"Like all humans, judges make mistakes (yes, even appellate judges)," said Judge Michael S. Catlett, in his written opinion for the court. "Arizona Rule of Civil Procedure 60 accounts for that fallibility. Rule 60(a), for example, allows a superior court to amend a final judgment to fix 'a clerical mistake or a mistake arising from oversight or omission.' And Rule 60(b) allows a superior court to relieve a party from a final judgment due to, among other things, a 'mistake.'"

Other courts across the country have "uniformly rejected" challenges to the "pandemic-induced jury selection procedures" similar to Bell's, while this is the first time a Washington court has addressed the matter.

An effort to find precedent by comparing the debt-ceiling impasse to a federal shutdown, like the one the country incurred in early 2019, was a challenge.

"[T]he district court—whose decision to disqualify was informed, in part, by a comparison to an internal investigation of a private company—does not appear to have sufficiently appreciated the separation-of-powers concern," the appeals court said.

Chief Judge James Boasberg seemed underwhelmed with the attorney's arguments but granted the request anyway. Boasberg said the judge who'll be assigned the case might reach a different conclusion.

Cleo Elaine Powell, a Virginia Supreme Court justice who in 2011 became the first and only African American woman to serve on the state's high court in its 244-year history, has been named the 2023 recipient of the state bar's Clarence M. Dunnaville Jr. Achievement Award.

Within weeks, though, the defendant lost virtually all of the startup company's $35 million in the alleged cryptocurrency-venture scheme, and only then did he tell the executives of the company what he'd done, the indictment alleges.

Am Law 100 partners are defecting to Second Hundred firms for better business development opportunities, and their clients are on board.

For the Am Law Second Hundred, 2022 was a great year. They are looking to continue that growth, but is their market-leading performance here to stay?

"The nonuser statute imposes a time limit for opening only county roads. The roads and alleyway in Waltman's Addition ceased to be subject to the nonuser statute in 1890 when the town of Rockford was incorporated and Waltman's Addition was annexed and became part of the town," held Judge Siddoway.

The suit was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.

Post-COVID, plaintiffs firms are leveraging the increased focus on purpose-driven work, though they still have similar struggles to Big Law on return-to-office policies and paths to equity.

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"You're going to see scrutiny like you've never seen before," BakerHostetler partner John Carney said of the DOJ's pursuit of wrongdoing. "It's not like 20 years ago, when a company would circle the wagons and contain it."

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly found that a class of consumers could sue Abbott Laboratories for economic damages tied to its recall of contaminated infant formula.

Former coal magnate Don Blankenship challenges landmark First Amendment decision in bid to revive his defamation claim against cable giants who called him a "convicted felon."

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit determined a juvenile detention center's superintendent was entitled to state sovereign immunity from a class action by youth detainees who alleged that they were subjected to unduly harsh conditions after he allowed a popular show to film at the facility.

"Touching partner compensation is the third rail of law firm politics. You don't touch it. It can cause a lot of consequences you're not ready for," said Ken Callander, principal at Value Strategies.

This week, we delve once again into the U.S. News & World Report's education rankings, but this time examining law schools who were happy with this year's results.

Mike Chapin said on LinkedIn that he is excited to rejoin the company as it rekindles its "startup superpowers."