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News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: $950M malpractice lawsuit can proceed against Katten; Breonna Taylor’s family says police withheld bodycam footage   Katten faces $950M malpractice suit after judge agrees to apply California damages rule Katten Muchin Rosenman will face a $950 million malpractice lawsuit after a California trial judge rejected its request to apply Washington, D.C.’s defense-friendly contributory negligence law. The law firm’s attorneys at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles argued the law should apply since Claudia Callaway, the partner named in the lawsuit, works in t...

Federal Government To protect homeowners and renters still affected by COVID-19, ABA and White House team up on new initiative   Image from Shutterstock. The ABA is working with the White House on a new initiative to protect renters and homeowners who remain affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic instability. On Wednesday, the White House Summit on Eviction Prevention will bring together local government, judicial, legal and community leaders from 50 cities to develop strategies to provide vulnerable families access to counsel, divert evictions and connect renters and landlor...

Afternoon Briefs: Senate confirms Biden appellate judge; how SCOTUS justices supplemented their 2020 income     Senate confirms Biden’s first appellate judge On Monday, the U.S. Senate confirmed U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Jackson is President Joe Biden’s first affirmed appellate judge and will replace Merrick Garland, who is now the U.S. attorney general. While she is also considered a potential nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a radio interview Monday that...

ABA President Patricia Lee Refo is urging the U.S. House of Representatives to pass bipartisan legislation to help prevent elder abuse across the country.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta has upheld the convictions of a Birmingham, Alabama, lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to thwart U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleanup efforts.