As the class of 2025 prepares to join law firms this fall, new associates must adapt to office dynamics and establish credible reputations — which require quiet, consistent relationship-building skills as much as legal acumen, says Kyle Forges at Bast Amron.
A Maryland federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration Monday from immediately deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement re-detained the Salvadoran at his first check-in since the U.S. Marshals released him from criminal custody last week.
Attorneys for foreign aid nonprofits called for the Trump administration to detail exactly how it plans to distribute aid funding under a D.C. federal judge's injunction Monday, saying the government had been dragging its feet to comply with the February order as a Sept. 30 fiscal year deadline looms.
The Fourth Circuit has upheld the conviction of web hosting company Micfo and its chief executive on charges that he fraudulently obtained IPv4 addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers, rejecting a challenge that CEO Amir Golestan would not have taken a plea deal if he'd been warned of denaturalization risks.
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday directing federal officials to create new "specialized" units to enforce federal laws in D.C. and other cities nationwide, including a "quick reaction force" within the D.C. National Guard, as well as hire more prosecutors and take other measures, following his recent deployment of the National Guard in the district.
The field office director for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in Miami urged a Florida federal court to keep a temporary detention center in the Everglades in operation, saying in a motion to pause an injunction that closing the facility will endanger the community.
A Texas federal judge has ruled that bids by a state community college and a student association to intervene in a suit challenging a Texas law allowing in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants would be "legally futile," prompting their appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
A group of New York medical practitioners on Monday called for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop denying medical care to detained noncitizens across the United States.
A New York federal judge ordered immigration officials to immediately release a Jamaican asylum seeker from detention Monday, after ruling last week that the man was afforded no due process whatsoever.
A Florida federal judge on Monday trimmed a proposed class action complaint against the Everglades immigration detention center alleging attorney access to detainees and court proceedings have been denied, saying that a ruling on a Fifth Amendment violation would be moot after federal officials specified the court with administrative responsibility over the facility.