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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING

AS SEEN ON TV – Oral arguments are expected today at the D.C.Circuit over a Health and Human Services rule that was set to take effect last year requiring drugmakers to disclose in TV ads the list price of prescriptions. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled in July that the HHS did not have the authority to create the requirement. Drug makers argue that the rule violates the First Amendment, an argument Mehta did not address.

ON THE BENCH – While the flood of judicial nominees from the White House and through the Senate is unlikely to change much in 2020, Jacqueline Thomsen reports that liberal-leaning judicial groups and leaders say they're frustrated by the Democratic presidential candidates' lack of focus on judicial nominees and are working to come up with their own ways to elevate the topic among voters. But don't expect conservatives, who seized on judges to convince wary Republicans to back Trump in 2016, to let their foot off the gas.

HISTORICAL - The NLRB has announced its biggest monetary remedy in the board's history, with CNN agreeing to pay $76 million in back pay to a group of video contractors. Jane Wester reports the D.C. Circuit in 2017 enforced an NLRB order that CNN stop refusing to recognize and bargain with the union, and it remanded the case back to the NLRB on the issue of backpay. Kannon Shanmugam, then at Williams & Connolly, handled oral arguments for CNN in that appeal.

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EDITOR'S PICKS

Tear Down the Window-Dressing: Big Law Policies That Actually Support Women

 Carnival's First Compliance Officer Rushing to Prove Value of New Centralized System

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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING

CHANGES - U.K.-based law firm CMS has hired an intellectual property team in Hong Kong. Anna Zhang reports that the three-lawyer team joins from Stephenson Harwood and is led by IP partner Jonathan Chu. Meanwhile, technology and life science partner Sarah Hanson has relocated to Singapore from London where she co-led the firm's U.K. practice.

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WHAT YOU SAID

Women who come into the profession are tough. They're ambitious. They want to succeed. It's not like they encounter one obstacle and say 'I'm not going to do it.'

—  Michelle Browning Coughlin, founder of MothersEsquire, on the cumulative effect of instances of bias that drive women from Big Law.

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