The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court's grant of qualified immunity to the University of Iowa after a graduate student found responsible for sexual assault and sexual harassment filed suit against the university and university officials.

This result sends a strong message that Atlas will vigorously defend its patents that play a key role in modern Wi-Fi standards," said lead attorney Max Tribble of Susman Godfrey.

"As a Judge, I had no agenda other than to try to resolve disputes justly and expeditiously under established principles of law," U.S. Senior District Judge Edward F. Harrington said.

"Over and over, I've promised to my partners not just that I will leave the firm better than I found it, but that I will leave it better the day after I leave than the day before. Today, I feel very good about that promise," outgoing CEO Joe Conroy said.

"I wonder if I'll get in trouble for talking about a gag order," plaintiff attorney Mike Rafi says in a social media post. "A gag order is an option for a judge to prevent a lawyers from saying anything about an ongoing case. On its face, it's a violation of your First Amendment rights and Freedom of Speech."

The partnership votes to approve the tie-up will start on September 28 and will be completed by October 13.

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If your firm is in the Am Law 100, the odds are good that the moves affect you and your firm, according to some veteran recruiters.

"It has now moved to where, in most cases, you do need to work where the job is," Mike Evers, a Chicago-based in-house recruiter, said.

In this week's episode, Law.com legal technology reporter Isha Marathe spoke with Vid Prabhakaran, Davis Wright Tremaine partner and member of its AI steering committee; and Dan Szabo, the firm's director of enterprise projects, about DWT's very own chatbot that looks a whole lot like ChatGPT.

Industry groups geared toward sports, media and universities are capitalizing on the increasing commercialization of college sports.

Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recalls his clerkship for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and judging is sometimes a family affair.

"The automotive supply chain is incredibly resilient, but a strike lasting more than several weeks will likely cause some suppliers to seek bankruptcy protection," said Ann Marie Uetz, a partner at Foley & Lardner.

In the traditional OCI process, everyone is provided with the same list of rules, one law firm's recruiting director said. "If you go outside of that process, how do you find out about the opportunities and learn the rules?"

"[M]y own view is that she should have given [the ring] back," Associate Justice James R. Milkey wrote of the former bride-to-be in a dissenting opinion. "But why should my personal view on this issue matter? To me, the ultimate question this case poses is whether such issues should be resolved in courts of law, or instead left to the interplay between private conscience and social norms."

"Thanks to the generosity of Michigan, I was given a full scholarship," John K. Hoyns said in a statement. "I've always felt that the Law School and the scholarships granted to me were critical to my success as a lawyer, [so] I wanted to provide the same opportunity to others."

"We're hired by the clients for our skill and expertise, and that's what they pay for and that's what they're entitled to," said plaintiffs personal injury lawyer Nicholas Leonardis.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed an order denying preliminary injunction to a religious organization over a battle with a Michigan township to feature religious displays on the organization's prayer trail.

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

In-house lawyers across the continent have been fighting for years for the right to legal professional privilege. Increasingly, they are winning.