More than half of the pre-law students surveyed this February said the current political climate impacted their decision to apply to law school.

“The goal is to upend everything the bureau has done in the past to remove consumer protection as much as possible," said Christine Hines of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

Louise Pentland is perhaps best known for giving up the legal reins at PayPal amid the Great Resignation, saying she was starting an "endeavor for renewal."

Edison International and its subsidiary, Southern California Edison, were hit with a class action last week seeking remediation of property costs and long-term medical monitoring for families and children exposed to lead, asbestos and other contaminants in the wake of the January Eaton wildfire, which was allegedly caused by Southern California Edison's failure to maintain its electrical infrastructure.

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U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, of the District of Illinois, granted final approval of the unusual settlement with Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup firm.

The bill would prevent the kind of shareholder action that ultimately led Elon Musk's Tesla compensation package to be voided.

More than 30,000 lawyers, or about 34% of eligible members, have already voted in the election since it opened April 15, the CEO of the D.C. Bar said this week. Paul Hastings partner Brad Bondi is running for president against solo practitioner Diane Seltzer.

"Personally I would question a law firm that bent the knee at bullies, and I would hire a lawyer who was a zealous advocate," Sandra Leung said on the 'Original Jurisdiction' podcast.

The former associates launched a campaign inviting the public to ask nonprofits and law schools to remove management-level partners from their boards due to their firms' deals with the Trump administration.

In a SEC filing dated Sunday, Incyte, which is both incorporated and headquartered in Delaware, indicated the payment represents roughly five years of disputed royalty payments linked to the drug Jakafi. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Paul Hastings represented Wilmington, Delaware-based Incyte.

“With our budget request, we're also acting responsibly to try to contain our courthouse footprint and ask you for funding only when it's absolutely necessary," said Robert Conrad, former U.S. district judge and director of the Administrative Office of the Courts.

The case stemmed from allegedly defamatory statements made by a Ghanaian member of Parliament—broadcast from his home in New Jersey—about a BBC journalist. The politician argued that, once the court properly dismissed the claim for actual damages because the plaintiff journalist failed to establish any harm to his reputation from the alleged defamatory statements, the plaintiff therefore could only recover presumed, nominal damages, not to exceed $500 and could not collect punitive damages. The judge agreed.

Foreign lawyers and firms will be allowed to open offices in India and engage in corporate legal matters such as joint ventures, M&A and other related transactional work on a reciprocal basis, as well as represent clients in arbitration cases conducted in the country.

Leaders from the world's largest law firm by revenue looked to gather as many firms on the EEOC list as possible, sources say.

"Even if this Court found a sound basis to exercise discretion under Rule 62.1, Defendants have not made the showing necessary to warrant partial dissolution of the preliminary injunction," U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali wrote in his order denying a Trump administration motion for an indicative ruling.

The stage is set for the justices to finally debate the propriety of nationwide injunctions, and whether President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order—widely seen by scholars as running afoul of the 14th Amendment—should be reinstated as court challenges play out.

A person who was not a creditor of a bankruptcy estate was entitled to actual notice of an injunction that would bar the non-creditor from suing the debtors' insurance carriers, a federal court has ruled.

Steven Lovell will continue to advise Emporia State University but as an outside consultant, not an employee.