Month: January 2023
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It Isn’t Cancel Culture, It’s Dollar Signs — See Also
These Ethics Are Strictly Business: Joe tears through right wing “Cancel Culture took muh job!” arguments by tracing the paper trail. Few Things Trump A Legal “This You?”: Ari Melber brought the receipts to this cross examination. We Spent Money On Décor, Now Look At It!: Biglaw firms lament that their employees would rather send […]
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‘Judges Must Remain Above the Fray’: Judge Censured for Failing to Recuse From Child Custody Case
A New Mexico judge has stipulated to a censure for, among other misconduct, failing to recuse from a child custody matter despite her belief that one of the attorneys in the case had been the source of a newspaper article criticizing her. According to the New Mexico Supreme Court’s Jan. 30 censure, Judge Mary W. Rosner, […]
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Court schedules final two argument sessions of 2022-23 term
SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Jan 31, 2023 at 5:59 pm The final argument session of the Supreme Court’s 2022-23 term will include high-profile disputes over how employers must accommodate their employees’ religious practices and how courts should decide whether threatening statements are protected by the First Amendment. The two cases, Groff v. DeJoy […]
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‘Totally Out-of-Bounds for Any Attorney in Any Case:’ Federal Judge Slashes Fee Request by 70%
A federal judge in Maryland awarded a plaintiff in an Individuals with Disabilities Education Act case $80,000 in attorney fees—roughly 30% of the $269,054.80 that was initially sought—after finding the bulk of the request to be unreasonable. “Comparing the extraordinarily wide scope of these requests to the relatively limited success plaintiff in fact achieved, the court finds […]
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Biden Nominee Failed Senator’s Constitutional Pop Quiz. Here’s What Ex-Judges Had to Say
The failure of a judicial nominee to answer questions about the U.S. Constitution during a recent nomination hearing is still reverberating through Congress. The incident is eliciting both sympathy and criticism for the nominee while raising questions about the nomination process itself from former judges who once participated in it. During her hearing last week, Spokane County Superior […]
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Court Orders Unsealing Names of Non-Parent Sureties Who Put Up Bail for Samuel Bankman-Fried
From yesterday’s opinion in U.S. v. Bankman-Fried, decided by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.): At defendant’s presentment on December 22, 2022, the government and defense jointly proposed a set of bail conditions. Those conditions required, inter alia, that defendant sign a $250 million personal recognizance bond to be co-signed by defendant’s parents. The joint proposal required […]
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Where The Most Wannabe Lawyers Live
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to analysis by law firm Oberheiden P.C. of law school applicants in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, where do the most law school applicants over the last 12 months (per 100,000 residents) live? Hint: Per 100,000 people in this […]
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Jennifer Barron, Experienced Civil Litigator, Appointed a Circuit Judge for Illinois Eighteenth Judicial Circuit
Jennifer Barron, an experienced civil attorney with specialized appellate experience, has been appointed by Illinois’ highest court as a Circuit Judge for the state’s Eighteenth Judicial Circuit covering DuPage County, according to the Illinois State Bar Association. Barron, who most recently has worked a solo practitioner at Barron Legal and as an of counsel for the […]
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Washington State AG Files Fraud, Organized Crime Charges Against Health Business
The Washington State Attorney General announced the filing of charging documents in Spokane County Superior Court for multiple fraud and organized crime felony charges against a Spokane-based health business last week. Paul Means, 59, and his business Albia Healthcare are accused of fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than $5 million between 2017 and November 2020, according […]
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Washington State AG Files Fraud, Organized Crime Charges Against Health Business
The Washington State Attorney General announced the filing of charging documents in Spokane County Superior Court for multiple fraud and organized crime felony charges against a Spokane-based health business last week. Paul Means, 59, and his business Albia Healthcare are accused of fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than $5 million between 2017 and November 2020, according […]
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Trump Alleges Conspiracy To Collate And Cobble By Bob Woodward And Publisher Simon & Schuster
Well, it’s not the dumbest lawsuit he’s ever filed … The post Trump Alleges Conspiracy To Collate And Cobble By Bob Woodward And Publisher Simon & Schuster appeared first on Above the Law. 2023-01-31 22:17:09 Courts,Bob Woodward,Books,Donald Trump,Simon & Schuster #Trump #Alleges #Conspiracy #Collate #Cobble #Bob #Woodward #Publisher #Simon #Schuster
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Biglaw Isn’t A Cancel Culture, It’s A Business That Cares More About Money Than Your Feelings
Yesterday, the Boston Globe published a piece by Above the Law alum David Lat lamenting “cancel culture” and advancing the claim: “Simply put, Big Law… is currently seized by ideological intolerance and groupthink.” Simply put, it is not. That said, the piece succeeds — perhaps unintentionally — as an exploration of “cancel culture” as a […]
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Appeals judge should be removed for using client and campaign account as a ‘personal ATM,’ ethics panel says
Home Daily News Appeals judge should be removed for using… Ethics Appeals judge should be removed for using client and campaign account as a ‘personal ATM,’ ethics panel says By Debra Cassens Weiss January 31, 2023, 3:35 pm CST Image from Shutterstock. A judicial ethics panel is recommending removal of a suspended Georgia appeals judge […]
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‘It’s Really Created a Buzz’: Could McDonald’s Decision Expand Scope for ‘Caremark’ Litigation?
Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster’s decision that confirmed officers can be held to the same oversight standards as directors follows the court’s pattern over the last several years of expanding the bounds of Caremark litigation. For many attorneys who follow the issue, the decision in the case involving how McDonald’s handled sexual harassment was simply Laster putting down on […]
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Matt Gaetz Gets Crash Course In Cross Examination From Ari Melber
(Photo by Saul Loeb-Pool/Getty Images) Need a quick hit of serotonin this afternoon? If so, may I suggest taking a quick break to watch this utter ownage of Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) at the hands of MSNBC’s Ari Melber on “The Beat.” The head-to-head of the two lawyers — Gaetz got his J.D. from William & […]
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Biglaw Firms Want Associate Butts In Office Seats – And The Same Goes For Partners
What I’m hearing from law firms — a real frustration is that law firm leaders do want people back in the office, and they want it for partners as well. I’m hearing by and large the partners are more on board than the associates. So in terms of the handful of partners we did place, […]
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TEACHGUITAR.com HOME PAGE – Could YOU earn a living from your ability to play guitar?
Product Name: TEACHGUITAR.com HOME PAGE – Could YOU earn a living from your ability to play guitar? If you can …play guitar reasonably well,communicate with confidenceand demonstrate patience … then YOU could be making a living from your musical knowledge and skills This e-book will tell you how and you could be reading it in […]
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The Latest DeSantis Higher Ed Reform Proposals
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held a press conference this morning to discuss his proposed higher education reforms. His office also released a statement and a handout summarizing his proposals to combat “academic discrimination and indoctrination.” For several of these proposals, the details will matter—a lot. Nonetheless, the bare outline is significant, even if some of […]
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Are NFTs Actually… Interesting? This Suit Could Be Precedent Setting
This, but imagine it’s a little ugly monkey worth your car. If your social circle was anything like mine, NFTs have kinda gone the way of cryptocurrency. There was a bunch of initial hype about how this new development would make cash go the way of the dodo, people who had read a book (yes, […]
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Finding Neither Recklessness Nor Bad Faith, Federal Court Denies Starbucks Attorney Fees Despite Victory Over NLRB
A federal judge previously denied temporary injunctive relief for workers who claimed to have faced backlash from Starbucks after engaging in union activity, but the court last week held that the multinational coffee chain was not entitled to attorney fees because the plaintiffs’ claims were not frivolous. In April 2022, the plaintiff, Cornele A. Overstreet, […]
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Houston Again Promises To Launch Litigation Funding Discussion
The year has just started, but we are already seeing some major developments in the IP world. From eve-of-trial settlements in a number of pending Texas cases, to announcements of major cross-licensing deals between major IP owners, long-stated predictions of a turnaround in patent holder fortunes are starting to look more correct than at any […]
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DoD’s update to autonomous weapons policy accounts for AI’s ‘dramatic’ future role
The Pentagon has updated its guidance for autonomous weapons. (Getty images) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon today updated its decade-old guidance on autonomous weapon systems to include advances made in artificial intelligence, a new senior-level oversight group and clarification about the roles different offices within the department will take. “I think one of… the things we […]
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Big Law and Its Clients Are Increasingly Turning to Alternative Service Providers
With overhead and payroll costs a growing concern for Big Law and their clients, a new report suggests both parties may increasingly look to alternative legal service providers to provide value, meet demand and plug into new technology. According to the Alternative Legal Services Providers 2023 report, published by Thomson Reuters Institute on Tuesday, U.S. […]
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Court Overturns $185M Fee Award for Quinn Emanuel in ACA Litigation
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said a lower court abused its discretion when granting a $185 million award for Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in litigation involving the Affordable Care Act. Judges Kimberly Moore, Richard Taranto and Raymond Chen called the attorney fee award “extraordinarily high” and sent the case back […]
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Law Firms Finished 2022 Strong but Bloated, Raising Stakes for Q1 2023
Firm leaders across the Am Law 200 and among large regional firms are walking away from 2022 feeling better than expected, according to the results of a year-end survey released by the Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group on Tuesday. Revenues grew 3% last year, according to the group’s 2022 year-end survey of more than 140 […]