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"Everyone here knows doing originalism is no easy task, and leaving district judges to do it alone would be impossible," Amul Thapar said.

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Angel Shelton Willis is taking the legal reins from Rashida La Lande, who left in August to become general counsel of Estée Lauder.

In a conversation with The American Lawyer's Patrick Smith, Skadden's Ki Hong describes how his practice came to fruition, how things have changed in the political climate over the last 20 years, how Harris' entry into the fray creates some confusing donor situations and what changes might make the whole apparatus a bit easier to understand.

"It's definitely a good time to be a law firm partner," said Major, Lindsey & Africa's Louis Ramos, referring to a survey showing partners are relatively happy with their pay.

On one hand, some say Trump recognized the judge's skillset when he appointed her to bench long before she ever presided over any cases involving him. But on the other, some court watchers say awarding her the top job would seem like a reward for her adjudication in Trump's favor.

An attorney for Maria DiLorenzo on Friday vowed to appeal, asserting that arbitrator John Lifland's ruling is "riddled with errors" and "ignored clear legal principles."

At firms with more than 500 attorneys, 49% of leaders indicated in a new survey they were rolling out new training initiatives to help upskill partners. For firms under that threshold, only 23% indicated that this was a priority.

Former Moody's GC John Goggins "regrets and accepts full responsibility" for failing to file his returns and "is grateful to the court for considering the comprehensive measures of accountability and restitution he has taken in connection with his misdemeanor offenses."

Plaintiff Dorothy Farrell of Connecticut was awarded $20 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages for claims under New York's Child Victims Act.

Walden said the mayoral bid had nothing to do with the decision to step away from his role as managing partner.

Ellyn Josef discusses demand for pro bono work in rural Texas and how needs might change under a new administration.

"The statute is still relatively new in the sense that the case law interpreting and applying the statute's standard for pleading-stage dismissal has continued to develop," said Ellyde R. Thompson, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan.

"This is very significant not just for this individual case but for the profession," said BrotmanLaw's Ellen Brotman, who represented Michael Pisanchyn.

"Applying Chevron deference in immigration cases and deferring to the Board of Immigration Appeals is like deferring to the prosecution on the meaning of criminal law," Cecillia Wang said. "The Loper Bright decision represents an opportunity to hit the reset button in places where courts have inappropriately deferred to agency interpretations of the laws that Congress enacted."

"A whole lot of work is assigned simply because the department ran out of time," said Susan Hackett, CEO of Legal Executive Leadership.

Although pursuit of an appeal of an adverse ex parte decision from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to the Federal Circuit may under some circumstances prove to be quicker and less expensive, appeals to district courts are becoming increasingly attractive given recent changes in the law and USPTO practice in defending these actions. Based on the authors' recent experience in several such appeals, they can share the following lessons learned.

The votes to advance their nominations come at a critical time for the courts in Union County, which has six vacancies, tying it with Mercer County for the largest number of vacancies in the state judiciary.

"You had to really have a vision of what was happening here," solo practitioner Michelle Holmes said. "This idea that people got fired over complaining about a porta-potty in the parking lot, nobody could really see the First Amendment component of the case. ... I really dug deep and I could see what the case was about."

"What is the violation of your client's own rights?," Justice Andrew A. Pinson asked appellant counsel during oral arguments Tuesday.