New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Cozen O'Connor's Jerry Goldfeder and Winston & Strawn's Julissa Reynoso to the Committee on Legal Affairs. Legal Aid Society head Twyla Carter was also named to serve on that committee.

       

Charles Hosch, co-founder of a Dallas cybersecurity boutique and an adjunct professor in the SMU Dedman School of Law, was reported missing Nov. 11.

       

Corporate, disputes and projects practices have seen the most lateral movement, and international firms were especially active in 2024, as more firms moved into the city-state.

       

At least half a dozen class actions have been filed over skyrocketing egg prices this year by individual consumers, restaurants and grocery stores.

       

“Receipt of this no-action letter underlines the SEC's continued commitment to engage with crypto projects and provide clarity in the space, Alan Chang, CEO and co-founder of Fuse Energy, said in a statement.

       

Milbank's Scott Edelman thanked associates for their "efforts in supporting our clients and the firm on our most impressive ever array of cutting-edge transactions, restructurings and litigation in the market."

       

The AP brought a First Amendment lawsuit against several White House officials after President Donald Trump barred the news outlet from the White House press pool and other spaces over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.

       

The school ranked fourth from the bottom among its T14 peers in sending 2024 graduates into the public interest sector, trailing category leader NYU Law by nearly 16 percentage points.

       

Luigi Mangione's defense attorneys have argued intense pretrial publicity, including comments from President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, have undermined their client's rights. But prosecutors say the Manhattan-based Southern District of New York is familiar territory to highly publicized criminal matters, and that the court is well-positioned to deal with it.

       

Unlike previous technological shifts in the legal profession, the current AI revolution is unprecedented in its velocity.

       

In a dissent Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court's longstanding bar against tort suits from members of the military, known as the "Feres doctrine," has no basis in law.        

"I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. [Lindsey] Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Ms. [Letitia] James's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside," U.S. District Senior Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in an order disqualifying Halligan and dismissing without prejudice criminal charges against the New York attorney general and former FBI director James Comey.

       

"I conclude that all actions flowing from Ms. [Lindsey] Halligan's defective appointment, including securing and signing Ms. [Letitia] James's indictment, constitute unlawful exercises of executive power and must be set aside," U.S. District Senior Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in an order disqualifying Halligan and dismissing criminal charges against the New York attorney general and former FBI director James Comey.

       

James Burnham has an eclectic background that includes working as an attorney for President Donald Trump and serving as president of a litigation funding firm.

       

Jordan Cohen, partner at Wicker Smith and attorney for Harold Peerenboom, indicated his client may appeal the verdict.

       

The decision's consequences would be far-reaching, transforming copyright law into a liability trap that throttles internet access and threatens America's innovation economy.

       

"The longer the case takes, the more that intervening developments in the sector can disrupt your theory of harm," said Bill Kovacic, a Georgetown law professor who was Federal Trade Commission chair in 2008 and 2009.

       

At a time when automation is increasing and firms are contending with the “free agency era, it's becoming a larger business imperative for big firms to have a seamless integration process for laterals

       

The culmination of months of research, the highly influential Rising Stars list is the final word on the emerging talent in this most competitive of specialisms in the U.K. and Europe.

       

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