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You should not commit securities fraud. With that out of the way, if you DID want to commit some light securities fraud, the Supreme Court has good news for you! In a 6-3 opinion, the conservative majority ruled that when the SEC seeks civil penalties against someone participating in the securities industry, the agency must…
Last week, thanks to the recently released National Law Journal 500 ranking, we found out which U.S.-centric Biglaw firms were the biggest of them all in terms of headcount. Now, as a new companion piece to the American Lawyer’s Diversity Scorecard, we’ll now delve into the Women’s Scorecard, a ranking of the percentages of women…
OPINION ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Jun 27, 2024 at 3:35 pm The justices released four opinions on Thursday, including Ohio v. EPA. (William Hennessy) The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce air pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states. By…
Robbie Kaplan (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Fortune Media ) Famed litigator Roberta Kaplan is leaving her eponymous firm (Kaplan Hecker & Fink) to start yet another litigation boutique. Lawyers don’t often leave the firms that they headline, but it’s not entirely unheard of. Elihu Root Jr. left Root Clark to join Cleary Gottlieb….
(Photo by MELINA MARA/AFP/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Today’s decision is wrong on the law and devastating for more than 100,000 opioid victims and their families. The Court’s decision rewrites the text of the U. S. Bankruptcy Code and restricts the long-established authority of bankruptcy courts to…
OPINION ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on Jun 27, 2024 at 2:26 pm The justices dismissed Moyle v. United States and Idaho v. United States on Thursday. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for emergency abortions to go forward, at least for now, in Idaho. Less than 24 hours after Bloomberg News…
Must. Keep. From. Screaming. What were they thinking? Isn’t that the question you ask yourself when reading the exploits of various people who thought that they were, so to speak, “above the law”? They learned the hard way — sometimes, that is the only way peeps learn. The misadventures aren’t pretty to read, but they…
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) When he marched into bankruptcy court in December of 2023, just seven days after a jury ordered him to pay $148 million to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, Rudy Giuliani’s goal was clear: He wanted to forestall collection of the judgment pending appeal without having to post a supersedeas bond….
The LSAT is a bore, law school is expensive, and passing the bar risks getting caught up in biometric troubles. Wouldn’t it be easier to skip all of that and just say you’re a lawyer? Well, yes — but you’re gonna need an actual one once you get caught red handed. Someone should have given…
A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practices, and that includes the use of generative AI. The opinion, jointly issued by the Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, was…