Recruiting rainmakers is costly, and sometimes risky. So more firm leaders are supplementing their gut feelings with detailed data.

In a battle over attorney fees, Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals has called for an evidentiary hearing to determine whether a Broward County law firm involuntarily withdrew from a case after two clients filed a bar complaint against the firm's lawyers.

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As the latest controversy involving Penn Law professor Amy Wax demonstrates, law schools face an uphill battle in seeking to discipline tenured faculty members over "extramural" statements.

Boies has not made a Supreme Court appearance in nearly a decade.

"How can judges who have been schooled in the extraordinarily punitive system that produced mass incarceration for the past thirty years suddenly operate in a system that—one hopes—will reflect wholly different premises?" wrote former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner.

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The SPAC backed by Jeff Hammes is combining with a cybersecurity tech provider. Two legal veterans describe it as a smart deal.

The bulk of the settlement value comes from Navient's agreement to cancel $1.7 billion in debt, which will benefit approximately 66,000 borrowers, according to the California Attorney General's Office.

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Outside the Am Law 200, a great proportion of midsize firms benefited from increased demand and decreased expenses in 2021, and they're investing in targeted growth.

"The question before us is not how to respond to the pandemic, but who holds the power to do so," the justices said in an order blocking OSHA's vaccine-or-test requirement for large employers.

"Metaphysical questions about the meaning of 'object' aside, fire falls within the scope of this definition of 'weapon,'" the appeals panel wrote. "It has been used in war for millennia ... and it can be used to destroy, defeat, or physically injure others."

In a joint partnership, the University of Texas School of Law along with Vinson & Elkins, have begun a new pipeline program dedicated to

"So much for 'justice delayed is justice denied.' How about publicly committing to moving the Ripple case as 'swiftly' as possible with no more delays?" Stu Alderoty wrote in a series of Twitter posts lashing out at the SEC.

The program will serve students in high school, college and law school from underrepresented backgrounds through a long-term initiative that involves outreach, education, mentoring and scholarship support, Milam Newby, managing partner of Vinson & Elkins, said.

Fourth Circuit undertakes a close factual analysis to determine whether shareholders had shown that a company and its executives aimed to mislead shareholders by overstating the company's financial prospects.

The 'huge investment' will involve the Big Four firm focusing on what it calls legal business solutions.

"Consumers—and employees—have corporate boardrooms on the defensive," political scientist Ian Bremmer said in his 2022 report on top global risks.

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Latham and Fenwick acknowledged a willingness to consider remote candidates, but Quinn Emanuel remains an outlier with its blanket "work from anywhere" policy.