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The circuit court has “injected uncertainty into the proceedings during this Court’s active consideration of the case,” U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in a filing with the justices.        

A split West Virginia Supreme Court has affirmed a circuit court’s order dismissing a legal-malpractice complaint in which a client alleged his lawyer failed to get the blood test results of a DUI stop admitted into evidence.        

“[T]he Supreme Court held that Washington’s mandatory ‘Three Strikes’ law may be applied to childhood offenses, and that crimes committed by a child may count as automatic ‘strikes’ toward a life without parole sentence,” Jan Trasen, of the Washington Appellate Project, said in statement. “This disregards evidence-based [Washington state] precedent that ‘children are different’ from […]

Instead of Big Law players such as Kirkland and Davis Polk, firms such as Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li and Loeb & Loeb have taken the majority market share.        

“First, let me begin by telling you what this case is not about,” said Steven M. Orlofsky, a partner with Blank Rome representing plaintiff AC Ocean Walk. “The defendants have what I call the ‘scoreboard,’ approach. They have cited many state and federal cases from around the country which have decided these questions against policy […]

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Insiders have spoken positively of the proposed merger, on which partners at both firms will begin casting their votes Thursday.        

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley said she declined to “open the flood gates to prolonged do-over litigation” in granting summary judgment to Qualcomm.        

“I urge the Council to specifically extend the academic freedom and freedom of expression protections in standard 208 to librarians,” Bonnie Shucha, associate dean for Library and Information Services and Director of the Law Library at the University of Wisconsin Law School, wrote in her letter to the ABA.        

When Temple University President JoAnne Epps died suddenly last week, it shook the entire legal community—not to mention the broader community—to its core.