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---- Old Section -----Alabama Law Professor, Vice Dean Chosen as Next Dean of Wyoming Law
“Most people who know me, know that I think of Wyoming as home,” Julie Anderson Hill posted to LinkedIn. “I am happy to be going home.”
Tokyo Runway Incursion: 34-Year Aviation Lawyer Steven Marks On Causes, Legal Aftermath
“A runway incursion should never happen, and there are so many backup systems that are supposed to prevent it, that it’s really surprising in this environment and today’s world that there could possibly have been such an accident
Inside Track: Top Global Risk? Dysfunctional US Politics
Ian Bremmer, a political scientist who issues a list of top 10 global risks at the start of each year, predicts the divergence between red and blue states is only going to get worse.
Massachusetts SJC Adopts Standard for Snoozing Trial Counsel's Effectiveness
“Counsel’s constructive absence during either a significant portion of trial or an important aspect of trial so offends the constitutional protections surrounding the right to assistance of counsel that it renders the entire adversary process ‘presumptively unreliable’ and creates an uncurable error,” Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd wrote.
In Defense of DEI: A Rejection of the Misinformation Campaign
“As we approach the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we are experiencing an onslaught,” Yusuf Z. Zakir of Davis Wright Tremaine writes. “Here, I will seek to correct the record about equity, inclusion, and diversity.”
'Pig Butchering' and Other Cybercrimes Preying on Human Psychology Rising Fast
“We are getting good with the technical applications of fighting the stuff. But at the end of the day, it comes down to the human,” said Stephen Dougherty, a financial fraud investigator with the U.S. Secret Service.
With Scale Top of Mind, More Law Firms Are Willing to Put Merger Option on Table
“People are just more willing to listen about the future and creating connections, than in previous years,” noted one Am Law 200 leader.
Hit With Felonies for Terrorizing Newsletter Publisher, eBay Agrees to $3M Settlement
EBay CEO Jamie Iannone called the 2019 harassment campaign, which included sending live spiders and cockroaches and a bloody pig mask, “reprehensible.”
What's Going on With These Biden Judicial Picks in Confirmation Limbo?
“It’s election year and that’s always tough, but I think the Democrats are committed to filling every possible vacancy,” said University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias.