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Good morning. Ten years ago, the country had six for-profit law schools and more than 5,000 aspiring attorneys – now, the number of for-profits could dwindle to one. Plus, former President Donald Trump faces some tough questions in his E. Jean Carroll appeal, and McGuireWoods sues Vyripharm for hundreds of thousands in fees. We’re on the other side of Monday!
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In 2013, six for-profit law schools accredited by the American Bar Association enrolled more than 5,000 aspiring attorneys across the U.S. A decade later, there’s just one hoping to continue the model, as Karen Sloan reports here.
Half of the for-profit law schools operating in 2013 have shuttered amid waning demand and accreditation problems, one has converted to nonprofit status, and another—Charleston School of Law—is currently seeking to become a nonprofit, Sloan found.
That change would leave just one ABA-accredited for-profit law school in the country—Western State College of Law at Westcliff University in Irvine, California, which has about 300 students.
Read more here to find out what happened to the for-profits.
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- Federal judges in the Southern District of Texas have agreed to let a different court – the Western District of Texas – hear any lawsuits against U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones, including the case that revealed his previously undisclosed relationship with a bankruptcy lawyer and prompted his resignation. Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane said in an order that his counterpart there, Chief U.S. District Judge Alia Moses, consented to the referral of all cases against Jones to her. Two lawsuits are pending against Jones. (Reuters)
- Avi Perry, head of the DOJ’s team in D.C. tasked with prosecuting market manipulation and fraud, left the agency to join Quinn Emanuel. Perry, who led the market integrity and major frauds team for two years, joined the firm’s D.C. office as co-chair of the securities litigation and commodities and derivatives practices. (Reuters)
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That is the amount in fees that McGuireWoods is seeking to recover from Houston-based biopharmaceutical company Vyripharm, which the law firm accused of breaching its legal services contract. The firm’s lawsuit is at least the fourth case filed in Harris County District Court since June accusing the self-described “disruptive” technology developer of unpaid bills and missing paychecks. The privately-held company, whose work has involved the medical cannabis industry, is also facing lawsuits from a landlord and four employees.
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“Exclusion of a preschool is inherently anti-universal.“
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—U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico in Colorado, who issued a preliminary injunction over the weekend blocking the state from preventing a Christian private school from participating in its taxpayer-funded universal preschool program. Darren Patterson Christian Academy, which requires employees to share its faith and its students to use bathrooms and pronouns corresponding to their biological sex, had objected to the Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s non-discrimination requirements for the program.
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- Donald Trump is expected in a New York court for what is likely to be a tense reunion with Michael Cohen, the former U.S. president’s onetime lawyer and now a key witness in a civil fraud case that threatens to break up Trump’s business empire. Cohen is a witness in the lawsuit by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, which alleges Trump reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten savings by overstating the value of his properties in documents he provided to banks. Trump has denied wrongdoing and defended the valuations of his properties, saying the case is a “fraud.”
- Closing arguments are set to begin in the first U.S. trial over allegations that Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death, and its results could help shape similar cases across the country. The jury trial, in a California state court, is over claims the Autopilot system caused owner Micah Lee’s Model 3 to suddenly veer off a highway east of Los Angeles at 65 mph, strike a palm tree and burst into flames, all in the span of seconds. The trial featured testimony from one Tesla employee about Autopilot that the company repeatedly asked to be kept hidden from the public, but the judge refused.
- The 7th Circuit is slated to hear arguments in a nonprofit group’s bid to revive its challenge to the City of Chicago’s decision to transfer several acres of a key lakefront park to the Obama Foundation for construction of the Obama Presidential Library. Protect Our Parks, which is represented by NYU’s Richard Epstein, is urging the court to reboot its state law claims accusing the city of violating the Illinois state constitution by giving over the public land. The Obama Foundation, represented by Sidley Austin, says this case, the nonprofit’s third before the appellate court, is meritless.
- Coinbase is expected to file its reply brief in its bid to escape the SEC’s lawsuit accusing the publicly-traded cryptocurrency exchange of violating federal securities laws. Coinbase, which is represented by attorneys from Wachtell and Sullivan & Cromwell, has said the SEC had no authority to pursue its lawsuit because the digital assets and services it objected to did not qualify as securities, and said the agency has overreached. The SEC countered that its crypto enforcement campaign is not barred by the U.S. Supreme Court’s “major questions doctrine.”
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Colorado cannot stop a Catholic medical center from offering an unproven treatment meant to reverse the effects of a pill used in medication abortion, U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico said in an opinion. Domenico said a Colorado law banning so-called medication abortion reversal treatment likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom. (Reuters)
- The FTC sued wine and spirits retailer Total Wine & More, seeking sales and other business records for an investigation into its supplier Southern Glazer’s, the country’s largest distributor of alcoholic beverages. Total Wine and the FTC have clashed for months since the agency issued a subpoena seeking the records in February. (Reuters)
- Roche settled a patent lawsuit against Biogen over its biosimilar version of Roche’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra. The FDA last month approved Biogen’s Tofidence, the first approved biosimilar to Actemra. (Reuters)
- Indivior has agreed to pay $385 million to settle a class action brought by drug wholesalers accusing it of illegally suppressing generic competition for its opioid addiction treatment Suboxone. The deal, which must be approved by a federal court in Philadelphia, promises to end a decade-long antitrust litigation. (Reuters)
- The U.S. sought the forfeiture of a $300 million superyacht it says is controlled by billionaire Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, who is under U.S. sanctions. The DOJ’s lawsuit kicks off a potentially long judicial process in which the U.S. would seek ownership of the yacht, which is docked in San Diego, and then likely auction it and transfer proceeds to Ukraine. (Reuters)
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- FisherBroyles hired partner Patricia Ho, who focuses on intellectual property and commercial litigation and transactions, from Sheridan Ross in Denver. (FisherBroyles)
- Herbert Smith Freehills brought on energy partner Lachlan Clancy in Tokyo from King & Spalding. (Herbert Smith Freehills)
- Squire Patton Boggs hired former U.S. Ambassador Paul Jones as an international affairs adviser in its public policy practice in Washington, D.C.. He most recently worked at RTX, which was formerly Raytheon. (Squire Patton Boggs)
- Dentons added partner Bryan Natale to its venture technology and emerging growth companies practice in Boston. He arrives from Burns & Levinson. (Dentons)
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