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"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.

Proposals in the pipeline deal with a broad range of topics, including hate speech, reproductive rights and pay equity.

A federal judge has approved a $2.25 million class action settlement in favor of workers who were allegedly instructed by their employer not to include two 15-minute breaks when recording their compensable hours on their daily timesheets and further awarded the plaintiffs' attorneys one-third of the common fund.

The attorney said the sanctions would cause him "incredible hardship" as a solo practitioner.

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"Connecticut graduates and families owe billions of dollars in student loans," Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said. "These unaffordable payments delay many from buying homes, opening businesses or starting families, and from beginning to build wealth for themselves."

"It's such a conundrum. Someone's got to be able to lance this boil and let us know what we're supposed to do. I don't know whether it's the Appellate Division, I don't know whether it's the Supreme Court," said William Gold, attorney for Cindy Johnson.

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The long-running 'cum-ex' scandal has previously seen Freshfields' Germany offices raided, with other high profile lawyers being investigated and tried.

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Jordan Marshall Taylor, 29, of Spring Valley (Rockland County) was last seen on Jan. 6, between 4 and 6 p.m., at Hustle Barbershop in Kenwood Gardens/Briarwood, Queens, Carissa Frey told Law.com on Tuesday.

Senior U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is presiding over the case, and attorneys questioned potential jurors who used words like crazy, arrogant, unpredictable and narcissistic to describe the tech executive.

The chair of Quinn Emanuel's antitrust & competition practice, Neuwirth cemented his legacy as a rare litigator who excelled on "both sides of the v."

"It's a very novel case," said one of the plaintiff's attorneys, Anthony May, an associate with Brown Goldstein & Levy. "... [T]his is one of the first cases in the federal space to really determine these issues that intersect with civil rights and these arguments that there's some sort of religious freedom. "

For now ALSPs are eyeing the metaverse more as a marketing opportunity than an evolution of legal services.

There are several issues and terms to consider related to the development process that differentiate build to suit leases from a standard commercial lease that are important for the tenant to understand to effectively manage costs and effectively protect itself from delays in the development schedule.

The justices have asked Elizabeth Prelogar's office to weigh in on long-running controversy involving the America Invents Act: The scope of the AIA's estoppel provision that prevents litigants from raising invalidity defenses in district court litigation.

The Poe Trust case so concerned the court that Busby, joined by Devine and Justice Evan Young, wrote a concurring opinion to weigh in on the role of "special proceedings" that deny plaintiffs' jury demands.

Plaintiffs lawyers in the $350 million data breach settlement with T-Mobile filed motions this month to strike two "notorious serial objectors" who are challenging their request for $78.75 million in attorney fees.

The Appellate Division, First Department's opinion, which addressed the four different claims succinctly, saying each was devoid of any merit, appears to be a blow through the heart of the musician's 10-claim, 2019-filed suit against Sweeney.