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The US District Court for the District of Rhode Island on Friday ruled that the Trump administration had enacted illegal immigration restrictions on citizens of 39 countries. In vacating the restrictions, Judge John McConnell wrote that the concerned immigrants have been stuck in limbo despite their compliance with immigration laws. […] Read More
The Workplace Habit That Slowly Damages Your Confidence Over Time getty If you have ever replayed a conversation in your head for hours after it happened, rewritten an email five times before sending it, or stayed quiet in a meeting because you did not want to sound foolish, you are […] Read More
The European Commission has published draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the EU AI Act, providing the clearest indication yet of how providers and deployers should assess whether artificial intelligence systems fall within the regulation’s most heavily regulated category. While the guidance remains […] Read More
Lawyers are known to be talkative. Since attorneys are paid to advocate for their clients, some lawyers may feel as if they have to speak more in order to effectively complete their jobs. Moreover, some lawyers are just talkative people, and this might be one of the reasons that they entered the […] Read More
Justice Nyaundi of Nairobi’s Milimani High Court on May 29, 2026 issued an urgent conservatory order suspending any move to establish the planned US-backed Ebola quarantine centre. The conservatory order was granted following a petition by the Katiba Institute, barring officials from opening or approving the facility until the case […] Read More
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The Canadian Senate on Thursday passed Bill C-8, introducing a mandatory cybersecurity framework designed to protect critical infrastructure across the country’s telecommunications, finance, energy, and transportation sectors against emerging threats. The legislation achieves its objectives by amending the existing Telecommunications Act and enacting the new Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act. […] Read More
Janell Stanton spotlighted for earning her labor and employment law specialist certification from the Minnesota State Bar Association in “Breaking the Ice: Employment Law ‘Nerd’ Earns Specialist Credential” published by Minnesota Lawyer. Subscription may be required to view article Source link
An employee says she repeatedly told HR she feared for her safety, requested a transfer, and continued working alongside the supervisor she accused of misconduct. Now a lawsuit against Compass Group USA and its operating subsidiary, CulinArt, is raising a broader question that extends far beyond a single workplace: when […] Read More
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which law firm, the largest personal injury law firm in the U.S., is reportedly exploring a minority stake sale that could raise $1 billion+ and bring in an outside partner? Hint: This deal could be the first step […] Read More
On May 18, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the restructuring of its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) enforcement efforts, establishing a dedicated unit for privacy and security enforcement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The move, combined with a recent enforcement […] Read More
The Treaty 8 First Nations of the Canadian province of Alberta wrote a formal letter to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Thursday demanding that the province “immediately cease any attempt to proceed with a separation referendum or related process without full consultation, accommodation, and the free, prior, and informed consent […] Read More
Universal Migrator has launched a brand-new website designed to make legal data migrations easier to research, explain, plan, and execute. The new site gives migration consultants, IT professionals, legal technology advisors, and law firm leaders a clearer way to understand what Universal Migrator can do across hundreds of migration scenarios. […] Read More
PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 5, 2026) — Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Brad M. Kushner has joined the firm as a principal in the Philadelphia office. Brad has more than 15 years of experience representing employers in workplace safety and health, wage and hour, discrimination […] Read More
Fox 2 Detroit anchor Taryn Asher has filed a lawsuit alleging unequal treatment and retaliation after raising concerns about workplace fairness. Allegations of unequal treatment begin to carry legal risk when internal complaints are met with inconsistent responses instead of a clearly documented process for addressing them. In environments like […] Read More
Another Biglaw Firm Matches Milbank: Katten Muchin bumps up their salaries! Keeping Up With The Milbanks: Check to see if your firm is on the scoreboard! Here Lies Diversity Lab: The FTC successfully harassed the diversity initiative into shutting down. Alternative Facts And Alternative Histories: The Trump administration tries erasing […] Read More
Courts across the country have responded inconsistently to the use of AI to prepare court filings. Some judges have released individual standing orders, with some requiring disclosure of any AI usage, banning AI outright, or simply cautioning attorneys on the dangers of not verifying AI output. Sanctions vary just as […] Read More
Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. All students are from Centro de Investigación de los Estudiantes de Derecho (CIED), a research center in UNSAAC’s faculty of law dedicated […] Read More
George Haywood L’27 was selected as the recipient of the 2026 Carol Blanck ’70 and Robert Tannenhauser ‘66 Communication and Media Law Student Research Paper Award. The prize is awarded to a law student who demonstrates excellence in the law and journalism. Haywood’s paper, “Eat It, Then Beat It: How […] Read More
(This is a guest editorial by Emma Pullman, head of shareholder engagement and responsible investment at the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) in Canada, a minority shareholder in Thomson Reuters, and Sarah Lamdan, a lawyer and librarian who researches and writes about library vendors and service providers, and who […] Read More
The U.S. Senate has approved legislation providing an additional $70 billion for immigration enforcement, a move seen as a political win for Donald Trump and his allies and advancing one of the most ambitious border security initiatives backed by Trump. The measure passed in a 52-47 vote early Friday and […] Read More
Biglaw associates have spent the last few days doing what they do best when compensation news breaks: refreshing Above the Law, obsessively texting group chats, and wondering whether their own firm is about to make an announcement. Ever since Milbank kicked off the latest round of salary increases, the market […] Read More
It has been a busy spring for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the U.S. Treasury Department agency responsible for administering and enforcing U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) laws. At the end of March, the agency announced a settlement with a broker-deal for $80 million, one of the larger penalties FinCEN has ever […] Read More
The Budapest 5th and 13th District Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges Thursday against the city’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the 2025 Budapest Pride March. In Thursday’s statement, the Hungarian prosecution maintained that it had brought the charges lawfully, in accordance with the law in force at the time. However, […] Read More
