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  BigLaw Begins Matching Milbank On Associate Bonuses

  By Aebra Coe

  Following the news Tuesday that Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP will pay associates year-end and special bonuses in l...(read more)

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  Feds Ordered To Delete Combs Notes From Raid, For Now

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• PBMs Sue To Block FTC's In-House Insulin Pricing Case

  By Matthew Perlman

  Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx have lodged a constitutional challenge of the Federal Trade Commission's in-house case accusing the pharmacy benefits managers of artificially inflating insulin prices through unfair rebate schemes.

• Trump Seeks Dismissal Of Central Park Five Defamation Suit

  By P.J. D'Annunzio

  President-elect Donald J. Trump told a Pennsylvania federal judge that a lawsuit brought by the Central Park Five should be dismissed, calling their allegations that he defamed him with comments about their criminal case "meritless" and saying his statements are protected as public expression under the state's anti-SLAPP statute.

• Judiciary Touts Reforms In Handling Workplace Complaints

  By Ryan Boysen

  The federal judiciary is successfully reforming the controversial process that aims to protect its 30,000 employees from sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a new internal report released Wednesday, even as lawmakers have called for scrapping that process altogether and replacing it with a new one.

• Washington State, DC District Court Picks Secure Seats

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate on Wednesday voted 50-48 to confirm Washington Court of Appeals Judge Rebecca L. Pennell to the Eastern District of Washington and 50-49 to confirm Amir Ali, former president and executive director of the MacArthur Justice Center and co-director of the Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic at Harvard Law School, to the District of Columbia.

• Biden Bank Regulators Punt Big-Ticket Rulemakings To Trump

  By Jon Hill

  Top Biden administration banking regulators told House lawmakers on Wednesday that they don't plan to move forward on efforts to strengthen banks' requirements for capital, liquidity or long-term debt before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, although the Federal Reserve's supervision chief said he's not leaving anytime soon. 

• Walgreens Wins Sanctions Over Depo With 300 Objections

  By Celeste Bott

  An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday ruled Walgreens can recover the costs of a contentious deposition in a dispute with an electronics company, saying the witness "possessed virtually no knowledge" of the matters laid out in the deposition notice and the company's attorney engaged in "improper, obstructionist conduct" during the proceeding.

• Calif. Judicial Nominee Asked About Race, Parenting Writings

  By Courtney Bublé

  A California judicial nominee's previous writing about the murder of George Floyd in 2020, which sparked a national reckoning on race, was the subject of debate during a Senate nomination hearing on Wednesday.

• Calif. Voters Reject Minimum Wage Hike In Rare Outcome

  By Max Kutner

  A slim majority of California voters shot down a ballot measure that would have raised the state's minimum wage to $18 an hour, the first time such a proposal has failed in any state in nearly three decades.

• Davis Polk-Led Comcast To Spin Off NBCUniversal TV Assets

  By Al Barbarino

  Comcast Corp. said Wednesday it plans to spin off a suite of NBCUniversal cable television networks, including the USA Network, CNBC and MSNBC, along with additional digital assets, which generate a combined total $7 billion in annual revenues.  

• Trump Wants 'Immediate Dismissal' Of NY Hush Money Case

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  President-elect Donald Trump's legal team told the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial that his conviction should be thrown out due to his "overwhelming victory" at the polls, according to a filing released Wednesday.

• Bankman-Fried Tech Deputy Who Parsed Code Avoids Prison

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge allowed tech expert Zixiao "Gary" Wang to avoid jail Wednesday for his role in the $11 billion FTX fraud, crediting his effort to detail programming "back doors" that enabled Sam Bankman-Fried to loot the bankrupt crypto exchange.

• Pa. Jury Finds Clothing Co. Infringed Penn State Trademarks

  By Matthew Santoni

  Online retailer Vintage Brand infringed Pennsylvania State University's trademarks by selling unlicensed merchandise with "historic" images associated with the university, a Keystone State federal jury has found.