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A federal judge severely restricted what services former DraftKings executive Michael Hermalyn could provide sports betting rival Fanatics after finding he likely misappropriated valuable trade secrets before taking a new job. The judge stopped short of barring Hermalyn from working for Fanatics, but said the evidence showed that Hermalyn had likely violated a non-compete agreement that he signed while working at DraftKings. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/4aVlZjE #legal #antitrust #litigation

The American Bar Association on April 30 won its bid to toss a proposed class action over a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of about 1.5 million lawyers and others. A New York federal judge granted the national lawyer group's motion to dismiss the case, finding the plaintiffs did not provide enough evidence to support their claims. The ABA said last year that an unauthorized third party penetrated its network and took user names and passwords for online accounts used to access an old ABA website and its career center before 2018. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn said the plaintiffs did not identify what type of security measures the ABA failed to implement to protect their personal data under their alleged implied contract. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gm6VSsT4 #legal #lawfirms #dataprivacy #lawyers

Pass rates on the February 2024 bar exam are trending up, following what has been a multi-year slide in many states. Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling said that they have completed their long-planned merger. Freedman Normand Friedland, Gilbert Litigators and Counselors, and Berger Montague have asked a judge to award them $94.7 million in legal fees for their work in an antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 elite U.S. universities of unlawfully favoring wealthy students for admission. The American Bar Association won its bid to toss a proposed class action over a 2023 data breach. Here's your Legal File: #legal #lawfirms #lawschools #antitrust #dataprivacy

Pass rates on the February 2024 bar exam are trending up, following what has been a multi-year slide in many states;   Three law firms behind an antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 elite U.S. universities of unlawfully favoring wealthy students for admission asked a federal judge to award them $94.7 million in legal fees for their work in the case so far;   The ABA won its bid to toss a proposed class action over a 2023 data breach that exposed the personal information of about 1.5 million lawyers and others.   For more updates from the legal industry, subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/4aVlZjE   #legal #lawfirms #lawyers #lawstudents #legalnews

Three U.S. law firms behind an antitrust lawsuit that accused 17 elite U.S. #universities of unlawfully favoring wealthy students for admission have asked a judge to award them $94.7 million in legal fees for their work in the case so far. The firms, Freedman Normand Friedland, Gilbert Litigators and Counselors, and Berger Montague, have reached $284 million in settlements with 10 of the schools since filing the lawsuit in 2022. They made their fee request on April 29 to U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago, who must also approve the settlements. The lawsuit asked for damages for a proposed class of 200,000 current and former students. The plaintiffs’ attorneys in their fee request said they have spent more than 91,310 hours on the case. They called the $284 million in settlements so far 'extraordinary.' Read more: https://lnkd.in/gFFuwNWY #legal #lawfirms #antitrust

Good morning!   The largest transatlantic law firm merger in years is official today as Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling link up;   The law firms behind an antitrust lawsuit accusing 17 elite universities of favoring wealthy students for admission are asking for almost $100 million in fees for their work so far;   Harvey Weinstein is back in court today;   And a group of Google workers who were fired after protesting the company’s contract with the Israeli government say they were illegally terminated.   Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/4aVlZjE   #legal #lawfirms #lawyers #lawstudents #legalnews 

Pass rates on the February 2024 bar exam are trending up, following what has been a multi-year slide in many states. Among the 42 jurisdictions that have reported February results thus far, 31 have a higher overall pass rate than in February of 2023 according to data compiled by the National Conference of Bar Examiners. That includes all 10 of the largest bar exam jurisdictions that have released results, though the District of Columbia’s pass rate held steady at 45%. More from Karen Sloan: https://lnkd.in/gc2VDkEe

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said employers refusing to use transgender workers' preferred pronouns and barring them from using bathrooms that match their gender identity amounts to unlawful workplace harassment under federal anti-discrimination law. The EEOC updated its enforcement guidance on workplace harassment for the first time in 25 years, including to reflect a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that anti-bias laws cover LGBTQ workers, after an earlier attempt stalled during the Trump administration. The commission in the new guidance also addressed the rise of remote work and said that discriminating against employees based on their decisions to have abortions or use contraception is a form of sex discrimination. The guidance is not legally binding, but lays out a blueprint for how the EEOC will enforce anti-bias laws and can be cited in court to back up legal arguments. Find out more: https://reut.rs/3xZN5YA 

The City University of New York School of Law has retained its position as the top pipeline into public interest and government law jobs, a Reuters analysis found. CUNY Law, as the Queens school is known as, sent more than 55% of its 2023 juris doctors into those jobs within 10 months of graduation—more than 10 percentage points higher than any other school, according to employment data released last week by the American Bar Association. The ABA data show that the JD class of 2023 graduated into a strong job market. Among the 34,934 newly minted JDs last year, 85.6% landed full-time, permanent jobs within 10 months of leaving campus that either require bar passage or for which a JD provides an advantage. That’s the highest percentage in the past decade. Overall, 11.1% of 2023’s JDs nationwide went into government jobs, while 8.9% took public interest positions. Read more: https://reut.rs/4aUO8Yw  #lawschools #lawstudents #legal #legaljobs #legalhiring

Pass rates on the February 2024 bar exam are trending up, following what has been a multi-year slide in many states.   Among the 42 jurisdictions that have reported February results thus far, 31 have a higher overall pass rate than in February of 2023 according to data compiled by the National Conference of Bar Examiners.   Bar exam tutor Sean Silverman said that pass rates are slowly returning to their pre-COVID pandemic norms.   Subscribe to the Afternoon Docket: https://reut.rs/4aVlZjE