- Lawyers from Kirkland & Ellis, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, Cooper & Kirk, and Kathleen McCaffrey Baynes will only be awarded $447,000 in attorneys fees and costs to the plaintiffs — about two-thirds less than the $1.2 million requested — in a case that led to SCOTUS' landmark 2022 ruling expanding gun rights.
- Starting in February, law graduates taking the California bar exam will pay 26% more. The admission fee increase is expected to generate an additional $7.4 million annually for the state bar, which is facing a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall.
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