After decades of working at some of the most prestigious firms in the country, business trial lawyer Paul Salvaty joined boutique Los Angeles firm Cohen Williams last week—and says he couldn't be happier to make his exit from "Big Law."

       

“I don't see any case prevailing on forum non conveniens if the plaintiffs prevail in this case, Justice David Wecht said.

       

"REX cannot prove that Zillow and NAR committed to a common, anti-competitive scheme and the district court correctly granted summary judgment," the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled.

       

The Commission on Judicial Conduct's in-house counsel and a former member of the watchdog say the agency's record year for receiving complaints was spurred by national attention being focused on judicial ethics.

       

“Last year, he made partner at Willkie, as the first pure crypto lawyer to make partner at a Big Law firm solely on the strength of his crypto practice, said J. Christopher Giancarlo, ex-chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and senior counsel at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

       

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California found that despite amending the case twice, the shareholder—Reynolds Family Revocable Trust—hadn't sufficiently alleged that Charles Schwab directors were aware of the alleged issues with the robo-adviser program, much less that the marketing was misleading.

       

The complaint alleges Bove, who remains registered to practice law in New York, engaged in professional misconduct in connection with Justice Department efforts to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

       

The firm said its litigation and investigations partners Ronald Cheng in Los Angeles and Adam Goldberg in San Francisco will soon also be able to practice local Hong Kong law.

       

Wilmer will require its lawyers to be in-office four days a week starting April 28, becoming the latest Big Law firm to up its in-office mandate.

       

In a statement, California's Supreme Court justices said they will wait for a report on last week's technically troubled bar exam before determining what "appropriate remedies" test-takers are owed.

       

We Build the Wall no longer has any human officers, but prosecutors said they would advance the case should anyone appear.

       

"This ruling will have far-reaching implications for businesses, as it will give them much needed financial flexibility in resolving claims without sacrificing the insurance coverage to which they are entitled," said Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna Chair Robin Cohen, whose firm was among those that represented the movie theater chain in the litigation.

       

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Several justices appeared to think Mexico's attempt to hold gunmakers liable for cartel violence is barred by a 2005 federal law.

       

"Practically, how could we go about this?" Chief Justice Debra Todd asked plaintiffs counsel about his constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania's $250,000 limit to damages against the state. "We can't rewrite legislation.”

       

The U.S. Department of Justice fired 20 Immigration Judges, including five in Texas. The move is seen as a major setback in processing the record backlog of 3.6 million cases pending in immigration courts nationwide.

       

The compensation committee heaped praise on Brazeak for gaining regulatory approvals for Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of VMware.

       

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U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, in the Northern District of California, issued her final dismissal order on Feb. 28 in the addiction claims against social media giants Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok.

       

"Given the number of schools with bias response teams, this Court eventually will need to resolve the split over a student's right to challenge such programs," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote.