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Courts Hit Pause on Jenner and Wilmer Executive Orders

Courts Hit Pause on Jenner and Wilmer Executive Orders

Jenner & Block and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr obtained temporary relief late Friday, barring portions of executive orders issued against the law firms this week.       Jenner & Block and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr obtained temporary...

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Courts Hit Pause on Jenner and Wilmer Executive Orders

Courts Hit Pause on Jenner and Wilmer Executive Orders

Jenner & Block and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr obtained temporary relief late Friday, barring portions of executive orders issued against the law firms this week.       Jenner & Block and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr obtained temporary...

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Law Student Rips Up Biglaw Offer For Canadian Pride

Law Student Rips Up Biglaw Offer For Canadian Pride

Going to the New York office of a multibillion-dollar international Biglaw firm right out of law school is a tried-and-true way to start your legal career. After all, Manhattan is the largest legal market in the United States and having a well-respected Biglaw firm on...

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Trump Demands SCOTUS Put Judge Boasberg In Timeout

Trump Demands SCOTUS Put Judge Boasberg In Timeout

This morning the Justice Department made its move to extraordinarily rendition the case of the kidnapped Venezuelans to the Supreme Court. It’s the latest wildly aggressive move by the government to overturn the ruling by Chief Judge James Boasberg, even as the...

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How Appealing Weekly Roundup

How Appealing Weekly Roundup

Ed. Note: A weekly roundup of just a few items from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing blog, the Web’s first blog devoted to appellate litigation. Check out these stories and more at How Appealing. “New York County Clerk Blocks Texas Court Filing Against Doctor Over...

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Skadden Reaches ‘Settlement’ With Trump

Skadden Reaches ‘Settlement’ With Trump

Skadden has agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono services to causes that both Trump and Skadden support, the president said.       Skadden has agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono services to causes that both Trump and Skadden support, the president...

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Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been (A DEI Hire)?

Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been (A DEI Hire)?

(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)For those of us dinosaur lawyers or students of modern American history, that was how the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) grilled witnesses whom it suspected of possibly being, well, un-American during the witch...

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~$20M Hemp Fraud Lands Disbarred Attorney In Prison

~$20M Hemp Fraud Lands Disbarred Attorney In Prison

When states began to legalize the production and sale of weed, people were quick to try and make a quick buck off the blunts being passed around. 2020 was a big year for lawyers and their burgeoning cannabis practices. Between consumer demand and the legal ambiguities...

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Depression, Road Bumps, And Adjustments

Depression, Road Bumps, And Adjustments

In consultation with my therapist, I recently upped my Lexapro dosage. There is no trigger I can point to, but the increase in familiar feelings of hopelessness was there. Usually more intense in the morning, then dissipating into the early afternoon. Not immense...

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Threats to Judges Have Nearly Doubled: Florida Responds

Threats to Judges Have Nearly Doubled: Florida Responds

The latest U.S. Marshals Service figures show 457 federal judges were targeted with “credible threats" last year—a 150% increase from 2019.       The latest U.S. Marshals Service figures show 457 federal judges were targeted with “credible threats" last year—a 150%...

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NY Flips TX The Bird In Medication Abortion Suit

NY Flips TX The Bird In Medication Abortion Suit

This morning, a county clerk in New York told Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to pound sand, refusing to domesticate a judgment under the Empire State’s abortion shield law. The case involves a $130,000 fine levied in absentia against Dr. Margaret Carpenter, the...

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$25M Verdict Follows A.I.-Influenced Closing Argument

$25M Verdict Follows A.I.-Influenced Closing Argument

Collaborating plaintiff counsel with McArthur Law Firm and Dellacona Law Firm in Macon, Georgia, obtained a record-setting $25 million verdict in Bibb County State Court.       Collaborating plaintiff counsel with McArthur Law Firm and Dellacona Law Firm in Macon,...

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So Much For OCI — See Also

So Much For OCI — See Also

Just Send In Your Resume: This elite Biglaw firm is done with OCI. Is yours? The List Grows In Number!: Over 50 bar associations stand between Trump and the rule of law. About Those Checks And Balances: Republicans want to get rid of federal courts because they’re...

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When The President Went To The Supreme Court

When The President Went To The Supreme Court

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Who was the most recent President of the United States to have argued before the Supreme Court? Hint: The relevant case was a First Amendment case, and the Court held that absent a finding of malicious...

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