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Texas Lawyer

Three Texas Law Schools Continue Upward Climb in US News Ranking

The latest law school rankings by U.S. News & World Report might be causing three Texas law schools to jump for joy, and three others to shake…
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The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Woman Can Refine ADA Claim in Lawsuit Alleging Police Triggered Boyfriend's Suicide

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has given a Pennsylvania woman a second chance to bring a claim alleging the Nazareth Borough Police Department's procedures for dealing with mentally ill people violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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The Recorder

6 Trial Judges Lose Push for Greater Pension Benefits

The appellants are trial court judges who were elected in the summer of 2012 but whose new terms did not start until Jan. 7, 2013, six days after the pension changes went into effect.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Appellate Court Upholds Ruling on Billionaire's Construction Defect Suit

The case involves the former Palm Beach home of construction mogul Leo A. Vecellio Jr., who claimed he paid $11 million — for repairs.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Cuomo's 'Gay Panic' Ban Would Limit Defense, Lawmakers Say

Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn who chairs the chamber's codes committee, told the New York Law Journal on Wednesday that both houses agreed to reject the Democratic governor's proposal because it would place limits on the types of defense an attorney could argue and because it would “carve out” one class of cases from the reasonableness test.
4 minute read

The American Lawyer

Kirkland Overtakes Latham as World's Biggest Firm by Revenue

There's a new leader atop the Am Law 100. Kirkland & Ellis has surpassed Latham & Watkins as the world's largest law firm, as determined by gross revenue.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY's Justice Task Force Calls for Bail Reform

"Our function is to prevent wrongful convictions and certainly bail reform is a part of it," said Carmen B. Ciparick, who is co-chairwoman of the task force and of counsel to Greenberg Traurig.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Yahoo Parent Company Wins Dismissal of Former Trump Aide's Defamation, Terrorism Claims

Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, sued claiming a September 2016 Yahoo article amounted to defamation, tortious interference with business relations and terrorism transcending national boundaries.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

BBX Defeats Shareholder Lawsuit in Case That Could Trim Merger Litigation

The Fourth District Court of Appeal strikes a shareholder suit challenging BFC Financial's acquisition of BBX.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Surveillance Law Applies to Cruise Line, Judge Says in Ruling for US Justice Dept.

Miami-based Royal Caribbean, Judge Beryl Howell in Washington wrote, "provides passengers the ability to access the internet in order to, among other things, effectuate money transfers, thus making the company a provider" of electronic communication services.
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