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The filing comes the day after a mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol building in a fury widely seen as having been incited by the president.

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Lawyers across the region are optimistic, as long as COVID-19 can be successfully eradicated.

We asked New Jersey lawyers about litigation trends they expect in the first half of 2021, and they had a lot to say.

The takeover of the building forced the evacuation of lawmakers, staffers and members of the press.

In some countries, coups and juntas decided leadership disputes, but here in the United States we went to court to resolve problems.

Epiq announced last week that it was a launching a new supplemental staffing service geared toward corporate legal departments. Other legal vendors might be eager to follow in the e-discovery provider's footsteps.

In 2013, Breyer, along with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, faced calls to retire.

This year's class of fresh-faced associates—and their new firms—are facing a series of unique questions as they begin their careers, as the tangle with when to start, how to start, and how to avoid getting lost amid a pandemic.

"There will be a backlog of criminal cases that need to go, and then even on the civil side, in Houston at least, I perceive a giant backlog of automobile accident cases," said Houston litigator Pat Mizell. "The commercial cases that are going to take two to three weeks to try, I could see them pushed off until 2022," Mizell said.

Jay Edelson, who obtained a $2 million contempt judgment against Tom Girardi last month, maintained in a court filing on Tuesday that he didn't act alone, but worked with two former lawyers, Keith Griffin and David Lira, to create a "coordinated false narrative" that Boeing was holding up missing settlement payments to clients.

Earlier this week, an appeals court stress tested the bounds of the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act with a little help from communists.

Using the Congressional Review Act, lawmakers in a newly Democratic-controlled Congress could vote to quickly undo recent federal regulations adopted under Trump.

Law.com Radar, ALM's legal news feed, uses automation and data processing to quickly surface and summarize new federal cases. Here's what has turned up for Pennsylvania lately.

Shifts brought on by COVID-19 will not only affect where people work, but also cybersecurity, privacy, employee training, real estate, human resources and more, attorneys and technologists predict.

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Garland, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, was previously President Barack Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Allegations of bullying and price disputes surrounded the unusually public fall-out at Kennedys.

At a Zoom hearing on Tuesday, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Barry Russell, overseeing two Chapter 7 involuntary bankruptcy petitions filed last month, asked whether Girardi or his firm, Girardi Keese, were present. After a pause, he said, "Silence will tell me." He later issued an order authorizing a trustee to oversee the bankruptcy cases.