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The Legal Intelligencer

US Government Hit With $42M Birth Injury Verdict in Pa.

A federal judge in Harrisburg has ordered the United States to pay $42 million to a family whose baby suffered brain injuries during delivery because of a federally employed doctor's unnecessary use of forceps.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Health Care Lawyers Offer Guidance on How to Ride Out the AHCA Storm

Some health care practice lawyers weren't ruffled by the passage of the Obamacare repeal bill in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, mainly because they give it little chance of making it through the Senate. But they offered some guidance on what lawyers should be thinking through with clients right now.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Five Judges to Watch in Fourth Circuit Travel Ban Hearing

J. Harvie Wilkinson III may have to recuse himself, but he's not considered the most vocal of the court's conservative judges.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Top State Department Lawyer Lands at Steptoe

Steptoe & Johnson LLP announced this week that Brian Egan, the top lawyer at the U.S. State Department during the last year of the Obama administration, has joined the firm as a partner.
14 minute read

National Law Journal

Dechert Partnership Worth $1.8M for DOJ 'President's Law Firm' Nominee

That's according to an ethics disclosure form Steven Engel filed in March, which, along with an ethics pledge, outlines Engel's possible conflicts of interest if confirmed as assistant attorney general at the Office of Legal Counsel.
12 minute read

The Recorder

Covington, California Mum on Next Steps After Trump-Focused Contract Ends

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Wednesday used the occasion of his upcoming 100th day in office to renew his promise to defend the state's environmental and immigration policies from any interference posed by the Trump administration.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Noreika Named Acting OCC Comptroller, as Curry Steps Down

Keith Noreika will take over for Thomas Curry at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Treasury GC Pick Brent McIntosh Discloses Big Law Income, Clients

Brent McIntosh, the Sullivan & Cromwell partner nominated to be general counsel to the U.S. Treasury Department, reported earning nearly $2.9 million in income from the firm last year, according to his financial disclosure on file at the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
22 minute read

Litigation Daily

There's the Kushner Standard for a Security Clearance—and Then There's Everyone Else

“No one has a 'right' to a security clearance,” the U.S. Supreme Court held 30 years ago in a rare case addressing the issue. Unless, apparently, your name is Jared Kushner.
13 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Ex-Credit Suisse Litigation Head, Now at Cahill, Predicts Trends in US Financial Enforcement

Pierre Gentin, former head of global litigation and regulatory investigations for Swiss-based Credit Suisse AG bank and now a partner in the litigation group at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, previews his upcoming talk Wednesday at the University of Zurich Financial Market Regulation Forum.
5 minute read

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