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(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) New York Rep. Elise Stefanik took a break from calling every elected Democrat a communist to spit bile at her own state’s judiciary. Yesterday the state’s highest court rejected a challenge to no-excuse mail-in voting in which the congresswoman was the named plaintiff. Governor Kathy Hochul, the named defendant, signed…
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Before he was the beloved Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff was a noted Biglaw partner, most recently at DLA Piper. Partners are often put in awkward positions vis-à-vis their clients. Maybe they have to share a less than ideal result, or shoot down a client’s brain child for legal reasons, or…
I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore. Parsing through the what and how of what a law regulates isn’t easy; people get sent to school for it, after all. But it is more complicated than it needs to be. The occasional Latin flourishes don’t do many favors for one — we could replace res…
The Court of Appeals recently settled an issue that has been unresolved in the state for several years: In light of legal hemp, does the sight or odor of cannabis still provide probable cause to justify a search or arrest? Hemp and marijuana—both varieties of the cannabis plant—are indistinguishable by sight or smell. Since State…
(Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Disney’s lawyers made headlines last week, but not the good kind like you want. After lawyers argued that a free trial to Disney+ required a wrongful death suit to move to forced arbitration, we wondered how everyone from outside to inside counsel dropped the ball here. Immediately after recording, Disney…
Ropes & Gray — a firm that brought in $2,992,831,000 gross revenue in 2023, putting it at No. 8 in the Am Law 100 — is reportedly planning to open an office in Paris. C’est chouette! This will be the firm’s first office in continental Europe. Bloomberg Law has additional details: Ropes is planning to…
(Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images) In early June 2022, in the wake of the unprecedented leak of a draft of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs opinion, Nicholas Roske, a California man in his mid-20s, was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home. Roske, who was reportedly angry about the Court’s decision to…
In today’s fast-paced, ever-evolving world, in-house lawyers are no longer shielded from the winds of change. The legal landscape is shifting rapidly due to technological advancements, globalization, and market dynamics. As a result, adopting a reinvention mindset is not just beneficial but essential for in-house lawyers. Here’s why and how you can integrate this mindset…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Aug 21, 2024 at 10:18 am Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Wednesday, August 21, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 21, 2024, 10:18 AM),…
We have been following Minnesota’s progress on cannabis legalization for a while here at the law firm. It’s a state with huge potential, and reports from our attorneys at CannaCon last weekend were glowing. As a native Minnesotan (Duluth; Moorhead) who frequently returns to the state, I’m personally rooting hard. There is a lot to…