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Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) reportedly saying Biden’s Supreme Court nominee should know “a law book from a J. Crew catalog” is raising some eyebrows. Sen John Kennedy went viral on Wednesday for supposedly telling fellow Senate Republicans that he wants President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee — whom Biden has said will be a Black woman — to be someone who “knows a law book from a J. Crew ca...

Attorney Omar Figueroa Courtesy photo The Law Offices of Omar Figueroa, one of California’s leading cannabis, hemp, and psychedelic law firms, announced today that the firm is expanding to New York, where it will continue to serve clients in those emerging markets. Increasingly, California-based cannabis plant-touching and ancillary companies are looking eastward, hoping to bring expertise...

Credit: jozefmicic/stock.adobe.com After the legal industry evaded disaster in 2020 and went on to post stellar financial results, the Am Law 200 appear to have reached even greater heights in 2021. A booming M&A market and rising client demand combined to keep elite lawyers busier than ever—and the early reports from around the industry indicate that revenue and profits leapt forward at ...

On January 28, 2022, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in ACA Connects v. Bonita, upholding the district court's denial of a preliminary injunction against the operation of California SB-822, which imposes "net neutrality" obligations on entities that provide broadband internet access service to California residents. The ruling means that California's net neutralit...

In this piece1, members of Mayer Brown’s Digital Assets Initiative break down a digital-native form of business—the Decentralized Autonomous Organization, or DAO—and examine one of the first DAO mergers. We also take a look ahead at ways that DAOs may become increasingly relevant to established technology and financial services businesses. Decentralized Autonomous Organizations – A Primer DAO...

The nation’s capital will begin to enforce its long-delayed pay-to-play law on November 9, 2022. Although it was originally set to go into effect on November 4, 2020, Washington, D.C., delayed enforcement of the Campaign Finance Reform Amendment Act of 2018 due to a lack of funding. The law bans political contributions to officials responsible for awarding contracts by entities holding or see...

Marshals, local law enforcement searching for accused sex offender  Norman Transcript

The philosophy behind the recall of elected officials is that there is a need for a final check on those who have proved so unfit or neglectful of the interests of their constituents that they should be ejected from office before the expiration of their terms. Recalls are rarely successful, but the process is increasingly being used by partisan and special interests as a way to bully or intim...

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month was no exception. In fact, there were so many significant developments taking place during the past month that we were once again forced to expand our monthly summary we...

Law schools these days seem to be overrun by students who want to push the “progressive” agenda and are eager to punish anyone who disagrees with it. We’re witnessing that at Georgetown Law right now. But there undoubtedly are some law students who believe in freedom and equality under the law (concepts rejected by the “woke”) and here is a place where they’d be welcome — the Center for Equal...