In over 40 states, attorneys are required to take a Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course in technology and the law, which includes AI, Artificial Intelligence.

In over 40 states, attorneys are required to take a continuing legal education (CLE) course in technology and the law, which includes AI, artificial intelligence. I had the pleasure of watching New York attorney James A. Sherer’s engaging podcast about AI on the Learn-Formula platform — a provider of continuing legal education courses.

In over 40 states, attorneys are required to take a continuing legal education (CLE) course in technology and the law, which includes artificial intelligence (AI).

Biglaw attorneys bill a lot. That is an uncontroversial truism. But there’s usually an ebb and flow to the work — sure, you might be working like a dog during trial but then you have a blessedly light August, and you can recharge your batteries and the cycle starts anew. But that’s not what’s happened for Sullivan & Cromwell partner Brian Glueckstein.

For tens of thousands of consumer clients who signed up to receive debt relief services from the California-based Litigation Practice Group, the law firm's collapse into bankruptcy last year amid allegations of fraud was not the end of the story.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court overturned the multi-billion-dollar settlement agreement that Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy estate had struck between the Sackler family, the firm’s billionaire former owners, who agreed to pay $6 billion to opioid victims in exchange for full immunity from any future civil lawsuits.

Even for a busy lawyer at a big corporate law firm, billing close to 11 hours a day on a single case, five days a week for 18 months straight is no easy feat. That's the average pace Brian Glueckstein has kept up as one of the lead lawyers in the FTX bankruptcy since it began in November 2022, according to court records though April. All those hours — including 342 in December 2022 alone — have helped his law firm Sullivan & Cromwell amass close to $200 million in billings as debtor's counsel in the sprawling case so far.

The immediate impact of the wife of Antonio Pierce filing for bankruptcy will be to help the couple temporarily pause the legal process of addressing substantial debt resulting from judgments against the Raiders coach, experts said.