The bulk of the campaign's April legal spending went to Harder LLP, a firm that has threatened and sued media companies on Trump's behalf.

U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York declined to order additional discovery, finding that a coalition of states and nongovernmental organizations had already succeeded in the case.

"I think the benefit of having worked at Tesla is that I was exposed to so many interesting and challenging projects and undertakings," said Jonathan Butler, Lucid's new GC.

"I'm deeply sorry we're facing these unprecedented circumstances that have required us to make some very hard, very tough decisions," Chief Legal Officer Tony West said in an email to his team.

"One of the things that corporate clients can do is say that they want to understand that [the origination credit]," Aviva Will, co-chief operating officer at Burford Capital in New York, said. "Is it the woman who was actually doing the work on it, or is it the relationship partner who doesn't actually do my work?"

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Law firm Uri a Menéndez said that the results will influence any reopening decisions.

"We began to exhibit symptoms last week, despite diligently complying with stay-at-home rules," the justice wrote.

Panelists from Corporate Counsel's new web series believe that legal operations professionals may face some tough but necessary choices ahead with regards to limited budgetary spend and vendor selection criteria.

Peter Gray was ruled to have "deliberately misled" the High Court during a high-profile case in 2015.

A federal judge in March had denied Cohen's request for a reduced sentence as "just another effort to inject himself into the news cycle."

The court announced Thursday morning that any new criminal jury trials set before June 30 and new civil jury trials set before Sept. 30 will be postponed or vacated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual judges, however, may offer bench trials by videoconference under a newly amended general order.

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Now that a high-profile gender bias suit against the firm is partly advancing, the spotlight will turn to how the firm makes decisions about compensating and promoting junior attorneys.

The list has gotten more complicated, longer and arguably more tedious.

The Seventh Circuit's order Wednesday marked the second time in days that a federal appeals panel had ruled against the U.S. Small Business Administration in disputes over whether adult clubs can seek COVID-19 loan relief.

The Association of Corporate Counsel released results to a flash survey this week on when its in-house counsel members will be ready to attend in-person events again, and it looks like the COVID-19 pandemic may decrease attendance numbers for awhile. Also, the former general counsel of Salary.com talks about trying to find opportunities after being laid off earlier this month.

"We're going to pick people that think like us that will be good judges," said Sen. Lindsey Graham. "But the goal here is to pick people who are qualified, people that can set aside their political views."

Santander, the nation's largest subprime auto financing company, settled claims of loan improprieties with 34 states to the tune of $550 million.

The results of the inquiry will be reported by December 7, the government said.