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In this week’s Legal Speak episode, Marlon Hill, of Weiss Serota Helfman Cole + Bierman, shares why he thinks Black History Month can be an opportunity to learn about how we can do better and make better policy.        

An Oregon jury on Tuesday awarded more than $29 million to nine individuals who survived three wildfires in 2020.        

The SEC’s case against Terraform is scheduled to go to trial March 25, and the debtors’ counsel moved last week for the bankruptcy court to allow Dentons to serve as special counsel.        

“The unanimous Kline verdict is the first to follow significant rulings in the Philadelphia litigation clarifying which scientific and regulatory conclusions could be admitted, a much-disputed issue in prior trials,” a Bayer spokesperson said in a statement.        

A slow year for contingency collections contributed to the IP firm’s 2.4% decline in gross revenue, firm president and CEO John Adkisson said.        

“Extending the crime-fraud exception to claims like MacDonald’s would risk deterring clients from seeking legal advice, chilling lawyers from giving advice, and eroding the attorney-client privilege’s protection of legitimate communications,” Justice Michael B. Hyman wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel.        

“Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President,” Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a concurrence.        

“Here, based on the facts alleged in the Complaint, Micah was at the address as part of his business driving for Uber and assaulted Plaintiff to coerce payment of a debt owed to Uber; therefore, a reasonable jury could determine that … the assault was in furtherance of Uber’s business,” U.S. District Judge Rossie D. […]

Here’s a first look at the law schools that sent the highest percentage of 2023 graduates to associate jobs at the largest 100 law firms.