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11/05/2025

Metsera said Tuesday its board has determined that a sweetened offer from Novo Nordisk is a superior proposal to its existing merger agreement with Pfizer, as the pharmaceutical takeover battle continues amid revised bids and a pending lawsuit.

Metsera Inc. said Tuesday its board has determined that a sweetened offer from Novo Nordisk is a superior proposal to its existing merger agreement...

11/05/2025

In addition to the problem of AI-generated hallucinations in legal documents, AI tools can also hallucinate metadata — threatening the reliability of evidence and the ability to definitively identify the provenance of electronic documents, say attorneys at Law & Forensics. https://www.law360.com/articles/2405475

11/05/2025

Lagasse Branch Bell + Kinkead LLP is expanding its ranks by almost a third, announcing Tuesday that the California firm is adding 15 attorneys from the boutique formerly known as Bradley Gmelich & Wellerstein LLP, including one of its name partners.

California firm Lagasse Branch Bell + Kinkead LLP is expanding its ranks by almost a third, adding 15 attorneys from the boutique formerly known as...

11/04/2025

Prudential agreed to pay $4.75 million to end a class claim alleging it failed to protect its clients' personal information after it acknowledged that its systems were compromised in a February hacking incident. https://www.law360.com/articles/2407239

11/04/2025

The Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Joshua D. Dunlap, a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP, to the First Circuit.

The Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Joshua D. Dunlap, a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP, to the First Circuit.

11/04/2025

A Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday declined for the moment Pfizer's emergency request to put Novo Nordisk's $9 billion bid for Montsera Inc. on hold. https://www.law360.com/articles/2407301

11/04/2025

Boston University School of Law will begin offering a certificate in artificial intelligence for law practice in fall 2026 to prepare students for using the technology in their legal careers. https://ow.ly/o8Wn50XmKVR

11/04/2025

Kentucky-based Gray Ice Higdon is planting a flag in Texas with a location in Austin, led by the former head of Eversheds Sutherland's Texas intellectual property practice.

Kentucky-based Gray Ice Higdon PLLC is planting a flag in Texas with a location in Austin, led by the former head of Eversheds Sutherland's Texas...

11/04/2025

BREAKING: A Manhattan federal jury found stock vendor StraightPath's three founders guilty Tuesday on charges of defrauding clients who purchased pre-initial public offering shares from them. https://www.law360.com/articles/2407266

11/04/2025

The Second Circuit suggested Tuesday that the government's $11 billion forfeiture order against Sam Bankman-Fried may be unconstitutionally large.

The Second Circuit suggested Tuesday that the government's $11 billion forfeiture order against Sam Bankman-Fried may be unconstitutionally large, noting that the staggering amount tops the raft of cases tasking the court with determining if such money judgments pass Eighth Amendment muster.

11/04/2025

Sabrina McKenna, acting chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court, had been on the bench for about three decades before she decided to go back to school to study the work of judging. https://www.law360.com/articles/2407227

11/04/2025

Facing a new tax on limited liability partnership members, U.K. law firms are weighing alternative structures in a shift experts say could accelerate consolidation across the sector and spur U.S. firms to reconsider their local setups. https://www.law360.com/articles/2407389

Facing a new tax on limited liability partnership members, U.K. law firms are weighing alternative structures in a shift experts say could accelerate consolidation across the sector and spur U.S. firms to reconsider their local setups.