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Robert Bennett's Leaving Hogan Lovells for DC Boutique Schertler & Onorato Bennett said he wants to try more cases and represent more individuals before retiring. Read More

PROFESSIONAL CULTURE | NEWS ABA 'Furiously Working' to Craft Proposal on Lawyers' Mental Health By Ryan Lovelace Ahead of the American Bar Association's annual meeting this summer, an ABA working group is debating a proposed resolution... Read More

Orrick Snags Weil Gotshal's Patent Litigation Co-Chair Twenty-five year Weil Gotshal veteran (and former Orrick associate) Jared Bobrow joins Tuesday as co-lead of Orrick's... Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Gorsuch Renounces Ginsburg's 'Apocalyptic' Warnings in Landmark Labor Case By Marcia Coyle Neil Gorsuch's 25-page majority opinion and Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 30-page dissent offered conflicting views. Ginsburg's... Read More

In Former Engineer's Harassment Suit, Uber's Decision to Scrap Arbitration Gets Its First Test The lawsuit comes just a week after the company announced that it would forgo arbitration and nondisclosure agreements... Read More

CORPORATE ENTITIES | NEWS Rosenstein Extols DOJ's Embrace of Ethics as Trump Derides Russia 'Witch Hunt' By C. Ryan Barber The deputy attorney general's planned remarks to a compliance audience in Washington did not reference Trump's demand... Read More

Gorsuch Renounces Ginsburg's 'Apocalyptic' Warnings in Landmark Labor Case

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Gorsuch Renounces Ginsburg's 'Apocalyptic' Warnings in Landmark Labor Case By Marcia Coyle Neil Gorsuch's 25-page majority opinion and Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 30-page dissent offered conflicting views. Ginsburg's... Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Jenner & Block Questions Alleged Monitoring of Guantánamo Defense Lawyers By Marcia Coyle A team from Jenner & Block is fighting attempts by the U.S. Justice Department and a military judge to force two civilian... Read More

CORPORATE ENTITIES | NEWS Rosenstein Extols DOJ's Embrace of Ethics as Trump Derides Russia 'Witch Hunt' By C. Ryan Barber The deputy attorney general's planned remarks to a compliance audience in Washington did not reference Trump's demand... Read More

PROFESSIONAL CULTURE | NEWS ABA 'Furiously Working' to Craft Proposal on Lawyers' Mental Health By Ryan Lovelace Ahead of the American Bar Association's annual meeting this summer, an ABA working group is debating a proposed resolution... Read More

Food Frenzy Raises 1.6M Meals for Hungry Families | Daily Report The event raised food for the summer months when the 60 percent of Georgia children who rely on school for meals don't... Read More

Was 3-Year Suspension Adequate Discipline for Sexting With Client's Underage Daughter? | The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer Several ethics attorneys said the disciplinary sentence which will require Toman to undergo a lot of litigation if he... Read More

State Legislature Finally Passes Revised Uniform Arbitration Act | Connecticut Law Tribune The Legal Intelligencer With the increasing use of arbitration as a means of resolving disputes throughout the state and at the federal level... Read More

Ninth Circuit Adopts #MeToo Recommendations Against Sexual Harassment

Ninth Circuit Adopts #MeToo Recommendations Against Sexual Harassment The chief judge said the goal is to make policies and procedures more accessible, understandable and effective. Read More

Justices, Divided, Say Employment Contracts Banning Class Actions Are Lawful

Justices, Divided, Say Employment Contracts Banning Class Actions Are Lawful

"The policy may be debatable but the law is clear: Congress has instructed that arbitration agreements like those before... Read More

Former AG Holder, Writing for Calif. State Senate, Rebuffs DOJ's Suit Over Immigration Policies

Former AG Holder, Writing for Calif. State Senate, Rebuffs DOJ's Suit Over Immigration Policies Holder's amicus brief speaks out in defense of SB 54, the California Values Act, also called California's “sanctuary... Read More LITIGATION | NEWS Trial Opens Over Lawyer's Death Allegedly Caused by J&J's Baby Powder By Amanda Bronstad The trial against Johnson & Johnson claims an attorney's lifetime use of its baby powder caused her to get one of the... Read More LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Antitrust Shuffle; Bauer Moves On; Gibson Dunn Raids Kirkland By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap: Keeping up with antitrust moves and other partners playing musical chairs in the capital.... Read More Elite Trial Lawyers: Two Weeks Left to Apply The National Law Journal's Elite Trial Lawyers recognizes U.S.-based law firms that have performed exemplary work on... Read More So Much for ‘Consensus’: Big Law Pick for Consumer Chief Divides FTC Andrew Smith joins the FTC from Covington & Burling. FTC chair Joe Simons said Wednesday he was “disappointed that two... Read More

'Sea Change in the Gaming Landscape' | Georgetown Prof's RBG Shout-Out | Supreme Court Brief | National Law Journal A Georgetown Law Professor gets a shout-out from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and we've rounded up some of the reaction... Read More

Trump's Move to Ease Sanctions on ZTE Called 'Highly Unusual' | Corporate Counsel “This is highly unusual” said one law professor who has been focusing his lessons around ZTE. “I’ve never heard of a... Read More

Beware the Freedom of the Web | New Jersey Law Journal China Russia and Iran have used all available technical means to block and punish the circulation of objectionable content... Read More

This Week’s Top Stories

ATTORNEY RATES AND ARRANGEMENTS | NEWS Hourly Rate Gap Widens as Top Billers Leave Others Behind

WHITE COLLAR CRIME | NEWS Mueller Is Not Out of Bounds, DC Judge Says in Upholding Manafort Charges

PROFESSIONAL CULTURE | PODCAST Big Law Leader Shares Struggles with Alcoholism, Challenges for Profession Tempers Flare at Russia Hearing Over Prosecutor, Defense Phone Call The episode underscored the heated nature of the special counsel's case against Concord Management and Consulting, which... Read More Top Law Schools Ask Firms to Disclose Summer Associate Arbitration Agreements Yale Law School and 13 other top law schools are issuing a survey to law firms asking them to disclose whether or not... Read More Answering Critics, Avenatti Says Slaying Goliaths Is His Business Model The California-based commercial litigation attorney and his own practice have racked up over $1 billion in verdicts... Read More Backlash Mounts Against Attorney Whose Racist Rant Went Viral A lawyer caught on video making racially-charged comments to employees at a Midtown Manhattan eatery has been heavily... Read More Novartis GC to Step Down After Admitting $1.2M Contract With Cohen Was an Error The pharma company's legal chief took "personal responsibility" to end public debate over the payments made to Michael... Read More Amazons the Latest Tech Company to Adopt the Rooney Rule: Here Are Some Others Amazon is putting the so-called "Rooney Rule" in place to diversify its board of directors. But it's far from the first... Read More