Lawyers for an elderly property owner in Los Angeles said she didn’t know her tenant was selling unlicensed marijuana and that charges against her should be dropped. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office said such a ruling would undermine local authority to regulate cannabis operations.        

An Am Law Second Hundred firm that’s built a brand around a forward-thinking vision of the practice of law isn’t veering from this approach.        

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“We don’t believe at this point that we’re ready to say once and for all that the JD-Next is a valid and reliable test for purposes of 503 and we recommend that more data and more study be gathered before we reach that point,” Daniel Thies said.        

Lawrence VanDyke calls government’s request to hold case in abeyance “wholly political.”        

The University of North Texas’ Office of General Counsel said the programming would violate the state’s new anti-DEI law, an assertion some faculty members doubt.        

Facing depleted ranks, Shearman & Sterling’s storied Latin America practice convinced a former counsel to return—and business is booming.        

Attorneys with Seyfarth Shaw, on behalf of CVS Health Corp., moved to dismiss the third count of the complaint brought by the plaintiff, Brendan Baker, who accused CVS of violating a state law known as the “Lie Detector Statute.”        

As part of the settlement, DoorDash will pay a $375,000 civil penalty and must comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Online Privacy Protection Act.        

In a dissent, Sixth Circuit Judge Ransey Guy Cole Jr. shared that he believed that a reasonable jury could find that the Lexington Police Department’s reasons for terminating a Black police officer who provided confidential department communications to activists protesting police brutality were pretextual.