UK Legal Week

1 day ago | law.com | Christine Charnosky

The 2024 presidential election and broader political climate are playing a notable role in prompting students to apply to law school in record numbers this year, according to a recent survey conducted by Kaplan. Among the pre-law students surveyed, 53% said the current domestic political climate impacted their decision to apply, and 42% said the results of the 2024 presidential election factored into their decision to pursue law school, Kaplan reported in the study, which was released Thursday.

2 days ago | law.com | Charles Toutant

A New Jersey judge has turned an $18 million defamation verdict into a molded verdict for $500 in the case of a journalist from Ghana who claimed a politician from that nation falsely labeled him a criminal. Judge Jeffrey Beacham issued a molded verdict for $500 Monday in a suit by journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas against Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, a member of the Parliament in Ghana. That came after a jury ordered Agyapong to pay $18 million to Anas. Judge Jeffrey B.

2 days ago | law.com | Charles Toutant

A nurse who was severely injured when he slipped and fell at a gym has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement of his Sussex County suit. Miguel Mendoza, then 54, was exercising at the Crunch Fitness in Stanhope, New Jersey, on March 23, 1923, when he stepped on a mat in the vestibule, slipped and fell, severely injuring his right shoulder, said his attorney, Christopher Musmanno of Einhorn, Barbarito, Frost, Botwinick, Nunn & Musmanno in Denville.

2 days ago | law.com | Emily Saul

While the ability to maintain independence from Main Justice is being tested right now, the struggle is not new, former U.S. Attorney and Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White said Tuesday at a reception kicking off the New York City Bar’s White Collar Crime Institute. “I think it is more challenging and difficult than when I was dealing with your predecessors,” White told former acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon of the Southern District of New York.

2 days ago | law.com | Riley Brennan

A New Jersey judge has determined that a third-party minority LLC member's share in a redevelopment project is worth $18.1 million, shooting down the plaintiff's claims that the property was worth nearly half of what the defendants' experts claimed. In a recent decision in Hoboken Western Edge v.