The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—with its liberal reputation—was reversed in six of 12 cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed this term, or just 50% of the time. For the Ninth Circuit, it’s an unusually low percentage. In recent past years, the largest federal appeals court’s reversal…

Attorneys in firms large and small woke up Friday to notifications of potential computer delays and access issues thanks to an outage at CrowdStrike, a popular cybersecurity tool that released a faulty update for computers running on Windows operating systems Thursday night. The impacts of the CrowdStrike outage have been…

The Federal Trade Commission has made clear that it will continue to closely monitor companies that may have discouraged consumers from exercising their “right to repair” purchased products without violating the manufacturers’ warranties, regulatory attorneys said this week.  The FTC this month sent warning letters to eight companies alerting them against…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected a Harvard Law School graduate’s claims that the New York State Board of Law Examiners wrongly denied test-taking accommodations during the bar exam, affirming the board’s sovereign immunity protections. In a July 19 opinion, authored by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge William…

After about five years in Miami, Morrison & Foerster will not renew its office lease in Miami to transition into a hybrid work model there. Because the firm uses Miami as a springboard into Latin America, its nine local attorneys will work remotely and use WeWork offices whenever they need to…

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