Prosecutors insisted in a Thursday brief that Tom Girardi’s courtroom behavior—including hurling an expletive at one of them under his breath—shows he’s mentally competent to stand trial on criminal charges.        

In the legal profession, joining and maintaining membership in various professional associations is common practice. However, lawyers often overlook the critical question of whether their affiliation with these organizations yields substantial benefits, such as quality referrals and new clients.        

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“Do you want to be the lawyer advertising that you didn’t do all your own work?” law professor Joseph Regalia said of the deterrent effect of AI disclosure.        

Objector lawyers who have challenged numerous Big Tech privacy settlements are fighting back against paying $8,500 bonds before appealing approval of a $725 million class action deal with Facebook’s Meta Platforms Inc.        

“The power of the NLRB is not without bounds,” the law firm Shawe Rosenthal wrote after an appellate court ruled against the agency.        

David Huberman, now a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, claims McDermott wrongly denied him a pay boost to $425,000.        

New York attorneys as a whole are making more use of their offices than other white collar workers in the region. But law firm occupancy trails Chicago and Houston.        

Nance has served the university for nearly 30 years, and “her experience within the School of Law and the university, as well as her expertise in legal education and respect of the bench and bar, is unmatched,” Provost and executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs Terry Martin said.        

“We know—and regret—the pain and disruption that will come from ending the ABA-accredited JD program,” Barbara Mendelson, chair of the Board of Trustees and David J. Fike, president, wrote in a letter to the GGU community Thursday. “Given the realities of the marketplace, our Law School’s place in it and a host of related trends […]