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After Topping $10 Billion, Kirkland Decides Revenue Rankings Are Gauche
Kirkland & Ellis — the biggest of them all, the firm that has spent years parked at the very top of Biglaw’s money charts — has decided it’s done showing its work. The firm told The American Lawyer it will no longer provide financial data...
Attorney sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking
{mag_summary}An Alaska attorney who prosecutors said was connected to a deadly drug trafficking ring was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison on a…
Justices consider dispute over Air Force operations in Guam
The Supreme Court may be done with oral arguments for the week, but you don’t have to be done listening to people discuss this term’s cases. SCOTUSblog’s Zach Shemtob is part of Pacific Legal Foundation’s virtual term preview event, which will take place today from...
Court to weigh deference to U.S. Sentencing Commission’s interpretations of its guidelines
Before imposing a sentence on a federal criminal defendant, a district judge must apply the federal sentencing guidelines for the defendant’s offense and criminal history and take into account the sentencing range recommended by those guidelines, along with a host of...
Seoul’s push for wartime control draws warning from ex-US Forces Korea commander
Retired Army Gen. Robert Abrams warns South Korea’s push for wartime command transfer may strain U.S.-Korea military coordination and alliance unity.
Russia’s ‘shadow war’ offensive has NATO on defense, report warns
A new report urges NATO to take a more confrontational approach to Russia’s sabotage, cyberattacks and drone incursions, which have been on the rise.
Internal investigations under Belgium’s Private Investigations Act: On the why and the how
In part one of this series, we established that the scope of the Private Investigations Act (the “PIA”) is considerably broader than one might assume: if you carry out a workplace investigation internally within a company, you are in principle caught by...
When Has a Party Litigated Enough to Be Deemed to Have Waived the Right to Arbitrate? Part I
I currently have four cases in my list in which one party moves to compel arbitration, and the other party claims that the movant has waived (forfeited?) the right because it has litigated too long or too energetically. I thank Tamar Meshel, whose Arbitration Substack...
Vaccination part 6: how much is too much?
I took a short break from the series of vaccination posts, but I have a couple more topics to go over so we’re not quite done.In Part 5, I talked about adverse event considerations with giving multiple vaccines at the same time. The other aspect of that is...