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Antitrust Bar's 'Leading Light,' Ex-Morgan Lewis Chair Dies
John Shenefield, a former chair of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP who also served as an assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, died Monday at 85, according to a statement released by Morgan Lewis on Wednesday.
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Justices' Cold Feet On Nvidia, Meta Leaves Attys Guessing
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out a second securities case on Wednesday by refusing to issue a ruling in a Nvidia Corp. case with no explanation on its change of heart, leaving the defense bar to guess at the court's motivation and its potential implication for the future of high court securities cases.
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Pa. Deputy AG, Calif. Judge Confirmed To Federal Bench
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Keli M. Neary, an executive deputy attorney general for the state of Pennsylvania, to serve as a federal judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and Judge Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon for the Central District of California.
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Akin Makes A Lobbyist Out Of Another Former Lawmaker
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Tuesday that it has rehired a former Indiana senator as a lobbyist, the second former lawmaker to join its ranks this year, after recently reporting the highest quarterly earnings for federal lobbying work in firm history.
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NY DA Says Trump's 'President-Elect Immunity Does Not Exist'
Prosecutors told the New York state judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money case that "president-elect immunity does not exist" and that the court could delay sentencing — or even "terminate" the case without dismissing it.
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Keller Postman Seeks To DQ Jenner & Block In Tubi Fight
Keller Postman LLC wants Jenner & Block LLP sanctioned and disqualified for a "shocking pattern of unethical conduct" — which allegedly includes hiring a private investigator to interrogate the firm's clients — in a lawsuit accusing Keller Postman of filing thousands of "fraudulent" arbitration claims against streaming service Tubi Inc.
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Jones Day Adds 10 Supreme Court Clerks, Up From 2023
Jones Day LLP has hired 10 former U.S. Supreme Court clerks as associates in its appellate practice, two more than it brought on in 2023, bringing the total number of former high court clerks the firm has added since 2011 to nearly 100.
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Michael Best Names Partner Duo To Management Committee
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP announced Tuesday that a pair of experienced partners who lead the firm's Colorado and Madison, Wisconsin, offices have been named to its management committee.
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Ex-Bloomberg GC Joins Cybersecurity PE Group
A onetime Bloomberg in-house legal leader with nearly three decades of experience across a range of legal and business matters has joined cybersecurity private equity firm Option3, taking on the roles of operating partner and chief strategy officer for the firm's new "zero trust" cybersecurity platform, ENIGMA.
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King & Spalding Announces Its Largest Ever Partner Class
King & Spalding LLP on Tuesday unveiled what it said was the largest class of partners in the firm's history.
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Some Boies Schiller Associates' Bonuses To Hit $1M Or More
Multiple Boies Schiller Flexner LLP associates will receive bonuses of $1 million or more this week due to a banner 2024 from numerous wins at trial and significant settlements on behalf of plaintiffs and victims, the firm said Tuesday.
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Biden Threatens To Veto Bipartisan Effort To Add Judgeships
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto legislation that would increase the number of federal judgeships nationwide after the measure lost support among Democrats postelection.
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Trump Taps Election Atty To Helm DOJ Civil Rights Division
President-elect Donald Trump announced he would name Dhillon Law Group Inc. founder and managing partner Harmeet K. Dhillon to lead the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, elevating a staunch supporter and attorney who has represented him in cases across the country.
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High Court Bars Judicial Review Of Revoked Visa Petitions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that revocations of previously approved visa petitions cannot be appealed in federal courts because they are discretionary agency decisions that are not subject to judicial review.
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Crowell Adds Longtime DOJ Litigator To DC Antitrust Group
Crowell & Moring LLP announced on Tuesday that it had added a former U.S. Department of Justice litigator with 33 years of government experience to its antitrust and competition, government contracts and litigation groups in its Washington office, furthering the firm's ongoing strategy to "double down" on its strongest practice areas, in the words of a top Crowell litigator.
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Pro Se Giuliani Says 4 Attys Turned Him Down, Blames Judge
Rudy Giuliani on Monday secured extra time to fight Georgia poll workers' request that he be held in civil contempt, time Giuliani argued he needed because he's struggling to find an attorney to represent him in the case thanks to a D.C. federal judge being "biased about Trump-related matters."
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Judge Newman Says Fed. Circ. Threatened Her To Seal Filings
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked the D.C. Circuit Monday to unseal supplemental documents attached to her opening brief arguing that the suspension her colleagues have imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge was unconstitutional.
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Pilots Ignored Alert Before Flight That Killed Atty, NTSB Says
The pilots of a small aircraft that made an emergency landing at a Connecticut airport that resulted in the death of a prominent D.C. attorney went ahead with the flight despite a "no-go" warning message flashing in the cockpit, according to the National Transportation Safety Board's accident investigation report.
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Houston Trial Boutique Partially Matches Milbank Bonuses
Houston trial boutique Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PC has joined the growing number of law firms to match the 2024 associate bonus scale first put forward by Milbank LLP, at least in part, according to a Monday report.
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Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch Crack Door For 2nd Amendment Fight
Three U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday signaled their willingness to delve into an appeal from a Hawaii man who argues that he is being unconstitutionally prosecuted for owning a handgun without a license, though they agreed with the rest of the court that they don't currently have jurisdiction to hear it.
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Miami And Chicago Litigation Firms Combine
Miami litigation firm Kenny Nachwalter PA and Chicago's Sperling & Slater LLC decided to join forces this month and form Sperling Kenny Nachwalter LLC after years of working side-by-side.
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TikTok Hires Francisco And Mooppan For High Court Fight
Jones Day's U.S. Supreme Court advocates Noel J. Francisco and Hashim M. Mooppan have signed on to represent TikTok, according to a Monday court filing, as the company readies to appeal a D.C. Circuit panel's ruling upholding a law requiring it to be sold or banned to the nation's highest court.
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Beveridge & Diamond Picks Up Longtime DOJ Enviro Litigator
Beveridge & Diamond PC has hired the former chief of the law and policy section at the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, who is bringing his more-than 26-year government experience in environmental law to the D.C. team, the firm announced Friday.
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Steptoe Moving To Flexible Billable-Based Associate Payscale
Steptoe LLP is the latest firm to announce associates will have the opportunity to earn a higher base salary in 2025, with an associate's place on the payscale depending on their billable hours.
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Supreme Court Won't Review Ex-HUD Official's Conviction
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of a former staffer in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Inspector General who was convicted of failing to disclose a loan from a friend who was later hired as a government subcontractor.