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How Rainmaking for a Big Firm Led to a Two-Year Bar Suspension

The transcript of the 2015 disciplinary hearing offers the deepest public glimpse of an attorney's long career in the law—and how he believed he had done nothing wrong.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Trump Judicial Nominee Withdraws After Flunking Senate Hearing

Matthew Petersen, a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, could not define basic legal terms in his hearing before the Senate last week.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Baker McKenzie, Representing Moscow-Based Kaspersky Lab, Sues Trump Over Software Ban

The complaint accused U.S. officials of denying Kaspersky any meaningful chance to defend itself, and argued that the government did not have sufficient evidence to order agencies to stop using the company's software products.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Alex Kozinski, Apologizing Amid Harassment Claims, Retires Immediately

Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski, beset by allegations of sexual misconduct, on Monday announced his retirement effective immediately.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

'Oysters Le Burger'? SCOTUS Cookbook Reveals Justices' Food Traditions and Recipes

The new book “Table for 9” recounts the history of the U.S. Supreme Court's dining traditions, and throws in some recipes to boot. The book's worth a read as much for the glimpses it gives into the lives of the justices as the recipes that are included.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Orrick Grows Litigation Ranks by Absorbing Boutique

In all, 15 lawyers from Morvillo LLP will join the New York and Washington, D.C., offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on Jan. 1, including seven partners, three counsel and five associates. For Orrick, it's the firm's largest addition of litigators in the last nine years.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Quinn Emanuel Defends Judge Alex Kozinski as Misconduct Claims Mount

Federal appeals judge Alex Kozinski has retained Susan Estrich and William Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to represent him as additional women step forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

112 Companies Back Microsoft, Princeton in Immigration Suit Against Trump

"In addition to these invaluable intangible benefits, DACA has produced—and is continuing to produce—important benefits for America's companies and for our economy as a whole," the brief, filed by teams from Wilmer Hale and Mayer Brown, argued.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Blocks Trump's 'Moral Exemption Rule' on Birth Control Mandate

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone halted the so-called moral exemption rule and the religious exemption rule, which allow employers to opt out of offering no-cost contraceptive coverage based on sincerely-held religious beliefs or moral convictions.
2 minute read

The Recorder

Kozinski Harassment Inquiry Is Routed to the Second Circuit

Chief Justice John Roberts has called on Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to head up an inquiry into sexual harassment complaints against Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski.
5 minute read

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