Above the Law
Posts by Above the Law
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Health Care / Medicine
Should The DOJ Break Up UnitedHealth Group?
The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly recently launched an antitrust investigation of UnitedHealth Group, which begs the question of whether the healthcare giant should be broken up. Experts have varying opinions. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.18.24
* A Kirkland associate is Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Queen. [Law360]
* Meanwhile, Kirkland hauls in over $7 billion. It would’ve been more but SOMEBODY had to go be a parade queen. [American Lawyer]
* Supreme Court lets college keep its ban on drag shows. So we’ve finally found the limit of the shadow docket and it’s “where it might help actual people whose rights are being taken away.” [Reuters]
* KPMG hoping to crowd out Biglaw in the AI race. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Conservatives continue to tell on themselves by complaining that new rule against forum shopping is unfair to them. [ABA Journal]
* Washington introduces alternative path to law license. [Law.com]
* Lawyers already getting giddy about embarrassing the government in court if TikTok ban passes. [WSJ]
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Fashion, Government
French Lawmakers Approve Bill To Place Penalties On Fast Fashion
It singles out fast-fashion retailer Shein. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.15.24
* Lawyer trapped in courthouse elevator for almost an hour. What’s the billing code for this? [Roll on Friday]
* Congratulations to ASSLaw for getting back in compliance with the ABA. You’ve done the bare minimum and we salute you. [Law.com]
* Lawyers get scrappy after “tissue-box toss.” [ABA Journal]
* For a change of pace, here’s a judge who’s happy about attorneys using AI. [Law360]
* Senators seem less enthusiastic about following the House’s crusade against TikTok. [Reuters]
* Professor Ludwig Von Drake enters Disney proxy fight. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Burford Capital revenues top $1.1B. [American Lawyer]
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Small Law Firms, Technology
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Health Care / Medicine
Novartis Pays $90M For Molecules That Could Take STING Out Of Inflammation
Placing research in the hands of a large pharmaceutical company is a goal of many biotech companies. IFM Therapeutics has now done it three times and its latest deal is the second time Novartis is the acquirer. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.14.24
* That guy who used his Biglaw girlfriend’s work papers to make an insider trade sentenced to 15 months. [Law360]
* The eternal question: is Alina Habba stupid or does she just act this way? [Yahoo]
* Judge deciding cases before trial didn’t mean anything bad by it says disciplinary court. [ABA Journal]
* Epic accuses Apple of violating app store order. [Reuters]
* A dive into Quinn Emanuel’s insurance on the fee award it won against insurance. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Minor update to the tale of the law school dean who left a paper trail of retaliation: the university finds that she… left a paper trail of retaliation. [Lawyers, Guns, Money]
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Biglaw
The ATL/Leopard Law Firm Diversity Survey
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Health Care / Medicine
How Marketing Fueled The Opioid Overdose Crisis And What We Can Learn From It
Given the link established across studies between marketing practices and the opioid overdose crisis, a few strategic steps can form a path forward for clinicians and policymakers. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.13.24
* “The fate of billable hours is in the hands of artificial intelligence.” I thought the intelligence behind the billable hour has been artificial for years! Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week. [ABA Journal]
* Lawyer seeks to overturn Ghislaine Maxwell conviction based on Jeffrey Epstein’s non-pros because she was a third-party beneficiary. How many mob bosses which they’d thought of that one! [New York Law Journal]
* Lawmakers unwilling to pass useful legislation in an election year are going to posture about a constitutionally doomed TikTok ban instead. America! [Law360]
* Elon Musk hires Trump’s old tax firm to represent him in executive pay suit.[Bloomberg Law News]
* Donald Trump isn’t going to blame his lawyers in hush money suit. How nice of him. [Reuters]
* Former U.S. Attorney loses law license. [NBC]
* After a career spanning Biglaw, the White House, and leading in-house legal, this lawyer has transitioned to music. [PBS]
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Fashion
The Body Shop Ceases U.S. Operations And Files For Bankruptcy
The UK-based cosmetics company is also closing half of its locations in Canada.
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Mount Sinai CEO: Hospitals Will Start Seeing ROI From Their AI Investments In A Couple Years
Health systems aren’t seeing a ton of ROI when it comes to their AI investments quite yet, as use of the technology is still in an iterative stage. However, Mount Sinai CEO Brendan Carr thinks that is likely to change in the next couple years. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.12.24
* Robert Hur set to testify about why his report was roughly 1 page of “no crime” and 50 pages of “Joe Biden is so old (How old is he?) He’s so old that he remembers the first Lochner era” [CNN]
* WilmerHale’s Harvard ties subject to ethics complaint though there’s no apparent ethical problem but we all have to talk about it because outlets like the New York Post are going to bleat about it. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Ranchers tried tampering with government equipment to get more subsidies… and somehow there’s a prison break and a dead body involved. [CBS News]
* Freshfields standardizes offices to one-size fits all. That ought to get the partners on board with working from home. [American Lawyer]
* Miami Law burning through deans like Apprentice contestants. [Daily Business Review]
* Final client who refused identifying themselves as victim of the Covington hack has caved. [Law360]
* First time bar passage rates are up. It’s still a stupid test. [Reuters]
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Health Care / Medicine
4 Healthcare Takeaways From Biden’s State Of The Union Address
President Joe Biden discussed several healthcare concerns during his State of the Union address, including reproductive rights, prescription drug costs, the Affordable Care Act, and women's health research. -
Small Law Firms, Sponsored Content, Technology
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.11.24
* Legal industry adds 2700 jobs last month. And all of them are already regretting it. [Law360]
* Federal Circuit says their pocket impeachment of Judge Pauline Newman is totally constitutional. It’s apparently written right next to the part where the drafters wrote “just kidding” after the insurrection clause [Reuters]
* Companies rethinking deals based on “head spinning changes to antitrust enforcement.” And be “head spinning” we mean “actually occasionally enforcing the law.” [Corporate Counsel]
* Polygraph tests… still bad. [ABA Journal]
* Pentagon says it finds no evidence of alien technology. But they WOULD say that wouldn’t they? [Courthouse News Service]
* Legal-minded AI vendor Harvey hiring “all sorts” of lawyers. [Bloomberg Law News]
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Health Care / Medicine, Technology
Answering 7 Key Questions About Change Healthcare’s Cyberattack
The aftermath the cyberattack on Change Healthcare remains messy, with patients across the country still struggling to obtain their prescriptions. The federal government has even stepped in to help address the fallout of the attack, urging payers to quickly alleviate the digital bottlenecks that providers and pharmacies are facing. -