Good morning. Law graduates studying to take the bar in a couple weeks have even more to stress out about, thanks to a tech problem involving the exam software. President Joe Biden has announced a host of new names to fill vacancies on the bench, breaking his own record for nominees named in a week. Plus, White & Case can’t step away from its work defending Russia against a $50 billion judgment. It’s Friday, we made it. Were you forwarded this email? Subscribe here. |
A notice from the company that provides the software for July’s upcoming bar exam sent some would-be lawyers scrambling to find… old laptops.
That’s because the software maker, ExamSoft, sent examinees an email this week that laptops running Windows and using Intel’s newest chips are not compatible with the bar exam, reports Karen Sloan.
The majority of test-takers use laptops — and “quite a few” buy new ones just to be sure they have reliable equipment, said Mike Sims, president of bar exam prep company BARBRI.
Read more about the email that almost certainly is causing some stress. |
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14 examples of how leading in-house counsel have translated governmental, technological, or regulatory developments into practical implementations tangibly improving how their organisations operate. |
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Legal Leaders Case Study Compendium Volumes 1 - 4
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14 examples of how leading in-house counsel have translated governmental, technological, or regulatory developments into practical implementations tangibly improving how their organisations operate. Case studies include: - How One Legal Department Found the Metaverse
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Corporate Legal Shared Services – A Success Story
- Reframing the narrative: from corporate shield to business partner
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President Joe Biden in the span of three days this week announced 16 picks for U.S. appeals court and district court vacancies, shattering his record for nominations made in one week, Nate Raymond reports. Progressives are pressuring the White House and Senate Democrats to pick up the pace for filling vacancies before November's midterms.
The latest batch of nominees include selections for district courts in California, Illinois, Oregon and New Mexico. Among the nominees, for the Northern District of Illinois, was Lindsay Jenkins, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago who’s now a white-collar partner at Cooley. Oregon Supreme Court Justice Adrienne Nelson was nominated to become the first Black woman to serve on Oregon's federal district court.
Cindy Chung, part of an earlier wave of nominees this week, would be the first Asian American to serve on the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit. Biden has since January 2021 announced 123 federal judicial nominees. The Senate on Thursday voted for the 69th time to confirm a Biden judicial nominee by elevating U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Locher to be a district court judge in Southern Iowa.
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White & Case will continue to defend Russia from a lawsuit seeking to enforce a $50 billion judgment against the country, after a Russian representative said he would oppose the firm’s efforts to exit the Washington, D.C., federal court case. White & Case is among several major U.S. law firms that have sought to cut ties with Russian clients following the invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)
- The California state bar is scrambling to save two innovation projects aimed at lowering the cost of legal services after state lawmakers proposed to defund them. (Reuters)
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Former New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Barry Albin joined Lowenstein Sandler as a partner in the firm’s litigation department. Albin, who served on the state court for 20 years until this month, will chair the appellate practice. (Reuters)
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That’s what crypto lender Celsius Network is reporting as the deficit on its balance sheet, one day after the company filed for bankruptcy. Celsius, which lent tokens to investors, is the latest casualty of the crypto sector’s dramatic plunge in prices. Read more about the closely-watched bankruptcy.
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As global co-head of Sidley Austin’s 280-lawyer private equity practice, Brien Wassner has, by any measure, a demanding day job overseeing billion-dollar deals. But he also finds the time for intense soccer competition, playing this week as the oldest member of the U.S. men’s Masters 35+ soccer team at the Maccabiah Games in Israel — one of the world's largest sporting events. Jenna Greene explores how he finds the time to do it all — and what it reveals about the Big Law holy grail of work-life balance.
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Gupta Wessler Partner Jennifer Bennett explains how she won a Supreme Court case in the recent term involving the Federal Arbitration Act. This was her second victory at the high court involving the law. The conversation is part of our Winning Strategies video series where we talk to litigators about how they achieved favorable outcomes for clients. |
"She already has a track record of not putting up with some of the worst behavior that we see in these areas when people want to get out of deals." |
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A 9th Circuit panel is slated to hear oral arguments in a case challenging a California law that bars anyone with a restraining order against them from buying or owning firearms. The lawsuit arose amid a dispute between neighbors in Huntington Beach, California, that resulted in restraining orders on both sides, according to court records. The lawsuit argues the state law violates the U.S. Constitution’s Second and Fourteenth Amendments. Alexander Frank of Michel & Associates will argue on behalf of the couple challenging the law, while California Deputy Attorney General Rita Bosworth will argue on behalf of the state.
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Former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro is due in Washington, D.C., federal court for a status conference in his misdemeanor contempt of Congress prosecution. Prosecutors charged Navarro in June over his refusal to provide testimony or documents to the U.S. House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters. Navarro has pleaded not guilty. He will appear before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who previously set Navarro’s trial for Nov. 16.
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A former staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps is scheduled to be sentenced for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of three months in prison for David A. Ticas, 40, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. “As a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Ticas was well aware of the great jeopardy posed by violent entry into the U.S. Capitol by the rioters,” assistant U.S. attorney Andrew Tessman told U.S. District Judge John Bates in a sentencing memo. Deputy federal public defender Lisa LaBarre, a lawyer for Ticas, called her client’s entry into the Capitol an “impulsive act” and “an aberration.” She has asked Bates to impose home detention.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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What to catch up on this weekend
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Texas is suing over new guidance from the Biden administration holding that hospitals must provide emergency abortions regardless of state bans on the procedure triggered when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued in the lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was trying to "use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic." (Reuters)
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U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman appears poised to allow a San Jose, California, city ordinance requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance to take effect, saying at a hearing that she didn’t believe it implicated the Second Amendment because it doesn’t allow the city to seize guns as a means of enforcement. The first-of-its kind ordinance is being challenged by the National Association for Gun Rights, with help from Harmeet Dhillon’s Dhillon Law Group. (Reuters)
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Illumina will pay $325 million to settle its U.S. disputes with BGI Group's MGI Tech and Complete Genomics, rival makers of DNA-sequencing technology. The deal follows jury trials in California and Delaware and also resolves a separate antitrust suit. (Reuters)
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U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan rejected former IBM employees' claims that agreements they signed to arbitrate employment-related disputes are invalid, dealing another blow to workers seeking to join an age discrimination lawsuit against the company. The workers, represented by Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan, had sued to invalidate the agreements after another judge said it barred the workers from joining a class action against the company. (Reuters)
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Fox Rothschild added Jasmine Anderson as a San Francisco-based labor and employment partner. She earlier practiced at Constangy Brooks. (Fox Rothschild)
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BakerHostetler brought on Edward McAndrew in the firm’s Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware offices as a partner focused on digital assets and data management. He comes to the firm from DLA Piper. (BakerHostetler)
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Armstrong Teasdale said partner Andrew Lolli joined the firm’s commercial litigation group in New York. He earlier practiced at Robinson Brog. (Armstrong Teasdale)
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An analysis of 55 state and federal cannabis cases for the first half of the year showed the most common category for the disputes was commercial, including contracts, landlord-tenant cases, securities and business torts, Alex Malyshev and Sarah Ganley of Carter Ledyard & Milburn write. The next most common category were actions against state and local governments, the authors write. Read more about other notable mentions, including where intellectual property ranked.
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