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How should the legal profession navigate a post-COVID-19 world? ABA group has recommendations   Images from Shutterstock.com. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ABA initiated one of the largest national surveys of its members, seeking to understand both how they had been affected and how they expected their practice to evolve in the future. Practicing Law in the Pandemic and Moving Forward: Results and Best Practices from a Nationwide Survey of the Legal Profession, published Monday by the Coordinating Group on Practice Forward, is based on input from more than 4,200 members who responded to th...

Florida Supreme Court's order blocking diversity quotas for CLE instructors could impact ABA programs   Image from Shutterstock.com. The Florida Supreme Court’s recent decision to prohibit diversity quotas for continuing legal education programs may reverberate beyond the borders of the Sunshine State. In its Thursday order, the state supreme court held that while it understood the objective of the Florida Bar Business Law Section’s new policy requiring a minimum number of diverse faculty at section-sponsored CLE programs, the measure was “out of bounds.” “Quotas based on character...

Texas court tosses sentence of state's longest-serving death row inmate   Image from Shutterstock.com. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned the sentence of the state’s longest-serving death row inmate. Raymond Riles has been on death row in Texas since 1976, despite being deemed mentally incompetent to be executed multiple times. On Wednesday, the court remanded the 70-year-old’s case to Harris County, Texas, for resentencing, since the jury wasn’t instructed to consider his mental illness when deciding his punishment. “We’re very pleased,” Thea Posel, one of Riles�...

News Roundup Afternoon Briefs: 2 firms give special bonuses; immigrant leaves church sanctuary for first time in 3 years   Paul Hastings, Sheppard Mullin provide special bonuses to staff and paralegals As many large firms continue to reward young lawyers for their work in the past year, Paul Hastings and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton are also providing special bonuses to staff. According to memos obtained by the American Lawyer, full-time and part-time support staff, paralegals and other timekeepers at Paul Hastings will receive $1,500 or the equivalent in local currency at the end of ...

Threats of sham lawsuit against well-known singer constitute a crime, 9th Circuit says   Image from Shutterstock.com. Threats of baseless litigation can amount to extortion under the Hobbs Act, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco ruled Tuesday. In its opinion, the appeals court affirmed the conviction of Benjamin Koziol, who threatened to sue singer Andy Grammer over allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault and assault and battery if the well-known entertainer did not settle with him for $1 million. Koziol had argued that the threat of litigation, even when “friv...