The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued an important decision on the use of taser force against a passively resisting suspect. In Saalim v. Walmart, 97 F. 4th 995 (6th Cir. 2024), the court held that the officer’s tasing of a suspect who was only passively…

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has launched a new U.K. training contract in a move that complements its rapid expansion in the U.K. capital. It will also offer a market-leading sum of £180,000 to its newly qualified lawyers, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

It’s been less than two weeks since voters decided retiring Gwinnett Judicial Circuit Division 5 Judge Karen Beyers’ replacement with a runoff election on June 18. Now Judge-elect Tuwanda Rush Williams is preparing to transition from serving most recently as Thompson O’Brien Kappler & Nasuti of counsel to serving Gwinnett County constituents…

By now, litigators appreciate that a degree of technological expertise is needed to practice law effectively. Everyone has heard about the unfortunate attorney in Texas who appeared at a Zoom hearing as a worried kitten. But in the past year, attorneys have become more attuned to the potential and risks…

I last penned an article on March 18, 2024, for the Daily Business Review titled “Less Management and More Authenticity, Genuineness, and Mentorship,” which addressed the importance in the workforce to lead with authenticity, genuineness, and mentorship (coined AGM). Now let’s address another equally important acronym “CSR”—more commonly known as…

When Ninth Circuit Judge Kim Wardlaw first took the district court bench in 1995, it was a big transition from her previous role as a litigation partner at O’Melveny & Myers.  “[At the firm] I had a library that would do research for me and I had 10 people doing…