The lawsuits draw on reporting from the Wall Street Journal asserting that lead-sheathed cables that various telecom companies inherited from Bell System are leaching lead into the environment.

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More courts are enabling digital ways to serve hard-to-find individuals. But the new ability does not come without its own technological hurdles.

Law firms have traditionally been large consumers of contract labor for a variety of purposes. These workers are traditionally classified as independent contractors, issued a 1099 and treated as ineligible for employee benefits. In recent years, many states have started to adopt the "ABC" test to determine whether a worker should be classified as an independent contractor or an employee.

Firms receiving money from the Georgia Republican Party include an Am Law 200 firm, as well as several small shops and boutiques.

"...[A]s appellees have now conceded, there is no qualitative difference between online instruction and in-person instruction. They are the same, we charge the same, it's the same instruction," argued OSU's counsel, John R. Gall, a senior senior partner at Squire Patton Boggs in Columbus.

"By having the guts to fight meritless lawsuits, like this one, and win, Health First is able to preserve its resources to put them to their highest use—serving the needs of its members, versus lining the pockets of parasitic whistleblowers and their lawyers. Suffice it to say, Health First believes that Judge Gorton got it exactly right and is grateful for the vindication it earned," said Bob Rhoad, a partner at Nichols Liu, who served as counsel for one of the named defendants, Health First Medical Group.

Wilson Sonsini and Goodwin Procter are part of a growing wave of law firms seeking a head start to law school recruiting. Nearly twice as many early offers were made to 2Ls for summer 2023 programs as for the previous year, per NALP data.

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Matt Stephens, one of the few openly transgender trial lawyers in California, joined Littler Mendelson as a partner in San Diego.

ALM Pacesetter Research examined legal departments and their skills set gaps approaches, and the findings suggest that while there is tremendous pressure for legal departments to do more with less, there may also be some missed opportunities in the form of un-utilized help yet to be leveraged

Aimee Williams-Ramey took the job just a year ago. The theme park operator now has had three legal chiefs in three years.

The firm's aggressive hiring strategy has so far seen 12 arrivals from Kirkland & Ellis, and one from Linklaters.

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"In closing the casino and hotel pursuant to the emergency directive, the seller was merely following the law so as to maintain its gaming licenses and thus did not materially breach the agreement," Justice Linda Marie Bell wrote.

The federal government and dozens of states accuse Google of illegally monopolizing the internet search market.

The Massachusetts Appellate Court vacated a grant of summary judgment to an employer, finding the employees' class action lawsuit claiming the business had failed to pay them "Sunday pay" was wrongly dismissed.

Force majeure is lurking in the shadows of the Hollywood strikes, offering struggling studios a potential lifeline out of debt. But the best attorneys and the strongest contracts are proactive, rather than reactive. Thus, consider the following drafting tips to strengthen your force majeure language now, in the calm before the next storm.