Growing racial biases against Asian-Americans has led to 'skyrocketing' caseloads for Sanford Heisler, which is pushing to expand its Asian-American litigation practice group.
The incoming SRA rules mean senior management of UK law firms will essentially be held accountable for addressing bullying, harassment and discrimination within their ranks.
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"It's unclear how 'the Lord Voldemort of administrative law' comports with our legal history and tradition," Judge Andrew Oldham wrote in a concurrence.
Job recruiters owe a duty of reasonable care to job seekers to accurately represent their credentials to prospective employers, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has ruled, allowing a claim to proceed against a staffing agency that falsely represented that one of its candidates had a college degree.
An Oregon attorney has been reprimanded failing to memorialize the essential terms of a contract under which his clients agreed to perform construction work in lieu of paying legal fees.
First-time takers in 2022 achieved an aggregate 73.87% pass rate (78.33% with diploma privilege), which is approximately a 2-percentage point decrease over the comparable 80.28% pass rate (with diploma privilege) for 2021, according to the ABA's announcement released Friday.
The committees include the state's Advisory Committee on Rules of Evidence, the Maine Civil Legal Services Fund Commission, and Maine's Judicial Education Committee.
The Colorado Court of Appeals held that, in order to recover losses caused by a drunk driver, the state's Dram Shop Act requires there be a connection between the alcohol sold and the intoxication of the purchaser.
"This case got to trial because the plaintiff refused to come to their senses before trial," defense counsel Brian Rosenthal said. "We obtained a number of serious exclusions of evidence prior to trial, and told them very early on the case no merit."
"If you still have a job and it's decent, you're going to stay. People are really valuing their jobs right now," said Sean Burke, founding partner of Whistler Partners.
The complaint says the partner used the firm to boost her own separate practice. But lawyers for the defendant said she had been preparing her own action against the firm and said the complaint was preemptive.
