Law is a system of rules and regulations that are enforced by society to govern behavior and maintain order. It is a broad and complex field that encompasses many different areas, including criminal law, civil law, and international law.
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Law is a system of rules and regulations that are enforced by society to govern behavior and maintain order. It is a broad and complex field that encompasses many different areas, including criminal law, civil law, and international law.
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Sen. J.D. Vance (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) As soon as J.D. Vance found himself on the GOP ticket, everyone who remembered him from his Yale Law days shared their thoughts and brought out their receipts. “JD’s rise is a triumph for angry jerks everywhere,” isn’t a ringing endorsement. The campaign also tried to pull a fast one with some tricky phrasing about his time on the Yale Law Journal. Kirkland & Ellis adopts a carrot and stick…
As Above the Law has noted: “When it comes to in-house work, it’s a legal operations world, and we’re all just living in it.” Indeed, legal ops continues to maintain a high profile in law departments, while the related technology runs to the core of corporate strategy. In this special report, we’re pleased to share the latest in the technology that supports legal operations. We hope you use it to ensure your team’s role as a vital contributor to your…
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [I]f your lawyers are telling you that they can prevent the DNC from nominating its candidate of choice, they are idiots. I know a lot about that, since I beat them more than 60x in court after the 2020 election. — Prominent election lawyer Marc Elias, founder of Democracy Docket and chair of Elias Law Group, in response to a tweet by House Speaker…
A little over a week ago, we chronicled a bulletin board tussle over whether or not it’s appropriate to ask summer associates to work nights and weekends. No one suggested summers put in 100-hour weeks, just that summer associates be allowed on to occasionally take part in the authentic, if unpleasant, after-hours work that they’ll be expected to perform a year (and change) hence. As someone who got roped into a project at 5:30 p.m. on my first day as…
“Deus ex machina,” or “god out of the machine,” was a stage play convention developed in Ancient Greece, whereby characters were extracted from impossible situations via some unexpected contrivance. Effectively, actors playing gods would be brought onto the stage, from above or below, to “save” the hero. Sometimes, artificial intelligence is presented this way. It’s the salve for everything that ails modern humans — we’ll finally get our time back, and we won’t even have to think anymore! Now, for…
J.D. Vance (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) J.D. Vance has said that, if he had been vice president in 2020, he would have thrown the election into the House of Representatives. Vance would have requested multiple slates of electors from the states and had Congress decide which slates were legitimate. Congress would thus have chosen the president. Fair enough. Now get out your crystal ball. Donald Trump and Vance win the election in 2024. They enact their promised policies: Ukraine…
(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Well, Joe Biden is out of the 2024 race for president. Dems have seemingly coalesced around Kamala Harris for the top of the ticket, leaving the political speculation to focus on who will be the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate. There are plenty of qualified options out there, each bringing their own pluses and minuses to the equation. One tantalizing option is Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. Beshear stacks up well against the Republican VP choice, JD…
About two years after launching an investigation into pharmacy benefit managers, the Federal Trade Commission has finally released some of its findings — and they don’t bode well for the prescription drug middlemen. Last week’s interim report explains how concentrated the PBM market has become, allowing the companies to generate outsize profits while patients and independent pharmacies struggle. The six largest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, Optum Rx, Humana Pharmacy Solutions, MedImpact and Prime Therapeutics — manage nearly 95%…
(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) Rudy Giuliani is publicly losing two battles this week: one with gravity, and one with bankruptcy. And while he shook off a tumble at the RNC, he’s probably going to have a little harder time righting himself with US Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane. On July 10, Rudy tapped out of the bankruptcy he filed in December to fend off a $148 million defamation verdict in favor of Atlanta poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.…
It wasn’t too long ago that we learned the world’s richest law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, is using referral bonuses to help it secure top lateral talent. But they aren’t the only firm using cold, hard cash to entice attorneys. A&O Shearman — the newly merged (in May) firm that combined Allen & Overy with Shearman & Sterling — is also offering up $50,000 for the successful placement of an associate or counsel. The big bonuses aren’t wild when the…
