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In a major shift, new figures show that more women were employed as associates at U.S. law firms than men in 2023. Survey data released by the National Association for Law Placement show that 50.3% of U.S. associates were women last year, marking the first time women outnumbered men, Karen Sloan reports.
The number of women enrolled in U.S. law schools overtook men eight years ago, and that gap has widened over time. Nearly 56% of J.D. students currently enrolled at American Bar Association-accredited law schools are women.
Women comprised slightly more than 38% of law firm associates when NALP first began tracking diversity data in 1991, according to NALP executive director Nikia Gray. “It took another thirty-two years for women to achieve equal, and just slightly greater, representation among associates,” Gray said. “Real change is slow, hard, and imperceptible, but it does happen.”
Read more about the survey results.
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- A state court judge in Washington state and a law clerk to a federal judge in Rochester who were both nominated by President Joe Biden to become federal trial court judges have withdrawn their names from further consideration.
- Phoenix-founded midsize firm Fennemore is expanding into Seattle through a tie-up with 12-lawyer litigation firm Savitt Bruce & Willey, as 2024 brings more law firm combinations.
- Circuit Judge James Wynn will step down from active service on the 4th Circuit, opening a fourth seat for President Joe Biden to fill on the Richmond, Virginia-based federal appeals court. Wynn was an appointee of former President Barack Obama.
- The U.S. Senate voted 83-14 to elevate John Kazen, a magistrate judge in Laredo, to serve on the U.S. district court in the Southern District of Texas. Kazen was the Senate’s first judicial confirmation in the new year.
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That’s the number of deans that Stanford Law has appointed in four months. Paul Brest, who previously headed the school from 1987 to 1999, is replacing Robert Weisberg as interim dean. Brest is the law school’s third leader since October, when dean Jenny Martinez became university provost. Weisberg said he is vacating the interim dean position due to health issues and will remain on the faculty. Brest will serve as interim dean until a permanent dean is named.
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With the U.S. House of Representatives expected to vote on Thursday on a bill that would severely restrict the Justice Department’s ability to direct money from its settlements to non-government groups, the Biden administration issued statement on Monday describing the proposed law as an “unnecessary” solution to a non-existent problem. Republicans contend the proposed law will stop the DOJ from diverting money to left-wing allies. Democrats counter that it will impede settlements with corporate defendants. Alison Frankel has the details.
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“You’re saying a president could sell pardons, could sell military secrets, could tell SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival?“
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—Judge Florence Pan, asking a lawyer for Donald Trump at a hearing, as a three-judge panel of the D.C. federal appeals court reacted skeptically to an argument from Trump’s legal team that former presidents should not be prosecuted for actions they took in office. The appeals court questioned Trump’s claims that he is immune from criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election. Trump warned he could prosecute Joe Biden if he returns to the White House. Trump is due to go to trial in March on federal charges of election subversion.
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- In Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton will hold a status conference in the prosecution of disbarred plaintiffs’ lawyer Thomas Girardi, accused of stealing millions of dollars from clients. Staton ruled recently that Girardi is competent to stand trial. Prosecutors want a trial in March or April, but Girardi’s defense has proposed February 2025. The DOJ told Staton this week that it opposed “such a lengthy delay” and that it is “concerned that any significant delay of trial will inevitably lead to renewed assertions of incompetence, potentially necessitating further litigation.”
- The Nevada Supreme Court will hear arguments in the National Football League’s bid to compel former Raiders head coach Jon Gruden to arbitrate his claims. Gruden alleged the NFL leaked his emails to the press, causing him to resign and harming his reputation. The New York Times reported he had used racist, misogynistic and homophobic language in emails over several years. A lower court denied the NFL’s request for arbitration. Adam Hosmer-Henner of McDonald Carano represents Gruden, and Kannon Shanmugam of Paul Weiss will argue for the NFL.
- The U.S. International Trade Commission faces a deadline to respond to Apple’s bid to extend the hold on an agency order that would ban imports of the tech company’s smartwatches. The ITC found Apple had infringed patents of Masimo, but the Federal Circuit in late December paused ITC’s import ban order and allowed Apple to resume sales of its flagship watches. The patent dispute involves medical monitoring technology.
- In D.C. federal court, U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly will start a two-day evidentiary hearing in the prosecution of Fugees hip hop star Prakazrel “Pras” Michel. An attorney for Michel at ArentFox Schiff said his client’s former defense lawyer improperly relied on an experimental generative AI program to draft his closing argument in the criminal trial last spring. Michel is seeking a retrial on charges of conspiring with a fugitive Malaysian financier in alleged lobbying schemes to influence two different U.S. presidential administrations.
- U.S. District Judge Dale Ho in Manhattan will hold an initial conference in the United States’ bid to permanently forfeit a $300 million super-yacht it says is owned by billionaire Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov, who is under U.S. sanctions.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- At least three U.S. Supreme Court justices in a case over an inconsistently applied increase in bankruptcy fees appeared hesitant to force U.S. taxpayers to foot a $326 million refund to debtors who paid higher rates.
- Virginia-based data broker Outlogic, formerly known as X-Mode Social, agreed to stop selling sensitive location data that helps track people’s whereabouts, as part of the FTC’s first data tracking settlement. Outlogic in a statement said “we disagree with the implications” of the FTC announcement, and said there was no finding that it misused location data.
- The National Association of Realtors and a group of residential home brokers asked a U.S. judge to thwart a jury’s $1.8 billion verdict in a home-seller class action over commissions. The association and co-defendants called the verdict “misguided” and asked it be set aside or a new trial allowed.
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella can be deposed in a lawsuit that video gamers filed challenging the company’s $69 billion purchase of “Call of Duty” maker Activision. Nadella’s attorneys had sought to bar the questioning. A judge set a three-hour cap.
- Rite Aid received bankruptcy court approval to sell its Elixir pharmacy benefit manager business for $575 million. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan in Trenton, New Jersey, is overseeing the company’s Chapter 11 proceedings.
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- Boies Schiller hired trial lawyer Renee Zaytsev as a partner in New York. Zaytsev arrives from Thompson Hine, where was co-chair of the securities and shareholder litigation group. (Boies Schiller)
- Morrison Foerster picked up partner Tammy Davies, whose practice focuses on alternative lending. Davies most recently was at Paul Hastings. (Morrison Foerster)
- Haynes Boone hired corporate partner Paul Tobin in Orange County, California, from Buchalter. (Haynes Boone)
- Blank Rome brought on New York-based white-collar litigation partners David Spears, Linda Imes and Chris Dysard from Spears & Imes. (Blank Rome)
- Brown Rudnick hired New York-based corporate partner David Haber, who focuses on start-up companies, venture capital financings and M&A. He arrives from WilmerHale. (Brown Rudnick)
- Lowenstein Sandler added partner Kegan Brown to its environmental law and litigation group in New York and New Jersey. Brown most recently was at Latham. (Lowenstein)
- Thompson Coburn hired D.C.-based white-collar defense partner Kenyen Brown from Hughes Hubbard. The firm also brought on St. Louis-based healthcare partner John Howard from Novant Health, where he was senior vice president and chief operating officer of the Physician Network. (Thompson Coburn)
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