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Health Care / Medicine
How Can Digital Health Startups Stand Out In Today’s Landscape?
During a recent panel, Flare Capital Partners' Michael Greeley and Mount Sinai's Robbie Freeman shared some attributes that they think stand out among digital health startups that have found success in today's environment. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.25.24
* Apparently realization rates are falling across Biglaw. Must be nice to have money to burn. [American Lawyer]
* Can we take a second to revel in the utter cowardice of the Democratic Party? [Balls & Strikes]
* “Boeing Files Trade Secrets Suit Against Virgin Galactic.” I didn’t know “door falling off in flight” was a trade secret. [Law.com]
* Illinois judges dump diversity policies for advocates because conservative white dudes have hurt feelings. [Reuters]
* Orrick closes Taipei and Shanghai offices. [Law.com International]
* Justice Stephen Breyer discusses his new book titled “if you didn’t think I needed to retire before, check out how out of touch I am now.” [ABA Journal]
* Law student decides she can’t date anymore. Everyone else came to the same conclusion in school but didn’t get a glossy write-up. [People]
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Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Health Care / Medicine
What Are The Challenges Facing The Pharmacy Industry Right Now?
The regulatory environment and workforce shortages are plaguing the pharmacy industry, one Walgreens exec shared at the Abarca Forward conference on Tuesday.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.22.24
* Tennessee passes first law protecting musicians from AI. Now Nashville doesn’t have to compete with some robot going “I love trucks and drink beer and hate migrants” all played over the same stupid chord progression. [Reuters]
* Remember: it’s NOT improper forum shopping to file cases in one-judge districts so you can 100% choose a judge with zero contacts to the underlying dispute but it IS sanctionable to embrace random assignment but modify your claims. [NBC]
* Lewis Brisbois sued for bias. How could something like that have happened at… oh wait. [ABA Journal]
* Look who finally turned themselves in. [Detroit News]
* Republican donors might be the top litigation financiers in the country. [Yahoo]
* Joe Manchin announces that he’s a feckless bigot and somehow this is treated as “news.” I know he fancies himself a high priced lobbyist but… why? One side doesn’t trust him and the other side played him as a rube. A lobbying firm that hands him a penny after he retires is just wildly mismanaged. [Bloomberg Law News]
* How is Biglaw laying people off when these MoFos are making money?!?! [American Lawyer]
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Government
Replicator, Planes, And Multi-Year Deals: What’s In The New FY24 Defense Spending Bill
The bipartisan spending package, released early this morning, increases defense funding by $27 billion over the previous year’s enacted budget and includes a number of key provisions the department had requested. -
Government, Health Care / Medicine
Health Execs Applaud Biden’s Executive Order On Women’s Health
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to improve women's health research, among other things. Several women's health executives came out in support. - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so… -
Small Law Firms, Sponsored Content
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.21.24
* After all the cynical gamesplaying over the precise limits of when a stay becomes a stay, the Fifth Circuit dissolved the phony stay and decided to hear argument on a real stay. Got all that? [Reuters]
* Law.com names the dealmakers of the year. Which one negotiated the idea of opening Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day? [Law.com]
* Law360 editorial staff walks off job amid ongoing labor issues. [LinkedIn]
* Chasing the White House, Republicans call for raising the Social Security retirement age. Way to put your finger on the pulse of America. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Why are public lawyers defending a private civil suit against Eric Adams? It’s like the Trump administration yet somehow more bumbling. [The City]
* Firms with expiring leases more likely to relocate. Which makes sense in a hyrbid world. What made less sense is how many expanded their footprint (read: “overhead”) anyway. [American Lawyer]
* Julian Assange negotiating guilty plea with DOJ. I wonder who leaked this one? [WSJ]
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Government
Marine Corps Hands Lawmakers $2.4 Billion Service ‘Wishlist’ For Next Year
If lawmakers could free up $250 million in the FY25 budget, the service could use that to purchase two additional CH-53K helicopters, or $341 million could be used for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle 30mm Cannon (ACV-30) line. -
Small Law Firms, Technology
Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
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In-House Counsel, Legal Operations
How Law Department Pros Can Get The Resources They Need
Join us on March 21 for a CLE-eligible webinar titled 'Winning the Race for Resources: Building a Powerful Business Case for Your Legal Technology Project.'
