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Reed Smith Beats DQ Bid Over Privileged LuLaRoe Docs

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A California appellate panel has backed a lower court's ruling that Reed Smith LLP shouldn't be disqualified from a suit against clothing retailer LuLaRoe, agreeing that its attorneys followed the necessary privilege obligations when handling documents leaked to the firm anonymously by an opposing firm's legal secretary.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court ruled in Olmstead v. As assistant attorney general for New York from 1967 to 1978, Marcus argued — and won — six cases before the justices.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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One California-based firm, Gibson Dunn, did offer O’Connor a job – as a legal secretary. A varied career path to the country’s highest court The time that O’Connor had invested in local politics paid off when she decided to return to full-time work in 1965.

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