Worldwide: Personal Injury

The award recognizes distinguished attorneys and public-interest advocates whose careers have advanced consumer protection, challenged corporate misconduct, and improved public safety.

Shopping centers can harbor hidden dangers like wet floors, uneven walkways, and poor lighting that turn routine errands into serious accidents. When property owners fail to maintain safe conditions, injured visitors may have legal recourse. Understanding liability, common hazards, and the claims process is essential for protecting your rights after a slip and fall injury.

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation establishing new rideshare safety standards and reforms governing medical liens after Uber Technologies Inc. and the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) reached an agreement that ended competing statewide ballot initiatives.

Most law firms underestimate the case manager role. It sits between client-facing work and attorney oversight, and in many firms, it is either underfilled or filled by someone whose time is split across too many other functions. That gap is costing firms more than they realize. A remote case manager who is properly placed and given a clear scope of work creates measurable returns across multiple areas of firm operations. This post maps out exactly where that ROI shows up, and why managing partners at small and mid-sized firms are paying closer attention to this role than ever before.

Most law firms spend real money generating leads. Marketing, referrals, and directories all feed a pipeline of potential clients. Then those potential clients call, and one of three things happens.

On June 30, 2026, Judge Mia Roberts Perez of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied plaintiff Bryce Martinez’s motion for leave to amend his complaint against 11 major food companies, holding that his proposed First Amended Complaint (FAC) failed to cure the primary defect with his original pleading: the failure to plausibly plead a causal link between any defendant’s ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and his alleged injuries

On June 10, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) released a significant Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) that would reshape the regulatory treatment of prediction markets under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision has eliminated a key legal defense for freight brokers, forwarders, and 3PLs, exposing them to direct liability for negligent carrier selection under state tort law.

A federal district court in Utah ruled that a liability insurer had no duty to defend toxic exposure and misrepresentation claims under commercial general liability, umbrella, and employment practices liability policies...