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☆ Top Law Firms Call for Universities to Tamp Down on Antisemitism
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Columbia students participating in a rally in support of Palestinians. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesMore than two dozen large law firms urged university deans to address antisemitic harassment, vandalism and assaults reported on college campuses in recent weeks. In a letter sent Wednesday, the law firms, a group that includes Kirkland & Ellis; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, say they have been alarmed at reports of violence and bigotry on college campuses in recent weeks, including rallies calling for the death of the Jews and the elimination of the state of Israel. The letter was sent to more than 20 top law school deans.

Persons: Spencer Platt, Ellis, Paul, Weiss, Wachtell Lipton Rosen, Katz Organizations: Columbia, Getty, Kirkland, Garrison Locations: Rifkind, Wharton, Israel

☆ Erin Mulvaney — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Erin MulvaneyErin Mulvaney is a national legal affairs reporter with The Wall Street Journal. She covers the legal industry and litigation affecting business and the economy nationwide. She writes about high-profile trials, lawsuits that explore novel questions, and cases that reveal legal tensions for companies, including about mass torts, technology, labor, and antitrust. She previously worked for Bloomberg Industry Group and American Lawyer Media in Washington, specializing in the gig economy, civil rights, and discrimination law. A Texas-native, she wrote about real estate for the Houston Chronicle and state politics for the Dallas Morning News.

Persons: Erin Mulvaney Erin Mulvaney Organizations: Wall Street, Bloomberg Industry Group, American Lawyer Media, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, University of Texas Locations: Washington, Texas, Austin

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent, Alphabet, is expected to be called as a witness by the company’s lawyers later in the trial. Photo: Tom Williams/Zuma PressWASHINGTON—The landmark antitrust case against Google hit a milestone this week when the Justice Department’s last scheduled witness concluded his testimony late Tuesday. Here are some key moments so far from the public parts of the nonjury trial, which began Sept. 12 and is estimated to end in late November. Before he was Google CEO, Sundar Pichai fretted about the ‘optics’ of its default search-engine agreement with AppleYears before he became Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai raised concerns about the deal at the heart of the case: the company’s contract with Apple that makes Google the default search engine on Apple’s Safari web browser.

Persons: Sundar Pichai, Tom Williams, Zuma Press WASHINGTON, Department’s, Sundar Organizations: Google, Zuma Press, Apple

☆ Parental Leave Case Pits Top Law Firm Against Former Supreme Court Clerks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Climate Advocates Fighting Exxon Were Hacked in Far-Flung Scheme, Prosecutors Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Former Trump Finance Chief in Testimony Says Penthouse, Assets Were Overvalued
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Law Firms Alter Diversity Programs Amid Legal Challenges
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Can Climate Lawsuits Against Energy Giants Succeed? Courts Could Soon Give Clues
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Affirmative Action Opponent Targets Admissions to West Point
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Mariah Timms | Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Flamboyant Lawyers to Clash at Texas Impeachment Trial of Ken Paxton
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Impeachment Trial Starts
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-05 | by ( Shannon Najmabadi | Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ken Paxton, Embattled Texas Attorney General, Faces Impeachment Trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Jacob Gershman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton after a committee investigation into alleged abuse of office. Photo: Eric Gay/Associated PressFor nearly a decade, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been at the center of many of the nation’s most politically charged cases. The Republican also has been under a constant cloud of scandal, which will grow darker when impeachment proceedings against him begin this week.

Persons: Ken Paxton, Eric Gay Organizations: Texas, Republican Locations: Texas

☆ Lawyers Descend on Maui After Historic Wildfire
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Katherine Blunt | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ex-OpenSea Employee Sentenced to Three Months in First NFT Insider-Trading Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Corinne Ramey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Activist Behind Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases Is Now Suing Law Firms
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Douglas Belkin | Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Judge’s Fictional Thriller Sparks Real-Life Courtroom Drama
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Judge Sanctions Lawyers Who Filed Fake ChatGPT Legal Research
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Pharmaceutical Giants Set $19 Billion Opioid Settlement as States Debate How to Spend It
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Julie Wernau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ States Look to Unconventional Fix for Attorney Shortages: Nonlawyers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ London’s Allen & Overy to Merge With Shearman & Sterling to Create $3.4 Billion Global Law Firm
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Exxon Mobil Settles Indonesians’ Long-Running Abuse Suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Exxon Mobil headquarters in Spring, Texas Photo: Meridith Kohut for The Wall Street JournalExxon Mobil has reached a settlement with Indonesian villagers who sued the oil giant more than 20 years ago for alleged human-rights abuses by contract soldiers hired to guard the company’s operations in Aceh province. The settlement, announced in a court filing Monday, comes ahead of a widely anticipated trial that was scheduled to begin May 24. The villagers sued in U.S. court in 2001, alleging the soldiers committed atrocities including sexual assault, torture, and murder at or near ExxonMobil’s large natural gas operations in the Arun field.

☆ Fox Has Settled One Voting Machine Company’s Defamation Case. Another Looms.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Photo: Mark Makela/ReutersFox Corp.’s decision to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation dispute with Dominion Voting Systems gave voting-machine company Smartmatic USA Corp. a potential blueprint for its own case against the conservative media empire, legal experts say. Just like Dominion, Smartmatic is accusing Fox’s news networks of airing defamatory comments about its products in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, including that the voting-machine company helped rig the outcome in favor of Joe Biden. The $2.7 billion lawsuit is pending in New York state court.

☆ Fox News-Dominion Defamation Trial Set to Begin
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WILMINGTON, Del.— A jury here is scheduled to hear opening statements on Dominion Voting Systems’ allegations that it was defamed by Fox News after the 2020 presidential election, following a one-day trial delay and settlement efforts by Fox that haven’t produced an agreement. After jurors are seated for the case, they are set to begin considering whether Fox News and Fox Business defamed Dominion in a series of broadcasts in which associates of then-President Donald Trump claimed the voting-machine company helped rig the election for Joe Biden. Dominion is seeking $1.6 billion in damages, saying it lost contracts after the broadcasts and has faced other business harms.

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