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When delivering a surprise address from the White House on Thursday, President Joe Biden slammed special counsel Robert Hur for suggesting in his final report of the handling of classified documents that he struggled to remember when his son Beau died. “How in the hell dare he raise that,” Biden said when responding to the report. “Frankly, when I was asked the question I thought to myself it wasn’t any of their damn business.” He continued, “Every Memorial Day we hold a service remembering him, attended by…

Photoshop maker Adobe expects to get an EU antitrust warning on its $20 billion bid for cloud-based designer platform Figma and is open to proposing remedies to resolve regulatory concerns, its chief counsel told Reuters on Wednesday."We are expecting a statement of objections from the European Commission," Dana Rao said in an interview.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIIM LucknowIIML Executive…

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Marvel’s big-budget feature with three badass female superheroes sounds like the dream project to be in, and Marvel has roped in the fiancée of its beloved trickster god as the film’s female supervillain to round out the roster. Zawe Ashton — who is engaged to the Loki actor Tom Hiddleston — will be seen in The Marvels as the villainous Kree revolutionary Dar-Benn. In the latest interview with EW, Ashton opened up about getting the role through an “unexpected phone call,” and to make the greatest impression possible,…

Kushner was reportedly grilled on whether or not his father-in-law, former President Trump, truly believed the election had been stolen from him Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former advisor Jared Kushner has reportedly testified before Special Counsel Jack Smith’s grand jury investigating the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.  According to The New York Times, Kusher was reportedly grilled as to whether or not the former president earnestly…

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: A profile of Google General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado after SCOTUS unanimously sided with the company in Gonzalez v. Google, as state cases test Section 230 — Google's general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, was with friends in the suburbs of Boston for some rare personal time when she learned … Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: A profile of Google General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado after SCOTUS unanimously sided with the company in Gonzalez v. Google, as state…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Providing defendants with legal counsel during their initial bail hearing decreases use of monetary bail and pretrial detention, without increasing the likelihood that defendants fail to appear at the subsequent preliminary hearing, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers found that…

Tesla has hired a new general counsel, a position that has been historically superhard to fill for the automaker. Tesla is often described as having high turnover, which has been especially true for its top lawyers. Elon Musk surprised many when he hired his personal divorce lawyer, Todd Maron, to be Tesla’s general counsel (he was first deputy counsel) in 2013. It’s not often you see an expert divorce lawyer become a top corporate lawyer at a major company, but it was actually a very…

Merrick Garland’s appointment of special counsel Robert Hur to investigate the burgeoning Biden documents problem tells us something new about the attorney general.Notwithstanding his image as a “just the facts and law” prosecutor, Garland, it appears, may factor into key high-profile decisions, political considerations and the importance of public confidence in the Justice Department’s evenhandedness.No surprise, one might say. But until now, Garland has maintained and burnished a reputation as a wholeheartedly…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has said that he had fired the microblogging website's deputy general counsel James Baker over concerns about his role in information suppression under the previous management."In light of concerns about (James) Baker's possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today," Musk tweeted on Tuesday.In light of concerns about Baker's possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today—…