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Law Firms Jones Day can be sued for retaliation over press release statements, judge rules in former associates' suit Image from Shutterstock.com. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has allowed two former Jones Day associates to add a claim to their bias lawsuit that the law firm retaliated against them through a press release. In a Feb. 11 decision, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss of the District of Columbia allowed former associates Julia Sheketoff and Mark Savignac to add the claim, according to Thomson Reuters Legal, Bloomberg Law and Law360. The plaintiffs allege that the press r...
Son of Holocaust survivors exposes the harms of bystander complicity Photo courtesy of University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law In high school, three things held Amos N. Guiora’s attention: politics, books and sports. Following this trio of interests for nearly 50 years has given Guiora a rich and meaningful career path—several of them, in fact. Today Guiora is a law professor at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law. The prolific writer has authored books on subjects ranging from counterterrorism and cybersecurity to the impact of the Miranda decision. Academics is...
Business of Law Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, law firms are starting to embrace virtual offices—but will it last? By Danielle Braff Illustration by Sara Wadford/Shutterstock Blame it on the pandemic. Law offices throughout the country are finally tiptoeing into the virtual world. For most professions, this is nothing new: More than half of professionals worked remotely at least half the week before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March, according to International Workplace Group research. But law firms always do things at their own pace. According to the 2019 ABA TechReport, roughl...
Former public defender agrees to suspension, partly for firing 3 women after confrontation with his wife Image from Shutterstock.com. The former public defender in Jacksonville, Florida, has agreed to accept a six-month suspension, partly for firing three women when confronted by his wife. Former public defender Matt Shirk says in his conditional guilty plea that he fired the three women “for the private benefit of himself, his wife and their marriage.” Shirk has maintained that he didn’t have sex with the women. He hired one of them after seeing her pictures on social media, accordi...