“After 30 years as a trial lawyer at Williams & Connolly, I would have never imagined joining a company in-house," Dane Butswinkas said in a statement from Tesla. He will succeed Todd Maron, general counsel since 2013.
In its latest monthly look at employment in the U.S., the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that over 1.1 million people worked in legal services in November, down about 2,400 from the prior month.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral arguments Friday over whether to revive antitrust claims against the National Football League Inc. over its “Sunday Ticket subscription package.
The 2018 TRACE Bribery Risk Matrix, released Thursday, names the least and most risky of 200 countries evaluated as well as the least and most risky continents. The study's methodology changed this year.
Maureen Ohlhausen, who left her post as acting Federal Trade Commission chair in May, was a Trump administration nominee to join the Federal Claims Court.
The gift from Chris Jeffries and his wife, Lisa, is the sixth-largest ever to a law school, according to the University of Michigan Law School. The funds will go toward student scholarships and other financial support.
In highly competitive markets with intense lateral movement, it is not unusual to see lawyers move from one law firm to another, only to return to their former firm after a few years.
AT&T, represented by Sidley Austin partner Peter Keisler, defended the Washington trial judge's ruling and argued the Justice Department's case was based on flimsy economic modeling.
“Your argument seems, frankly, a little bit one-note, Kagan told counsel to the challenger during one exchange Thursday in the case Gamble v. United States, which confronts double-jeopardy and an exception to the clause.
The decision from Florida's Third District Court of Appeal throws out an injunction that had stopped the City of Miami from banning vacation rentals. With the ban reinstated, Airbnb hosts in some Miami neighborhoods will no longer be able to rent out their homes.
Plaintiffs lawyers, however, consider the Cambridge Analytica scandal "the tip of the iceberg" in Facebook's "willful pursuit of generating revenue at the expense of its users.”
“Well-settled law, plain statutory text, and the Census Act's legislative history all establish thesame conclusion: [the statute] is a reporting requirement reviewable by Congress, not the Court, the DOJ wrote in its brief.
Male partners are earning 53 percent more than female partners in 2018, according to new data. Much of the difference can be attributed to men continuing to originate more business than women.
Disputes specialist James Lee will move back to Los Angeles to be an Arnold & Porter partner. He headed White & Case's office in Korea for three years.
The E-Discovery Day panel described numerous 2018 cases, including EPAC Technologies v. HarperCollins Christian Publishing and Waymo v. Uber Technologies, that had far reaching implications for the e-discovery world.
