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New York Law Journal

Departmental Schism Re Post-Judgment Reviewability of Sua Sponte Orders Continues

"The statute and 'Sholes' impose an onerous time-consuming process upon the aggrieved party who may be in need of immediate relief from a sua sponte order," writes Elliott Scheinberg.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Regulators Prowl for Financial Firms That Wield NDAs to 'Muzzle' Whistleblowers

Nondisclosure agreements "send a message that reporting violations outside the company is wrong—this adds to the culture of silence the whistleblower laws are designed to prevent," said Stephen Kohn, founding partner of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Sizing Up a Potential Trump Presidency, Some Big Law Practices Turn to Political Crystal Ball

"I feel like I'm being looked to as a political prognosticator," said one Hogan Lovells regulatory partner.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Five Years of A-List Firms: The Stalwarts, the Sinkers and the Subsumed

A handful of the top firms from 2019 remain there, but just as many have fallen out of the top 20 entirely, and a couple of them don't even technically exist anymore.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Big Bucks Plus Big Responsibility? A-List Firms Are Finding Balance—and Scores Aren't Getting Any Lower

Growth can limit flexibility. But the average A-List score this year is the highest it's been in at least the last five years.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

FBI 'Pressure on Companies'?: DOJ Launches New Whistleblower Awards Program

Having 120 days to self-report corporate wrongdoing for a nonprosecution agreement "puts pressure on companies," Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer partner Jane Norberg said. "This puts pressure on doing internal investigations quickly."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Common Law Liability at Construction Sites and the 'Launching a Force' Test

"The 'Espinal' court never gave any reason why its three-prong test was better, fairer or more logical than the Restatement formulation," writes Brian J. Shoot.
22 minute read

International Edition

Tenure Limits and Ethics Guidelines at the US Supreme Court? Just Look at Canada!

Judges on Canada's top court have to retire at age 75 and they adhere to stated ethical principles and guidelines.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Exit Spring, Enter Summer

"As the summer days pass us by, we examine the decisions of the past several months that impacted the field of trusts and estates," writes Ilene Cooper.
10 minute read

Legaltech News

Rhode Island's Data Privacy Statute Has Key Differences, Depending on Its Interpretation

From an absent "cure period" to additional statutory damages for the intentional disclosure of personally identifiable information, the RIDPTAA treads its own path in the patchwork.
4 minute read

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