Wake Up Call: Ginni Thomas Praises Anti-Court Reform Legal Group

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• Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in an email privately heaped praise on First Liberty Institute, a major religious-rights legal group, and its president, Kelly Shackelford, for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court. Those reform efforts are sparked, in part, by questions about her husband’s ethics. (Documented)
• Latham & Watkins has appointed corporate lawyer Ed Barnett as the new managing partner of its London office. He succeeds Stephen Kensell, who ...