At a Feb. 2 telephonic hearing, Girardi's Illinois lawyer, Seema Ahmad, asked U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland, of the Northern District of Illinois, to allow her to determine whether her client is mentally competent to stand trial.

"HLS does not award merit aid (or 'full-ride' scholarships, which are not typically need-based) because doing so would decrease the resources available for need-based aid, and significantly increase the debt burden of every student with financial need," according to its website.

"The decline in male enrollment and the increasing number of students who choose not to disclose their gender present new dimensions in the evolving narrative of gender diversity in legal education," the Enjuris report states.

"The tweaking of their model may have stopped some people from leaving, but they don't seem to be leveraging the other aspect of breaking lockstep to expand and grow," noted one observer.

In Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Reynolds, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld Iowa Code Section 717A.3B(1)(a)-(b) (2019), prohibiting using deception to access an agricultural production facility with intent to cause harm to the facility, and using deception in an employment application, on a matter that would reasonably result in denial of employment at an agricultural facility, with the intent to cause harm to the facility.

Bret A. Cohen, chair of the firm's L&E practice, died in June 2023 from brain cancer without receiving a bonus and "overage allocations" that totaled about $1.9 million, his widow says in a new suit.

Granular testimony from Davis Polk partners, current and former, added strength to the law firm's defense, says Jessica Taub Rosenberg, co-chair of Kasowitz Benson Torres' employment practices and litigation group.

We heard about generative AI approaches at Wall Street heavies, global firms, labor and employment giants, and outfits with roots in nearly every major legal market in the U.S.

The majority of respondents to a recent survey of practicing lawyers across the U.S. said they would question a lawyer's competency if they had a difficult time passing the bar or if they never sat for the bar.

More than a dozen current and former Davis Polk partners testified in the course of the trial, along with several current and former professional development staff members. That level of detail gave weight to the defense.

Johnson & Johnson subpoenaed records concerning plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline and a partnership involving attorney Andy Birchfield and one of its former lawyers.

Several leaders of D.C.-based litigation boutiques said they had strong or solid 2023.

"Whether you win the case for them or not, or make a plea deal, there's a real opportunity to help restore, and help them believe in their second chance," said Molly Bloom, author of "Molly's Game."

The firm's famously high NQ pay is "indirectly demanded" by clients, London co-managing partner Andrej Wolf said.

An Oregon cannabis wholesaler dropped its lawsuit challenging a state ban on interstate sales, marking another recent loss for Dormant Commerce Clause arguments.

"Defendants acknowledged at oral argument that the record does not tell us whether the alleged hand-soaking occurred before or after the sutures were removed. But if Butts-Franklin had soaked her hand after the sutures were removed, it 'c[ould not] be the basis for a mitigation of damages instruction' because she 'did not act contrary to the advice given,'" Justice Stuart A. Raphael wrote on behalf of the unanimous appellate panel.

The high court reversed a circuit court's order reinstating a man's license, concluding there were reasonable grounds to request the driver to consent to a drug expert recognition test, despite blowing a 0.00 breath alcohol content.

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Chief executives from social media giants Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and others testified Wednesday about the effect of social media on young people. Here

The firm has made a concerted hiring push in Germany in recent months, adding corporate laterals from Clifford Chance, among others.