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Kirkland & Ellis is shortening the path to partnership for its lawyers, a move likely to make industry waves. Kirkland & Ellis will consider lawyers for ‘shares’ a year earlier Big Law has for a decade restricted the number of shareholders In a major reversal from a recent Big Law trend, Kirkland & Ellis said it will consider giving lawyers equity shares nine years after they le...

00:00 00:0000:00LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SETTINGS_SPEEDSPEED_NORMAL SETTINGS_AUTOPLAY A law professor is trending on Twitter after she posted a multi-page letter about how Hertz allegedly extorted her during Thanksgiving. Kate Klonick, an assistant professor at St. John’s University School of Law and attorney in the state of New York, detailed her "a Very Bad experience" when trying ...

(TNS) — A new report has linked a change in a Missouri firearm law with an increase in the value of stolen firearms reported in the state — an indirect measure of an increase in the number of stolen guns. The study published Monday by researchers at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning public policy group, analyzed federal data 12 years prior and 12 years after the state's 2007 re...

Best of the Best Music Fest honors Miya Marcano TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The family of Miya Marcano was at the Florida state capitol on Wednesday attempting to help make sure the young college student did not die in vain. They are pushing lawmakers to pass a bill in her name, Miya’s Law, to help better protect renters like her. The 19-year-old Flanagan High School graduate was murdered earlier thi...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – A law effectively banning the “Carolina Squat” pickup truck modification in North Carolina took effect Wednesday. The law, House Bill 692, was passed by state lawmakers on Aug. 25 then signed by Gov. Roy Cooper. The law states that no passenger vehicle, such as a pickup truck, can be driven if it has been altered so that the height of the front fender is 4 or more inche...

(FILE image of vaccine card by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee on Wednesday halted dozens of exemptions that allowed businesses and public entities to require people to take COVID-19 preventive measures in spite of a state law severely limiting them, citing court rulings that blocked some of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. State Comptroller Jas...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee on Wednesday halted dozens of exemptions that allowed businesses and public entities to require people to take COVID-19 preventive measures in spite of a state law severely limiting them, citing court rulings that blocked some of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates. State Comptroller Jason Mumpower’s announcement — at least for now — strips away protection...

Welcome to the monthly edition of The Disclosure Digest! Our December issue will arrive in your inbox after Christmas. Illinois enacts law prohibiting anonymous contributions in judicial elections On Nov. 15, 2021, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed SB0536, a law prohibiting candidates seeking nomination to state courts from accepting donations from organizations that do not disclose their do...

A woman holding the steering wheel of a car with one hand while driving. MICHIGAN — Deputies, state troopers and 100 other agencies are increasing enforcement on Michigan speed laws this winter. The Berrien County Sheriff’s Office says crashes have decreased in Michigan by 22 percent from 2019 to 2020, but traffic-related fatalities had increased by 10 percent. They further note an 8-percent ...

We thought we entered Biglaw bonus season last week, but after Cravath rolled out a higher bonus schedule, the majority of firms responded with silence. What’s going on, and is someone finally going to break that logjam? We also talk about the verdict in the Arbery murder and continue last week’s discussion about the troubling balancing act when it comes to prosecutorial discretion. And an Iv...