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An ABA proposal to strengthen job protections for untenured law faculty has garnered widespread support, with proponents saying it will help eliminate “a caste system of hierarchy” between different types of professors.
The change under consideration by the ABA’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar would require law schools to hire full-time legal writing instructors and other untenured full-time faculty on five-year “presumptively renewable long-term contracts.” It would bring legal writing, bar preparation and other typically untenured faculty roles under the same hiring rules and protections as clinical legal professors. Read more about the proposal.
More from the legal industry …
Two former FisherBroyles practice leaders launched their own law firm and took more than 130 of the firm’s partners with them … A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that disbarred California lawyer Tom Girardi is competent to face trial … Former Houston bankruptcy judge David Jones asked a federal court to toss a lawsuit that led to his resignation … The Ohio Supreme Court rebuked a former U.S. prosecutor who admitted to sexual misconduct but said the attorney can continue practicing law … Progressive advocates fret that President Joe Biden may fall short of appointing as many judges as former President Donald Trump … U.S. law firm mergers increased slightly in 2023 … The New York legal scene faces tests after a tumultuous year … And here’s how the affirmative action ban shook up law school admissions in 2023.
Moves:
- In New York …
Former federal prosecutor William Hochul Jr. joined Davis Polk’s white collar defense and investigations practice as counsel. He most recently served as general counsel of Delaware North Companies … Mayer Brown hired partner Robert Pohlus from Proskauer in the firm’s corporate and securities practice … Cozen O’Connor brought on construction law partner Richard Kalson from Benesch Law … Dentons added corporate partners Andrew Callahan and Robert Scheininger from Reed Smith. The firm also expanded its venture technology and emerging growth companies practice with the addition of partner Michael Rennock from McCarter & English.
- In Washington, D.C. …
Sharon Crane from Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck joined Haynes Boone as counsel in the firm’s life sciences practice.
- In Northern California …
Mayer Brown added class action and data privacy litigator Anthony Weibell from Wilson Sonsini as a partner.
- In New Haven …
Wiggin and Dana picked up Debbie Cardinali, previously a senior in-house counsel at Hartford Healthcare, as a healthcare partner.
- In Houston …
Sarah McLean, a former joint leader of Shearman & Sterling’s U.S. energy industry group, is leaving to join Willkie Farr’s private equity practice as a partner.
- In Denver …
Polsinelli added real estate partner Cassandra Foster. She was previously vice president for transactions at healthcare real estate and development firm Caddis.
- And finally …
Saul Ewing, Morrison Foerster, Eversheds Sutherland, Day Pitney, McKool Smith and Cole Schotz elected their new partner classes … Shipman & Goodwin announced an all-female partner class for the second year in a row.
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Fox News’ entire business model will be under scrutiny in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit against Fox board members, thanks to a decision last week appointing New York and Oregon public pension funds to lead the case. Alison Frankel explains why the choice of the U.S. funds and their lawyers from Friedlander & Gorris, Cohen Milstein and Lieff Cabraser will test the theory that Fox directors countenanced the risk of defamation as a matter of corporate strategy.
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Additional writing by Tanvi Shenoy.
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