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Dominion CEO John Poulos and lawyers leave the courthouse after Dominion Voting Systems and Fox settled a defamation lawsuit for $787.5 million. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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Scale? What scale?
U.S. litigation firm Susman Godfrey said it will award seniority-based year-end bonuses to its associates worth between $140,000 and $360,000, far exceeding bonuses doled out by many of its larger competitors, David Thomas reports.
That’s about double the amounts the firm handed out last year, and more than triple what other U.S. law firms have committed to giving out this year. This year’s law firm bonus season kicked off last month when Milbank announced bonuses ranging from $15,000 to $115,000, which has been matched by Cravath and other large U.S. law firms.
Susman’s managing partners said the firm has reached its highest ever revenue this year – no doubt helped by the $787.5 million settlement it secured for Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News.
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- A former head coach for the Houston Dash professional women’s soccer team has sued Covington and Weil, the sports league and its players’ union for allegedly defaming him in a December 2022 report focused on league-wide claims of misconduct against players. James Clarkson’s lawsuit was filed in Texas state court.
- A special committee at the FDIC’s governing board has tapped a team from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to conduct an independent review of sexual harassment allegations and the agency’s workplace culture. The team previously handled an investigation into misconduct allegations involving former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Executive Chamber.
- A former federal public defender who sued the judiciary, claiming that her supervisor subjected her to sexual advances, called no witnesses before quickly resting her case on the first day of the non-jury civil trial, saying documents already in evidence were enough.
- The U.S. Senate confirmed Kansas federal public defender Rich Federico to a seat on the 10th Circuit, giving President Joe Biden his second appointment to the Denver-based appeals court.
- Boies Schiller Flexner’s next leader, Matthew Schwartz, told Reuters the firm expects to expand its lawyer ranks through “modest and opportunistic growth” in 2024.
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That’s how much debt mall owner Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust wants to cut, according to its latest bankruptcy protection effort, the second since 2020. The Philadelphia-based investment trust, seeking to become a privately-owned company, previously filed for bankruptcy protection during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. Declines in U.S. retail sales, high inflation and rising interest rates made it difficult for the company to manage its $1.1 billion in debt, according to the company’s court filings in Delaware bankruptcy court. The company owns 23 properties, including 19 shopping malls, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Vice Chancellor Travis Laster of Delaware Chancery Court posted a defense on Saturday of the character of his longtime friend Liz Magill, who just resigned as the president of the University of Pennsylvania after widely-criticized Congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus. The judge was promptly lambasted by commenters, including some who accused him of capitalizing on the prestige of his office. The controversy, writes Alison Frankel, raises important questions about when and whether judges should weigh in on hot button issues. In an email, Laster told Frankel that the reaction to his post had been “more immediate and intense” than he usually received but that he understood why people were “angry and hurt.”
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“We recognize that having different names makes life a lot easier for everyone.“
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- The Arizona Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments in a case over an 1864 law that largely banned abortion in the state. The law was blocked by a court injunction until the Arizona attorney general moved to lift it after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. An Arizona appeals court left the injunction in place, and the state — represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom — has asked the state Supreme Court to remove it.
- Lawyers for Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will ask U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor in Tallahassee to dismiss a lawsuit by Walt Disney Co that claimed the state retaliated against the entertainment giant for criticizing a ban on classroom discussion of sexuality and gender identity with younger children. The DeSantis-appointed board that oversees Disney’s theme parks counter-sued in state court, seeking to void what it said were “backroom deals” favorable to Disney.
- An Illinois federal judge will hear a bid from the Federal Firearms Licensees for a preliminary injunction against a state requirement that owners of firearms deemed assault weapons register them by Jan. 1, 2024. The lawsuit alleged the state’s regulation was “hopelessly vague” as to which firearms must be registered, and also that the state had not done enough to inform gun owners about the law, which carries criminal consequences. Attorneys for the state said a ruling for the gun group would defy an earlier 7th Circuit decision refusing to enjoin the law.
- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from two top DOJ lawyers and others at a hearing on white-collar corporate prosecution. Matthew Olsen, who is head of the department’s national security team, and Nicole Argentieri, the acting head of the DOJ’s criminal division, are set to testify. Former top Massachusetts federal prosecutor Andrew Lelling, now at Jones Day, also is scheduled to testify.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Hunter Biden pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen ruling to challenge the gun charges he faces, arguing that the framers of the U.S. Constitution were well aware of problems caused by intoxication but that there is no history of preventing substance abusers from acquiring firearms.
- U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman upheld Texas’ ban on state employees using TikTok on state-owned devices or networks. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University argued that the ban “is preventing or seriously impeding faculty from pursuing research that relates to TikTok, but the judge rejected the suit, saying the Texas restriction was motivated by data protection concerns.
- A Northern California home-seller filed a proposed class action against major residential real estate brokerages and the National Association of Realtors, among other defendants, claiming a conspiracy to artificially inflate the commissions that sellers pay to a buyer’s agent. The lawsuit adds to a growing number of cases across the country challenging a widespread industry practice.
- Former U.S. Representative George Santos is in plea talks with federal prosecutors to resolve criminal charges ahead of trial, a Brooklyn federal court filing showed. Santos’ fellow lawmakers voted on Dec. 1 to expel him from the U.S. House of Representatives over the charges and accusations of misspending campaign money.
- A group of 18 young California residents has sued the EPA in California federal court for “intentionally” discriminating against American children by allowing the release of dangerous levels of climate change-causing greenhouse gas pollution. The lawsuit argued the EPA was violating rights under the U.S. Constitution by allowing factories, refineries and other industrial facilities to release too much climate-warming pollution.
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