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Reading Peter Garnett’s article on vacations as an important part of an attorney’s life and their relationship to the practice of law and servicing of clients made me think about what we decide to do outside of the practice of law and how it can help us become better service providers to our clients. Teamwork is an important part of family life, but I want to focus on what we do outside of our family relationships and how it can help us improve in the practice of law.

I was an avid scuba diver for over 45 years, with over 1,000 dives throughout the world. Fundamental to safe scuba diving is the buddy system. It is universally required that you have a dive buddy each time for safety reasons. If something goes wrong, your dive buddy can save your life. But just like teamwork within a law firm and a law firm with its client, teamwork as a good buddy is the result of proper planning and realizing you have a life-and-death obligation to your dive buddy.

Before a dive begins, you and your buddy check each other’s equipment to make sure that it is operational and in proper working order, to avoid entanglements and other problems during the dive. You also plan out your dive in advance as a team. You study the local map and determine the direction of the current to come up with a dive plan. Once you descend, you look for sea fans, which I call nature’s sea computer, to verify the current’s direction and strength. For safety reasons, you always start your dive against the current and then as you get more tired and have to return, you use the current to come back to where you meet the pontoon boat used to transport you to the dive site.

You have to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each person. For example, Leslie, my significant other, who has been my dive buddy on over 500 dives, has trouble initially descending. As her dive buddy, I initially descend to only 15 to 20 feet to make sure that she can begin her descent. Once she is 15 feet deep, she has no problem. I am the stronger swimmer, but she is much better at conserving her oxygen, so she can last a lot longer underwater.

Teamwork requires that if there is a heavy current, I take the lead in going against the current at the beginning of the dive to make it less taxing for her. When we are underwater for over 45 minutes, especially if it is a deep dive, she continually signals me to check my air gauge to see how much air I have left in my tank so we can do a safe ascent together. During the dive, if either of us sees something that the other would enjoy, we make sure to let the other person know what has been spotted and give them the option of enjoying the moment.

Since I have a good eye, I normally take the lead and look for interesting things whether on the reef or in the open ocean. I continually look in all directions because things change so quickly on a coral reef.

If I am running out of air or she is uncomfortable during the dive, we come up together and return to the boat together. We are a team, and we never abandon the other person underwater. Also, because getting back onto a rubber pontoon boat requires a lot of strength, Leslie goes first so I can give her help in getting over the side of the boat, especially in rough water where the crew is unable to get her tanks off first.

I also bike raced for many years. It is the ultimate team sport. Just as in scuba diving, you need to plan out your strategy before the race begins. In a one-day race, there is normally a sprint at the end of the race. The team knows who the best sprinter is, and the plan is designed for various stages of a race. How do you preserve the strength of your best sprinter so that he or she has the necessary burst of energy to cross the finish line first? During the race there are often breakaways and the team has to make decisions as to whether to chase down the breakaway or stay with the pelaton. The situation can change quickly because that decision is based on how far ahead the breakaway is and how far away the finish is. Also, you have to know how each member of your team is doing at that time because your stamina and the ability to keep up that level of energy varies from day to day and for each rider in different types of terrain. If you want to chase down the breakaway, how many riders do you use to breach the gap and then try to slow down the breakaway group?

The goal is to get as many members of the team in the proper place while every other team is organizing for the sprint. Your planning is supposed to determine which rider or group of riders will initially lead the sprint group, with your sprinter to be in the best position within the final 300 to 500 meters. Each team member has a designated role in the final sprint with one person leading out the best sprinter so that he or she can pick the right moment and be in the right position to draft past you to the finish line.

As lawyers servicing our clients, teamwork has many facets. Critical to the success of any assignment is complete cooperation between the client and his or her attorneys, and this begins at the initial meeting.

The continuation of open and complete communication between client and counsel is an ongoing process, especially in commercial cases where documents produced in discovery can call into question the attorney’s original understanding of the case. It is especially important that the attorney be aware of potential weaknesses in the client’s position in investigations and litigations so that everyone can be properly prepared on how to handle facts that are unfavorable on their face. Teamwork within the law firm is also important as tasks are assigned to various persons and everyone must do their assignment properly and on time.

