“It is so much easier to keep people happy when they can’t see someone is making more than them even though they have more in originations,” said Jeffrey Lowe, recounting the message he hears from firms with opaque compensation models.        

The breach, impacting nearly 20,000 people, affected the data of two health care clients subject to HIPAA, according to the Am Law 200 firm.        

In this week’s Legal Speak episode, Judge Lida Kharooti, who served as a judge on Afghanistan’s anti-corruption serious crimes court for 13 years, shares how she fled the country when the Taliban took over.        

An email exchange over a Black Affinity Group event, and another that spotlighted “social awkwardness” of lawyers, were among those the jury were provided access to.        

“Though I agree that Mr. Allen offers no good excuse for his non-compliance—and arguably digs a deeper hole through his attempts to deflect blame onto his counsel—I find that a less severe sanction than default judgment is initially warranted for Defendants’ and Mr. Allen’s misconduct,” U.S. District Judge Brendan A. Hurson for the District of […]

Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented from a decision that San Francisco’s anti-vagrancy enforcement likely constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.        

“Most people who know me, know that I think of Wyoming as home,” Julie Anderson Hill posted to LinkedIn. “I am happy to be going home.”        

“A runway incursion should never happen, and there are so many backup systems that are supposed to prevent it, that it’s really surprising in this environment and today’s world that there could possibly have been such an accident        

Ian Bremmer, a political scientist who issues a list of top 10 global risks at the start of each year, predicts the divergence between red and blue states is only going to get worse.        

“Counsel’s constructive absence during either a significant portion of trial or an important aspect of trial so offends the constitutional protections surrounding the right to assistance of counsel that it renders the entire adversary process ‘presumptively unreliable’ and creates an uncurable error,” Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd wrote.