Charles Toutant

The appeals court said the Speech and Debate Clause immunizes legislative fact finding but does not provide a blanket protection over all things in any way related to the legislative process.

Lawyers could find themselves in unfamiliar territory as the need to train AI platforms spurs buying and selling corporate data in deals like Google's $10 million transaction with Spirit Airlines.

Mark Salah Morgan of McCarter & English is launching a series of podcasts to shed light on those who have left Egypt to make their fortunes elsewhere.

A trial judge erred on two rulings concerning whether to admit expert testimony in a legal malpractice case, the Appellate Division said. The ruling allows a man whose physician allegedly made errors in surgery a second chance to bring a legal malpractice suit against a law firm and his lawyer's estate.

The chief circuit judge dismissed an ethics complaint against the Miami jurist, finding a restriction on political activity by judges only pertains to elections.

Lawyers representing Japanese Clients in litigation in the U.S. explain how they get—and keep—clients.

In Japan, litigation is rare and less confrontational. The adversarial posture and invasiveness of U.S. litigation is often disorienting.

After a federal judge found a reasonable basis to uphold a jury's award, a motion by Port Authority Trans Hudson for remittitur or a new trial was denied in the case of an injured railroad worker who stands to receive $2.9 million based on a 22% contributory negligence finding.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) argues that New Jersey's landmark disparate impact rules pressure lenders and landlords to consider race in lending and renting decisions or risk discrimination liability for refusing to do so.

“We should never lose sight of this event and what it has done to us,” said U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, Southern District of New York.