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Feds Tell High Court To Deny Va.'s Bid To Revive Voter Purge

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court must leave in place a court order prohibiting Virginia from removing suspected noncitizens from its voting rolls this close to Election Day, the federal government and advocacy groups argued Tuesday, contending the risk of erroneously stripping eligible voters of their rights outweighs any purported harm to the state.
Bannon Released From Prison As Election, NY Trial Loom

By Rachel Scharf

Former President Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from federal prison Tuesday after serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress, a week before Election Day and a month and a half ahead of his next criminal trial in New York.
PBM Group Federal Affairs VP Joins Akin In Lobbying Role

By Jack Rodgers

A former Capitol Hill health policy advocate who worked in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and guided federal and state stakeholders through the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's lobbying team.
Share Of New Partners Who Are Women Decreased This Year

By Alison Knezevich

More than 80 major law firms had new partner classes in 2024 made up of at least 50% women, according to an analysis released Tuesday by a think tank focused on diversity and workplace flexibility. However, the analysis also found that the proportion of new U.S.-based partners who are women decreased.
Former Morgan Lewis Partner Sworn In To DC Federal Bench

By Ali Sullivan

A former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP partner has been sworn in to serve as a magistrate judge in Washington, D.C., federal court.
Approach The Bench: Judge Rosenthal Praises Zoom Hearings

While U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal calls the pandemic a disaster that "discombobulated" the federal courts, she thinks there was also a silver lining to the experience.
How Certifications Became Ubiquitous For Privacy Attorneys

By Emma Cueto

As privacy has become a more prominent and popular practice area, many attorneys have turned to certifications offered by the International Association of Privacy Professionals to market their skills, with those in the field saying that the popularity is the result of privacy's rapid evolution and the ubiquity is unlikely to diminish.
The Psychology Of Top Firms' Growing Partner Pay Spreads

By Aebra Coe

Dan Binstock, a legal recruiter who works with top law firms, recently said to me about partner pay, "You can never please everybody."
Ex-Arnold & Porter Atty Leads New Law School in Liberia

By Tracey Read

The Liberia School of Law, the country's second law school, opens Nov. 4. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to Kwame Clement, the school's founding president and dean, about his journey from embattled broadcast journalist to lawyer.
DC Circ. Won't Revisit Quinn Emanuel's $486M Award Fight

By Gina Kim

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP lost its bid to get the D.C. Circuit to reconsider its decision in a dispute over the firm's authority to represent a port operating in a long-running legal spat with the Republic of Djibouti, according to an order issued Monday by a divided panel of judges.
Supreme Court Keeps 5th Circuit Horse Racing Ruling On Ice

By David Steele

A Fifth Circuit ruling that declared the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's oversight of federal horse safety regulation to be unconstitutional was put on hold by the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday while it decides whether to hear the authority's appeal.
Becker Appoints 5 New Vice Chairs, Chief Business Officer

By Adrian Cruz

Becker & Poliakoff PC announced Monday that the Florida-based firm appointed four of its attorneys and a senior director as vice chairs of their respective practices, along with giving its chief strategy officer the additional role of chief business officer.
RNC Asks High Court To Stop Pa. Provisional Ballot Rule

By Katie Buehler

The Republican Party urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to freeze a ruling from Pennsylvania's top court allowing voters whose mail-in ballots are rejected as defective to submit provisional ballots as replacements, claiming the late change to voting rules in a key battleground state could "taint" the 2024 election.
Judge Ambivalent In DOJ, GOP Special Counsel Tapes Fight

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Monday expressed skepticism toward House Judiciary Committee Republicans' rationale for seeking the release of audiotapes from President Joe Biden's interviews with special counsel Robert Hur while also questioning the U.S. Department of Justice's logic for keeping the recordings confidential.
Simpson Thacher Taps Atty Duo As 1st Banking Team Leaders

By Emily Johnson

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has named two longtime New York City-based partners, including the co-head of its global banking and credit practice, as the first co-leaders of its global investment banking practice, the firm announced Monday.
Maynard Nexsen Creates Business Advisory Services Team

By Emma Cueto

Maynard Nexsen PC has launched a new business advisory service aimed at privately held and family-owned businesses that will help steer clients through succession planning, mergers, risk management and other needs from both a legal and business perspective, according to a Monday announcement.
Finance Committee Top Int'l Trade Atty Returns To Akin In DC

By Jack Rodgers

The chief international trade counsel for the Senate Finance Committee's chair, Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, has closed the book on a decade of public service work and rejoined the firm where she started her legal career as a summer associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Monday.
Va. Asks High Court To Reinstate Voter Rolls Purge

By Katie Buehler

Virginia asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to pause a district court order prohibiting the state from continuing a systematic removal of suspected noncitizens from its voting rolls this close to Election Day, arguing a federal "quiet period" law only protects citizens from last-minute changes to their voting status.
Fla. Bar Seeks 2-Year License Suspension Against Klayman

By David Minsky

The Florida Bar is asking the state's high court for a two-year license suspension of conservative activist attorney Larry Klayman due to alleged ethical violations in another jurisdiction, saying a more than reciprocal term of punishment is needed in the Sunshine State because Klayman continues to dispute the findings.
Insurers Have Long Used AI; Now Litigation Funders Want In

By Brandon Lowrey

As State Farm waded into the nascent field of "artificial intelligence" tools in the mid-1980s, its mainframe computers began to overheat under the strain of calculating the values of claims.
Congress Urged To Further Inspect FBI's Kavanaugh Probe

By Katie Buehler

More than 50 civil rights groups have called on members of the U.S. Congress to further investigate the Trump White House's role in restricting the FBI's investigation into sexual misconduct allegations lodged against U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018 confirmation process.
Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz

By Xiumei Dong

The legal industry had another action-packed week as firms prepared for increased lobbying activity in anticipation of the upcoming election, while lawyers nationwide came together to support a nonpartisan initiative focused on protecting the electoral process. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Tracey Read

Kemp Jones LLP, Parker Nelson & Associates and Campbell & Williams lead this week's list of Law360 legal lions with back-to-back wins in ongoing litigation against a bankrupt "alkaline water" company.
Trump Again Argues Jack Smith's Appointment Was Illegal

By Hailey Konnath

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said a D.C. federal court should throw out prosecutors' election interference case, repeating the argument he made in the classified documents case against him in Florida and contending that the appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith was illegal.
High Court Asked To Toss Texas Stay Of Green Card Rule

By Katie Buehler

An immigrant rights group asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to wipe out a Texas order freezing a new program that would allow certain noncitizen relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the country while seeking green cards, arguing the court improperly used a procedural tool to effectively issue injunctive relief.

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