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Student worker unions across the U.S. are facing increasing legal uncertainty as the Trump administration steps up efforts to discipline pro-Palestine protestors, threatens university funding, and reshapes labor law oversight through a more conservative National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The administration’s sweeping response to last year’s campus protests has placed unions in a bind. Universities…
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New York Attorney General Letitia James, known for her successful prosecution of former President Donald J. Trump in a high-profile civil fraud case, is now the subject of a federal criminal referral involving alleged mortgage-related misrepresentations. Legal analysts and James’s office suggest the move may be a retaliatory response as she launches a new insider…
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Collin County District Judge Angela Tucker is facing a barrage of racist, misogynistic, and threatening messages following her decision to lower the bond for 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who has been charged in the fatal stabbing of fellow student Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas. Judge Tucker, who has served on…
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In a bold and public rebuke, Harvard University has rejected sweeping demands from the Trump administration that threatened to withhold more than $9 billion in research funding. Harvard President Alan Garber, M.D., Ph.D., issued a strongly worded statement asserting that the university “will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” denouncing the administration’s…
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In 1973, in the heart of Montgomery, Alabama, two young Black sisters—Mary Alice and Minnie Relf—were subjected to an irreversible medical procedure they never consented to. At just 14 and 12 years old, the girls were forcibly sterilized by a federally funded clinic. Their mother, who could neither read nor write, had unknowingly signed a…
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In a high-stakes legal battle with constitutional implications, litigation powerhouse Susman Godfrey LLP on Monday, April 14, 2025, filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order to block enforcement of an executive order issued by President Donald Trump that targets the firm’s operations and clients. The motion was filed in the U.S. District Court…
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These firms are setting the gold standard in revenue, deal-making, and influence. The legal industry continues to thrive—especially for these top players. From billion-dollar corporate deals to courtroom victories, these 10 U.S.-based law firms are generating the most revenue and commanding global influence in 2025. Here’s who’s making the biggest bank in Big Law. 🏆…
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Trump’s Pressure on Big Law Deepens as Top Firms Pledge $600M in Legal Services to Avoid Retaliation
In a development that is sending shockwaves through the legal industry, five of the nation’s most powerful law firms—Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, A&O Shearman, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft—have agreed to provide $600 million in legal services to the Trump administration. These deals, announced Friday, April 11, 2025, bring…
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A transgender woman known online as Zaya (@zayaperysian on Instagram) has gone viral after posting a video criticizing the U.S. State Department for issuing her a passport that misgenders her as male. Zaya Mehki Perysian says she has marked as ‘Male’ despite her having completed full gender-affirming surgery and having all other legal documents updated…
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In the wake of the tragic 2015 mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 people dead and 22 others seriously injured, a legal confrontation emerged that would reverberate across the realms of technology, civil liberties, and national security. At the center: the locked iPhone 5c of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers,…
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