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TOP NEWS Trump Student Visa Policy Set For Up-Or-Down Ruling July 15 A suit by Harvard and MIT challenging a new Trump administration policy barring foreign students from the U.S. if colleges offer online-only instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic will be decided July 15, after the schools told a judge Friday that briefly pausing the directive to buy time won't work. 180 Schools Back Harvard, MIT In Trump Visa Policy Fight A slew of universities and colleges urged a Massachusetts federal court Friday to block a Trump administration policy barring foreign students from the U.S. if institutions offer online-only instruction during the coronavirus pandemic, calling the directive "abrupt," "arbitrary" and "devastating" for schools and students.
Pair Charged In Ghosn Escape Can't Get Bail Over Flight Risk The father and son accused of smuggling former Nissan Motor Co. head Carlos Ghosn out of Japan are too great a flight risk and failed to make a strong enough case against the foreign charges to warrant their release during their extradition case, a judge in Massachusetts said Friday.
Contractor Billed Gov't For Disney World Trips, Feds Say A former U.S. Department of Defense contracting officer hired an associate for a no-show job and took her on dozens of trips to Disney World and other vacation spots on the government's dime, federal prosecutors in Boston said Friday.
Republican Hopeful Tests Mass. Justices' Pandemic Ballot Fix Massachusetts' top appellate court wrestled Friday with whether an alleged violation of the electronic ballot signature collection program it detailed in an April decision could keep a Republican congressional candidate's name from going before voters in September's primary. Feature The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court Supreme Court oral arguments are always a high wire act. This term, a global pandemic, a docket of hot-button cases and an experiment with remote technology took the challenge to new heights. Here’s a look at the law firms that argued the most, and how they fared. Feature Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review A docket packed with divisive cases. Experiments in remote oral arguments. Defining moments for the court’s new swing justice. Here, Law360 takes a data dive into the numbers behind this historic court term, when the unexpected reigned supreme. Feature The Majority Of One: How Roberts Is Shaping The Court The 2019 term has removed all doubt: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. is the power broker on the U.S. Supreme Court. But unlike past swing justices, the nation's top jurist puts the reputation of the court before his own conservative instincts and is willing to compromise when he needs to. New Pharma Co. Defenses For 'Innovator Liability' Claims Under the so-called innovator liability theory, a handful of states have permitted plaintiffs who took generic medication to sue the manufacturer of the branded form of the drug — but pharmaceutical companies have recently had success fighting such claims with three key strategies, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn. Opinion Let's Create An Ethical Obligation For Attys To Fight Racism In this moment of national recognition of historical institutional racism, the American Bar Association must implement a model rule that explicitly declares efforts to fight racism and advance equality to be a matter of attorneys' ethics and professional conduct, say Marc Firestone at Philip Morris International and David Douglass at Sheppard Mullin. Firms Wanted PPP Money, But Will It Prevent More Cuts? Law firms accounted for a large portion of the recipients of federal bailout funds designed to save small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, but some observers speculate that, for a number of those shops, the funds won't be enough to prevent future cuts if COVID-19 continues to drag down the market. Law Firm Leaders' 3 Biggest Worries For The Rest Of 2020 After a wildly tumultuous first half of 2020, law firm leaders are now preparing to take on whatever the second half of the year has in store. Here, leaders share their biggest worries for the remaining six months of the year. Brown Rudnick IP Litigation Team Leaves To Start New Firm The head of Brown Rudnick LLP's patent litigation practice has decamped with his team and clients in tow to launch his own firm in New York City, walking away with virtually all of Brown Rudnick's Manhattan-based patent litigation group. Miller Canfield Lays Off Attorneys Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone PLC has instituted layoffs and furloughs of attorneys and other employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to reports. NY Bill Would Suspend Two-Fail Bar Exam Rule For Pandemic New legislation would allow New York public defender and government law graduates who have twice failed the bar exam to continue to practice under supervision for the duration of the state's ongoing coronavirus state of emergency. Chicago Federal Court Extends Remote Hearings To Mid-Sept. The Northern District of Illinois' latest COVID-19 safety order entered Friday extends remote hearings into mid-September and keeps an early August target date for jury trials to resume, and the court's two clerk's offices will reopen to the public on Monday. LA Labor Partner Accused Of Sexually Harassing Associate The head of the labor and employment practice at Los Angeles-based law firm Ivie McNeill Wyatt Purcell & Diggs APLC is facing allegations he engaged in an extended campaign of "creepy" behavior toward an associate that peaked with a "nightmarish" incident during a work trip overseas. DOJ's DuCharme Named Acting US Attorney For EDNY U.S. Department of Justice official Seth DuCharme has been tapped as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Friday, replacing Richard Donoghue, who is in turn taking DuCharme's old job. Study Noting 'Racial Tension,' 'Nepotism' Shakes Philly Courts Court leadership in Philadelphia County on Friday vowed to take action following the release of a damning report from an outside consultant detailing "a culture of nepotism, mistrust and racial tension that is constantly brewing" for staff and judges alike. Flynn Case Paused, DC Circ. Weighing Judge's En Banc Bid The D.C. Circuit hit the brakes Friday on a panel's recent ruling instructing a federal judge to immediately grant the government's request to end the prosecution of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn as the full appeals court considers whether to rehear the matter. GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week A new survey showed that corporate counsel are divided on whether they think recent work-from-home adjustments will continue or be reversed once the pandemic wanes, and a separate report revealed that more attorneys are getting comfortable with litigation funding. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week. In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week. Podcast Law360's Pro Say: Absolutely (Not) Immune The U.S. Supreme Court ended its term with a bang this week, rejecting President Donald Trump's claim that he was absolutely immune to a subpoena for his financial records by New York state prosecutors who are pursuing a criminal investigation. Client Says Hagen Berman Pulled Fast One On Special Master A Minnesota woman told a Pennsylvania federal court that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP used clients' protected information as "a sword and a shield" to hide its alleged wrongdoing in its report provided to a special master, who was investigating the firm's bid to drop clients suing GlaxoSmithKline and others for birth defects caused by thalidomide.
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