
Ex-Lewis Brisbois Partners Ousted Over Racist, Sexist Emails
Two ex-Lewis Brisbois partners were pushed out of the boutique they started after their former firm released racist, sexist and antisemitic emails the partners wrote while employed there.
Two ex-Lewis Brisbois partners were pushed out of the boutique they started after their former firm released racist, sexist and antisemitic emails the partners wrote while employed there.
95-year-old Judge
The US Supreme Court agreed to take up a free speech showdown over a man trying to get federal trademark protection for the phrase “Trump too small.”
The risks that artificial intelligence represents have come into sharper focus: disinformation, potential job loss, perhaps even an existential threat to humanity. Is government capable of putting guardrails around such a fast-moving technology?
Former deputy solicitor general of the US Philip Allen Lacovara says that Justice Elena Kagan made a small concession toward greater disclosure by providing the reason she recused from a case in the court’s weekly orders list. If other justices follow her lead, incremental changes like this could start to rebuild trust in the court, Lacovara writes.
Kirkland & Ellis’s Lindsay Borgeson, Eric Tang, and Jamie Feyko analyze new state licensing and registration laws, and how health-care staffing agencies and contracting hospitals can ensure compliance.
New large language models like ChatGPT will limit the importance of Section 230 immunity even after the US Supreme Court declined the invitation to do so in Gonzalez v. Google, writes Sionic Advisors’ Kurt Drozd.
Pepperdine University’s Mark Kubisch analyzes public pension fund use of mandatory state employee contributions to advance ESG objectives. He says California “uses those contributions to amplify its views on controversial ESG topics.”
A San Francisco trial judge correctly denied an anti-SLAPP motion to dispatch a lawsuit filed by descendants of S.C. Hastings over a decision to remove the name of the founder of the West Coast’s first law school, a state appeals court ruled Monday.
95-year-old Judge
House Republicans plan to hold a contempt of Congress hearing against
Get the latest legal, regulatory, and enforcement news and analysis, as well as in-depth business and industry covering in the following areas: