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DC Circuit Considers Whether Challenges to VOA Staff Cuts Belong in Federal Court

Tue, 2025-09-23 11:59

D.C. Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins seemed skeptical of the government's argument that employees contesting their terminations must to do so on a case-by-case basis before the Merit Systems Protection Board.

       

EPA Proposes Less Stringent Risk Evaluations for Chemicals

Tue, 2025-09-23 10:18

The changes would revert to 2017 rules, casting aside changes adopted during the Biden administration.

       

SEC OKs Auto-Voting for Exxon's Retail Investors, Dealing Blow to Clout of Activists

Tue, 2025-09-23 10:00

Legal observers expect other major companies to copy Exxon, lured by the opportunity to move a portion of their shareholder bases that rarely vote on proxy matters solidly into management's corner.

       

Sullivan & Cromwell Charts Course in Building Private Capital and London Practices

Tue, 2025-09-23 05:59

In an interview, S&C leaders said that, while the firm doesn't make hasty changes due to market conditions, the reality is that the landscape has changed.

       

Houston Trial Firm Ahmad Zavitsanos Raises First-Year Salaries Above Big Law Rate to $235K

Tue, 2025-09-23 00:12

Ahmad, Zavitsanos & Mensing also gave a $10,000 salary raise to second-year associates.

       

J&J Petitions 3rd Circuit to Rehear Talc Securities Case: ‘This Matters in the Real World'

Mon, 2025-09-22 21:12

Johnson & Johnson's rehearing petition follows the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's July 30 decision affirming class certification of a shareholder lawsuit involving statements made about its talc products.

       

Defensibility in the Age of Generative AI: What Lawyers Need To Know

Mon, 2025-09-22 18:13

This complimentary webcast will equip attorneys with frameworks to critically evaluate GenAI, anticipate challenges, and confidently explain their process to opposing counsel or the court.

       

Did the SEC Just Kill the Securities Class Action? Lawyers Are Weighing Impact of Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

Mon, 2025-09-22 17:41

The policy shift goes against decades of SEC history blocking companies from mandating shareholder arbitration. But securities litigators are unsure whether the policy change will be a bomb or bust.

       

Judge Louis Nock Leaves Manhattan Supreme Court Bench to Join Anderson Kill

Mon, 2025-09-22 17:35

Nock made the move following his reelection in November to a 10-year term on the civil court bench. He said he'd been thinking about returning to private practice and it was the right time.

       

Trump, Seeking Criminal Charges Against New York AG, Ousts US Attorney in Virginia's Eastern District

Mon, 2025-09-22 17:15

"I will be nominating Lindsey Halligan to be the United States Attorney in this very important part of our Great Country," President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post after ousting U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert of the Eastern District of Virginia to replace him with someone who may bring criminal charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

       

'Politics, Not Merit'?: Mangione Defense Lawyers Urge Federal Judge to Dismiss Capital Case

Mon, 2025-09-22 16:40

In a motion that also urges the court to find the federal death penalty unconstitutional, Mangione's defense team accused the Department of Justice of a “brazen breach of the death penalty protocol with regard to their client, who is being prosecuted in connection with the fatal shooting of a health insurance CEO.

       

Alfred Youngwood, Former Paul Weiss Chair, Dies at 87

Mon, 2025-09-22 16:09

Youngwood preceded current chair Brad Karp and was the first democratically elected chair in the firm's history.

       

Supreme Court Keeps Fired Democrat Off FTC, Agrees to Reconsider Agency's Independence

Mon, 2025-09-22 16:00

Dissenting, Justice Elena Kagan said the court's emergency docket should not be used "to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation's separation of powers."

       

Court of Chancery Completes Its Largest-Ever Bench With Seventh Magistrate

Mon, 2025-09-22 15:58

Jessie R. Benavides, who spent the past five years as an associate at Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, has experience with family law, estate matters, guardianships, personal injury cases and other civil litigation, having litigated cases in the Court of Chancery, Superior Court, Family Court and Justice of the Peace Court.

       

$3,000 Mistake: Pressed for Time, Lawyer Misuses AI

Mon, 2025-09-22 15:18

The judge said he would impose a penalty on the low end of the scale, based on the attorney's prompt admission, honest disclosure, apologies and commitment to impose safeguards against future misuse of artificial intelligence.

       

Wave of Lawsuits Highlights Uncertainty About 'No Surprises Act' Enforcement

Mon, 2025-09-22 14:36

Federal courts disagree with one another on whether the law allows private rights of action.

       

$72M Global Crypto Scam Allegedly Linked to NY Lawyer, Gulfstream Jets

Mon, 2025-09-22 14:20

At least one investor “was told that a node was mailed to them for safekeeping, and that without that device, no withdrawals could be made.

       

Best of WIPL Webcast: Intentional Leadership - Lessons You Can Use Now

Mon, 2025-09-22 11:45

This webcast distills the most practical lessons from the Women, Influence & Power in Law 2025 conference into one focused session.

       

How I Made Practice Group Chair: 'Try to Keep Your Career in Perspective,' Says Rachel Faye Smith of Morrison Foerster

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:59

"Try to keep your career in perspective and be open to opportunities. There are infinite ways to be successful. I didn't even know ERISA existed when I went to law school, and here I am, two decades later, happy and with a career that I am proud of. Who knew?"

       

AI Firms Have Every Incentive to Settle Copyright-Infringement Suits, Even If It Costs Them Billions

Mon, 2025-09-22 10:53

“It's certainly reasonable that some companies will see the numbers and say that it's safer to resolve the cases, because then it becomes a line item, a business cost, rather than a risk that's hanging over their heads for years, said Regina Sam Penti, a partner at Ropes & Gray.

       

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