An Illinois lawyer could be facing disciplinary action after referring to another attorney as a "piece of poop" and threatening to "flay him on a public pillory."
The University of California, Los Angeles must face a graduate student's Title IX lawsuit alleging that the school discriminated against him on the basis of sex during a disciplinary investigation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Jan. 11.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit last week rejected a request for en banc review in its overturning of a trial judge's dismissal of a criminal case under the Speedy Trial Act.
During his nomination hearing, Republicans repeatedly pressed Sanchez on his work in Gov. Jerry Brown's office, overseeing the adoption of regulations implementing California's Proposition 57.
Investigations by the Justice Department and a House select committee have both homed in on a federal obstruction statute enacted as part of a corporate reform law following the Enron scandal of the early 2000s.
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Midsize firms benefited from a confluence of factors last year. "We've gotten more at-bats in the last 12 to 18 months than we were getting before COVID hit," said one midsize firm leader.
"The attrition is so high, the profession is having whiplash. I think one of the cures for that whiplash is to build in time off in a more significant way than we traditionally have," legal recruiter Kathryn Holt Richardson said.
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A Jan. 31 jury trial in Kansas City, Missouri, over the pesticide Roundup was postponed on Tuesday after Monsanto raised concerns about rising COVID-19 cases.
"We are all facing a dynamic situation regarding COVID-19, so ExamSoft has continually maintained and communicated a timeline with clear milestone requirements to allow for a remote bar exam administration," an a spokesperson for bar exam software-maker ExamSoft told Law.com on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, a three-judge appellate panel heard oral arguments in Whole Woman's Health Alliance v. Rokita, in which the state is appealing an Indiana federal judge's ruling blocking several abortion restrictions.
"Simply put, there shouldn't be one set of rules for Republican nominees under Republican presidents and a different set for nominees under Democratic presidents," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin.
Abrams, chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and CEO & founder of Abrams Media, will join Don Lemon and ALM's editorial team for the Amplified, Polarized & Digitized: Navigating the Current State of Communication keynote on Wednesday, March 9.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan also rejected Prince Andrew's constitutional challenge to a state law that extended the statute of limitations for child victims of sexual abuse.
