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Legal Job Sector Stayed Strong In April Despite Economy
The U.S. legal sector added 1,400 law-related jobs in April, marking the second straight month of improvement, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began May with another action-packed week as BigLaw firms established new executive roles and added talent across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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DC US Atty Pick Vows To Take On Judicial Threats
Ed Martin, nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia who is currently serving in the role on an interim basis, has told federal judges in D.C. he is concerned about the increase in threats to judges and pledged to work together to stop it.
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Trump Announces First Judicial Nominee Of 2nd Term
President Donald Trump announced his first judicial nominee of his second administration late Thursday night.
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New Bill Holds Judges Accountable Even After They Retire
A Georgia Congressman on Thursday introduced legislation that would ensure misconduct complaints against judges would still be investigated, even if the judge has resigned, retired or even died.
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Troops Urge High Court To Keep Transgender Ban On Ice
Several transgender service members and recruits told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to lift a federal judge's order prohibiting implementation of the Pentagon's ban on transgender military service, claiming the policy is so deeply rooted in animosity that it won't survive judicial inspection.
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GOP Seeks To Stop 'Frivolous Lawsuits' With Reconciliation
The House Judiciary Committee approved along party lines a proposal they say will prevent "frivolous lawsuits" by barring courts from enforcing contempt citations for failure to comply with injunctions if the plaintiff has not posted a bond for litigation costs.
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DHS Urges Justices To Let Venezuelan Protections Be Undone
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security turned to the nation's highest court on Thursday, asking the justices to pause a nationwide injunction blocking the agency from undoing the Biden administration's extension of temporary protected status for Venezuela during its appeal.
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Okla. DAs Say Tribes Can't Overrule State Court Opinion
Two Oklahoma district attorneys have urged a federal court to throw out Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nation lawsuits challenging the district attorneys' attempts to prosecute tribal citizens for crimes committed in Indian Country, arguing that their complaints wrongly seek to overturn a state criminal court opinion.
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Attys Join Nationwide 'Day Of Action' Rallies For Rule Of Law
Thousands of attorneys gathered at rallies across the country on Thursday to oppose what they called the Trump administration's "assault" on the rule of law — a rare public demonstration for the normally buttoned-down and risk-averse professionals that they said "sounds the alarm of a looming constitutional crisis."
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Fla. Justices Call For Suspension Of Judge In Ethics Case
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a recommendation by an ethics watchdog that a state judge should only be reprimanded and fined for improper campaign donations and discussions about her own reelection campaign, saying she should also get a 10-day suspension.
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Senate Panel Delays A Vote On Martin Nomination For US Atty
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held off for now a vote to call for a hearing on Ed Martin's nomination for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, a move Democrats say would allow more time to review his record and, they hope, convince enough Republicans to help them block his nomination.
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Colo. Judge Resigns Amid Allegations Over Misuse Of Bench
A Colorado state judge resigned on Wednesday amid a disciplinary complaint accusing him of misusing his position to help a former client that he exchanged sexual and flirtatious texts with, telling an independent panel in a brief that it no longer needs to hear a disciplinary case against him.
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Meet The Circuit Judge Handling X Severance Fights In Del.
As former workers pursue severance pay claims against the social media platform X in Delaware federal court, presiding over the matters is a circuit judge with a record of digging into challenging legal questions and delivering blunt appraisals of attorneys' arguments.
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20 Former Federal Judges Launch Group To Defend Judiciary
Twenty former federal district and circuit judges on Thursday launched a coalition to speak out about and defend the federal judiciary as political impeachment attempts against judges increase and the federal courts system faces heightened scrutiny.
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Florida Ethics Panel Wants Judge Booted Over Campaign Talk
A Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission panel has "reluctantly, but of necessity" recommended the removal of a Florida judge found to have made inappropriate comments about abortion amid an election campaign, stating that the judge showed a lack of remorse for her actions in testimony before the panel.
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5th Circ. Keeps NFL Pension Plan's Atty Fee Appeal Afloat
The NFL retirement plan's appeal of a $1.86 million award of attorney fees and expenses to a former player fighting for additional disability benefits will go forward, after a panel of the Fifth Circuit rejected his bid to stop it.
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Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Named Inspector General
Connecticut's Criminal Justice Commission has appointed Connecticut Appellate Court Judge Eliot D. Prescott to serve as the state's next inspector general, who investigates police use of force incidents and police or correctional officers' failure to intervene or report an incident.
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Slain Fla. Law Professor's Mother-In-Law Moves To Delay Trial
The former mother-in-law of slain Florida law professor Dan Markel asked Wednesday to delay her trial on charges she helped orchestrate his murder, citing copious discovery produced in recent weeks by the prosecution.
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FTC Transfer Stripped From House Judiciary Reconciliation
A provision to transfer the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust functions to the U.S. Department of Justice was stripped out of the House Judiciary Committee's budget reconciliation bill on Wednesday.
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Creek Say Tulsa Jurisdictional Row Is 'Federal To The Core'
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation continues to fight attempts by Tulsa County, Oklahoma, its sheriff and a district attorney to assert criminal jurisdiction on the tribe's reservation, telling a federal court that the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court support its jurisdictional authority.
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Marshals Service Pick Vows To Protect Judges Amid Tensions
President Donald Trump's nominee for director of the U.S. Marshals Service, Gadyaces Serralta, stressed to Democrats on Wednesday that the agency's mission to protect judges and enforce court orders would not change under his leadership despite increasing criticism of the bench from the president and other policymakers.
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Texas Panel Backtracks In Nate Paul's Receiver Row
A Texas appellate court revoked its prior ruling and backed a lower court ruling that allowed an attorney acting as a receiver in one suit to take over as counsel in another suit for a company belonging to real estate investor Nate Paul, permanently dismiss its claims and counterclaims, and reach a settlement.
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Former South Florida US Atty Talks 'Noble History' Of Lawyers
After prosecuting headline-grabbing cases as the U.S. attorney in South Florida, like that of a man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump and of a former U.S. diplomat who admitted to spying for Cuba, Markenzy Lapointe is settling back into private practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
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DC Judge Grapples With FBI Agents' Bid To Block Jan. 6 List
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she could bar the U.S. Department of Justice from publicizing a list of FBI agents who worked cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol without concrete evidence the department intends to do so.
Expert Analysis
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A Scientific Path For Improving Diversity At Law Firms
Law firms could combine industrial organizational psychology and machine learning to study prospective hires' analytical thinking, stress response and similar attributes — which could lead to recruiting from a more diverse candidate pool, say Ali Shahidi and Bess Sully at Sheppard Mullin.
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In the first installment of Law360 Pulse's career advice guest column, Meela Gill at Weil offers insights on how associates can ask for meaningful work opportunities at their firms without sounding like they are begging.
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Legal Sector Regulatory Reform Is Key To Closing Justice Gap
In order to improve access to justice for those who cannot afford a lawyer, states should consider regulatory innovations, such as allowing new forms of law firm ownership and permitting nonlawyers to provide certain legal services, says Patricia Lee Refo, president of the American Bar Association.