Wake Up Call: Rapper Faces $10 Billion Astroworld Suit

In today’s column, more Big Law firms matched the new Davis Polk scale for associate bonuses; corporate legal departments are expecting a bigger workload and bigger budgets next year; a federal judge threw out actor Rose McGowan’s racketeering lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein and his lawyers David Boies and Lisa Bloom.

• Leading off, a Houston law firm representing 1,547 plaintiffs in the Nov. 5 Astroworld Festival disaster said it has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against rapper Travis Scott and others, a report says. Scott, who recently hired O’Melveny’s litigation chief Daniel Petrocelli to represent him, faces, with concert organizers, hundreds ...