The Supreme Court justices released their 2022 financial disclosures today.

Let's take a look ⤵️ Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito received 90-day extensions.

Thomas typically files his financial disclosures by the May 15 deadline. blawgo.com/gUNlPhO

NEW: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received a 90-day extension for his 2022 financial disclosure report, according to the administrative office for the federal judiciary. Thomas has come under criticism for not reporting trips and gifts paid for by billionaire Harlan Crow.
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BREAKING: Kirkland & Ellis has let go of some of its associates across US offices following mid-year performance reviews that took place last week. blawgo.com/SvUEmio The Chicago-founded law firm, which brought in $6 billion in gross revenue in 2022, let go of an unknown number of associates, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
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FTX’s legal troubles are reaching its law firm, Fenwick & West. blawgo.com/Lo6vrsZ Some details about Fenwick’s relationship with FTX were revealed in January, as Wall Street firm Sullivan & Cromwell faced scrutiny over its past work for the exchange. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p…

In the last two decades, the rate at which female Supreme Court justices are interrupted by their colleagues on the bench sits consistently higher than the rate for male justices. blawgo.com/6aXBYCM According to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in 2021, the court changed the rules of oral argument to try to combat this gender disparity.

It doesn’t seem to have worked, @EmoryLaw’s Tonja Jacobi writes in an insight for Bloomberg Law.
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BREAKING: Employers will no longer have to provide employees with health plans that pay for certain preventive health-care services, including drugs to treat AIDS and HIV. blawgo.com/xxfCZ52 Judge Reed C. O’Connor granted Braidwood Management's request for a “universal” remedy entirely blocking Obamacare’s requirement that health insurers cover certain preventive health-care services without cost to patients. blawgo.com/xxfCZ52

Bloomberg Law reporters Ronnie Greene and Holly Barker joined The Big Take @business to discuss their five-part series on how the guardianship system works— and doesn’t work —as well as what can be done to fix it.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… The Senate’s Special Committee on Aging announced a hearing for tomorrow on guardianships, a judicial process dogged by scattershot rules, restrictive rights, and scant oversight.
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Companies are increasingly looking to use AI-powered chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT in their operations despite concerns of bias, confidentiality breaches, and a murky regulatory landscape. blawgo.com/qQiL9uB Nascent chatbot technology presents a high risk, high reward dilemma for HR managers and company lawyers.

Being too cautious could help avoid legal headaches, but waiting for regulatory clarity may leave them behind competitors. blawgo.com/bd6oTdW

“This emerging legal landscape is very complex, but what we’re starting to learn is the centered nature of attorneys general in every state—hostile or supportive." blawgo.com/OgGHdOT Republican attorneys general invoked an 1873 anti-obscenity law to warn pharmacies of the legal consequences of distributing the abortion pill. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and…

Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia require employers to ensure workers have time off to vote on Election Day, and all but seven of those require that it be paid. blawgo.com/aBiKax8 A federal proposal to ensure workers have voting leave nationwide has stalled in Congress.

The bill hasn’t moved from the House committee where it was referred since it was introduced in April. blawgo.com/fr5di4v

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Donald Trump in the Mar-a-Lago document fight. The Supreme Court agreed with the government that a set of materials with classified markings should be excluded from a special master’s review.

BREAKING: Alex Jones must pay almost $1 billion in damages to families and an FBI agent ravaged by the Infowars founder’s lie that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax. The families’ lawyers had suggested jurors use $550 million as a “baseline” for calculating damages — roughly one dollar for every social media impression Jones’s accounts jointly racked up during the six years following the 2012 mass shooting.
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BREAKING: President Biden lays out his first regulatory to-do list, detailing his ambitions to dramatically expand the scope of the federal government’s involvement in education, healthcare, and the environment, among other areas. blawgo.com/f1yv1l0 The agenda includes plans to:

➡️ create tougher regulation to prevent health care discrimination
➡️ boost wages for tipped workers
➡️ provide student loan relief
➡️ revise Trump-era rules on pollution, emissions
➡️ strengthen protections for immigrants who arrived as children

Biden's infrastructure proposal may fall short of what's needed to restore U.S. bridges.

In West Virginia, 14% of highway bridges are in poor condition. Ed Evans, a Democrat in the state's House, says the state’s rural bridges “would scare you to death.” blawgo.com/uvQ39cR “Our country’s got some work to do,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. “We have 45,000 bridges in poor condition in this country and Americans cross those bridges 178 million times every single day.”

BREAKING: Supreme Court justices rule against the U.S. government's interpretation of the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Opinion in Borden v. United States: blawgo.com/9Hqsivq A criminal defendant won the Supreme Court’s latest ruling involving the Armed Career Criminal Act, the frequently-litigated federal law that imposes strict mandatory penalties on federal gun offenders with three prior violent or serious drug convictions. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/sp…

Summer associates normally benefit from face-to-face meetings and fun networking events. But in 2020, many law firm programs were virtual because of the pandemic.

We asked incoming and new associates to share their tips on how they thrived 👇 blawgo.com/m4fvoFW Summer associates may be focused on getting an offer from the firm and getting “set for life.”

But, Brian M. Trujillo, an associate with @BilzinLaw in Miami, says a better idea is to use the opportunity to try to find the best practice area for you. news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-p…

BREAKING: The White House’s regulatory office has completed its review of OSHA’s Covid-19 emergency rulemaking, signaling that its release could be imminent. blawgo.com/urC7txI President Biden issued an executive order in January that directed OSHA to consider a rule that would require employers to take steps to protect workers from contracting Covid-19 while on the job.

The agency has said little during its process of drafting the emergency rule.

NEW: The Chauvin jury has begun its deliberations.

Judge Cahill instructed jurors to avoid media about the trial and in recent days told them not to watch the news. bloomberg.com/news/live-blog… Here are five key takeaways from today's proceedings:

1⃣ Before closing arguments, Judge Peter Cahill walked jurors through the three charges Chauvin is facing -- second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Here's what has happened today during closing arguments of the Derek Chauvin trial ⬇️

1⃣ Judge Cahill walked jurors through the three charges former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is facing -- second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. 2⃣ Special prosecutor Steve Schleicher, who is working for the state pro bono, delivered a closing argument that began and ended with a look at Floyd as a person who spent his life surrounded by friends and family, but who died in the midst of strangers.

These are the three charges Derek Chauvin is facing in George Floyd’s death, which came as Chauvin kneeled on his neck and back for more than nine minutes. ⬇️ 1⃣ Second-degree murder

The hardest charge to prove and the one with the longest potential sentence.

The state has to convince the jury that Chauvin killed Floyd while committing a felony. It carries a maximum sentence of 40 years, & sentencing guidelines recommend 12.5 years.

Closing arguments are set to begin momentarily in the trial of George Floyd's accused killer, former police officer Derek Chauvin.

Follow @adamtaylordc and @jordan_s_rubin on our live blog 👇 blawgo.com/576sNE5 Steve Schleicher, who conducted jury selection for the state, will offer the state’s closing. Jerry Blackwell will present their rebuttal after defense attorney Eric Nelson makes the final case for defendant Derek Chauvin.