The FTC began the fiscal year with a staff of 1,315, which has since been reduced by 95 people after deferred resignation, voluntary separation and retirement agreements, the agency's chair said. Andrew Ferguson added he anticipates the staff will be cut further to its lowest level in a decade— about 1,100 full-time employees.

       

At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge Mary Rowland of the Northern District of Illinois said she would grant the government's motion to dismiss criminal charges against Girardi.

       

Today, building brands solely on the promise of a different product or service has become unsustainable. Any “new and improved feature or benefit is quickly eclipsed by competitors. Consequently, brands signal category superiority not through rational claims, but by reinforcing a distinct persona — a “ness comprised of distinguishing traits and behaviors that form an ownable brand essence difficult for competitors to replicate.        

“The world has changed. The profession has changed. The people in the profession have changed.

       

The lawyers leading the case said it is one of the largest class actions to be filed in the U.K.

       

U.S. District Judges Christopher Cooper and Paul Friedman of the District of Columbia granted preliminary injunctions restoring the American Bar Association's $3.2 million federal grant awards and protecting the bargaining rights of the American Foreign Service Association, respectively.

       

The hip hop mogul's defense team used the messages to show his former partner was eager to take part in sex with male escorts.

       

“Whether through impersonation, bribery or social engineering, the endgame is the same: gaining access to corporate IT systems or sensitive data, said Justin Daniels, an equity partner at Baker Donelson.

       

James Wareham, longtime litigation chair at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, died earlier this month at the age of 64.

       

Various U.S. Supreme Court members acknowledged that an explosion of nationwide injunctions by individual federal judges has become a "problem," but they also seemed reluctant to let President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship go back into effect.

       

Sen. Bernie Sanders opposed putting Dhillon atop the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., citing pension cuts at companies where she was legal chief, including U.S. Airways.

       

The Justice Department will avoid retaining “private counsel and law firms that have a conflict with the United States," according to a memo this month.

       

As Jenner fights Trump's executive order against the firm, it has continued hiring, adding Matthew Klapper as a partner to co-chair its congressional investigations practice.

       

In an email to applicants, the state bar said at least four people who were told they failed the February exam actually passed.

       

More than half of the pre-law students surveyed this February said the current political climate impacted their decision to apply to law school.

       

“The goal is to upend everything the bureau has done in the past to remove consumer protection as much as possible," said Christine Hines of the National Association of Consumer Advocates.

       

Louise Pentland is perhaps best known for giving up the legal reins at PayPal amid the Great Resignation, saying she was starting an "endeavor for renewal."

       

Edison International and its subsidiary, Southern California Edison, were hit with a class action last week seeking remediation of property costs and long-term medical monitoring for families and children exposed to lead, asbestos and other contaminants in the wake of the January Eaton wildfire, which was allegedly caused by Southern California Edison's failure to maintain its electrical infrastructure.

       

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U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, of the District of Illinois, granted final approval of the unusual settlement with Clearview AI, a facial recognition startup firm.