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Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Courts, Fashion
Hermès Facing Class-Action Lawsuit Over How It Sells Birkins
The luxury brand is being accused of unlawful 'tying' sales practices for its most revered bag. -
Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Intermountain Health CISO: The Industry Needs Better Transparency After Cyberattacks
After a healthcare cyberattack, the impacted organization often doesn't want to divulge a lot of information, Intermountain Health CISO Erik Decker said last week at HIMSS. However, he thinks healthcare organizations should be more transparent with their peers after an attack because ‘no one system operates independent of everybody else.’ -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.20.24
* Trump claims meeting bond requirement would require selling off real estate at “fire sale prices.” In other words, “at the values he reported to tax authorities. [Yahoo]
* Supreme Court can’t figure out which stay is a stay and so now some people can’t stay. [Slate]
* Remember the Arizona lawmaker who said an anonymous Supreme Court justice told a bunch of law students that Justice O’Connor was “the worst thing to happen to the Supreme Court”? Here’s the deep dive investigation into which indecorous justice might’ve said that. [Balls and Strikes]
* Biglaw partner would like the IRS to please tell him how it plans to catch tax cheats going forward. And the mob would also like to know in advance which phones the FBI might be interested in tapping. [American Lawyer]
* Subway franchisees want you to eat fresh… less excited about fresh decor. Brings on lawyers to push back. [Corporate Counsel]
* Trump asks Supreme Court for absolute immunity because it’s impossible to be president without a little overt criminal activity. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Conservatives beg courts to save the whales (as long as saving those whales blocks renewable energy projects). [Law360]
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Finance, Health Care / Medicine
Healthcare Docket: Feds And States Move To Curb Private Equity’s Takeover Of Healthcare
Will American healthcare go the way of the banking sector’s consolidation into a handful of all-powerful titans? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.19.24
* Dartmouth is refusing to negotiate with its newly unionized basketball team in most on-brand Ivy League move ever. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Practicing without a license? Check. Sexual harassment? Check. Wrongful termination? Check. Florida? CHECK CHECK CHECK! [ABA Journal]
* DOJ plans to target companies making fraudulent AI claims in advance of lucrative IPOs. [Reuters]
* In flicker of rationality, Supreme Court seems unwilling to accept that the government can’t talk to social media companies. [Law360]
* Partner bonuses? Law firms coming up with creative solutions to stave off lateral departures. [American Lawyer]
* Antitrust settlement changes the home buying process. That should teach them that only lawyers deserve to be paid based on how much the client makes! [Law.com]
* Indiana law threatens to fire tenured professors for objecting to racism. Meanwhile at Penn Law… [Truthout]
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Health Care / Medicine
Should The DOJ Break Up UnitedHealth Group?
The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly recently launched an antitrust investigation of UnitedHealth Group, which begs the question of whether the healthcare giant should be broken up. Experts have varying opinions. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.18.24
* A Kirkland associate is Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Queen. [Law360]
* Meanwhile, Kirkland hauls in over $7 billion. It would’ve been more but SOMEBODY had to go be a parade queen. [American Lawyer]
* Supreme Court lets college keep its ban on drag shows. So we’ve finally found the limit of the shadow docket and it’s “where it might help actual people whose rights are being taken away.” [Reuters]
* KPMG hoping to crowd out Biglaw in the AI race. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Conservatives continue to tell on themselves by complaining that new rule against forum shopping is unfair to them. [ABA Journal]
* Washington introduces alternative path to law license. [Law.com]
* Lawyers already getting giddy about embarrassing the government in court if TikTok ban passes. [WSJ]