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'May The Flow Be With You': Meta Team Made Menstrual Jokes
By Bonnie Eslinger
A Meta legal vice president defending the company in a California federal trial over allegations it illegally gathers users' data from menstrual-tracking app Flo acknowledged Thursday that members of Meta's communications team made "inappropriate" menstruation-related jokes while discussing the issue, with one employee telling another: "May the flow be with you."
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RISING STARS
Rising Star: Labaton Keller's Danielle Izzo
By Joyce Hanson
Danielle Izzo of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP is co-lead counsel in a current case alleging menstrual cycle tracking app Flo secretly shared intimate health data with tech giants like Facebook without users' knowledge or consent, placing her among the cybersecurity and privacy lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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'Tiger King' Atty Talks Building A Firm Through Social Media
By Parker Quinlan
Hours after a federal jury in Manhattan returned a mixed verdict in a sex trafficking case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, Molly Parmer, a Georgia defense attorney and TikTok content creator with more than 94,200 followers, posted a video outlining what he could expect in terms of sentencing. Law360 spoke with Parmer about her practice and how she turned her solo firm, Parmer Law, into a space for online court observers.
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DOJ Sentence Ask In Breonna Taylor Case Shows Policy Shift
By Parker Quinlan
Although the request by top U.S. Department of Justice officials seeking a one-day sentence for a former Louisville police officer who participated in the raid that led to Breonna Taylor's death wasn't heeded, former federal prosecutors and defense attorneys say a government request to downgrade a sentence is unusual, but likely to recur in politically relevant matters.
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Jeanine Pirro's Nomination Advances To Full Senate
By Courtney Bublé
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out seven U.S. attorney nominations Thursday, which include Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host and New York state judge, and four others who had to be revoted on after Democrats walked out of last week's meeting over objections to how the consideration of controversial Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove was being handled.
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NJ Attys Warn RICO Case Revival Would 'Chill' Lawyering
By George Woolston
The New Jersey State Bar Association told a Garden State appellate court that lawyers across the state will be chilled from zealously advocating for their clients if it revives the state's racketeering indictment against two politically connected attorneys, making it the second attorney advocacy group to file a proposed amicus curiae brief in the case.
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