"Students in the Seattle Public Schools, like students around the country, are struggling with anxiety, depression, thoughts of self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which led King County to join the U.S. Surgeon General last year in recognizing the youth mental health crisis in this community," the Keller Rohrback law firm, which is handling the case, said in a statement. "According to the Surgeon General, one in five children aged 13 to 17 now suffer from a mental health disorder."

Thomas Gallagher, who chaired Pepper Hamilton until its 2020 combination with Troutman Sanders, is leaving for Goodwin Procter alongside two practice chairs. A total of 40 attorneys could make the move.

"I think it was critical because these kinds of opportunities are harder and harder to find in private practice and for people who are relatively fresh out of law school," said Jeffrey Gentes, a George W. and Sadella D. Crawford Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and the managing attorney at the Connecticut Fair Housing Center.

Administrative Patent Judge Steven Amundson wrote that Centripetal Networks' claim of bias 'lacks merit,' but that he was withdrawing to simplify the issues and give a replacement judge more time to get up to speed. It's the latest move in a tit-for-tat fight between Centripetal and Cisco over judicial recusals.

In opening statements on Wednesday, a lawyer for Tesla shareholders insisted that Elon Musk's 2018 tweets were lies that caused investor losses. Musk's lawyer said the statements weren't fraudulent.

"It is despicable behavior to target and harass students in this way," Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said.

Law firm pricing that emphasizes value instead of time may follow the drop in productivity.

"The employees who really should have non-compete restrictions are those who have the keys to the kingdom, or who know the secret sauce," said Becky Baker, a Vinson and Elkins partner.

Proposals in the pipeline deal with a broad range of topics, including hate speech, reproductive rights and pay equity.

A federal judge has approved a $2.25 million class action settlement in favor of workers who were allegedly instructed by their employer not to include two 15-minute breaks when recording their compensable hours on their daily timesheets and further awarded the plaintiffs' attorneys one-third of the common fund.

The attorney said the sanctions would cause him "incredible hardship" as a solo practitioner.

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"Connecticut graduates and families owe billions of dollars in student loans," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said. "These unaffordable payments delay many from buying homes, opening businesses or starting families, and from beginning to build wealth for themselves."

"It's such a conundrum. Someone's got to be able to lance this boil and let us know what we're supposed to do. I don't know whether it's the Appellate Division, I don't know whether it's the Supreme Court," said William Gold, attorney for Cindy Johnson.

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The long-running 'cum-ex' scandal has previously seen Freshfields' Germany offices raided, with other high profile lawyers being investigated and tried.

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Jordan Marshall Taylor, 29, of Spring Valley (Rockland County) was last seen on Jan. 6, between 4 and 6 p.m., at Hustle Barbershop in Kenwood Gardens/Briarwood, Queens, Carissa Frey told Law.com on Tuesday.

Senior U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is presiding over the case, and attorneys questioned potential jurors who used words like crazy, arrogant, unpredictable and narcissistic to describe the tech executive.

The chair of Quinn Emanuel's antitrust & competition practice, Neuwirth cemented his legacy as a rare litigator who excelled on "both sides of the v."