Jon Campisi

Indiana, Minnesota and Washington state are all mulling proposals that would allow nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, following in the footsteps of Arizona and Utah.

Meanwhile, "corporate America is sprinting ahead," according to a new Law.com Pro Fellows report, "Keeping Pace: Law Firms in the Era of AI-Driven Business."

One defense attorney argued that disclosure of funding agreements would allow litigants to determine how much control funders exercise, but litigation funders contend that existing ethics rules offer sufficient protections.

The firm partnered with the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School to lead the inaugural AI & Access to Justice Summit.

While Quinn Emanuel continues to allow all attorneys to work remotely, other firms that had embraced out-of-footprint associates have shifted their stance.

A Delaware federal judge found that the firm could keep representing a plaintiff even though it also counsels the defendant's parent company. The opinion could have broader implications for firms and attorneys representing multi-layered businesses.

Morgan Lewis hired tech partner Marina Aronchik from Mayer Brown, which in turn landed private equity partner Jonathan Dhanawade from Paul Hastings.

California-based workplace services company SBM Management Services alleges that the global firm failed to adhere to a requirement in which it would provide updates when expended attorneys' fees and costs reached $15,000 intervals.

"Law firms should talk more about what they're doing," argued diversity consultant Joelle Emerson. "One of the things that makes this so controversial is that people don't know what these programs are."

"We're not just looking to research AI and other areas, we're looking to actually embrace it and lead out front with it," said Jared Kaplan, Lowenstein Sandler's new chief innovation and information officer.