“Civility helps bring out the best in people,” Pratter said, “just like being uncivil tends to hide the merits of a case and unnecessarily inflames people to get involved in side squabbles that do not move the case along.”        

The French regulation has been enacted in the context of the French government decision to fight against the resurgence of cyberattacks, together with ransom demands, which have a significant impact on the economy.        

“In recommending disbarment, the Commission asserted that the scope and magnitude of Doud’s ethical failures were ‘unequaled in the Commission’s collective experience,’ and this case proved the most egregious and extensive trust violation and misappropriation/commingling case to ever come before it,” the order said.        

Concerns that transactions raise consumer prices and reduce access to care have sparked the state-level scrutiny, a new headache for dealmakers already facing headwinds at the federal level.        

“We’re seeing incredible demand from the market for the kind of comprehensive IP litigation platform we provide, as companies at all stages stress the importance of protecting the technologies that drive their businesses,” Alyssa Caridis, co-head of Orrick’s IP business unit, said.        

The court determined that Ancestry.com users’ children were not express parties to the DNA processing consent terms.        

Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss will remain dean, but Chancellor Philip DiStefano will assign a different person to supervise law professor Paul Campos.        

Judge Gregory A. Phillips dissented from the majority’s ruling granting Valero’s motion for summary judgment. According to the majority, the dissent concluded that the lower court had correctly granted summary judgment as to Lazy S’s legal injury, having relied on Valero’s sampling data.        

The fee committee, which is comprised of the three lead plaintiffs’ firms in the Roundup multidistrict litigation, allocated 81% to themselves, but three firms objected to their allocations.        

Indiana becomes the second state, after California, in which Purdue Global Law graduates will be eligible, following a waiver application, for the bar exam immediately upon graduating, according to the school.