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University of Chicago Law School is back in the top spot on the list of law schools that sent the highest percentage of graduates into federal clerkships, our colleague Karen Sloan reports.
American Bar Association data shows that the Chicago law school sent 25.35% of its 2023 JDs into federal judicial clerkships, which are highly sought-after and competitive positions. The law school claimed the top clerkship spot in both 2020 and 2021, but was pushed to No. 3 in 2022 after it posted a clerkship rate of 20% and was overtaken by Stanford Law School and Yale Law School.
Yale was No. 2 in 2023 with 24.11% of its JDs landing federal clerkships, followed by Stanford at 20.77%. The University of Notre Dame Law School was next with 18.18% of graduates in federal clerkships, while the University of Michigan Law School rounded out the top five at 14.01%.
Federal clerkships are prestigious, year-long positions that are viewed as key credentials for other sought-after jobs, including judgeships and law professorships. But they’re relatively scarce. The ABA data shows that just 3.4% of 2023’s 35,215 JD graduates nationwide landed federal clerkships. And the market for federal clerks is dominated by a small number of law schools.
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- Quinn Emanuel said it has been granted a license to practice in Saudi Arabia, as more law firms open offices in the country following a rule change last year in rules governing foreign lawyers practicing there. Morgan Lewis also said it is preparing to open an office in Riyadh.
- The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to strike down $667 million in legal fees and costs won by the plaintiffs’ lawyers in a $2.7 billion class-action settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield accusing it of nationwide insurance overcharges. The petition was filed by a member of the class who had argued in the lower court that the fee amount was too high.
- U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hosted reality-television star Kim Kardashian at the White House to discuss criminal justice reform, after the Biden administration granted clemency to people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
- Austrian privacy activist and lawyer Max Schrems received backing from an adviser to Europe’s top court in his fight against Meta over personalized advertising based on processing of personal data. The adviser’s opinion is non-binding, but judges at the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union follow the majority of such recommendations. It will rule on the case in the coming months.
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That is how much DHL Express will pay to settle a long-running lawsuit by the EEOC accusing the logistics giant’s U.S. arm of assigning undesirable delivery routes and more heavy lifting to Black employees. The settlement, which ends a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the commission in 2010, also requires DHL to review and overhaul its policies for assigning work and handling internal worker complaints. The settlement is the largest announced by the EEOC since March 2022.
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In a new merger challenge, the FTC takes aim at the “accessible luxury” handbag market, arguing that the $8.5 billion merger between Tapestry, which owns the Coach and Kate Spade brands, and Capri, which owns Michael Kors, is anti-competitive. In her latest column, Jenna Greene digs into the challenges of defining such a market, and how the key issues compare to a past merger fight that also involved affluent consumers and a narrow market: Whole Foods and Wild Oats. Her takeaway: It’s all about the core customers.
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“We’re writing a rule for the ages.“
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—Justice Neil Gorsuch during U.S. Supreme Court arguments over Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Conservative justices signaled sympathy to the argument that presidents have some immunity against criminal charges for certain actions taken in office. Some of the questions probed hypothetical examples of presidential wrongdoing such as selling nuclear secrets, ordering a coup or political assassination or taking a bribe. But some of the conservative justices, who hold a
6-3 majority, voiced concern about presidents lacking any level of immunity including for less obviously egregious acts.
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- Google and the DOJ are due to file their summary judgment court papers in the government’s lawsuit accusing the tech giant of abusing its power in the digital advertising market. The DOJ and a group of states, including Virginia, filed the case last year seeking to force the sale of the company’s ad manager suite. A summary judgment hearing is set for June before U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, and a jury trial in the case is slated to begin in September. Google has denied any wrongdoing.
- A U.S. judge in Virginia is set to weigh which lawyers to appoint as lead counsel in a securities class action by Boeing shareholders accusing the airplane maker of prioritizing profit over safety and misleading them about its commitment to making safe aircraft, prior to the Jan. 5 mid-air cabin panel blowout on an Alaskan Airlines 737 MAX 9. Attorneys from plaintiffs’ firms Labaton and Robbins Geller have proposed they share the class leadership role.
- A Colorado judge is scheduled to sentence former Aurora Fire Rescue paramedic Jeremy Cooper for criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain. Cooper is the last to be sentenced of the three people, including a police officer and another paramedic, convicted in the death of the young Black man, who was not alleged to have committed any crime when officers stopped him and put him in a chokehold and medics injected him with a powerful sedative.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified at Trump’s criminal trial that he wrangled with Trump and his former lawyer ahead of the 2016 election over who should buy the silence of women who said they had sexual encounters with him. Pecker’s second day of testimony provided further evidence for the prosecution that he worked as Trump’s “eyes and ears” to suppress stories which could have hurt the businessman-turned-politician’s presidential bid at a time when he was facing multiple accusations of sexual misbehavior. He is expected to face more questions today.
- GlaxoSmithKline sued Pfizer and BioNTech in Delaware federal court, accusing them of infringing GSK patents related to messenger RNA (mRNA) technology in the companies’ blockbuster COVID-19 vaccines. GSK said in the lawsuit that Pfizer and BioNTech’s Comirnaty vaccines violate the company’s patent rights in mRNA-vaccine innovations developed “more than a decade before” the outbreak of the pandemic.
- Consensys filed a lawsuit against the SEC tied to the regulation of the Ethereum blockchain. The regulation of the industry has become a contentious issue as the sector’s biggest companies allege the SEC does not have jurisdiction on the grounds that crypto tokens are not securities.
- The Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy following litigation by election workers and others who faced harassment after the site made false claims that the 2020 U.S. election was stolen. Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft said in a statement that the bankruptcy filing was the result of “progressive liberal lawfare attacks” meant to “silence” his company.
- U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan rejected Donald Trump’s bid to throw out a $83.3 million defamation verdict in favor of the writer E. Jean Carroll, who said the former president defamed her after she accused him of raping her decades ago. The judge denied Trump’s requests for a new trial, or to have the former Elle magazine advice columnist’s case thrown out altogether.
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- Reed Smith added transactional partner Teresa Tate in San Francisco as chair of its U.S. emerging growth and venture capital team. She arrives from Morrison & Foerster. (Reed Smith)
- Perkins Coie brought on Zach Hong in New York as an IP partner. He most recently was general counsel and chief compliance officer at digital healthcare company Cleerly. (Perkins Coie)
- Hinshaw & Culbertson hired two partners in Los Angeles, including insurance services lawyer David Hayek from Gordon Rees and consumer financial services lawyer Brian Paino from McGlinchey Stafford. (Hinshaw)
- Ashurst added partner Claus Zimmermann in Brussels as head of international trade. He arrives from Noerr. (Ashurst)
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