co-leads, private capital, has a place in the firm's widely-broadcast U.S. ambitions.       
  
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• As Law Firms Make Blackbox Bonuses, Transparency Clashes Grow

  09-07-2026 23:13 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  More firms are adding bonus setups, but aren't making those payments known to other partners, even in otherwise transparent comp systems.       
  
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• Law Firms Are Moving Aggressively Into Secondary Markets, but What Are They Chasing?

  09-07-2026 22:54 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The rate at which law firms are opening offices in secondary and even tertiary markets is accelerating significantly since 2024       
  
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• Why 'Safe' General Counsel Hires Are Leaving So Quickly

  09-07-2026 21:04 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  More chief legal officers are leaving within just a few years of being hired, prompting questions about whether companies are selecting the wrong candidates—or preparing them for the wrong job. Legal leaders say the modern GC role requires far more than an impressive résumé.       
  
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• Litigation and Risk Identification Company Darrow Confirms Layoffs

  09-07-2026 20:10 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The layoffs come as the company reallocates resources to grow its offerings for insurance companies and corporations.       
  
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• Boston Joins Social Media Addiction MDL as Mass. Doubles Down on Challenging Big Tech

  09-07-2026 16:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's decision to join the multidistrict litigation over social media addiction follows the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's April ruling preventing Meta from avoiding liability in a consumer protection suit from the state's attorney general.       
  
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• The Home MRI Paradox

  09-07-2026 16:25 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The future value of lawyers will come less from generating first drafts and more from knowing how to choose, feed, test and deploy professional systems in a way that serves the client's strategy.       
  
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• The Week in Data July 8: A Look at Legal Industry Trends by the Numbers

  09-07-2026 12:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, including why India's M&A market is entering a new phase.       
  
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• Legal AI Is Not a Singular Category and Cannot Be Governed As One Solution

  09-07-2026 07:19 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Before asking whether AI use is permissible, defensible or reliable, practitioners have to identify what function the system is supporting in the legal workflow. Treating all legal AI as a single category obscures the actual source of professional risk: not the existence of AI itself but the role the system plays in the provision of legal services.       
  
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• DC Court Accepts SEC's Deal With Elon Musk, Despite ‘Significant Misgivings'

  09-07-2026 02:26 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said she had "significant misgivings" about the settlement, but that the deal didn't meet the high threshold to be rejected.       
  
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• White House Internal Communications Shed Light on Trump's Law Firm Deals

  09-07-2026 01:30 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The communications released by the DOJ in late June, in the form of redacted emails, ultimately relate to three elements of Trump's 2025 war on Big Law.       
  
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• 'The Most Whack-a-Mole of All of My Cases': Miami Judge Grapples With Ballooning Smartmatic Docket

  09-07-2026 01:19 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  U.K.-based elections technology company Smartmatic says the government's decision to drop its prosecution against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, in part because the case was primarily foreign, warrants the dismissal of its case. But prosecutors said Wednesday "Adani bears no resemblance to this case."       
  
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• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Could Testify in 2nd Social Media Addiction Trial

  09-07-2026 00:56 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl, at a Wednesday hearing, told lawyers she tentatively planned to allow the testimony of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, as well as Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel, at the July 27 trial.       
  
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• Legal Departments Boost AI Spending, Press Outside Counsel for Cost Savings, Deloitte Finds

  09-07-2026 00:32 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  A new survey of 121 legal leaders finds AI adoption accelerating across in-house departments, with GCs increasingly looking to technology to cut costs, insource work and reshape law firm pricing.       
  
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• Despite SEC's Proposal to Ease Disclosure Rules, Shareholders May Demand More

  09-07-2026 00:31 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "I do think it will be interesting to see how much impact investors, proxy advisers and the like have with respect to influencing companies to disclose more than the bare minimum," Latham & Watkins' Bradd Williamson said.       
  
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• Amid Pressure to Make a Deal With the DOJ, Yale Law Community Urges University Leadership to 'Defend Its Autonomy'

  08-07-2026 23:34 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Members of the Yale University and Law School community, including current students and alumni, are urging the university not to make a deal with the government.       
  
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• Japan's Nagashima Ohno to Launch Office in Silicon Valley

  08-07-2026 23:23 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The firm, one of Japan's "Big Four," has had an office in New York since 2010, but this is its first U.S. expansion to the West Coast. The timing coincides with Japan's agreement to invest $550 billion in the U.S. over the next few years.       
  
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• Amid Rise in Healthcare Discrimination Claims, Salvation Army Fends Off Challenge to Opioid Ban in Rehab Facilities

  08-07-2026 21:49 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The complaint against the Salvation Army continues a trend of individuals bringing disability claims against rehabilitation and treatment centers, data from Law.com Radar shows.       
  
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• Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Novel Suit Over Ultra-Processed Foods Falls Flat, Judge Suggests Videotaping Testimony of Social Media Execs

  08-07-2026 18:34 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  This week: A federal judge in Pennsylvania refused to allow plaintiffs to amend a first-of-its-kind suit against manufacturers of ultra-processed foods, such as Coca-Cola and Kraft Heinz. Lawyers for Meta and Snapchat will respond in court today about videotaping their top executives at the next social media addiction trial. Find out who represents Nvidia in a class action alleging it built multiple commercial AI voice products by using human speech from prominent journalists, podcasters an
  
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• How I Made Partner: 'Spend Less Time Second-Guessing,' Says Cameron Jordan of Skadden

  08-07-2026 17:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  "I would spend less time second-guessing whether I belonged and more time focusing on development, judgment and relationships. That confidence comes with time, but it does not need to take as long as it often does."       
  
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• Your Firm's Reputation Now Exists In Two Places: What AI Means for Legal Marketing

  08-07-2026 17:33 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  AI-assisted discovery isn't displacing relationships, referrals or reputation. What it is doing is becoming the context in which all of those things get their first airing. Increasingly, the question a prospective client asks an AI tool is the question your reputation has to answer before you ever enter the room.       
  
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• For Legal Talent, Remote Flexibility Carries Compensation-Level Value

  08-07-2026 16:02 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  Return-to-office requirements are still prompting lawyers to reject job offers, according to recruiters, even as employers regain leverage and seek more in-person work.       
  
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• Charles Russell Speechlys Breaks Into the US with 2 Offices and Major Team Hire From Withers

  08-07-2026 11:59 via feeds.feedblitz.com
  The London-based private wealth firm is entering the U.S. with offices in New York and Connecticut, anchored by the hire of seven senior partners and one senior counsel from rival Withers.       
  
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