The lessons we learn outside of the law office have a direct impact on our ability to coordinate with our clients and colleagues at the law firm with the goal of improving the quality of our service to our clients and for the client to obtain the best result.

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Charles Hecht is an entrepreneurial lawyer who had his own firm for 39 years and recently joined Balestriere Fariello as a partner. He specializes in innovative solutions to complex litigation, arbitration, and securities transactions. He values teamwork, which is one of the reasons why he joined a New York City boutique law firm. He and his colleagues represent domestic and international clients in litigation, arbitration, investigations by governmental agencies, and securities transactions. You can reach him via email at charles.hecht@balestrierefariello.com.

How can you measure a law school’s worth, aside from the bar passage rates of its graduates? If you’re seriously considering investing in a law degree, then another telling sign of a school’s success — or lack thereof — is its employment rate. Generally speaking, law schools with high full-time, long-term employment rates are preferred over law schools where graduates struggle to find work as attorneys.

But which law schools had the highest percentage of graduates employed in full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage is required or a J.D. is considered an advantage? Thanks to U.S. News, of course there’s a ranking for that.

As you may have guessed, the law schools with the best job prospects are some of the usual suspects, the elite schools found at the tippy top of the U.S. News rankings. Here they are, based on the class of 2018’s employment statistics that were used in the most recent rankings (rounded, excluding graduates with law school-funded positions):

1. Columbia: 94.2 percent
2. University of Virginia: 92.3 percent
3. Cornell: 91.3 percent
4. Penn (Carey): 90.9 percent
5. Chicago: 90.3 percent
6. Stanford: 90.2 percent
7. Northwestern: 90 percent
8. NYU: 89.5 percent
9. Harvard: 88.8 percent
10. Duke: 88.2 percent

You may be wondering how the rest of the T14 placed when it came to their employment statistics. At the tail end of the elite schools, we have Michigan (84.2 percent), UC Berkeley (83.8 percent), and Georgetown (78.5 percent). But what about Yale? As it turns out, at 82.8 percent, the best law school in the nation has the second-worst rating of graduates in full-time, long-term jobs or J.D. advantage positions. Why? Because Yale also has 25 graduates employed in prestigious clinical positions that happen to be school-funded. At the end of the day, Yale still wins.

Where does your law school stand when it comes to its employment rates? U.S. News included information on 30 additional schools for this year’s ranking. Click here to take a look or check out your school’s most recent Employment Outcome Report to find out.

40 Law Schools Where Grads Leave With Law Jobs [U.S. News]

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Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

Looks like Dan Bongino’s fake defamation suit against The Daily Beast is about to cost him some real cash after U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida Jose Martinez dismissed the case and imposed SLAPP fees on the gun-loving media star.

Bongino sued the site in December over a story by reporter Lachlan Markey which noted that the now-defunct NRATV had “dropped” him from its lineup. According to the batguano complaint, readers could only conclude that Bongino been fired, which was defamation per se because it implied “unfitness to perform the duties of an office or employment for profit, or the want of integrity in the discharge of the duties of such office or employment.” This caused the well-known snowflake-hater “pain, embarrassment, humiliation, mental suffering,” for which the only remedy was $15 million.

So Bongino hired Steven Biss, the libelslander lawyer currently representing Rep. Devin Nunes in his various suits against every media outlet in the country and also a Twitter cow.

Biss isn’t barred in Florida, or anywhere in the 11th Circuit, and it shows. He failed to serve written notice on the media outlet five days in advance of filing, as required under Florida law, and then argued bizarrely that the court was forbidden to look at the postmark establishing the date of service when considering a motion for summary judgement.

He disregarded Florida’s single publication doctrine which prohibits recovering twice for the same published statement, i.e. once for defamation and once for commercial disparagement; he ignored 11th Circuit precedent barring shotgun pleadings which “contain[] several counts, each one incorporating by reference the allegations of its predecessors [i.e., predecessor counts], leading to a situation where most of the counts (i.e., all but the first) contain irrelevant factual allegations and legal conclusions.”; and he bungled Florida’s commercial disparagement statute in a laughable attempt to convert the Beast article into commercial speech.

