The automaker argues that the racial discrimination lawsuit suffers from “factual vacuity.” Separately, it has asked the court to stay the case, asserting the agency skipped a required “conciliation” process in a mad rush to to outshine the California Civil Rights Department, which had filed its own suit.        

“Law school, for me, was not about becoming a lawyer per se but about enhancing my effectiveness as an advocate for the causes I am most passionate about,” says Tarah Heinzen, legal director of Food and Water Watch.        

A ruling from an Illinois appellate court has put Baker McKenzie’s structure under scrutiny, two years after Dentons was saddled with a $32 million malpractice verdict that also implicated the firm’s verein status.        

Nicole Fegan of Fegan Law was arrested by Atlanta police Feb. 16 and charged with participation in criminal street gang activity and criminal solicitation to commit the offense of tampering with evidence, both felonies.        

Latham & Watkins’ decision to block automatic access for its Hong Kong staff to files and documents outside of Greater China was not necessarily wrong. But the way it implemented the change was tone-deaf. The firm’s sin was its failure to communicate, writes Jessica Seah in the Asia Legal Briefing.        

The handling of “sensitive data triggers heightened privacy obligations and a default presumption against its sharing or sale,” FTC Chair Lina Khan and Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya said in a joint statement.        

“If I’m going to be an obstruction, if I’m going to make your life more complicated, you are going to avoid me,” Burford Capital General Counsel Mark Klein said.        

Paul Hastings’ equity tier grew by 2% while its nonequity tier surged by 14%.        

The business landscape over the last few years has been changing at an ever-increasing speed. To effectively navigate the challenges and opportunities that present themselves, leaders need to adopt a fresh approach to strategic planning.        

Under a current proposal, the focus of Standard 206 would shift away from “diversity and inclusion” and toward access for “all persons,” expanding the number of “identity characteristics” from three — gender, race and ethnicity — to 14.