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Management consulting firms and Big Four accounting firms have a secret weapon. It’s not particularly well-camouflaged. It’s there for anyone who bothers to look. Both of these thought leaders hire lawyers for a wide variety of nonlegal jobs. And they’ve been doing so for decades—everything from business development to crisis management to marketing. Neither advertises…

Sad Nikki Haley (Photo via EuropaNewswire/Gado/Getty Images). Nikki Haley spent the early part of the year running a doomed campaign against Donald Trump. While seeking the Republican nomination, the former Trump administration official said her former boss was “unhinged” and “mentally unfit” and “like suicide for our country.” On May 22, she said that she…

Home Daily News Bill would restore Chevron deference doctrine,… Legislation & Lobbying Bill would restore Chevron deference doctrine, create advocate to help citizens participate By Debra Cassens Weiss July 25, 2024, 9:36 am CDT A U.S. Senate bill introduced this week would codify the doctrine of Chevron deference, which allows courts to defer to agencies’…

SCOTUS NEWS By Amy Howe on Jul 26, 2024 at 2:48 pm The court released its October and November schedules for oral arguments on Friday. (Katie Barlow) The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate so-called “ghost guns” in the first week of the 2024-25 term in October, followed…

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Adrienne Lester, senior director of business services at ShareFile, a secure content collaboration, file sharing and sync software. They discussed the trends driving the need for more content collaboration and real-time engagement, how ShareFile helps law firms keep pace with changes in the practice of law, where legal professionals are…

Getting the Supreme Court to decide that businesses have a constitutional right to discriminate against protected classes has its costs. I’m not talking about the moral ones — no one seems to care about those. I’m talking about money. 303 Creative’s web designer can reject all of the gay business she wants, but somebody is…

Home Daily News 97-year-old federal appeals judge should… Judiciary 97-year-old federal appeals judge should be suspended another year for exam refusal, panel says By Debra Cassens Weiss July 25, 2024, 12:07 pm CDT Judge Pauline Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in May 2023. According to a three-judge special circuit…

About a year and a half ago, in a ruling striking down the Ohio state version of Chevron deference, the conservative majority on the state supreme court noted that “text should be given its contemporaneous and customary meaning.” Yesterday, in a 4-3 opinion, the conservative justices decided that “boneless wings” can have bones in them….

Home Daily News Punishing first grader for ‘Black Lives Mater’… First Amendment Punishing first grader for ‘Black Lives Mater’ drawing violates First Amendment, appeal argues By Debra Cassens Weiss July 25, 2024, 2:31 pm CDT A California school district violated the First Amendment when it punished a first grader who drew a picture for her…