In a recent company-wide meeting, Steve Zubiago, Chief at Nixon Peabody, defended his firm’s work for former President Donald Trump. A Nixon Peabody attorney made a recent court appearance on behalf of Trump in a Massachusetts lawsuit, the objective of which was to block Trump from featuring on the 2024 presidential election ballots. More on this at Above The Law.
In a related legal landscape survey, less than a quarter (23%) of senior in-house lawyers admitted to directly requesting a law firm to assign a woman or a racially diverse attorney to a litigation or arbitration matter. This interesting finding comes from a poll conducted by Burford Capital and Ari Kaplan Advisors which involved 66 legal chiefs, heads of litigation, and other senior attorneys.
In other news, a South Florida dentist, Charles Adelson, has been found guilty in the 2014 murder case of Dan Markel, a law professor at the Florida State University. Allegedly, Adelson sought Markel’s assassination amid a contentious child custody dispute between Markel and his own sibling. Detailed coverage of this can be found on South Florida Sun Sentinel.
You can access the original news article at Bloomberg Law.