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Judge sanctions lawyer and client $150K, citing ‘mountain of evasiveness’ and ‘outright lies’   Image from Shutterstock.com. A Texas judge has ordered a Houston-area lawyer and his client to be jointly sanctioned $150,000 for the client’s “outright lies” in litigation and “a mountain of evasiveness” in discovery. In a Jan. 21 order, Judge R. O’Neil Williams of the 268th District Court in Texas imposed the sanctions on solo practitioner Paul B. Rosen of Bellaire, Texas, and his client Gen Fu Zhang, report Law.com and Law360. The case involved a dispute over a commercial le...

BigLaw firm underpaid female partner, allowed male peers to ostracize and obstruct her, lawsuit says   Image from Shutterstock.com. A former nonequity partner at Reed Smith has alleged in a lawsuit that her male colleagues treated her unfairly, and the law firm allowed it to happen. Sherri Affrunti filed the pay and gender bias lawsuit in New Jersey state court in Mercer County on Dec. 18, Law.com reports. According to the suit, Reed Smith allowed Affrunti’s male peers to “obstruct rather than to enhance her productivity; improperly take credit for her work and originations; direct busin...

Afternoon Briefs: NRA files for bankruptcy; Boies Schiller partner is arrested   NRA files for bankruptcy, plans Texas move The National Rifle Association announced Friday that it is filing for bankruptcy, leaving New York and moving to Texas to reincorporate there as a nonprofit. New York Attorney General Letitia James has said she sees the move as an attempt to evade accountability after her office sought to dissolve the charitable group for alleged misspending. James has planned to oppose any effort to avoid her office’s oversight. The NRA said it is moving to be “free from the toxic ...

Transformation of judiciary is Trump's 'most consequential accomplishment,' says nonprofit founder   Image from Shutterstock.com. President Donald Trump has appointed 54 of the nation’s federal appellate judges during his four years in office, just one judge short of the number appointed by President Barack Obama in his two terms. Trump’s appointments “flipped” three federal appeals courts from a majority of Democratic appointees to a majority of Republican appointees, Reuters reports. They are the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Atlanta, the 2nd Circuit at New York and the 3rd...

Advancing Racial Equality & Social Justice Structural racism is killing us—now what? Here are some policy recommendations By Engy Abdelkader   Image from Shutterstock.com. On Dec. 9 and 10, the ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Rights of Immigrants Committee hosted a two-day policy summit exploring some of the most pressing civil rights issues confronting our nation. In a strategic partnership with the German Marshall Fund, a public policy organization, the ABA began its exploration of interpersonal, institutional and structural discrimination with the virtual session titled "...