First up, are litigators at Kirkland & Ellis and Jones Day who won a defense summary judgment ruling in the first four bellwether cases scheduled for trial in the paraquat multidistrict litigation. Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel in East St. Louis, Illinois, who is overseeing the paraquat MDL, found…

Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week’s news about the judiciary. This week, I spoke to a few attorneys and a former judge about what the long-term impact could be of the decline in jury trials and, presumably, appeals stemming from jury verdicts. Fewer Jury Trial Verdicts…

A number of top firms including Latham & Watkins, Reed Smith, Shoosmiths, DLA Piper and Ashurst are advising as the U.S.’s Apollo-backed Concord Chorus Group takes private the embattled London Stock Exchange-listed music investor Hipgnosis, in yet another blow to the U.K’s premium stock market. Concord, which has agreed to acquire…

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Law firms should expect changes in the dynamic between them and their clients to transform as legal tech, especially AI, grows in prominence, senior in-house lawyers said at conference. Speaking at the Future Lawyer conference in London this week, in-house lawyers and other members of the legal community gathered to discuss…

After being awarded $100,000 in plaintiff damages by a Fulton County State Court jury, ex-NBA player Jordan Hill has been ordered to pay more than $175,000 in attorney’s fees to opposing counsel. The ruling comes one year after defense counsel with Groth, Makarenko, Kaiser & Eidex in Duluth successfully blocked $22…