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The issue before the justices is whether removing the federal question from a complaint requires that the litigation be remanded to state court.

"Neglecting wellbeing within DEI initiatives could undermine efforts to shape a positive firm culture," writes Lee Ashby Watts of Bass, Berry & Sims.

"I've never died before," said workers' compensation attorney Travis Jablonski. "I don't know how to do it—and I'd like to do it well."

"One of my most important responsibilities as chair is to support our attorneys and their needs."

Chicago's "diversity of business" is driving legal demand, noted Willkie's Craig Martin.

The firm, which signed its lease for the space in 2019, said on Monday it completed the relocation.

Legal groups in the Canadian province call a new bill that would change the regulatory regime "seriously flawed," arguing that it will put lawyer independence at risk.

Legal experts are still digesting what they heard Thursday for potential indications of how the justices might rule in Trump v. United States.

Lawyers ramped up their fight over how to manage the 23andMe Inc. data breach litigation, disagreeing on everything from whether to immediately settle the cases to handling class members who are "truly frightened."

Erich Andersen had held the legal reins of the wildly popular social media app for four years. He previously spent more than two decades at Microsoft.

According to attorneys involved in the matter, the plaintiff's settlement demand at trial was somewhere between $51 million and $101 million.

The New York law that formed the basis of the cases brought by Jamaica residents Kimberly Facey, an attorney, and Danielle Lawrence, a business student, has been in effect since 2019 but had not previously been tried in the state's courts.

A critical hurdle in getting to a just verdict was overcoming the Walker companies' shell game to use workers compensation insurance as a bar, plaintiffs' attorney Charla Aldous said.

"These filings are going up and we are handling a lot of them," Stephanie A. Sheridan, an executive committee member with Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, said. "And there are a lot more threat letters that are out there. Without revealing the number, the amount that we are dealing with right now are keeping a number of people in my department pretty much full-time busy."

John Goggins appeared in federal court in New Jersey Thursday and pleaded guilty to not filing his tax returns for 2018, 2019, 2020 or 2021.

Many in legal tech are split on if the FTC's ban on noncompetes will bring massive changes in hiring and talent acquisition, or come up short.

"Overruling 'Chevron' will represent a dramatic decrease in the authority wielded by federal agencies," write Gary Feldon and Matthew Malinowski of Hollingsworth.

"A registered nurse may be qualified to attest that breach of applicable standards of nursing care for preventing and treating decubitus ulcers proximately caused the plaintiff's ulcer injury," Judge Donald E. Beachley wrote on behalf of the court.

Michael E. Gertzman was twice elected chair of the litigation practice and served on Paul Weiss' management and compensation committees.