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National Law Journal

From Big Law to Boutiques, Law Firms Are Raking in Fees From Presidential Campaigns

Covington & Burling and Dhillon Law Group are the top-paid legal counsel to the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, respectively, so far this year.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Judge Removed From the Bench for Ex Parte Discussions of Pending Cases, Fraternizing at Social Events

Louis J. Korngut, in an answer, admitted some of the allegations and disputed others. He said he attended the police chief's retirement party only for a few minutes. He said he only visited Hooters once, with his court staff.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

U.S. Fifth Circuit Vacates USDOT 'Final Action' on Oil Drilling 'Explosive'

A plasma cutting device used to extract stuck pipes used in oil and gas drilling is not a "new explosive" and its transport cannot be barred, a federal appeals court ruled.
3 minute read

International Edition

Japan Streamlines Registration Process For Foreign Lawyers

The move could see an influx of lawyers from overseas after an agreement to simplify the registration process.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Superior Court Judge Punts 'Sore Loser' Challenge to RFK Jr.'s Presidential Candidacy to Secretary of State

"While [Scott] Salmon still has time to object to the petitions of Kennedy's nominating electors, according to the timeline provided by the Secretary of State, any objection to Kennedy's nomination petition had to be filed with the Secretary of State by June 4, 2024," said Donald F. Burke Jr., of the Law Office of Donald F. Burke, who represented Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Salmon failed to meet the deadline and any contention that Kennedy's nomination petition is barred by the sore loser law is untimely."
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Now Nominated, Randy Mastro Prepares for City Council Hearing

The King & Spalding partner said he anticipates his supporters in Big Law, as well as union leaders and his former clients to appear on his behalf during an upcoming city council hearing.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Defendants in $575M Crypto Fraud Freed After Fed's Star Witness Discredited

"Whenever you ask the court to do something that no judge in the district has done before, and only a handful of judges around the country have done, and when the magistrate judge has already disagreed with you, it presents a challenge, to say the least," said Andrey Spektor, a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CrowdStrike Glitch Highlights Risk of Single Point of Failure in Cybersecurity

Competition regulators took notice when a faulty software update from CrowdStrike, a major player in the cybersecurity industry, took down Windows systems all over the world. FTC Chair Lina Khan called it another example of "how concentration can create fragile systems."
7 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Meta Reaches $1.4B Settlement With Texas: Meet the Lawyers

McKool Smith and Keller Postman assisted the Texas attorney general in achieving an accelerated settlement of $1.4 billion with Meta for its unauthorized use of Facebook users' biometric data.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OIG Responds Favorably to an Arrangement for Pharmaceutical Company's Payment of Travel Expenses

The opinion concludes that although the proposed arrangement would generate prohibited remuneration under the AKS (if the requisite intent were present), the OIG would not impose administrative sanctions on the requestor; and the arrangement does not generate prohibited remuneration under the beneficiary inducements CMP.
12 minute read

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