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Paul Weiss Chair Defends Trump Deal Amid Outcry
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP Chairman Brad Karp explained to the law firm's personnel on Sunday his decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration to avoid retribution related to the firm's selection of clients and DEI practices, a decision that has prompted public outcry among legal industry pundits and firm alumni.
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Paul Weiss Stuns Legal Industry With Trump DEI Deal
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's decision to strike a deal with the Trump administration to defuse an executive order targeting the firm has drawn criticism across the legal industry and highlights the challenges preventing BigLaw firms from taking collective action against the White House.
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Divisive Del. Corporate Law Bill May Get Compromise Tweak
A Delaware state representative reported active interest Friday in possible "opt-in" requirements for proposed changes to the section of Delaware's general corporation law pertaining to potentially conflicted business transactions and controlling investors.
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Law360 Pulse Spotlight On Mid-Law Work
Pryor Cashman's representation of Sony Music in a copyright suit and Choate's handling of a $1.5 billion sale of a futures trading platform lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from March 7 to 21.
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3rd Circ. Takes On NJ Judicial Privacy Law's Constitutionality
The Third Circuit has granted requests by several data brokers to review a lower court judge's ruling that New Jersey's judicial privacy and security measure, known as Daniel's Law, is constitutional.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP, Grant & Eisenhofer PA and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a D.C. federal judge upheld a $612.4 million jury verdict against the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began spring with another action-packed week as President Donald Trump continued to eye BigLaw diversity programs and firms expanded their presence and headcounts worldwide. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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DEI Issues Creating 'Culture Of Fear' In Company Leaders
As the heart of the season for corporate annual meetings begins next month, many companies are facing investor questions and resolutions related to diversity in the workplace, primarily because of the federal government's threat of investigations and various groups' lawsuits on both sides of the issue.
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Delaware DOJ Seeks Bar Exam Exemption Amid Atty Shortage
Fueled by a request from the Delaware Department of Justice aimed at addressing its vacancy "crisis," the state's Supreme Court is asking a committee to examine if rules should be tweaked to exempt certain public service lawyers from having to take the state's bar exam.
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State AGs To Play Larger Role With Trump Back In Office
Many state attorneys general will have growing influence on national issues under the new Trump administration, as they ramp up regulatory enforcement in areas where the federal government pulls back, while also fighting against or in support of the administration's policies, lawyers and observers say.
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Chemours GC Saw Compensation Bump To $1.8M In FY 2024
The general counsel of Delaware-based Chemours saw her total compensation increase to roughly $1.8 million for fiscal year 2024, up from about $1.4 million the prior year, according to a public filing Thursday.
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Westlaw Rival Seeks Early Appeal Of 1st AI Ruling On Fair Use
Legal tech company ROSS Intelligence Inc. has urged a Delaware federal court to let it seek the Third Circuit's opinion on two issues concerning the copyrightability of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes and fair use, saying the district court's recent about-face on the issues made it clear that legal guidance was needed.
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3rd Circ. Passes On Appeal Of NJ Judicial Privacy Law Ruling
Data brokers cannot consolidate dozens of lawsuits in federal court that claim they violated the New Jersey data privacy statute known as Daniel's Law, after the Third Circuit declined to revisit an earlier ruling that sent the lawsuits back to state court.
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EEOC Bid For Law Firm DEI Info On Shaky Ground, Attys Say
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's recent call for law firms to cough up a trove of information about their diversity, equity and inclusion programs lacks statutory authority and may contravene federal law, according to experts from both sides of the aisle.
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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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Del. House Panel Sends Corporate Law Rework To Final Vote
A Delaware House committee on Wednesday sent toward a possible final House vote corporation law amendments that would create new "safe harbor" protections for officers, directors and controlling stockholders, shielding them from liability if they have conflicting interests in some corporate acts.
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Emisphere, Novo Nordisk Sale Suit On Track For Settlement
Former Emisphere Technologies Inc. stockholders are set to settle stockholder litigation over the $1.8 billion sale of the biotechnology company to Novo Nordisk A/S, a Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP attorney informed Delaware's Chancery Court on Tuesday, saying a stipulation of settlement should be in next month.
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How BigLaw Is Tweaking Diversity Messaging Amid Pushback
As the Trump administration intensifies its scrutiny of diversity programs, some of the nation's leading law firms are quietly adjusting how they publicly present their diversity commitments, including softening language, scrubbing diversity reports, and, in some cases, erasing diversity pages altogether.
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Dem Ex-EEOC Officials Call Law Firm DEI Letters Overreach
A group of Democratic-appointed former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials urged acting Chair Andrea Lucas on Tuesday to rescind letters seeking information from 20 law firms about their diversity, equity and inclusion practices, saying she had exceeded the agency's power.
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Del. Corporate Law Rework Has Roots In 2 Academic Papers
A proposed overhaul of Delaware's corporations law that has rocked the First State's legal world has its origins in two works published in 2021 and 2001, written by some of the same jurists who helped draft legislation driven by alarm over corporate charter exits and shareholder suits.
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20 Law Firms Face EEOC Demands For DEI Employment Info
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has written to 20 law firms seeking information about their diversity, equity and inclusion-related employment practices, the agency announced Monday.
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How Public Companies Are Changing Their DEI Disclosures
So far in 2025, public companies appear to be adjusting to new legal and regulatory pressures surrounding diversity issues, with some jettisoning all mention of DEI in their disclosures and others maintaining broad commitments to equity in their operations, according to a study released on Monday.
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New State Courts Org. President On Its 'Vitally Important' Role
Elizabeth Clement, chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and the incoming president of the National Center for State Courts, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about her new role in maintaining the functioning and independence of state court systems around the country.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
White & Case LLP, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and Fish & Richardson PC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches.
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Recruiter Reflects On Law's Pay, Culture Changes
Drawing from his four decades in the legal industry, including as a BigLaw litigator and more recently as a legal recruiter, Major Lindsey & Africa managing director Ronald Wood says a number of competing factors in the industry today are driving major shifts in the market.