"It is our understanding that these proposed rules were scheduled to be finalized last month, and we are concerned about the delay," stated a letter signed by 66 members of Congress and addressed to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona.

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COVID-19 court closures put pressure on some firms' economic models, and most players in the arena don't regularly bring in fresh talent to create a pool of future leaders.

"It is so much easier to keep people happy when they can't see someone is making more than them even though they have more in originations," said Jeffrey Lowe, recounting the message he hears from firms with opaque compensation models.

The breach, impacting nearly 20,000 people, affected the data of two health care clients subject to HIPAA, according to the Am Law 200 firm.

"Construction is at the heart of our economy. As our construction industry grows, our economy grows," said Franchesco Soto, chair of Miami-based boutique firm Haber law's construction law group.

Raul Yanes, the latest lawyer to move between a bank and Big Law, will again lead Davis Polk's white-collar defense and investigations practice.

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Judge Lida Kharooti, who served as a judge on Afghanistan's anti-corruption serious crimes court for 13 years, shares how she fled the country when the Taliban took over.

An email exchange over a Black Affinity Group event, and another that spotlighted "social awkwardness" of lawyers, were among those the jury were provided access to.

"Though I agree that Mr. Allen offers no good excuse for his non-compliance—and arguably digs a deeper hole through his attempts to deflect blame onto his counsel—I find that a less severe sanction than default judgment is initially warranted for Defendants' and Mr. Allen's misconduct," U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson for the District of Maryland wrote in an order Wednesday.

Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented from a decision that San Francisco's anti-vagrancy enforcement likely constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

"Most people who know me, know that I think of Wyoming as home," Julie Anderson Hill posted to LinkedIn. "I am happy to be going home."

"If it's not in the license agreement, you do not have rights of exhaustion after the license agreement is terminated," said Kirk Villalon, a partner at Quintana Portal Villalon.

"A runway incursion should never happen, and there are so many backup systems that are supposed to prevent it, that it's really surprising in this environment and today's world that there could possibly have been such an accident

Ian Bremmer, a political scientist who issues a list of top 10 global risks at the start of each year, predicts the divergence between red and blue states is only going to get worse.

"Although any slumber by counsel during trial is distressing and detrimental, counsel's constructive absence during either a significant portion of trial or an important aspect of trial so offends the constitutional protections surrounding the right to assistance of counsel that it renders the entire adversary process 'presumptively unreliable' and creates an uncurable error, 'even if the error was ultimately harmless,'" Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd wrote.

"As we approach the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we are experiencing an onslaught," Yusuf Z. Zakir of Davis Wright Tremaine writes. "Here, I will seek to correct the record about equity, inclusion, and diversity."

"We are getting good with the technical applications of fighting the stuff. But at the end of the day, it comes down to the human," said Stephen Dougherty, a financial fraud investigator with the U.S. Secret Service.

"People are just more willing to listen about the future and creating connections, than in previous years," noted one Am Law 200 leader.