But other than that, NAILED IT. Or, as Judge Martinez put it, “Nonetheless, because the Court is able to discern the basis of the Complaint, the Court will proceed on the merits.”

Sadly, the court was just as unimpressed with the substance of Bongino’s case as it was with the procedure. The entire suit rests on a claim that the Beast defamed Bongino by implying that he was fired. Except, as Judge Martinez notes, that never happened.

Here, even a cursory review reveals that nowhere in the article does it state that Plaintiff was fired—much less that he was fired for cause. The article merely states that NRATV “dropped” Plaintiff from its lineup of conservative commentators. And as Plaintiff concedes, this is in fact true.

Indeed, the article’s subheading explains that NRATV was “downsizing” and Plaintiff’s show was “a casualty of those plans.” The article even reflects that NRATV made “every effort to retain [Bongino].” Such reporting is a far cry from stating that Plaintiff was fired for anything other than corporate downsizing. [Internal citations omitted.]

So, no defamation, no defamatory gist, no defamation per se, no defamation per quod, no defamation by implication, no commercial disparagement and no $15 million.

And unless Biss can come up with a colorable argument in the next two weeks explaining how First Amendment-protected, non-commercial speech can trigger liability under Florida’s commercial disparagement statute, Bongino is shit outta luck. Because Judge Martinez ruled that Florida’s SLAPP law does not conflict with the Federal Rules, and thus the Beast’s legal fees are shifted to the plaintiff.

Ah, well. When life gives you lemons …

Pretty weird that NRATV folded with primo content like that! But don’t dare say that only a deranged lunatic makes lemonade that way, or Dan Bongino will sue you for commercial disparagement and hurting his tender feefees.

Order Granting Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss [Dan Bongino v. The Daily Beast Company, LLC, Case 2:19-cv-14472-JEM (S. D. Fl. August 6, 2020)]

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Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.

Back in early March, which feels like ancient history at this point, Senator Chuck Schumer appeared at a rally for abortion rights and called out the politicization of the Supreme Court. Mainstream media devoted hours to complaining about Schumer’s “inappropriate” comments and showcasing Trump and John Roberts clucking their tongues over Schumer’s gall. And they struck gold when they could point to Larry Tribe echoing the Chief’s concerns, giving the news a proper bipartisan moment to harp on.

Then the entire world collapsed and everyone promptly forgot about it.

Except the National Legal and Policy Center, who kept laser-focused on the truly important issue of Chuck Schumer saying ouchy words about the integrity of the Supreme Court. It filed a complaint with New York’s Attorney Grievance Committee hoping for some redress. Unfortunately for them, the disciplinary authorities looked at the situation and issued a collective “why are you wasting our time?” in the form of a one-paragraph dismissal.

To recap, Schumer said, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.” There’s some vaguely threatening rhetoric there but in context this was a riff on exactly what Kavanaugh told the United States Senate during his confirmation hearings. One might think that if these words are problematic there’s probably a big ethical problem with a Supreme Court justice using them to describe the legislative branch drafting the laws he’s supposed to interpret, but I digress. Armed with that context, the Grievance Committee offered a tepid nod toward the idea that the comments were “concerning” before ultimately writing the whole thing off as a political dispute, noting that the Republican majority of the Senate could have censured Schumer and even they didn’t think this amounted to anything substantive.

This is where most folks would let this go since this is now beating a horse so dead its glue doesn’t even stick anymore, but the NLPC is still incensed and is appealing. Because they literally can’t find any more egregious ethical lapses in Washington than a Senator complaining about the Supreme Court.

Schumer didn’t suggest that the Supreme Court didn’t have the authority to bind the other branches of government… like some people. Far from prejudicing the administration of justice, Schumer’s complaints presuppose that the Court does wield ultimate judicial authority and that abusing that authority is bad for constitutional order. These comments were so inconsequential that I can’t believe we’re still talking about them at all months after the fact.

But we are because there are some people who have a lot invested in preserving the mythos of the Supreme Court. That’s not the same as preserving the Supreme Court as an institution any more than the Senate’s authority requires the people to swallow the “world’s greatest deliberative body” bromide. Conservatives need the judiciary to be sheltered from political inquiry because otherwise it might undermine the 40-year project to pack it with ideologues.

