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Florida Legal Community Reacts to Rick Scott's Inaction on Federal Judicial Nominee
“As a lifelong Republican and Floridian, I cannot imagine a more qualified nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida,” said Beatriz Azcuy, an Am Law 100 firm co-managing partner.
Early Impact of the CHIPS Act
This article describes certain key developments in the period from passage of the CHIPS Act through the present day, and provides a brief survey of key grantmaking and investment activity by U.S. government agencies since passage of the Act.
How I Made Partner: 'Be Flexible and Open About Where the Road Might Go,' Says Kerri-Ann Griggs of Alston & Bird
“Pursue an area you are truly passionate about, hold yourself to a standard of excellence, and to be flexible and open about where the road might go. There is not one “right way” for a career path or even how one goes from law school graduate to partner at a firm.”
ABA Council Notice & Comment: Tweaks to Various Standards and Rules
The revisions to the standards and rules were made to “clean up” some of the wording to bring them in line with previously revised standards and rules plus the revisions were made after a review of the U.S. Department of Education regulations and recent guidance to incorporate any relevant USDE regulation change, according to Council’s […]
Critical Mass With Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Class Action Alleges J&J's 'Fraudulent Maneuvers' Compromised Talc Plaintiffs, MDL Panel to Hear GM Privacy Lawsuits
This week: Plaintiffs’ firms opposing Johnson & Johnson’s latest bankruptcy plan filed a class action over alleged “fraudulent maneuvers.” The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation hears big cases on May 30, including suits alleging GM sends driver data to insurance firms. Find out who filed the first class action in the wake of the […]
TCPA Update: FCC Implements New One-to-One Consent Rule
This change is expected to bring a new wave of litigation challenging whether the asserted consent was given for the specific marketer, the disclosure of the consent was clear and conspicuous, and the marketer’s contact is logically and topically associated with the interaction that prompted the consumer to grant their consent.
Ticket Software Developer Wins $16M Verdict Against Resale Platform StubHub
Spotlight Ticket Management represented by Hunton Andrews Kurth, claimed it discovered StubHub and its then-parent, eBay, were underpaying it for commissions in 2016.
Cooley Fortifies White-Collar Practice in Palo Alto With Elizabeth Holmes Prosecutor
John Bostic spent nearly a decade as a federal prosecutor in Northern California, and he both investigated and tried Holmes and her Theranos co-leader Ramesh Balwani.
White & Case Recruits DOJ KleptoCapture Task Force Official
David Lim was the co-director of the task force dedicated to enforcing sanctions, export restrictions and economic countermeasures implemented in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.