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New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Rep. Hit With Ethics Complaint for Outing Activist Bank Lawyer

A New Jersey congressman is under fire for singling out a bank's lawyer, based on her political affiliations, in a letter to her boss—apparently leading to her departure.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Discrimination Complaints Against Frontier Airlines by Employee Moms Mount

 Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday broadened its legal battle on behalf of pregnant and breast-feeding mothers by…
4 minute read

National Law Journal

US Banking Examiner, Sanctioned After Wells Fargo Scandal, Probes His Agency

A senior U.S. national bank inspector punished in the aftermath of the Wells Fargo sham-accounts scandal sued federal banking regulators on Tuesday for information about their investigation of him. The examiner, Bradley Linskens, who joined the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1993, filed the public-records lawsuit in Washington federal district court.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Willkie Partner, Other Lawyers Land SEC Appointments

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has staffed up with five Big Law alumni, including a rainmaker at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Discrimination Complaints Against Frontier Airlines by Employee Moms Mount

Lawyers for the ACLU have filed additional complaints against Frontier Airlines charging the company with discriminating against pregnant and nursing employees.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

ABA Counters Trump's Transgender Directive in Appeals Court

The consequences of discrimination follow transgender students and their classmates into the legal profession, warned the American Bar Association in an amicus brief that urged a federal appellate court to find that such unfairness violates federal civil rights.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

What 9th Circuit Is Saying About Trump's New Travel Ban

At the outset of the closely watched hearing, Circuit Judges Ronald Gould, Michael Daly Hawkins and Richard Pae kept their questions narrowly focused. But acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall was quickly called to defend Trump's motivation for the order and allegations that it discriminates against Muslims.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Use of Noncompete Clauses Grows Even as More States Move to Limit Them

Companies and law firms increasingly are inserting noncompete clauses into employment contracts but more of those contracts are winding up in litigation and more states in the United States are passing laws to restrict their use.
17 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

David Stras: Trump Judicial Nominee and SCOTUS Reformer

David Stras once wrote that U.S. Supreme Court justices should not have term limits. Instead, he said they should be incentivized to leave when they get old, through "golden parachute" pensions and a heavier workload, including being forced to hear cases around the country by "riding the circuits." Stras, 42, an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, may be able to continue his scholarly scrutiny from the inside. President Donald Trump this month announced plans to nominate Stras to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

US Attorneys, Defense Bar Criticize Sessions Directive

Former U.S. attorneys and criminal defense lawyers on Friday criticized a new Department of Justice directive instructing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges that they can prove.
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