Even if it means they have to keep pushing this weaksauce ethics complaint like FedSoc Sisyphus.

Earlier: Chuck Schumer Exposes John Roberts With Donald Trump Impersonation

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Joe Patrice is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. Feel free to email any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on Twitter if you’re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search.

Earlier this year, I had the chance to interview Tom Livne, the founder and CEO of Verbit. At the time, the legal-tech oriented Verbit had just secured $31 million in Series B funding to continue growing its AI-powered transcription and captioning service, which had already turned into a category-leader in just three years since the company was founded.

When I spoke to Livne in February, Verbit’s story had followed the traditional model of start-up success. Then March came, and the world shut down. But while most industries were in a scramble to deal with the new challenging reality of coronavirus, Verbit suddenly found itself deeply in demand. Like fellow pandemic success story Zoom, Verbit’s live-captioning and quick-turnaround transcription technology are tailor-made for a world where business has moved from the boardroom and courtroom to the webcam and chatroom.

Verbit was doing well before the pandemic, and it is now poised for exponential growth. What’s remarkable is the way it got those extraordinary results wasn’t from a happenstance encounter with Mark Zuckerberg or Tim Cook at a Silicon Valley espresso bar; it was from good old-fashioned business discipline and hard work.

Figuring It All Out

After finishing his service as a former special forces paramedic and paratrooper in the Israeli Defense Force, Livne trained as a lawyer. Livne worked closely with entrepreneurs and told me he quickly realized “I don’t want to be their advisor. I want to be the entrepreneur myself.”

As a junior attorney, Livne found himself frustrated with the slow turnaround time and inaccuracy of traditional court reporting technology. Livne thought of speech-to-text as a natural solution to this problem. But timing is everything, and in 2012, when the idea that became Verbit was born, the time wasn’t right. Speech recognition software simply wasn’t mature enough to significantly replace or supplement traditional court reporters, and Livne himself didn’t have the business skills or experience to bring such an idea to market.

Livne left the law, and one MBA from Yale later found himself working at Leumitech, an Israeli tech banking and investment firm out of Tel Aviv. While there, an engineer approached him with an idea that became AppInsight, a mobile application security tool. Livne told me “it seemed like an opportunity, and I was opportunistic.” He joined AppInsight as a co-founder to help it launch, but he had no personal passion for the project or background in the field. Livne told me that was a mistake. AppInsight found initial funding, but Livne’s co-founder fell ill, and Livne chose to return the investors’ funding rather than press forward on a project he didn’t feel passionate enough about to work on alone.

Livne took away from this first failed attempt at entrepreneurship that passion isn’t just a bonus: it’s a necessity. We spend too many long hours building the companies and teams we lead to not care deeply about what we’re doing.

Verbit Takes Flight

The time was finally right for Verbit. Armed with business training and tech investment connections from his time at Leumitech and AppInsight, Livne had the personal tools to build his start-up. Livne dusted off his old idea for an automated transcription service. “For transcription, I did have that passion, because I had been a frustrated customer.”

By 2017, the tech had finally caught up as well. Speech recognition software remained underdeveloped for Verbit’s purposes, but advances in machine learning and AI meant the software could now train itself over time to get better. Verbit paired its AI speech recognition software with human editors. The AI currently does roughly 90% of the legwork, and the humans correct and edit the remaining 10%. Each round of corrections makes the AI smarter, better, and faster at its part of the job for future transcriptions. While Livne believes human review will always be part of the process, Verbit’s AI will continue to automate more and more of the process as it develops.

Success came rapidly once the prototype was up and running. Initial friends-and-family funding was enough to get a viable product to market and obtain paying customers. While Livne had a background in the legal field, Verbit doesn’t target law firms, which are notoriously slow to adopt new tech. Instead, Verbit targeted court reporters themselves, building out a suite of software to automate their transcription work. Having an actual revenue stream was a game-changer when it came to fundraising: Livne said it changed their pitch to VCs from “why you should invest in us” to “why we should take your money.”

