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Cue our “weird” world. Before November 2022, “generative AI” was not a household term. By early December 2022, ChatGPT had 1 million users; by the next month, it had more than 100 million users. This explosive growth far outstrips any user adoption of consumer applications in history.

In a recent conversation as part of the Lawyer Limelight series, RSHC founding partner Bob Riley, a member of the Lawdragon Hall of Fame, reflects on a career in the courtroom and explains how RSHC’s commitment to professional excellence has fueled the firm’s growth and success.

RSHC’s Managing Partner Patricia Brown Holmes is featured in the most recent Best Lawyers® “From Across the Bench” article.

RSHC’s Greg Curtner is interviewed as part of a feature article “The Business of College Sports” in the Michigan Law School’s current Law Quadrangle.

Most criminal cases end in negotiated plea agreements to mitigate the risks of going to trial for both sides.

RSHC’s Bruce Wagman graces the cover of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. His article, “Accommodating Your Best Friend,” gives legal guidance for tenants with disabilities who depend on animals and live in “no pets” housing situations.

The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in the SuperValu case confirmed the importance of a defendant’s state of mind in False Claims Act cases, holding that, “what matters for an FCA case is whether the defendant knew the claim was false.”

RSHC Partners Patricia Brown Holmes and LaVon M. Johns share their sage insights on how to climb the ladder to success, what it takes to become true rainmakers, and build exceptional practices in “Top of the Mountain,” a spotlight editorial published in the 2023 Business Edition of Best Lawyers Women in the Law.

Not all lessons for a successful law career are learned in the classroom.

The serious shortage of veterinary services began with the pandemic and has escalated to unanticipated proportions.

Social inflation — in the form of billion-dollar lottery jackpots, nine-figure professional sports contracts, and handsomely paid “influencers” — coupled with significant traditional economic inflation has normalized outsize, “nuclear” jury verdicts and this phenomenon is impacting the outcomes of cases.

Autonomous Vehicles (AV) are quickly becoming closer to becoming the norm for everyday life. The question stands that if an AV is involved in a crash, who will be held accountable?

According to one study of 600 trucking verdicts, between 2006 and 2011, there were 26 verdicts over one million dollars.[1] Between 2015 and 2019, there were almost 300.[2] In 2006, the average verdict in the National Law Review’s Top 100 Verdicts was 64 million.[3] By 2019, it rose to 214 million.[4] What was once a 10-million-dollar verdict, is now a 30-million-dollar verdict. What was once a 30-million-dollar verdict, is now 90.

The global supply chain crisis has been one of the most widely discussed economic problems since the Ever Given lodged itself into the side of the Suez Canal. In the United States, part of the reason for this is the shortage of truck drivers. There are currently about 80,000 fewer drivers than what the economy demands. A number of start-ups have begun working to solve this problem by replacing truck drivers with autonomous trucks. Autonomous trucks don’t have to follow the hourly limits that truck drivers must follow. As a result, they can do twice the work of their human counterparts.

In "Practicing Animal Law – Applying Professional Ethics While Dealing with Immoral and Unethical Conduct" Bruce Wagman outlines the benefits of using the legal requirement to act ethically to give yourself the ability to maintain integrity and professionalism.