State, local and national bar associations said they will continue DEI efforts after a January executive order threatened civil compliance investigations.

       

On Tuesday, attorneys with Ellis & Winters filed a notice in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina that the defendants, Lauren Kulp and Tandem Legal Solutions, reached an agreement with Jury-X, a jury and analysis company that uses human and artificial intelligence to help identify juror bias.

       

The prosecutors' recommendation that personal injury attorney Leonard Hill be admitted into a diversionary program had been unusual.

       

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The Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia has filed additional ethics charges against Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shermela Williams.

       

In Brown v. City of Tulsa, involving a former police officer's First Amendment retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983 (Section 1983), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that conducting Pickering balancing at the motion to dismiss stage is almost always improper.        

International trade partner Jamieson Greer lists 64 clients, including some in the agricultural, electronics, energy and housing industries. His nomination cleared the U.S. Senate Finance Committee last week.

       

Sandra Leung began her legal career prosecuting homicides, a formative experience that she once said taught her "to make decisions quickly and to be accountable for those decisions." She will be succeeded by Bristol Myers attorney Cari Gallman.

       

New York passed a law in late December called the Climate Change Superfund Act, which seeks to recover $75 billion from fossil fuel energy providers who emitted greenhouse gas in New York from 2000 to 2018.

       

The standard of care question wasn't whether Li knew that the decedent was assigned to him as a patient, or whether he could have accessed the information using Epic, but whether Li had a duty to know about and promptly see the patient.

       

The plaintiff's complaint includes multiple instances of alleged workplace discrimination, such as earning less than her male colleagues in the workplace during her 16 years of employment. In one instance, the defendant reclassified and later demoted her from being general counsel to an assistant city solicitor.

       

The new 49-page guide updates and supersedes the 2006-issued guidelines, and includes information about the 2016 Massachusetts Code of Judicial Conduct.        

“As regulatory expectations increase and technologies become more complex, effective compliance and legal measures will be critical to maintain financial integrity while also preserving legitimate access for the ecosystem, said Andrew Fierman, head of national security intelligence at Chainalysis.

       

Richard Baer, 67, will receive $5 million in stock grants on his first day with the satellite radio broadcaster. He'll work remotely.

       

"I would say get to know the people in the office, get to know what they do, and be invested in the success of your colleagues. The last one is hard because law firms generally reward lawyers based on their personal economic contributions but ultimately a successful firm requires major cooperation and interaction between lawyers. This means that some times you have to drop everything to help your colleagues but I think over the long run this pays off in a meaningful way."

       

Andrew Ferguson has barred the commission's non-Senate-confirmed political appointees from serving in the American Bar Association's leadership, participating in ABA events or renewing association membership. Ferguson also banned Federal Trade Commission funds from going toward ABA events or membership dues.

       

"Ford has known for 26 years that people were getting killed and hurt by these weak roofs," lead plaintiff attorney Jim Butler of Butler Prather in Atlanta said in a statement. "Ford has constantly refused to admit the danger or warn of the risk."

       

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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez heard opening statements on Tuesday in a two-week trial over the fate of Johnson & Johnson's third talcum powder bankruptcy.

       

“While crypto matters can raise novel issues, the core issues in a dispute are resolvable, as the Court has done here, using well-tread securities and contract legal precedent, said Daniel Maland, a partner at Rennert Vogel Mandler & Rodriguez, and the immediate past co-chair of the Florida Bar Business Law Section Blockchain and Digital Assets Committee.