Daily Report

10/09/2025

Building the Dream Team: Effective Vendor and Partner Selection in Legal Ops

Gain a practical framework to evaluate providers, reduce costs, and build partnerships that deliver lasting operational value.

10/09/2025

Musk Agrees to Settle With Ex-Twitter Execs Seeking $128M in Severance

The four former Twitter officers charged in a March 2024 lawsuit that the billionaire denied them contractually owed pay as retribution for forcing him to complete his $44 billion purchase of the social media network after he attempted to back out.

10/09/2025

‘A Number to Send a Message': Attorney Behind $966M Talc Verdict Says He Wasn't Surprised

Danny Kraft, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers at Dallas-based Dean Omar Branham Shirley who scored a nearly $1 billion mesothelioma verdict on Monday against Johnson & Johnson, talked to Law.com about the case’s complex history and what he learned about the jurors.

10/08/2025

More from : On the latest drop from this week's Women, Influence & Power in Law conference, Legal Speak podcast co-host Cedra Mayfield speaks with TomTom's head of commercial legal, Anne Bliek, about the usefulness of connecting with peers in the legal world and about adopting technology.

𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 🔗 https://www.law.com/2025/10/08/live-from-wipl-with-anne-bliek/

10/08/2025

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025: Businesses Should Prepare for Deepfakes

What started as a novelty has transformed into a serious risk for chief legal officers—one capable of disrupting a stock price, an M&A deal or tricking an employee into wiring millions of dollars. This alert provides businesses with practical steps to develop a deepfake response plan.

10/08/2025

At least seven judges in Cobb County have terms expiring Dec. 31, 2026. Candidate qualifying is set to run March 2-6, 2026, and nonpartisan primary elections are expected to follow May 19 and June 16.

Litigation reporter Cedra Mayfield has the details: 🔗 https://www.law.com/2025/10/08/challenging-a-judge-these-cobb-jurists-term-in-office-expires-next-year/

10/08/2025

ICYMI. ‘You Guys Created a Terrible Mess': Ga. Appellate Court Upholds $5.6M Dog Bite Verdict

Keeping that $5.6 million, however, might not be the only win for the plaintiffs, according to their lead counsel, Matt Cook of the Cook Law Group.

10/08/2025

Dentons Hires Nelson Mullins' Business Development Leader To Create Global Client Strategy

“They need a solution to help them understand the challenges and issues of local governance, of local legal ramifications,” said Jonathan Gardner of Dentons.

10/08/2025

Two law firm leaders in North Carolina said their lawyers did the best they could to keep serving clients in the weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the Asheville region in late September 2024.

“I think there was a lot of reciprocal goodwill in the legal community toward the people that I work with,” Hall Booth Smith attorney Adam Peoples told reporter Tom Spigolon

“We feel like we were fortunate,” said Sabrina Presnell Rockoff, managing shareholder of Asheville-based McGuire Wood & Bissette. “We did not even dock any pay. We knew how important this was.”

See the story for details on how things played out in the weeks and months after the storm: 🔗 https://www.law.com/2025/10/07/asheville-legal-leaders-saw-offices-grow-in-year-recovering-from-hurricanes-devastation/

10/08/2025

Challenging a Judge: These Cobb Jurists' Term in Office Expires Next Year

With their terms set to expire Dec. 31, 2026, these Cobb County judges must soon decide whether to run to remain on the bench.

10/08/2025

ICYMI. Collaborating litigators with Cook Law Group and Stemberger Law secured a $5.5 million settlement for a client injured in a commercial trucking collision.
https://www.law.com/2025/10/06/55m-settlement-insurer-resolves-after-spoliation-sanctions-sought/