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'A Template' for Religious Accommodation: Attorney Gives Insight to $12M Win Over Employer's COVID-19 Vaccination Policies

Noah Hurwitz told Law.com that he believes the decision issued last week by a Michigan federal jury is just the fourth religious accommodation case to reach a jury trial since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.
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Law.com

'Grave Matter of Serious Consequences': Why a Missouri Judge Sanctioned a Top Kirkland & Ellis Attorney

"I was acting in absolute good faith" Kirkland & Ellis partner Jim Hurst told 22nd Judicial Circuit Judge Michael Noble hours before the court entered an Oct. 24 sanctions order in an infant formula trial, according to a transcript. "I was nowhere near intentionally violating your orders."
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National Law Journal

'Health Care Behemoth'?: DOJ Seeks Injunction Blocking $3.3B UnitedHealth Merger Proposal

“The Justice Department will not hesitate to check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the health care market that threatens to harm vulnerable patients, their families, and health care workers,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
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Law.com

Dominion Energy Accused of Terminating Employee for Remote Work Request Following Medical Leave

Despite dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis and complications from surgery, plaintiff Stephanie Arble was allegedly threatened by her manager at Dominion Energy Ohio that it would be "insubordination" if she did not come into the office on returning from medical leave.
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The American Lawyer

Morgan Lewis Snatches Up Former Orrick Partner in Boston

Litigator Stephen Hall focuses his practice on representing companies in a variety of regulated industries, such as tech and life sciences.
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Connecticut Law Tribune

Major Plaintiff Victories: Women's Health Care Gets Expensive in Court

“This is one of those cases that when it first comes in the door, you know it's going to go to trial,” attorney Sean K. McElligott said. “It's going to be a challenge, and those types of cases tend to go the distance."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Life Sciences M&A Set to Boom, Litigation to Remain Steady Under New Trump Admin

“The campaign we have all just gone through has not been very focused on a lot of policy detail," said Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney life sciences industry group co-leader Jason Parish. "There’s a lot of ambiguity.”
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Corporate Counsel

As AI Transforms Drug Development, FDA Is Scrambling to Figure Out Guardrails

Since 2016, the Food and Drug Administration has received about 300 drug submissions that reference artificial intelligence, a pittance compared with what's on the way.
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Delaware Business Court Insider

Wilson Sonsini Knocks Out Claims Against Inhibrx Biosciences in Trade Secrets Verdict

"The most important thing about the win is it lets scientists who are really dedicated to trying to improve the lives of cancer patients to get back to focusing on that," said Luis Li, a Wilson Sonsini attorney who served as lead trial counsel for Inhibrx.
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Daily Business Review

Fla.'s Statute of Limitations and Statutes of Repose in Med Mal Cases: It's Not Over Until It's Over

The second part of that provision comes into play when grounds for malpractice may not be immediately apparent to the patient. One example of this would be a patient who undergoes surgery and foreign object is left behind, but the patient does not learn of the retained object until a year after surgery.
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