Crandall Melvin Professor of Law Shubha Ghosh spoke with Bloomberg Law on a possible appeal by Elon Musk after the jury decision in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial. The jury found that the statute of limitations expired before Musk filed the suit and did not wade into the […] Read More
A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent […] Read More
A reader writes: My company has steadily tightened remote work over the past year from two days remote allowed, to five days in-office with exceptions, to now: mandatory in-office five days a week, eight hours a day minimum, no remote option at all. Any time away from the office requires […] Read More
A California jury has answered a legal question that could have consequences far beyond one tragic case: can someone be held financially responsible for a fatal crash even if their vehicle never struck the victims? According to a jury verdict issued this week, the answer can be yes. Former Los […] Read More
Quinn Emanuel Matches Milbank’s Salary Scale: With $2.7 billion in revenue for 2025, they can afford it! This Boutique Is Doling Out Milbank Money: Vartabedian Katz Hester Haynes is spreading the riches! Spring Bonuses!: Dunn Isaacson Rhee announces special bonuses up to $25K! Shia LeBeouf Pleads Guilty To Battery: He […] Read More
On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the SEC need not prove investors suffered actual financial losses to obtain disgorgement. Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), resolves a circuit split, eliminates a meaningful defense, and confirms that the Commission’s power to strip […] Read More
A bipartisan majority in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a resolution to end US involvement in the war with Iran, emphasizing the growing distrust and disapproval over the Trump administration’s handling of the conflict. Four Republicans flipped to join Democrats, passing the War Powers Resolution (WPR) by a vote […] Read More
Distinguished Professor of Law Nina Kohn spoke with Bloomberg Law for the article “ABA, State Bars Urging Attorneys to Pivot From Guardianships.” State Bars are beginning to adopt the ABA’s new Model Rule of Professional Conduct (MRPC) 1.14, which addresses how lawyers work with clients with decision-making limitations. Kohn noted […] Read More
Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point. That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law […] Read More
Rising youth unemployment rates since the 2020 pandemic may be tied to a trend in remote work, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said in an analysis published on Monday. In the report, the re… The post Remote work may be locking younger workers out of labor force: NY Fed […] Read More
The applicant had a PhD in immunology of aging and a credible path to Canadian permanent residence. What the refusal letter said she did for a living was wire and assemble control circuits, build robot panels, and program industrial equipment. None of that was real. The job description did not […] Read More
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to a recent Law.com survey on Biglaw firms, what was the average distance between the highest- to lowest-paid partners in the Am Law 100 in 2025? Hint: The numbers reflect the increased flexibility in Biglaw’s “free-agent era […] Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on June 1, 2026, that it has filed an administrative complaint against Wego Chemical Group and related companies (Wego) for violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). According to EPA, the complaint is the result of Wego’s “years-long” failure to report properly […] Read More
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has permanently abandoned the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created as part of a May 18 settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue […] Read More
Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company said today. Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Foundation 365 was formerly known as Peppermint Client Engagement. The product came to Litera through its acquistion last year […] Read More
NEW YORK, NY (June 3, 2026) — Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Minnie Fu, Michael H. Neifach, Otieno B. Ombok and Amy L. Peck have been included in Lawdragon’s 2026 list of 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers. The guide recognizes lawyers for their work navigating U.S. and global immigration laws. “This recognition […] Read More
“I Think He Will, Yeah”: Trump thinks his former criminal defense attorney is doing a “very good job.” Explaining Is For Lower Courts: SCOTUS opts out of justifying Alabama’s use of racist election maps. I’m Busy, Go Talk To Me*: Biglaw firm launches AI partners for associates to interact with. […] Read More
The following state housing bills were passed by the applicable house of origin by the May 29, 2026 legislative deadline, meaning that they will continue to move forward in the legislative process. The bills must be finally approved by the State Legislature by August 31, 2026, after which they will […] Read More
The US Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Tuesday allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that is expected to benefit Republican candidates during the midterms, effectively eliminating a district currently represented by a Black Democrat. Over the dissent of the three liberal justices, the court released the order despite […] Read More
E. I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law Robin Paul Malloy has published the “Mastering Land Use and Zoning” textbook with Carolina Academic Press. According to the publisher, the book “Mastering Land Use and Zoning provides a readily accessible and concise discussion of land use and zoning. It is written […] Read More
Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partners, a specialist in HR transformation, payroll transformation, and people-process change, it announced today. The acquisition expands Harbor’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Advisory line, which the company launched just last month, on May […] Read More
Pensive disappointed business people supervising an AI robot working in the office getty It’s week two into an AI rollout. The executive team is excited. The vendor demo was flawless. The pilot group smiled at the kickoff. And then the adoption dashboard tells the truth: usage is flat, managers are […] Read More
U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Whitton v. Dixon has clarified how courts must assess claims that false testimony affected a criminal verdict, holding that evidence never presented to the jury cannot be used to assess whether an alleged constitutional error influenced the jury’s verdict. The Court vacated an Eleventh Circuit […] Read More
We Love To See The Associate Compensation!: And Milbank loves setting the scale. We Have A Match!: McDermott Will & Schulte the first to match the Milbank scale! Todd Blanche Got Mossed: The DOJ’s Comey 86 prosecutions comes up with goose egg. Law Firms Are Buying Up Real Estate: Remarkable! […] Read More
Eric Felsberg, Christopher Patrick and Michael Giarratano Comment on Colorado’s New AI Law
Eric Felsberg, Christopher Patrick and Michael Giarratano comment on Colorado’s AI law shifting from evaluating tools before implementation to focusing on what employers need to do once these tools are already in use in “Legislative Lowdown: Colorado Enacts Revamped AI Law,” published by HR Brew. Subscription may be required to […] Read More