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LITIGATION: The stage is set for a potential circuit split over judicial enforcement of arbitration awards stemming from a law seeking to limit surprise medical billing, Mike Neighbors reports in the latest Trend Detection Weekly Scan from Law.com Radar. REGIONAL: Josephine Hardin, an associate with Atlanta-based litigation firm Huff Powell Bailey, and her mother, Alyson, are still missing and presumed dead in the July 4 flash flooding in central Texas, Thomas Spigolon reports. LEGAL TECH: A&O Shearman collaborated with legal AI startup Harvey to develop agentic AI tools that automate specific tasks for multiple firm practices. Rhys Dipshan looks at exactly what these new tools do and how they streamline work for firm attorneys. |
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BUSINESS OF LAW: Reed Smith has added two new members to its senior management team, joining five other leaders, Jon Campisi reports. INTERNATIONAL: Some law firms are landing a surge of business from a trend of U.S.-based investors acquiring U.K. companies, driven by potentially undervalued British assets, Habiba Cullen-Jafar reports. CORPORATE: Sean Major has resigned as GC of Air Products, a giant supplier of industrial gases and chemicals. As Trudy Knockless reports, his departure follows the appointment of a new CEO who is taking the company in a different direction. |
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| Hello and welcome to Law.com's new template for the morning alert. In our top stories from The Legal Intelligencer today, Pennsylvania is joining the growing list of states that are adopting the NewGen Bar Exam. Also, Stevens & Lee is expanding in the Garden State. |
| | | Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Alabama are the most recent states to adopt the NextGen bar exam, beginning in July 2028. Read More |
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| | | Brian Satz and his team are Stevens & Lee's latest corporate additions, after it added on nine corporate attorneys from Rhode Island's Duffy & Sweeney earlier this year. Read More |
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| | | The defendants claimed in their respective post-trial motions that inflammatory behavior from plaintiffs' counsel Thomas Bosworth, of Bosworth DeAngelo, prejudiced the trial's outcome. The plaintiffs, meanwhile, contended in their post-trial Read More |
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| | | "We continue to believe that the verdict against the hospital is legally unsupported because Pennsylvania law does not recognize 'team liability' and instead requires that vicarious liability be based on the negligent acts of a specifically identified... Read More |
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| | | According to the whistleblower's claims, Bove said at a March meeting that the DOJ “would need to consider telling the courts fuck you'" and ignore any potential court order that would enjoin removals before they could be carried out. Read More |
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