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December 18, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Deviation From Shared Custody Guidelines Requires More Than Common Sense

While the principles are clearly laudable, the Wald case now imposes apparently new practical requirements upon trial judges and lawyers addressing deviation from the child support guidelines in shared custody matters.
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December 18, 2024 | National Law Journal

Government Attorneys Are Flooding the Job Market, But Is There Room in Big Law?

“It is truly remarkable how many phone calls we are getting and how many candidates we have on the market right now. I mean, honestly, I have not seen anything like this,” said D.C.-based recruiter Rachel Nonaka at Macrae.
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December 18, 2024 | Law.com

T14 Sees Black, Hispanic Law Student Representation Decline Following End of Affirmative Action

Racial, ethnic and gender diversity changed more drastically in the nation’s top-ranked law schools compared to the average changes among the 196 ABA-approved law schools.
3 minute read
December 18, 2024 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Takes Up TikTok's Challenge to Upcoming Ban or Sale

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Jan. 10 on the constitutionality of a law forcing the sale or ban of TikTok.
3 minute read
December 17, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Mental Health Issues Don’t Get a Holiday

While many of the barriers to improving access to mental health care are deeply rooted in our health care systems, they are not impossible to solve, columnist Joette Katz writes.
7 minute read
December 17, 2024 | National Law Journal

FTC Bans 'Junk Fees' in Live-Event Tickets and Short-Term Lodging

Live-event ticket providers, hotels and short-term vacation rentals such as Airbnb must clearly advertise to customers the total price, including any fees, under the rule the Federal Trade Commission adopted on a 4-1 vote.
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December 17, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Couple Claims Fertility Clinic Mistakenly Destroyed Their Embryos

"There are few relationships that involve as much trust as between a couple and their fertility doctor," Tracey B. Cowan, counsel for the plaintiffs, said. "They're working together to bring children into the world. Here that trust was misplaced and betrayed, and for that, Illume and Dr. Leondires must be held accountable."
4 minute read
December 17, 2024 | New York Law Journal

Mall of America Dealt Another Blow in Quest to End $10-Per-Year Lease With Sears

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said Bankruptcy Code Section 365(d)(4) doesn’t require the return of Sears’ lease, as various aspects of the deal indicated that Sears was acting as the owner of the property.
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December 17, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Art of the Settlement: Trump Attorney Reveals Strategy in ABC Lawsuit

Behind the scenes of the Trump-ABC News settlement: Attorneys and mediators talk about strategies and key moments in the mediation that took all by surprise.
8 minute read
December 17, 2024 | National Law Journal

CFPB Reports Widespread Misconduct Across Student Loan Market

The report “points to what a lot of us in the field think is a forthcoming default crisis and seeing a lot more federal student loan borrowers default into 2025,” said Stephanie Hall, a higher education policy expert at the Center for American Progress.
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