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The Recorder

How Big a Deal Are Four 9th Circuit Vacancies That Await Trump?

Change is coming to the nation's largest, and arguably its most liberal, appeals court. We parse the possibilities.
15 minute read

The Recorder

Santa Clara Splits Complex Litigation Docket

Two judges, Brian Walsh and Thomas Kuhnle, have replaced Peter Kirwan in the court's complex litigation department as part of routine reassignments.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Approaching 90, Judge Harold Murphy To Take Senior Status

In 2012, the longtime judge was interviewed by his son, King & Spalding partner Paul Murphy in this republished version of the judge as a lawyer with aspirations.
25 minute read

Daily Report Online

Holdover JQC Member Resigns as Watchdog Agency Morphs

One of Gov. Nathan Deal's two appointees to the state Judicial Qualifications Commission has resigned as the judicial watchdog agency morphs from one that is constitutionally independent to a new, reconfigured agency under the purview of the General Assembly.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

Orrick Attorney, Once a Juvenile Defendant, Follows Unconventional Path to Bench

David Keenan, who dropped out of high school after run-ins with the law, will take the bench in Seattle on Jan. 9.
19 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Appellate Judge Higbee, Former Mass Tort Judge in Atlantic County, Dies at 66

Appellate Division Judge Carol Higbee, perhaps best known for her former assignment presiding over high-stakes pharmaceutical litigation in New Jersey's mass tort program, died Jan. 3 at age 66.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

New Presiding Justice Melton Marks Ascent of High Court's Younger Generation

As Georgia Supreme Court Justice Harold Melton becomes presiding justice in a ceremony Friday, he also signifies a coming of age for the high court's younger generation.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Dallas Lawyer Beats Labor Union At Its Own Game Before Texas Appellate Court

Labor unions usually take on the role of defending a worker's legal rights if their employer decides to terminate them while on sick leave. But Dallas lawyer Brian Sanford took on that job for a worker and ended up beating the union that fired him before a Texas appellate court.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Rakoff to Be Focus of City Bar Musical Show

The New York City Bar Association will honor Southern District Senior Judge Jed Rakoff in its annual "Twelfth Night" musical revue on Jan. 13.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Judicial Ethics Opinion 16-114

By | January 04, 2017
Provided he/she can be fair and impartial, a full-time judge may preside in matters involving a government agency where the judge's former public sector colleague and current social acquaintance has a high-ranking position and a public law department headed by a part-time judge. No disclosures are required in these circumstances.
11 minute read

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