Livne told me in February that education was one of Verbit’s most important verticals, specifically captioning and transcribing web-based teaching. Demand for web-based teaching solutions has grown by orders of magnitude in the COVID-ified world, so those Series B investors (and Livne himself) must be feeling pretty good about their investment right about now.

Lessons Learned

I asked Livne what advice he would give to fellow entrepreneurs or businesspeople, and his “secret sauce” is really no secret. Verbit is the product of time- and battle-tested principles being embraced and executed with precision and dedication.

Correct course quickly. Livne figured out early on that he didn’t want to continue to be a lawyer. Rather than waste years bemoaning getting his law degree and begrudgingly moving up the law firm ladder, Livne figured a new path. Mistakes happen; it’s correcting them that matters.

Find the right problem to solve. When looking for an opportunity or a business idea, “you are looking for a problem with high friction and low efficiency.” Figure out what isn’t being done well, and then figure out a new way to do it. Making others efficient is a great way to build a market.

Try passionately or don’t try at all. If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you’re not going to get it done. Find something you care so much about that you’ll devote the hundreds of hours it takes to get an idea off the ground. Even great ideas perfectly executed will experience failure and roadblocks, and passion is what will see you through.

Timing is everything. The best idea in the world won’t survive bad timing. Striking too soon or too late can be equally fatal. Move intelligently and with commitment.

Teams matter more than anything. You need people with the right background, who are committed to the problem you’re trying to solve, and who have the resilience to deal with setbacks. “It’s all about the people you hire, surround yourself with, and learn from.”

None of this advice is revolutionary. We’ve all heard these chestnuts before, but it’s good to be reminded from time to time that the reason we’ve heard them before is because they work. Whether in building a tech start-up, growing a law firm, or building out an individual attorney’s book of business, good ideas, dedication, team-building, and execution matter more than anything.

Get those right, and the opportunities will come.

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James Goodnow is the CEO and managing partner of NLJ 250 firm Fennemore Craig. At age 36, he became the youngest known chief executive of a large law firm in the U.S. He holds his JD from Harvard Law School and dual business management certificates from MIT. He’s currently attending the Cambridge University Judge Business School (U.K.), where he’s working toward a master’s degree in entrepreneurship. James is the co-author of Motivating Millennials, which hit number one on Amazon in the business management new release category. As a practitioner, he and his colleagues created and run a tech-based plaintiffs’ practice and business model. You can connect with James on Twitter (@JamesGoodnow) or by emailing him at James@JamesGoodnow.com.

Four p.m. on August 6 passed, and the window for National Football League players to opt out of the 2020 regular season because of COVID-19 concerns was closed. A total of 66 players believed that they were putting their health and safety above enhanced economic security, making an irrevocable choice to sit out of the league year as many wonder whether a full season will even be played.

Sixty-six players opting out may not seem like a large number at first glance. However, considering that there are 53 active players for each team in every game and 32 NFL teams, the opt outs account for roughly 4% of the league. The total number of opt outs was also likely diminished due to the small timeframe that players had to come to an incredibly important decision on whether they would suit up for the 2020 NFL season.

Detroit Lions linebacker Jamie Collins clearly stated that the players needed more time to make a determination. He believes that the deadline day will not mean anything, because there will still be problems down the road and, if the virus affects someone close to a player, the player will want to opt out. Collins is technically correct. A player may still opt out after the deadline if a close family member gets seriously sick with COVID-19 or if the player is newly diagnosed with a high-risk condition.

It is clear that specific position players and their families were more concerned about their potential for contracting the coronavirus and suffering its effects than others. Twenty of the 66 players who opted out are listed as offensive linemen, and 11 of them play on the defensive line. These individuals line up right in front of each other, in very close proximity to their own teammates, with heavy breathing, sweating, and spitting all givens during every game and practice. Many of these players also weigh over 300 pounds, putting them in a high-risk category for a number of ailments that health experts encourage people to avoid and which could predispose them to COVID-19 and its sometimes terrible effects. The vast majority of the athletes that fall into this category are still preparing to participate during the 2020 NFL season.

The true challenge for the league will be what comes next. On August 6, the Miami Dolphins added six players to its COVID-19 list, which means that, as of today’s date, a total of 14 Dolphins players have at one point been placed on the list since the league began requiring testing of players in late July. Being placed on the list does not necessarily mean that a player has contracted coronavirus; merely being in close contact with a teammate who has tested positive could cause a player to land on the list. However, if players find themselves on the COVID-19 list during the regular season, then it could cause significant roster changes on a week-by-week basis, affecting competitive balance even more than the existing influence of 66 players opting out of the season by the August 6 deadline (eight of the 66 players are signed to the New England Patriots).

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Darren Heitner is the founder of Heitner Legal. He is the author of How to Play the Game: What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know, published by the American Bar Association, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. You can reach him by email at heitner@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter at @DarrenHeitner.

A whistleblower lawsuit accuses Cigna of receiving “billions” in overpayments for its Medicare Advantage plans. The amended complaint, filed by the Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York a year ago, was unsealed on Wednesday.

A former service provider for Cigna’s Medicare Advantage subsidiary alleged that the company sent providers to patients’ homes to conduct a health assessment, which was then improperly submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for risk adjustment. The whistleblower was a former officer for Texas Health Management, a now-defunct company that worked with Cigna-Healthspring between 2012 and 2017.

Cigna acquired HealthSpring in 2012, and currently offers Medicare Advantage plans in 17 states under this brand.

Commercial insurers who offer Medicare Advantage plans receive a monthly capitated rate from CMS for each of their covered members, which they use to cover the cost of care. For older and sicker patients — who have higher risk scores — they receive a higher rate.

A patient’s risk score is based on diagnoses assigned to the patient in the prior year. To be submitted, a patient must have had a face-to-face encounter with a provider, and the patient must be cared for or assessed.

According to the plaintiff, Cigna ran an assessment program that sent nurses and nurse-practitioners to patients’ homes, where they were expected to see 35 patients per week and generate 20 or more diagnoses per visit. They were reportedly not allowed to provide care, prescribe medications or make referrals to specialists.

The complaint described the program as “…a  data-gathering exercise used to improperly record lucrative diagnoses to fraudulently raise risk cores and increase payments from CMS.”

According to court documents, Cigna-HealthSpring used analytics to sort members into different priority categories based on their medical histories. The company also reportedly sought to recruit primary care physicians to complete the assessments, at one point offering a $150 bonus per completed exam to provider who performed a certain volume of assessments each year

The Department of Justice decided not to intervene in the case in February. Specifically, the government declined to claim that Cigna violated the False Claims Act by conducting nurse home visits that did not involve providing medical treatment.

Cigna did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.

This isn’t the first time a Medicare Advantage plan has come under scrutiny for payments.

Last year, the Office of Inspector General reviewed “billions” in estimated Medicare Advantage payments that raised concerns. Looking at 2016 encounter data, the OIG found that Medicare Advantage Organizations almost always used chart reviews to add diagnoses, and that diagnoses reported only on chart reviews — without any service records — resulted in roughly $6.7 billion in risk-adjusted payments for 2017.

Of that, an estimated $2.7 billion in payments were based on diagnoses that did not link to a specific service provided to the member.

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* President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen apparently has a job offer to be a political consultant after he is released from jail. Seems like he landed on his feet after being disbarred. [SF Gate]

* A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit aimed at tossing the new proxy voting system adopted by the House of Representative amid COVID-19 concerns. [USA Today]

* Simon Property Group, one of the nation’s largest shopping center landlords, has filed claims against the Gap for allegedly “taking opportunistic advantage” of the COVID-19 pandemic to avoid paying rent. [Bloomberg]

* The New York Attorney General is suing to have the National Rifle Association dissolved because of allegedly fraudulent practices. [New York Times]

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Jordan Rothman is a partner of The Rothman Law Firm, a full-service New York and New Jersey law firm. He is also the founder of Student Debt Diaries, a website discussing how he paid off his student loans. You can reach Jordan through email at jordan@rothmanlawyer.com.

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

Which T-14 law school has changed its stance on in-person instruction, announcing on July 29th the law school would be full online after previously announcing there would be at least some in-person classes?

Hint: The law school also announced a 5 percent tuition cut as a one-time adjustment for those negatively impacted by the pandemic.

See the answer on the next page.