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First-Time Bar Passage Rate Improved In 2024
Nearly 83% of first-time test takers who sat for the bar exam in 2024 passed, an increase of nearly 3 percentage points from 2023, according to statistics released on Wednesday by the American Bar Association.
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Fox Rothschild Hires Lewis Brisbois Litigator In DC
A trial attorney who spent the past four years at Lewis Brisbois, has moved his practice to Fox Rothschild LLP and told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that his new role continued a family tradition of Fox Rothschild attorneys stretching back 100 years.
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Perkins Coie Slams Trump's Executive Order Retaliation
Perkins Coie LLP sued the Trump administration Tuesday over an executive order targeting the firm for its diversity-focused hiring efforts and its representation of certain political figures including former Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, calling the order "an affront to the Constitution" that aims to chill future representation of certain clients.
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Senate Confirms Gail Slater To Lead DOJ Antitrust
The Senate voted 78-19 on Tuesday to confirm Gail Slater to be assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Trump Taps DOJ Vet To Serve As Energy Dept.'s Top Lawyer
President Donald Trump has nominated a Winston & Strawn LLP partner, who formerly led the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division during Trump's previous term, to serve as the U.S. Department of Energy's general counsel.
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Ex-Prosecutor's Handling Of 2017 Protest Evidence Defended
A former federal prosecutor accused of withholding key evidence in the criminal cases against hundreds of people arrested at a 2017 anti-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C., was working "under profoundly challenging conditions" at the time, her attorney told an ethics panel in the nation's capital on Tuesday.
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'Victim Of Its Own Success': The Federalist Society's Shift
The Federalist Society can now boast long-sought victories and point to scores of federal judges appointed from its ranks. But its alliance with President Donald Trump may bring about a reckoning within the conservative legal movement.
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Eric Adams Case Dying Slow Death In 'Sovereign' District
Experts say New York City Mayor Eric Adams' criminal corruption case appears on track to be tossed permanently — a looming development that could signal the end of the fierce independence of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
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Threats Against Judges 'Top Priority,' Fed. Judiciary Says
Protecting federal judges is a "top priority" as violent threats spike against a polarized political backdrop, making congressional funding for additional security measures more important than ever, the U.S. Judicial Conference said Tuesday.
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Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent
On-campus interviewing — an outdated process that led to just 24% of all offers made by law firms last year for summer associates — is no longer the preferred recruitment method, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Hecker Fink Adds Ex-DOJ Gov't Atty Legal Advisor In DC
A three-year official in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel has joined Hecker Fink LLP's Washington office, the firm announced Monday.
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Goldstein Wants Look At Testimony On Alleged Obstruction
U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein asked a Maryland federal judge to let him see grand jury material related to the government's claim that he offered to pay a potential witness cryptocurrency in his tax evasion case.
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Social Security Admin. Atty Rejoins Potomac Law Group
A former senior investigative counsel for the Social Security Administration has rejoined Potomac Law Group PLLC in Washington, D.C., the firm said Tuesday, and she told Law360 Pulse in an interview she was looking forward to rejoining the firm she left about a decade ago.
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Justices Seen Resolving Circuit Split Over Med Mal Law
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether a Delaware medical malpractice statute requiring an expert affidavit can apply in federal court, which experts said will give the justices the opportunity to reassess the so-called Erie doctrine and the relationship between state and federal courts.
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Gaming Websites Can't Stop Law Firms' Arbitrations
A D.C. federal judge has nixed a lawsuit by two online "social casino" websites that accuse two law firms of filing meritless arbitration against them, finding that his court doesn't have jurisdiction over the firms.
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GOP Sens. Escalate Fight With ABA Over 'Leftist' Statements
A group of Senate Republicans are once again going after the American Bar Association, which they claim has become a "leftist" organization, and announced Monday they will disregard ABA ratings on judicial nominees and encouraged the Trump administration and their colleagues to do the same.
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DC Ethics Hearing Over Anti-Trump Protest Arrests To Kick Off
A former federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., is set to face an attorney ethics panel Tuesday in disciplinary proceedings that could shed new light on how the government handled key evidence in cases against hundreds of people arrested at protests of President Donald Trump's first inauguration in 2017.
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5 Key Takeaways From The ABA's Latest Legal Tech Survey
Last week, the American Bar Association released its 2024 legal technology survey report, which covers a wide range of topics including artificial intelligence use, courtroom technology training and law firm data breaches. Here are five key takeaways from the report.
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High Court Will Review Colo.'s Conversion Therapy Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review a challenge to Colorado's ban on licensed therapists providing conversion therapy to transgender minors, in a case that asks whether the state's law is a permissible regulation of professional conduct or an unconstitutional restriction of speech.
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Commerce Dept. Telecom Atty Rejoins Akin In DC
The former deputy chief counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce group focused on telecommunications has rejoined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as a partner in Washington, the firm announced Monday.
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DLA Piper Welcomes Ex-GC To Its Corporate Group
The former general counsel of a software development company and long-time Cooley LLP lawyer has joined DLA Piper as a corporate law partner in Reston, Virginia.
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Paul Hastings Reelects Chair, Managing Partner To 2nd Terms
Paul Hastings LLP Chair Frank Lopez and Managing Partner Sherrese Smith have been reelected to their second three-year terms, the firm said Monday.
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Boeing CLO's Compensation Fell By Nearly In Half In 2024
The salary for Boeing's chief legal officer was cut nearly in half last year, down from more than $8.5 million in 2023 to a little more than $4.4 million in 2024, according to a disclosure the aerospace company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Clerks May Seek Political Jobs On 'Case-By-Case Basis'
Individual federal judges may determine whether their clerks may seek political posts while employed by the judiciary, the Judicial Conference of the United States' Committee on Codes of Conduct now recommends, months after issuing guidance advising clerks to hold off seeking such roles until their clerkships end.
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Justices To Weigh If Del. Expert Law Applies In Federal Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review whether federal courts must apply a Delaware state law requiring an expert affidavit for all medical malpractice complaints.