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The market downturn in Asia has forced many international firms to cut back on their operations in the region, especially in Greater China. In the past year, Latham & Watkins, Perkins Coie, Proskauer Rose, and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld have all shuttered offices in mainland China.        

Two former Big Law associates wandered into r/Biglaw looking to recruit for their remote, tech-forward firm. They were not made to feel welcome.        

Ivana Kovacevic says legal tech saves a business time and money, and frees up in-house counsel to spend time on more value-added work.        

The latest in law dean and other legal education news from across the U.S.        

The appliance giant “re-scoped” Ava Harter’s chief legal officer post into a non-executive position. As a result, Harter is leaving and receiving $2.9 million in severance.        

David Tatel also voiced concern for the fall of “Chevron deference.”        

Jeff Kray, of Marten Law in Seattle, accused of holding up DuPont’s $1.19 billion water contamination settlement, called class counsel’s sanctions motion an “intimidation tactic” based on a “fantastical conspiracy theory.”        

The university also asked the court to declare the ACC’s $140 million penalty to any university leaving the conference void by public policy and legally unenforceable. Clemson said the penalty imposes a nonexistent fiduciary duty on not only the university, but all conference members.        

Trump’s supporters at the high court include more than 20 Republican states, 28 members of Congress and two former U.S. attorneys general.        

The court previously concluded that the state’s wiretapping law, Section 165.540(1)(c) of the Oregon Revised Statutes, which bars secretly taping in-person conversations in public spaces, was unconstitutional, which effectively revived a lawsuit from Project Veritas.