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There's a new pregnancy discrimination case unfolding in the Eleventh Circuit, and we've got a quick take on what's at stake. Plus: we're tracking a fast-moving new dispute over noncompetes and nondisclosures, and the Fifth Circuit's James Ho has some thoughts on the scope of Title VII protections. Thanks for reading!

U.S. District Judge Dan Polster heard testimony Wednesday from Baker Hostetler partner Carole Rendon about her former job as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, during which she headed an opioid task force.

The human rights scholar has been on the Stanford Law faculty since 2003 and recently led an effort to bolster diversity and inclusion on the law campus.

Is 2019 the year that Congress passes its own version of the GDPR? And when will legal departments finally jump on the AI bandwagon?

"Despite having prosecuted this matter for more than four years, OFCCP now wants to change course. Why?" Oracle's attorneys at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said in a new filing in a pay-discrimination case.

Following the growth, KPMG has made big moves in Hong Kong, the U.K. and France to kick off 2019.

Nimesh Patel, Akin Gump's new chief diversity and inclusion officer, says "it's terrific" that clients are becoming more demanding on diversity issues.

“Please preserve all information that may be relevant to the Sandmann Matter, the letter says. “If our clients pursue litigation, we intend to serve discovery requests to access your computer networks and systems, and to seek the production of relevant documents and communications.

David Smail, a veteran in-house lawyer and former partner at Hogan Lovells, succeeds a retiring P. Gray Finney as the top lawyer at the Boca Raton, Florida-based company.

The Veterans Benefits Administration anticipates that "tens of thousands of veterans" will file claims within the first year if the Federal Circuit ruling is not put on hold,

In a first-in-the-nation lawsuit, the U.S. Attorney's Office is seeking a declaratory judgment that says safe injection sites, where heroin users can inject the drug under the supervision of medical staff, violate provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.

The region is experiencing a major shift in lateral movement, according to an analysis by The Asian Lawyer.

Herring is the next in line to lead the state after embattled Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.

Lauren Kloss, who was recently elected as the next editor-in-chief of the Cornell Law Review, said the election of an all-female executive board at the flagship journal of a top law school is the latest signal that women are edging toward parity in the legal profession.

The U.S. Justice Department has raised its voice in several cases in which employees challenged "no-poach" employment agreements, and lawyers are weighing the impact of the feds' intervention

Emojis are creeping into more cases, meaning judges and lawyers need to be ready for them.

The Federal Circuit declined to review en banc a ruling that much of the tech industry has blasted as an end-around the Supreme Court's TC Heartland decision.

The merger boosts Clark Hill's Dublin head count to 19.