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Health Care / Medicine
AI Biotech Exscientia Fires CEO Hopkins For Relationships With Two Employees
Exscientia’s termination of CEO Andrew Hopkins is for cause and effective immediately. Grounds for termination include misconduct or behavior that brings Hopkins or the company into disrepute, according to his employment agreement. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.14.24
* Video game company settles case with choreographer over dance move animation. While we’re at it, video games owe me because the animation of characters writhing in pain after being riddled with bullets is suspiciously close to my signature move. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Jack Smith given a week to respond to Trump’s Supreme Court nonsense. Seems like they’re eager to get this over with too. [Yahoo]
* Reuters asks “is Elon Musk full of shit?” The answer will almost certainly not shock you. [Reuters]
* Another firm crosses into the billion dollar club. Money fight! [American Lawyer]
* Medical experts suggest diagnosis invented by law enforcement to justify shooting people might not be medically sound. [ABA Journal]
* Bob Menendez lawyers compare Senator’s corruption charges to Taylor Swift. Except it’s “no body, no crime” not “a crapload of gold bars, no crime.” [NorthJersey.com]
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Health Care / Medicine
Why One Google Cloud Exec Thinks HHS’ New Cybersecurity Guidelines Are A Step In The Right Direction
HHS recently published guidance outlining voluntary cybersecurity performance goals for the healthcare sector. Taylor Lehmann, a cybersecurity executive at Google Cloud, noted that ‘what is on HHS paper will most likely become what is in the actual final rulemaking or new regulatory requirements that become law.’ -
Health Care / Medicine
Who Needs To File With OHCA Under California’s New Healthcare Transaction Regulations?
Who do the California Office of Healthcare Affordability's cost and market impact review regulations apply to? That depends on three questions, according to a recent webinar. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.13.24
* Trump’s appeals immunity ruling citing such unassailable precedent as… a dissent in another Trump case that does not itself cite relevant caselaw. Stellar work all around. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Latham shuts its Hong Kong lawyers off from the rest of the firm’s data. [Financial Times]
* Squishmallows launches suit against Build-a-Bear. [BBC]
* More firms trumpet robust 2023 profits implicitly dunking on the firms still laying people off. [American Lawyer]
* Harvard not liable for morgue manager selling spare parts. [Law360]
* Ohio law attempting to ban children from using social media without parental permission blocked based on pesky “basic Constitutional rights” thing. [Reuters]
* Pauline Newman loses another challenge as DC judge jettisons suit while shrugging at the idea that appellate judges have an unenumerated “pocket impeachment” power to terminate a lifetime appointment on their own. [ABA Journal]
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Courts
Court Orders Netherlands To Stop Export Of F-35 Parts To Israel In 7 days Over Gaza Concerns
The move is largely symbolic, as Israel doesn't 'need the F-35 for the operations they are currently conducting over Gaza,' Patrick Bolder, a defense analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies think tank, told Breaking Defense. -
Health Care / Medicine
Why Experts Saw Cano Health’s Bankruptcy Coming From A Mile Away
Cano Health filed for bankruptcy last week — about three years after going public $4.4 billion SPAC merger. The industry reacted without surprise, with experts calling the bankruptcy a direct result of mismanagement, a quixotic growth strategy and poor market selection. - Sponsored
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.12.24
* Aileen Cannon meets privately with Trump lawyers so they can tell her what to do. [Newsweek]
* Judge says he thought lawyer was flirting, so he responded by touching her “lower hamstring.” Not even sure that’s the acceptable next move if she HAD BEEN flirting. [ABA Journal]
* Winston & Strawn executive pushes third party presidential option. And, honestly, if you can’t trust lifelong Republican Biglaw attorneys for political advice then who can you trust. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Judge orders Elon Musk to testify because his testimony, which should force him to settle based on his past trips to the stand. [Reuters]
* Man who traded on Biglaw girlfriend’s insider information receives permanent injunction against violating securities laws. So everyone gets a freebie! [Law360]
* There is “concern” about A&O Shearman. No kidding. Maybe the mass defections it set off? [ALM International]
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Health Care / Medicine
Why Are Hospitals Fighting Site-Neutral Payments So Fervently?
Establishing site-neutral payments for outpatient services is a hot issue in Capitol Hill right now. Advocates say that such policy would lower healthcare costs, saving both patients and taxpayers money. Opponents say that it would put hospitals’ financial security at risk and jeopardize access to care. -
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.09.24
* Hawai’i Supreme Court considers actual historical record… upholds state gun laws and mocks U.S. Supreme Court’s vibe-based take. [Reuters]
* “Club dancer hired as solicitor’s ‘obedient little slave creature’ awarded £28k.” No further commentary needed. [Roll on Friday]
* Special Counsel in Biden document case opts for unorthodox prosecutorial strategy of admitting that there is no crime and then putting out 50 pages insulting the target of the investigation because the guy is MAD that he can’t find any crime. [ABA Journal]
* FCC bans AI-voiced robocalls. So much for those retirement plans! [Law360]
* Yale and Stanford move up interview season into June. Why not the first day of 1L? Or orientation? [Law.com]
* Seyfarth may still lag behind the market in compensation, but they reported another solid, profitable year and are looking to expand. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Kilpatrick sees 13 percent profit surge. Starting to doubt the handful of “we need layoffs because of economic headwinds.” [American Lawyer]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.08.24
* A group of originalists are going to rule that post-Civil War America passed the Fourteenth Amendment bar on insurrectionists as merely advisory. [SCOTUSBlog]
* Paul Hastings joins Arnold & Porter in reporting a big revenue year. I suspect this is going to be more of the norm and the firms engaging in layoffs will be the outliers. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Rudy Giuliani tells Trustee about all his unpaid bills. [Law360]
* Former client gearing up to file complaint against Kasowitz for $100M over alleged conflict of interest. [New York Law Journal]
* Gen AI could change the conversation around the billable hour. It probably won’t, but it could and likely should. [Legaltech News]
* Law professor lost his Title IX claim against the school for being anti-male, but he’s filing a new lawsuit. [ABA Journal]
* Special counsel — no, not that one — concludes investigation. [Reuters]
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Courts, Fashion
Chanel Wins Trademark Infringement Case Against What Goes Around Comes Around
A six-year legal saga led to this verdict — and $4 million in damages. -
Health Care / Medicine
Growing Awareness Of Mental Health Importance Fuels New Initiatives, Research
Several recent developments signal increased support for psychological assessments and treatments. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.07.24
* Snoop and Master P suing Post and Walmart for sabotaging their cereal brand. You’ve got to eat something when the ladies in the livin’ room leave at 6 in the morning. [Law360]
* Taylor Swift threatens the same incredibly stupid lawsuit that Elon Musk did. [CNN]
* Some firms are laying people off. Other firms are seeing epic profit boosts. Arnold & Porter is the latter kind of firm. [American Lawyer]
* School shooter’s mother convicted of manslaughter. Not sure vicarious liability is going to lead anywhere good. [Reuters]
* This isn’t exactly news, but Donald Trump’s fundraising sent millions to fund lawyers for his failkids. [Business Insider]
* Elon Musk is funding Gina Carano’s lawsuit against Disney because he’s willing to underwrite anything anti-Trans at this point. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Elon University begins admitting law students in Charlotte. [WBTV]
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Biglaw, Small Law Firms, Sponsored Content, Technology
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Small Law Firms, Sponsored Content, Technology
Why Better Time Tracking Will Stop Your Firm From Throwing Money Away
Even for lawyers who aren’t tallying their 0.1s, this tech is a business ‘lifesaver.’