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National Law Journal

Registration Deadline for DC Bar Exam Moved Up

As a Uniform Bar Exam jurisdiction, D.C. accepts qualifying UBE scores from exams administered by other UBE jurisdictions.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC Urges Lawmakers to Restore Authority to Refund Consumers Harmed by Fraud

FTC's call follows a 2021 U.S. Supreme Court decision that the agency cannot seek monetary relief in claims brought under the FTC Act's remedial provision, Section 13(b).
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Partially Sides With AstraZeneca Over Firing Employees Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine

"Ultimately, beliefs amounting to a declaration that an employee has the right to make unilateral decisions do not constitute religious beliefs, even where religion is expressly invoked in communicating the beliefs," the court said in dismissing some of the plaintiffs' religious discrimination claims.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Virginia Bar Seeks Comments on Proposed Amendments to Add Lay Member to Committee on Lawyer Discipline

Comments may be emailed to [email protected], no later than Dec. 18.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Crowell, Cadwalader, Faegre and Jenner Build DC Benches

As Big Law sees robust demand in regulatory, enforcement, antitrust and litigation practices, law firms are continuing to add D.C. laterals in these practices.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Biden-Appointed Judges Share Paths From Civil Rights Work to the Bench

Three jurists show that you need not be a prosecutor or corporate attorney to be appointed to the federal judiciary.
5 minute read

Law.com

How Lawyers Are Already Wielding Upcoming Changes to Expert Evidence Rules

At a Sept. 6 status hearing, lawyers on both sides of the talcum powder lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson debated the impact of the upcoming amendments to Federal Rule 702 of Evidence.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Litigator Filling EEOC's Long-Vacant General Counsel Post Will Be First Blind Person in Role

Karla Gilbride is taking the legal reins of the organization a year after she became the first blind lawyer to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, a case she won 9-0.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Elon Musk, Mark Cuban Back Supreme Court Challenge to SEC

Entrepreneurs join argument that administrative law judge proceedings that carry fines violate the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Precedent Dismissing Voting Rights Cases 'Falls Far Short,' Attorney for Fox, Snap Shareholders Says

The right to sue, a Bernstein Litowitz partner argued, is implied in every Delaware charter, referencing how in the past the court has analogized charters with contracts, which frequently have implied terms that can be binding.
4 minute read

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