As long as demand and deal work stay strong, the talent wars that defined 2021 will continue through 2022, industry observers say.

News of the reappointment arrives on the heels of several high-profile on-campus controversies at the law school.

"It is the court's belief that the vast majority of the unvaccinated adults are uninformed and irrational, or—less charitably—selfish and unpatriotic," said U.S. District Judge Robert Scola, who sits in the Southern District of Florida.

The panel also deadlocked for the second time on the nominations of Charlotte Sweeney and Hernán D. Vera for U.S. district courts.

"[C]an the attorney's conduct be squared with what would be expected of a reasonable officer of the court in similar circumstances? The answer here is no," U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns of the District of Massachusetts wrote.

The court reasoned that the temporary inability to use property caused by COVID shutdown orders doesn't involve a covered physical loss of property, and in any event, the policy's virus exclusion applied.

Lawyers say the move underscores antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager's willingness to put her foot down where other global enforcers won't.

"Certainty is kind of the oxygen on which companies run. You have a higher degree of uncertainty right now, and it is typically resting on the shoulders of the lawyer," one general counsel told Law.com.

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"The longer you're in a law firm, sometimes there are generalizations made about you that may or may not be true," said an in-house legal recruiter.

"I had a matter where the judge announced that he was taking over three different calendars that day alone," said Brad Baldwin, a provisionally licensed lawyer with Blucker Law & Associates in Ontario.

"This is a hugely important victory not just for Karlie and her family, but for all students and their families across the United States, including survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual violence," said plaintiffs attorney Brian Kent.

A number of academics voiced support for Penn Law Dean Theodore Ruger's pursuit of sanctions against controversial law professor Amy Wax, who has drawn strong criticism over derogatory remarks she made about Asians during a recorded Dec. 20 interview with Brown University professor Glenn Loury. But not everyone agrees with the move, including Loury, who debated Wax on his show.

A judge's ruling in the Facebook lawsuit signals the difficult challenge major technology companies and their lawyers face in forcing recusals of the Biden administration's antitrust enforcers.

The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, alleges Houston-based Marker Group failed to safeguard medical records and other sensitive information compromised in a Sept. 3 cyberattack. Morgan & Morgan filed the class action with co-lead plaintiffs attorneys in the proton-pump inhibitor multidistrict litigation in New Jersey.

Harold Patricoff Jr. and Jake Baccari have joined Duane Morris's Miami office as partners, the Am Law 100 firm announced Wednesday.

"Although we agree that the amount of the forfeiture is substantial, so too is the gravity of Bisignani's offenses and the degree of his culpability," the appellate panel wrote.

"The response to the AALS Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project has been tremendous," said Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig, who co-founded the project. "We regularly hear from decanal and professor colleagues in law that they are using the Clearinghouse as a reference to aid their efforts in creating change at their own schools and in society as a whole."

Robert's statement came shortly after Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch denied reports about a feud over wearing masks on the bench.