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In this week's episode, Natasha Cortes of Grossman Roth Yaffa Cohen shares how to prioritize mentorship, even with mounting workloads and pressures from economic uncertainty.

Now that some practice areas have slowed down, and now that there's more pressure on law firms' bottom line, firms and partners are considering options they have put off for years or hadn't considered at all.

"For many of our students, a law degree is only possible if they are able to pursue that dream while working and supporting families," Karen E. Bravo, dean of Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and Gerald L. Bepko professor of law, said in a statement.

The newly launched Legal Influencer Marketing Agency, or LIMA, represents online influencers who can help connect legal tech companies, universities and nonprofits to lawyers and law students through social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

"If, as petitioner contends, cities and counties cannot enforce their cannabis regulations in criminal court proceedings, then the ability of amici's members to protect public health and safety is significantly impaired," lawyers for California cities and counties told the state Supreme Court.

Michael F. Barry, president and dean of South Texas Law Houston, said that in two open letters to law school deans, U.S. News has acknowledged law schools' concerns and has promised that it will make significant changes in the calculations, but he criticized the news agency for not disclosing the proposed changes.

In a statement and report released Thursday, the high court said the investigation, handled by the U.S. Marshals Service, included interviews with nearly 100 court employees and analysis of forensic evidence but the effort came up short.

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite Jr. said the new Department of Justice policy "is sending an undeniable message: Come forward, cooperate and remediate."

"Ensuring responsible use of AI is a team sport requiring engagement from the business, marketing, security, privacy, legal, compliance, and human resources departments," Morgan Lewis said in a client briefing.

A total of 34% of the firms mandate attendance firmwide three days a week and another 33% encourage it, according to a new return-to-office survey by Savills Legal Tenant Practice Group.

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"As congressional norms are challenged by those holding power, the people squeezed in the collapse of those congressional norms will go to court to seek help," said Paul Hastings investigation partner Matt Herrington.

"Students in the Seattle Public Schools, like students around the country, are struggling with anxiety, depression, thoughts of self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which led King County to join the U.S. Surgeon General last year in recognizing the youth mental health crisis in this community," the Keller Rohrback law firm, which is handling the case, said in a statement. "According to the Surgeon General, one in five children aged 13 to 17 now suffer from a mental health disorder."

Thomas Gallagher, who chaired Pepper Hamilton until its 2020 combination with Troutman Sanders, is leaving for Goodwin Procter alongside two practice chairs. A total of 40 attorneys could make the move.

"I think it was critical because these kinds of opportunities are harder and harder to find in private practice and for people who are relatively fresh out of law school," said Jeffrey Gentes, a George W. and Sadella D. Crawford Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and the managing attorney at the Connecticut Fair Housing Center.

Administrative Patent Judge Steven Amundson wrote that Centripetal Networks' claim of bias 'lacks merit,' but that he was withdrawing to simplify the issues and give a replacement judge more time to get up to speed. It's the latest move in a tit-for-tat fight between Centripetal and Cisco over judicial recusals.

In opening statements on Wednesday, a lawyer for Tesla shareholders insisted that Elon Musk's 2018 tweets were lies that caused investor losses. Musk's lawyer said the statements weren't fraudulent.

"It is despicable behavior to target and harass students in this way," Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said.

Law firm pricing that emphasizes value instead of time may follow the drop in productivity.

"The employees who really should have non-compete restrictions are those who have the keys to the kingdom, or who know the secret sauce," said Becky Baker, a Vinson and Elkins partner.