Law.com

‘You're Undermining My Authority': Federal Judge in Hair Relaxer MDL Goes on the Defense

FTI Technology Launches IQ.AI for Review to Accelerate High-Stakes Discovery and Investigations

Legalweek 2025: HaystackID? Takes Home Four Prestigious Industry Awards

BCLP Pulls Out of Asia With Plans to Close Hong Kong and Singapore Offices

Marsh & McLennan, represented by Jackson Lewis, has filed a business tort and trade secret lawsuit against several former employees and IMA Financial Group, claiming that IMA orchestrated a coordinated raid of plaintiff's surety brokerage business, resulting in the simultaneous departure of 10 employees and the transfer of 42 clients. According to the suit, the defendants accessed confidential data and solicited clients while still employed at Marsh & McLennan in violation of their employment contracts. Marsh & McLennan seeks damages exceeding $500,000. #LawdotcomRadar https://lnkd.in/ghfKMBqw

Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Georgia Jury Hits Monsanto With $2B Roundup Verdict, Another Class Trial Begins Over Oregon Wildfires

Sobriety came up during Rob Lowe's keynote Tuesday at #Legalweek25, with the actor speaking about his journey and revealing a personal observation about lawyers who are also in recovery. His conversation with ALM chief content officer Gina Passarella covered a range of other topics, too, all centered on the "art of reinvention." Read more about their talk here: https://lnkd.in/gVjPhKuy

Associates have plenty to say about BigLaw's silence on Trump's pressure campaign against the industry and are taking the lead as leaders and partners stay quiet: https://lnkd.in/epGySMN4

Sharing the stage with the insightful and connected Patrick Fuller at #Legalweek25 and talking about the State of the Industy is one of my favorite things I get to do all year. And right now there is so much to talk about! Jennifer Turney Thomas Phillips Gina Passarella

At the start of the #Legalweek25 session "The Top Litigation Costs in 2025 and How to Control Them," moderator and chief customer officer of DISCO Melanie Antoon took an informal poll of the audience, asking which areas presented the biggest cost challenge for their legal departments. Among such choices as budget predictability, e-discovery infrastructure and deposition costs, the clear winner was legal services such as attorney fees and document review. The panel, which included firm attorneys and a senior counsel for Peloton, could certainly relate. In the wide-ranging conversation about cost containment that followed, a few themes emerged: ?? This is not an easy task. "When you are first taking on a case and understanding the scope of a case, it's really hard to predict where you may end up several years down the line," said Jessica Tseng Hasen, senior counsel and head of e-discovery practice at Perkins Coie. "It's very hard to know what you don't know, especially if you're working with a client for the first time as outside counsel. It takes a little bit of time to figure out the client's system, their processes, what their appetite for risk is. And all of those are factors that weigh into how you budget." ?? It's important to know when to get off the bus. "I find myself talking about the lifecycle of litigation as getting on a bus," said Michelle Anderson of Fisher Phillips. "So we don't know at what point we're going to get on the bus. I do labor and employment law, and so with employment law, sometimes you're getting on the bus at an administrative phase. In the administrative phase there might be an opportunity to get off the bus or it might be during mediation ... So a lot of times we're talking about being on the bus and how long do we want to be on the bus versus your ability to defend or prosecute the case." ?? Data is key. "The easy things to price out are the discovery costs," said Christian Hakim of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. "You can do some good diligence on the front end to determine your sizes, your number of custodians, your sources, and what the cost is going to be and how it's going to play out this time. I think the key part in this is having meaningful data to look back on, and that is something we work with all of our clients, our internal partners to makes sure that we're tracking the right metrics to eventually be able to look at them after the fact." ?? Reliable partners are even more essential. "One of the things I think is really key for any in-house department," asserted Laura K., senior counsel at Peloton Interactive, "is to find true partners that are invested in the company's success and who learn and understand not only what the company does but also what technology it has, really understands where the documents are ahead of time ... partners who not only talk the talk but walk the walk." In the video, Kessler talks about her preferences for hiring outside counsel while considering cost.