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The Recorder

Plaintiff in Twitter Gender Discrimination Suit Faces Uphill Battle to Revive Class Claims

Presiding Justice Barbara Jones of California's First District Court of Appeal said plaintiffs' own witnesses suggested "there wasn't a uniform policy" to establish commonality.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

22 States Have Lawyer Civility Oaths. It's not enough.

A promise to be civil in the new-lawyer oath may be a good starting point, but stakeholders and observers recognize the oath is not enough to stem the ongoing problem of lawyers behaving badly.
6 minute read

The Recorder

In California, Demand Growth Continues to Fuel Revenue Gains

Demand for legal services in California continued to pick up into the third quarter, fueling strong revenue growth, according to Citi's latest survey.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Wells Fargo General Counsel Allen Parker Leaving to Pursue Other Opportunities

Parker, who served as interim CEO and lost his bid to make it permanent, is leaving the company March 31 "to pursue other business opportunities," the company said Thursday.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Baker Botts' Bay Area Blitz Adds 5 New Partners in 2 Months

Patricia Stanton, the head of Baker Botts' San Francisco office, said local lateral recruits are paying more and more attention to the firm's pitch. 
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Fish & Richardson Wins New Trial on Fabric Design Patent

The Federal Circuit says a jury should have evaluated the competing designs, even if a primary difference was one company's logo. But the appellate court sidestepped a damages question left open by the Supreme Court's Samsung v. Apple ruling.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Best Way to the Top Is Intimate Knowledge of the Business: A Q&A With X1 CEO Craig Carpenter

Craig Carpenter, the CEO of X1, a data search tool that can be used for e-discovery and to track data, spoke to Corporate Counsel about how X1 is being used in the wake of CCPA and GDPR and skills GCs who hope to move to the C-suite should have.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

A Law Student Tested Facebook. Experts Say He's the One Who Failed

Connecticut law school student Cameron Atkinson has sued Facebook, alleging the social media giant censored him by deleting his posts naming the alleged Trump-Ukrainian whistleblower.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Report Reveals Frantic Scramble After California Bar Exam Blunder

A 19-page report prepared by Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello Gross & Leoni found that a bar staffer, pressured to finish work before having to proctor the two-day exam in July, mistakenly included a list of topics in an email inviting 16 law school deans to observe a test grading session later that summer.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Ogletree Deakins Drives New Complaint Against Landmark Labor Law

"AB 5 has implications that go beyond employment classification in California," Ogletree Deakins partner Robert Roginson said in a statement.
4 minute read

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