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Law school graduates four years into their careers earn a median $72,000 after subtracting their debt payments – but that figure varies widely depending on which law school graduates attended, our colleague Karen Sloan reports.
A report by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce found that graduates of seven elite law schools had median earnings of more than $200,000 after debt, while recent alumni of 33 low-ranking law schools netted a median of $55,000 or less. Law graduates leave school with a median $118,500 in debt, the report said.
“When it comes to law schools, the best returns are concentrated among a small number of institutions, educating approximately 20% of law students,” said lead author of the study Jeff Strohl, who is the center’s director.
Columbia Law School offers the highest return on investment at the four-year mark, the report found. Read more about where other law schools landed.
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- FTC Chair Lina Khan should be allowed to investigate MGM Resort’s data-protection practices even though she was a guest at the hotel giant in Las Vegas around the time of an alleged cybersecurity breach last year, the agency said in a court filing. The FTC disputed the suggestion that Khan as a potential witness or plaintiff harbored any bias against the casino operator.
- President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, convicted by a jury earlier this month of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun, had his license to practice law suspended in the District of Columbia. The D.C. Court of Appeals order directed the city’s Board on Professional Responsibility to initiate a formal ethics proceeding.
- Project Veritas, a conservative activist group known for releasing undercover recordings of abortion providers and others, urged the 9th Circuit to strike down an Oregon state law banning most secret recordings of in-person conversations. Benjamin Barr, a lawyer for Project Veritas, told an 11-judge panel in Seattle that the law violated the group’s right to free speech under the First Amendment.
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That’s how many years Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been wrapped up in a legal odyssey that could have landed him in U.S. prison for decades but instead will result in his returning home to Australia. Assange was due to plead guilty on Wednesday morning in U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands to one charge of violating U.S. espionage law. He has been in prison in Britain for the last five years where he has been fighting extradition to the United States. Several rights groups and leading media organizations had urged that the charges against Assange be dropped.
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Alison Frankel looks at a new paper in which three securities law professors crunched numbers from nearly 2,500 class actions to conclude that top-tier firms almost never deliver better results than their lower-tier counterparts in the shareholder bar. Then she talked to Robbins Geller lawyers about their eye-popping settlement with Under Armour, which, the firm claims, is the biggest-ever recovery in a case brought back to life after it was dismissed. Can you guess whether Robbins Geller thinks its work on the case determined that result?
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“Intimidation, rather than litigation … seems to be New Jersey’s plan.“
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- The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to issue at least one opinion today in argued cases, as the term moves toward its end. Decisions are due in major cases involving Donald Trump’s claim of presidential immunity from prosecution, an Idaho abortion ban that makes no exception to protect the health of pregnant women, and a doctrine called “Chevron deference“ that long has bolstered federal regulations against legal challenges.
- Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez is set to be sentenced after a U.S. jury found him guilty in March of drug trafficking conspiracy. Jurors in federal court in Manhattan reached the verdict after about two days, following a two-week trial. At the trial, several convicted traffickers testified they had bribed him. Hernandez, who testified in his defense and denied taking bribes, faces possible life in prison when U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel determines his sentence.
- A federal judge will consider whether to block Mississippi from enforcing a new law that requires social media companies, including Meta Platform’s Instagram and ByteDance’s TikTok, to obtain parental consent before allowing children to use their platforms. The case is one of several that the tech industry trade group NetChoice has filed nationally challenging laws enacted by states in response to concerns about social media addiction by children.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- DuPont, 3M, Honeywell and 16 other defendants were sued by Connecticut firefighters who said their protective gear was contaminated by toxic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said they believed the proposed class action is the first to exclusively target firefighter gear containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
- A Federal Circuit panel revived a proposed class action seeking to recoup money that roughly 600 students paid to enroll in a fictitious university set up as part of a federal investigation into student visa fraud. The appeals court said in the decision that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was not immune from the 2020 lawsuit because it entered into contracts with hundreds of people to provide educational services.
- Amarin Pharma convinced the Federal Circuit to resurrect a patent infringement lawsuit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ generic version of Amarin’s cardiovascular drug Vascepa. The decision is the Federal Circuit’s latest to grapple with “skinny labels,” which allow generic drugmakers to avoid patent lawsuits if their drug’s label omits infringing uses of the brand-name drug it replicates
- The European Commission accused Microsoft of illegally linking its chat and video app Teams with its Office product. Two decades after Microsoft’s last EU fine, the EU competition watchdog’s latest action was triggered by a 2020 complaint from rival workspace messaging app Slack, owned by Salesforce. The company risks a fine of as much as 10% of its global annual revenue if it is found guilty of the latest antitrust breaches.
- Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford in Rochester, New York, rejected $38.5 million in antitrust settlements resolving price-fixing claims against major chemical companies including Westlake and Formosa. Wolford in her ruling cited uncertainties in determining whether some purchases fit the scope of the purported class action. The court set a hearing for next month to discuss the next steps.
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- Gibson Dunn added deal makers from two rival firms, including George Sampas from Sullivan & Cromwell, who will be co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s M&A practice and head of cross-border M&A. The firm also added Brian Scrivani from Paul Weiss. (Reuters)
- Sidley added D.C.-based antitrust partner Corey Roush from Akin, where he co-led the firm’s antitrust practice. (Sidley)
- Squire Patton Boggs added Delia Deschaine, who advises healthcare and life sciences companies on FDA and DEA matters, as a D.C.-based partner. She previously was at Epstein Becker & Green. (Squire)
- White & Case hired Houston-based partner Peter Berg for its project development and finance practice. He previously was at King & Spalding. (White & Case)
- Wilson Elser added five partners to its Miami office from MG+M, including Raúl Chacón Jr, Russell Pfeifer, Kaylin Grey, Jonathan Dunleavy and Gustavo Martinez-Tristani. (Wilson Elser)
- Norton Rose Fulbright added white-collar partner Andrey Spektor in New York to its investigations, securities and compliance practice. He most recently was at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. (Norton Rose Fulbright)
- Lowenstein Sandler brought on New York-based bankruptcy and restructuring partners Gianfranco Finizio and David Posner, who will serve as vice chair of the bankruptcy department. The pair arrives from Kilpatrick Townsend. (Lowenstein Sandler)
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Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring is the electronic monitoring of a patient’s nervous system while the patient undergoes surgery. As Christopher Tellner, Abbye Alexander and Henry Norwood of Kaufman Dolowich write, IONM has opened the door to a novel wave of malpractice claims.
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