by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | Law.com
Ali Najmi, formerly in private practice, will helm an advisory committee with a mandate to create a more legally and demographically diverse bench in New York City. Mamdani’s executive order forming the committee also details new transparency and ethics...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | Law.com
“There is no record of any law restricting open carry at the Founding, let alone a distinctly similar historical regulation,'” wrote Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, quoting from the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle &...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | Law.com
Defense counsel Barry Pollack, the former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said that Maduro’s status as head of a sovereign state, as well as the legality of the U.S. military operation in which he was taken, would be raised in...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | Law.com
Polsinelli shareholder Patrick Muffo urged the defendants not to settle. “The problem is if you pay every patent troll that comes your way, there’s going to be another patent troll right behind them.” Polsinelli shareholder Patrick Muffo urged the...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | Law.com
“What remains to be seen is the midterm and longer-term consequences for the firms, both in terms of their ability to recruit and retain lawyers, and in terms of their ability to retain clients,” said Scott Cummings, a legal ethics professor at UCLA School of...
by RG | Jan 5, 2026 | Law.com
“The thing to keep in mind is that random case assignment is subject to so many exceptions across the federal courts, said Syracuse University College of Law professor Katherine Macfarlane. “Random assignment is this exalted principle, but I don’t even...
