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Sep 4, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Mimi Lamarre |Patrick Smith |Charles Toutant |Colleen Murphy
Retired chief judge of the Appellate Division, Carmen Messano, has been appointed to lead the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct, where he will succeed retired Justice Virginia A. Long, as chair of the body responsible for investigating allegations of unethical conduct by judges, according to an announcement Wednesday by the New Jersey Supreme Court. Messano was appointed to helm the committee which is investigates allegations of unethical judicial conduct.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Cedra Mayfield |Lisa Willis |Patrick Smith |Maria Dinzeo
Two Apple employees sued the Big Tech giant in a proposed class action on Thursday, alleging gender-based pay discrimination, biases against women in its performance evaluation system, and a hostile work environment. The complaint, filed by Altshuler Berzon and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll in the California Superior Court, County of San Francisco, encompasses more than 12,000 current and former female Apple employees in California. Want to continue reading?
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Patrick Smith |Ellen Bardash |Abigail Adcox
Intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson has formalized an appellate group, as the firm seeks to ramp up both internal and external marketing of its appellate services. The newly formed appellate group is co-led by principals Lauren Degnan in Washington, D.C., and Nitika Gupta Fiorella in Delaware. Overall, the group, seeing more opportunities in the practice, will spearhead IP appellate matters from the firm’s current clients as well as handle appeal cases from new clients.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Patrick Smith |Andrew Maloney |Brenda Sapino Jeffreys |Amanda O'Brien |David Gialanella
This is the fourth and final installment in a four-part series on blunt advice from top law firms about legal recruiters, from regular columnist Dan Binstock. Part one is here, part two is here and part three is here. In April 2024, I sent a simple question to internal recruiters at many top AmLaw firms and high-end boutiques. Here’s what I asked them to answer (with their anonymity assured): Want to continue reading?
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot |Patrick Smith |Andrew Maloney |Mimi Lamarre
Capehart Scatchard announced that Lindsay S. Romeo has recently joined its school law department as an associate in its Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, office.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Dan Roe |Patrick Smith |Isha Marathe |Amy Guthrie
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the self-designated flagship trade association of the venture capital (VC) industry, has developed a widely used set of annotated model legal documents as the starting point for negotiating VC financing transactions.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda O'Brien |Abigail Adcox |Patrick Smith
Hueston Hennigan’s recent decision to offer its associates and counsel summer bonuses underscores the value of using bonus payments as a tool for talent retention.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Justin Henry |Amanda O'Brien |Dan Roe |Patrick Smith
Hueston Hennigan’s recent decision to offer its associates summer bonuses underscores the value of using bonus payments as a tool for talent retention. In a shift away from the typical year-end bonus schedule, according to details of an internal memo obtained by Law.com, the California litigation boutique will pay up to $25,000 for associates on track to bill 2,700 hours this year, $20,000 for those on track to bill 2,400 hours, and $10,000 for those on track to bill 2,000.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Michael Mora |Patrick Smith |Ellen Bardash
Three Tesla shareholders have separately taken legal action against Elon Musk and the company’s board within a week, with the latest complaint filed hours before Tesla’s annual meeting. The allegations vary and plaintiffs’ counsel doesn’t overlap, but all three suits take issue with Musk prioritizing the AI company he owns over Tesla’s AI growth and with directors not stepping in. X.AI Corp., which like X Corp. is incorporated in Nevada, was founded in 2023.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Dan Roe |Brenda Sapino Jeffreys |Patrick Smith |Daryush Sabaghi
Sullivan & Cromwell may face further inquiry into its prepetition work for FTX, the fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange that the law firm is now representing as debtor counsel in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Examiner Robert Cleary of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler recommended that he be authorized to undertake three additional investigations into the collapse of FTX, according to a motion he filed in court this week. Want to continue reading?
