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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Judicial Nominating Commission Chair Daniel Nordby have fired back against claims that they exceeded their authority in elevating Renatha Francis before she was technically eligible.

The pool of legal-specific IT professionals on the market has always been shallow, but the rapid shift to remote working and other changes the industry has encountered post COVID-19 could make finding talented cybersecurity professionals even more difficult.

"In general, California gets a bad rap as being hostile to business, but the true fact is we have a tremendous number of innovators here—both individuals and companies—and I am heartened to see the California Supreme Court appears to be taking an approach that is pro-innovation," said Stephen Newman at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in Los Angeles.

"That is how they're constructing that fact pattern into what was supposed to be a clear data breach," Dominique Shelton Leipzig, a partner at Perkins Coie in Los Angeles, said. "The private right of action was supposed to limited to a negligent breach."

"The New York State Unified Court System has never stopped functioning. Not for a day, not for an hour, not for a minute," said Chief Judge Janet DiFiore responding to critics.

A Washington, D.C., federal judge worried that the women were seeking more discovery than is seen in "30 cases combined." But he allowed them to come back with a more focused request, which will likely focus on deposing three firm leaders.

The Lord & Taylor and Tailored Brands restructurings will likely generate hefty legal fees. Top billing partners and of counsel at Kirkland are charging up to $1,845 an hour.

"Though cloaked in new labels, Florida's pay-to-vote system is simply another poll tax substitute imposing a financial bar to voting that the Constitution bans and that courts rejected long ago," lawyers from K&L Gates said in an amicus brief for the former DOJ attorneys.

The judge grappled with how the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling for gender identity protections in the workplace, and another trial judge's ruling against similar safeguards in Obamacare, apply to a lawsuit challenging a new Trump regulation impacting transgender people's health care.

"We may not be able to stop something like this from happening again, but we can make it hard for those who target us to track us down," Judge Salas said.

Experts share their experience and insight around workplace trends and the value of technology tools to drive productivity and engagement in a roundtable discussion.

U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken found the rule's provisions conflicted with the intent of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, a temporary relief program which requires certain employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave or expanded family and medical leave caused by the coronavirus.

"We feel like we're detectives, and our job is to go to the crime scene and figure out what happened, follow the money and try and help the victims as best we can. It's often a whodunnit," one plaintiffs attorney said.

"This means that not only are [deaf and hard of hearing] Americans being denied the opportunity to understand any communication from the President of the United States during this critical time, they are also being denied the opportunity to access information, analysis, and updates from Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx—two renowned public health experts," the complaint reads.

In this third part of a multi-part series, Corporate Counsel presents a dialogue on the proposals to reign in any personal injury (and indirectly, employment-related) COVID-19 lawsuits.

The DA's Office argued that lawyers for Trump failed to bring up new arguments in their amended complaint filed late last month.

While outsourcing is gaining traction, a new survey from EY found most companies haven't adopted managed services for most of their needs. But recent events may trigger broader adoption, an EY legal leader notes.

The perennial leader in M&A deal value got a shot in the arm after dropping out of the top 10 in first half M&A rankings.