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Corporate Counsel

GCs Who Want Outside Counsel 'Innovation' Need to Define It, Author Says

Michele DeStefano, a law professor at the University of Miami, set out to explore what innovation means to lawyers, including in-house leaders, in a new book. She discovered that there are numerous definitions.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Navigating the Evolving Field of Transgender Rights in Independent Schools: Part II

Private schools across the country continue to grapple with how to properly educate all students in light of still-developing issues regarding transgender rights, as well as continuing legal uncertainty about those rights.
8 minute read

Daily Business Review

Worker Was Retaliated Against for Seeking Benefits

The lawsuit was filed over the firing of a couple by a preschool group after the husband filed a workers' compensation claim.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Circuit Judge Blocks Constitutional Revision Commission Education Ballot Proposal

“The failure to use the term voters would understand, 'charter schools,' as well as the use of a phrase that has no established meaning under Florida law, fails to inform voters of the chief purpose and effect of this proposal,” Circuit Judge John Cooper wrote in a 12-page ruling, removing Amendment 8 from the Nov. 6 ballot.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami-Dade School Board Wins First Amendment Ruling

“Whether they spoke as private citizens or public employees and about matters of public concern makes all the difference," 11th Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus said.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Holds UC Regents in Contempt in UCSB Stalking Case

A state court judge in Santa Barbara found that the school's revised decision in a case she sent back to the school for further review was "merely a poorly rewritten decision that appears to be a justification for the earlier result."
4 minute read

The Recorder

Court Revives Claremont McKenna Student's Appeal Over Sexual Misconduct Suspension

The Second District Court of Appeal held that in a case that turned on believing the accuser's version of conflicting accounts, the process should have included opportunities to hear from the accuser in person or by video conference and to ask her appropriate questions.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Student Expelled on Sex Assault Charge Can't Sue Rider as 'Doe,' Judge Says

The plaintiff's fear of social stigma fails to outweigh the general interest in favor of open judicial proceedings, U.S. Magistrate Judge Tonianne Bongiovanni ruled. And a statement to the media by Doe's lawyer in connection with the case also weighs against granting permission to proceed anonymously, she added.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Janus v. AFSCME'—Top 5 Takeaways From Supreme Court Decision

On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled more than 40 years of established precedent by handing down a decision in favor of nonunion member public employees.
1 minute read

The American Lawyer

Mary Jo White Adds OSU Football Coach Probe to Busy Schedule

The Debevoise partner, named last week to help lead CBS' probe into harassment allegations against Leslie Moonves, is also investigating failure-to-report claims against Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer.
1 minute read

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