Hints and tips:
...some judges to provide more opportunities for women and minority lawyers to present oral arguments....
...Oracle founder Larry Ellison said he was “in for $2bn”, while Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and partner at Greylock, said he could put up the same amount....
...During the day, Musk and Twitter’s lawyers entered an emergency hearing in a Delaware court with judge Kathaleen McCormick to hash out a resolution....
...It’s difficult to judge when to intervene and when to hold back....
...A UK High Court judge described his conduct as “lamentable” — and his evidence in the ensuing lawsuit as “unreliable”....
...Harry Reid, then the Democratic majority leader, changed the threshold to a simple majority, citing obstruction of Mr Obama’s nominees by Republicans led by Mr McConnell....
...Judge Richard Berman, who was overseeing Epstein’s case, wrote to the MCC’s warden on Monday asking about what had occurred in the July incident....
...In February, a federal judge said Mr Acosta had broken the law in negotiating the deal by failing to inform Mr Epstein’s victims....
...Mr Epstein’s lawyer, Reid Weingarten, said the photos were “ancient” and that the subjects were of age....
...Bayrock has filed a motion describing the matter as “an ordinary employment dispute” and has asked a federal judge to dismiss the suit....
...But studying near the action can lead to a way in eventually, according to Judge MBA graduate Carol Cheung, who became an investment associate at Cambridge Innovation Capital after working for start-ups...
...Mr Pryor, an associate of attorney general-designate Senator Jeff Sessions, has been especially outspoken on the subject....
...Michael Gottlieb, a former associate White House counsel for Mr Obama, expects Republican leaders to yield....
...Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Albert Einstein all knew this. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out until I was grown up....
...Reid, chairman of Island Def Jam, heard her down the hallway and decided she would be a star – and then dumped her....
...Prof Stiglitz’s bestseller of almost a decade ago serves, he observes wrily, as a handbook for judges eager to take on India’s large business families....
...Mr Blagojevich has claimed Mr Reid tried to bully him. Antoin Rezko, Mr Obama’s most disreputable former associate, features prominently in the indictment....
...“The problem was simply that he associated at a time when the US embarked on what history is likely to judge as a costly and unwise war of choice.”...
...“He not only shouldn’t be a trial court judge as he is, but to think that he should be elevated to a circuit court of appeals is outrageous,” Mr Reid said....
...Last week, Reid Weingarten, one of the most accomplished US defence lawyers, could be overheard in the corridors of the federal court in Manhattan fretting to an associate that he had a ?big decision?...
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