Chevron's Demise May Not Bring Deluge Courts Had Feared
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DC Pulse
IMF Promotes Deputy General Counsel To Top JobThe International Monetary Fund has promoted from within to fill the general counsel position held by Rhoda Weeks-Brown since 2018.
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Daily Litigation
Plaintiffs Firms Battle Over Proposed $9B Deal In J&J Talc SuitTwo leading plaintiffs law firms in the multibillion-dollar litigation over Johnson & Johnson's tainted talcum powder are now warring among themselves, with Smith Law Firm PLLC suing Beasley Allen Law Firm for defamation after Beasley Allen accused the former of selling out clients to pay off litigation funders.
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California Pulse
Calif. Bar Gets Atty Fees Hike But Prepares For 'Leaner' TimesThe cash-strapped State Bar of California got the go-ahead from state lawmakers this month to raise its annual attorney licensing fees for just the second time in 25 years, even as those same legislators insisted the bar be better fiscally managed going forward.
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Daily Litigation
King & Spalding Fights Bias Suit Over Summer ProgramKing & Spalding LLP is urging a Maryland federal judge to toss a discrimination suit filed by a straight white woman who says she was dissuaded from applying to a summer associate program open only to "diverse" applicants, arguing the student suffered no injury since she did not apply.
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Courts
Sheriff Who Shot Judge Had Depo Scheduled In Rape SuitThe county sheriff who fatally shot a Kentucky state judge Thursday is a defendant in a federal lawsuit alleging one of his deputies repeatedly raped a woman in the judge's chambers.
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Modern Lawyer
Morgan Lewis Hires Sidley Structured Transactions PartnerMorgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Friday that it has hired the co-leader of Sidley Austin LLP's residential mortgage-backed securities team to further expand its structured transactions practice in New York.
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Daily Litigation
Panera Can't Delay Trial Over Shook Hardy Attys' ScheduleA Pennsylvania federal judge denied Panera Bread's repeated requests to delay a wrongful death trial, finding the restaurant chain will not be prejudiced if its desired Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP counsel cannot attend, as "plenty" of Shook Hardy lawyers can stand in, the judge said.
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In-House
Embattled Warner Bros. Discovery Searching For New CLOIn the middle of two key legal battles at Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., CEO David Zaslav has announced the departure of the chief legal officer, a lawyer and close adviser that Zaslav brought with him when Discover merged with Warner in 2022.
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Modern Lawyer
Latham Lands King & Spalding Project Development AceLatham & Watkins LLP expanded its Houston office this week with an engineering, procurement and construction specialist with experience in energy and infrastructure joining as a partner from King & Spalding LLP.
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Daily Litigation
Court Rejects Jerry Sandusky's Atty Pressure Tactics TheoryA Pennsylvania state appeals court has denied convicted pedophile and former Penn State football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's latest request for a retrial, rejecting his claims that new evidence showed accusers were pressured by an attorney to sue and that several underwent "repressed memory therapy" in order to recount false memories of abuse.
