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“One common thread in the survey results is the concern that it would unfairly level the playing field for applicants who are not strong writers, in addition to permit inauthenticity,” Amit Schlesinger, executive director of legal and government programs at Kaplan, said in a statement.        

While many law firms are eager to see what deals close in 2023, others are pinning hopes on 2024 instead.        

The firm’s two Asian office launches, taking place just months apart, are an indication of increased client demand and needs around complex, high profile commercial litigation and investigations in the region.        

Peter Wiley said on LinkedIn that “now is the right time for me to take a short break, properly disconnect for a moment and then focus on what might come next.”        

In her 30 years as a U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein, who died Friday at age 90, pushed five presidents to create a more diverse federal bench in California, said lawyers who helped her vet judicial candidates.        

“Indeed, when an employer does not receive confidential medical information pursuant to § 12112(d), but receives the information another way, the ADA confidentiality provision is not triggered,” U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas S. Kleeh wrote, siding with the employer.        

“Southwestern’s Online J.D. Program is not ‘Zoom U,’” President and Dean Darby Dickerson, said in a statement. “It is a carefully considered, thoughtfully designed program that will allow students to interact with faculty and other students meaningfully while providing scheduling and geographic flexibility.”        

The Court of Appeals for the First Appellate District of Ohio affirmed a jury’s verdict in favor of a doctor and a plastic surgery center, after the estate of a patient who died from medical complications following treatment brought suit for medical malpractice and failure to obtain informed consent.        

Wilmer, Sidley, King & Spalding, Skadden and many others in Big Law are advising corporate insiders, companies, financial firms and others caught up in the SEC’s latest enforcement actions.