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Good morning. Let's kick off the week with a look at legal job numbers, which while on the rise, have barely changed from a high point reached nearly 20 years ago. Plus, a federal judge will hear arguments in a case alleging detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" lack access to legal counsel; and an NLRB official warned states against moving to regulate labor relations. Here are some odd photos to usher in your Monday. Let's dive in. |
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The U.S. legal sector enjoyed its fifth straight month of employment growth in July, but a review of 35 years of data shows legal industry employment has still barely improved from a high point it reached nearly two decades ago. Here's what to know: |
- July's job numbers, which are subject to revision, are just 1.7% higher than the 1,179,500 jobs recorded in May 2007, when a period of propulsive growth had increased the number of legal jobs by 26.3% since 1990.
- In addition to lawyers, the tally includes a range of legal workers at companies, law firms and other organizations of all sizes, including paralegals and assistants.
- While overall legal employment only recently rebounded from the Great Recession, the largest law firms have grown substantially, employing more lawyers and becoming far richer.
- Between 1999 and 2021, the 200 top-grossing U.S. firms collectively grew their lawyer headcount by 87% and increased their revenues by 172%, according to data collected by the American Lawyer.
- Billing rate increases have also sent compensation skyrocketing for top lawyers at the most in-demand firms. Pay for the "superstars" of the legal industry — who can command more than $10 million a year — are "numbers that were unimaginable 15 years ago," said consultant Bruce MacEwen of Adam Smith Esq.
- Read more about the numbers here.
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- U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz II in Miami will hear arguments in a lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging there is a lack of access to legal counsel and due process violations at the newly constructed immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." Read the complaint.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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- A 4th Circuit panel rejected a bid by a former public defender in North Carolina to overturn her trial loss in a lawsuit alleging U.S. federal judiciary officials mishandled a sexual harassment complaint she lodged against her supervisor. Read the order.
- Just a pair of moves this morning: Tiffany Eggers and Sarah Douglas, former prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, joined Dykema's government investigations and corporate compliance group.
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"Keeping out of hot water with voters is not among the interests that can justify a speech ban."
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—Circuit Judge Julius Richardson, writing for a three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit that declared unconstitutional a Maryland law prohibiting companies that pass on the costs of the state's first-of-its-kind digital advertising tax from telling customers why prices went up. Richardson said the pass-through prevented companies from describing the tax in the one setting where the consumer is guaranteed to look: the invoice. Read the ruling. |
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Column: Can Zuckerberg duck deposition in Meta privacy class action? |
Mark Zuckerberg has better things to do than sit for a deposition. Or so lawyers for Meta Platforms suggest in a pending petition to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, objecting to the billionaire CEO being forced to give testimony in a proposed privacy class action. The company invokes a controversial principle known as the apex doctrine to claim Zuckerberg should be spared the hot seat. Jenna Greene takes a look at the fight, and whether corporate executives merit special dispensation from civil discovery in On the Case. Read more. |
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Squire Patton Boggs' Mark Salzberg takes a look at the GENIUS Act and examines whether stablecoin issuers will be boxed out of bankruptcy. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
Additional writing by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. |
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