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Milbank will charge $300 per hour for attorney work it does representing New Jersey “sanctuary cities” in a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration, according to a resolution by one of the cities.

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Frank Ryan, the global co-chair of DLA Piper, talked about his firm’s more cautious international expansion on our podcast, On The Merits. He also talks about why he thinks younger lawyers can stymie their career advancement by opining publicly on hot button issues.

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US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan found AI chatbot Claude to have conducted an excellent analysis of a complicated Constitutional dispute.

Freshfields Leader Dawson Tapped for Second Term at Helm of Firm

Georgia Dawson won another term leading Freshfields, the law firm said Thursday.

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Judge Scraps Opinion After Lawyer Flags Made-Up Quotes

A New Jersey US district court judge withdrew his decision in a biopharma securities case Wednesday after lawyers complained that his opinion contained numerous errors, including made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes.

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Paramount Global’s merger with Skydance Media was approved by the US Federal Communications Commission, which backed the deal after the Trump administration extracted concessions on the news and entertainment company’s political coverage and diversity practices.

CarePoint Creditors Urge Bankruptcy Fee Cuts for Sills Cummis

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On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.

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Money Funds Take Major Leap in Tokenization Deal, JPMorgan Says

The partnership between Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. to tokenize shares of money-market funds represents a “significant leap forward” for the $7 trillion-plus industry as it helps boost the appeal of cash as an asset, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. strategists.