Former Morelli Ratner PC associate Kalisha Crawford is suing the firm’s former managing partner, David Ratner, for sexual harassment that led to a decade of “lifelong trauma and career derailment,” according to a complaint filed in the New York Supreme Court.
Founder of the conservative foundation Judicial Watch Larry Klayman was suspended for 18 months Tuesday by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit as reciprocal discipline after he was suspended by the DC Court of Appeals in September 2022.
Attorneys and legal scholars say it’s understandable why Judge Mark Walker erred on the side of caution and stepped down from litigation between Walt Disney Parks and Resorts US Inc. and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Some say his order could even be read as a direct response to ethical issues dogging the US Supreme Court.
A Michigan Supreme Court proposal that would require use of lawyers’ and parties’ preferred pronouns is dividing judges, with sides weighing competing interests in civility and judicial discretion to manage courtrooms.
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The judge that oversaw the death penalty sentencing of the gunman who killed 17 people at the Parkland, Fla., Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is facing sanctions from Florida ethics officials.
Two ex-Lewis Brisbois partners were pushed out of the boutique they started after their former firm released racist, sexist and antisemitic emails the partners wrote while employed there.
Impossible Foods Inc. overcame claims it violated ethics rules when it directed undercover private investigators to obtain samples of a rival’s products during patent infringement litigation.
Vietnam’s detention of a prominent environmentalist and the staff of the non-profit she founded “are part of a concerning pattern of arrests of local environmental and civil society advocates” in the Communist country, the US State Department said in a statement.
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