Low Bar, Am Law 100, New Face: The Morning Minute
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April 23, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
|DOWNWARD SPIRAL – It just keeps getting worse for bar exam takers. New data from the American Bar Association shows that just shy of 75 percent of the people who took the licensing test for the first time in 2018 passed, down from 77 percent in 2017, Karen Sloan reports. Pass rates have been on a five-year slide, and The Big Fail—an ongoing series from Law.com—examines what's driving the trend and how law schools and legal employers are responding.
MONEY MATTERS - The Am Law 100, which ranks of the 100 largest-grossing law firms in the U.S, launches at 10 a.m. ET on Law.com affiliate The American Lawyer. So what do all the numbers mean? Who are the winners and losers? What spurred growth in 2018? What happens when a recession hits? To get answers to these questions and more, sign up for a free webinar, beginnning at 11 a.m. ET, to hear what our editors and analysts make of it all.
BIG QUESTION - SCOTUS will hear challenges today to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. U.S. House general counsel Douglas Letter will make his second-ever Supreme Court argument. Also arguing, for the challengers: New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood and Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights project for the New York Immigration Council. They will face U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
|Tesla General Counsel Announces 4 Board Members Not Seeking Re-Election
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
|BIGGER IN TEXAS - U.K-based Holman Fenwick & Willan, which moved into the U.S. in 2017 through a merger with Houston trial firm Legge, Farrow, Kimmitt, McGrath & Brown, has added its second U.S. lateral. Brenda Sapino Jeffreys reports that energy transactions lawyer Fernando Cano-Lasa, who had been of counsel at Squire Patton Boggs in Houston joins Holman Fenwick as a partner. He'll work with Derek Anchondo, also an energy transactions lawyer who joined the firm in September from Greenberg Traurig.
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