The legal profession rewards endurance, precision and control. It also quietly normalizes stress, isolation and overextension. For patent practitioners and other IP lawyers, the pressures are uniquely acute: compressed prosecution deadlines, high-stakes litigation exposure, often unrealistic client-driven budget constraints, regulatory whiplash at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and increasingly complex technologies layered with global filing and prosecution strategy.
"In my judgment, the smart glasses were clearly connected to his mobile phone during his cross examination because no voice was heard out loud until his smart glasses were removed and disconnected from his glasses."
The suit, filed on behalf of CrowdStrike investors in August 2024, accused the defendants, who included the company's founder and CEO George Kurtz of making false and misleading statements over the efficacy of the Falcon platform at the centre of the outage. It also alleged failings over software testing and quality assurance and claimed that CrowdStrike was seeking to maximise its profit by rushing untested updates.
It's a deposition in a box. From the time that you agree on a date and time of the deposition to all the way past trial, these deposition tools take care of you. Filevine Depositions builds on the functionality of the Filevine platform, which means scheduling, transcripts, summaries and analysis happen in a space that's integrated with where the rest of the case data already sits.
If you need to appear on camera during your call, make sure you know what's going on around you. Close that window if you're on a noisy street and flip on a light. PCMag's lead camera analyst Jim Fisher stresses that "Soft fill on your face is all that matters." Using a desk lamp with a shade should work, as long as you can avoid harsh, direct light. "If you've got big windows, face the windows so they light you up; otherwise the camera is going to struggle with exposure."
From law firms to in-house legal teams, the rules of value are being rewritten. The question is: Who's ready to lead the change? In the first episode of 2026 for the UpLevel View podcast, Stephanie Corey and Ken Callander sit down with Rita Gunther McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and Wall Street Journal columnist, to talk about how AI is forcing professional services to price outcomes instead of hours.
We begin the year by peering into our crystal balls and issuing some predictions for 2026. Who will be fired? What's going to happen with law schools? Is a big change on the horizon for Biglaw? Our predictions will inevitably be wrong, but we'll offer them with a lot of confidence - just like AI would. Also a whole lot of sports talk for a law podcast.
