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The Maryland Court of Special Appeals recently upheld the Client Protection Fund trustees' denial of a man's initial $3.1 million claim for misappropriated funds, finding an attorney who was convicted of embezzling the money was not acting in fiduciary capacity that is "traditional and customary in the practice of law in Maryland."

The July 1 defense verdict, from a federal jury in Denver, follows two other pelvic mesh verdicts in March, in Arizona and West Virginia, for Johnson & Johnson's Ethicon.

Counsel for Clotaire, Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig partner Bethany Nikitenko, said the case could be a vehicle for courts to consider whether a bystander can be virtual for the purposes of emotional distress claims.

John N. Iannuzzi, who has been practicing law for about 60 years, had argued to the state appellate court that "he does not pose a threat to the public interest because he simply misunderstood how to properly manage his escrow account."

If the justices were to strike down term limits as unconstitutional, a backup provision could automatically trigger to allow for expanding the number of seats.

A district court judge is allowing claims of Title IX retaliation and breach of contract to continue in a former student's lawsuit alleging that the University of New England wrongly portrayed him as a threat on campus following his complaint of unwanted sexual advances from a professor.

A recent Reddit thread that asked law students why they decided to go to law school garnered responses offering a wide range of reasons, from being spurred on by the state of the country to being influenced by television shows.

After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held in 2020 that a family lacked a property interest in their recently foreclosed home sold at auction, a Virginia district court judge subsequently held that the plaintiffs cannot maintain a trespass actions against the county sheriff.

Nearly 50 years after the indictment was first returned in the Massachusetts Superior Court, the state's Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a defendant convicted in 1975 of second degree murder and armed assault.

Meanwhile, the vast majority of law firm respondents in the survey reported that COVID-19 had a favorable impact on their firm

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"Other companies that squelch consumers' right to repair should take notice," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Law firms are significantly less leveraged now, after reducing their reliance on bank debt and raising additional capital from their partners.

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who imposed a similar fine on former President Donald Trump in April, noted that New York AG Letitia James has asked Cushman to produce "an enormous number of documents." Cushman said there court failed to understand the "extreme lengths" the company had gone to in compliance.

The case is unprecedented due to its extraterritorial scope, the number of governments sued and the highly ambitious reduction targets it is seeking.

U.S. District Judge David Faber, in a bench trial that concluded last year in the Southern District of West Virginia, sided with distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen in a 184-page decision about the opioid crisis.

As law students begin and return to law school next month, they will be facing a very different landscape both personally and professionally now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned 'Roe v. Wade.' How will schools respond?

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has appointed Malik Edwards as the interim dean of the School of Law, effective July 5, reporting to David H. Jackson Jr., provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.