Author: Olive Metuge
I was honored to facilitate the “What’s Hot?” session for leading large law firm innovation professionals at the 2025 invitation-only Strategic Knowledge & Innovation Legal Leaders’ Summit in New York City on March 27, with Oz Benamram, the event’s co-founder and the former chief knowledge and innovation officer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. In a combination of discussion and exploration of survey research, the conversation served as a roadmap for law firms aiming to advance their practices into the future. The SKILLS survey interviewed approximately 100 professionals in the first quarter of 2025 regarding their use of various artificial intelligence…
A blast from the past…Voyage through old Dubai, where luxury meets tradition by the iconic Dubai Creek. If you’re looking to explore the rich cultural tapestry of a global city that’s evolving at the speed of light, Al Seef Heritage Hotel is just what the doctor ordered. With the perfect blend of Emirati heritage and contemporary hospitality, you’ll find yourself in the heart of Old Dubai here, almost an unrecognisable escape from the glitzy skyscrapers that dot the city’s skyline.Whether you’re walking through the old souk labyrinth or zipping by on a buggy, there’s one running theme throughout: you’re stepping…
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Vaccine Hesitancy: Texas’ measles outbreak has been blamed on vaccine hesitancy. But parents are not getting their children other vaccines as well. Not Just Measles: Vaccine rates for other childhood diseases have fallen, contributing to rising cases of whooping cough and other illnesses. Government Failure: The Trump administration’s cuts to public health jobs and funding make it harder for agencies to fight outbreaks and prevent disease with vaccines. These highlights were written by the reporters and…
ReutersSteve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Library in St PetersburgUS envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday, as Donald Trump urged the Russian president to “get moving” on a ceasefire in Ukraine.The Kremlin said the meeting lasted for more than four hours and focused on “aspects of a Ukrainian settlement”. The talks, Witkoff’s third with Putin this year, were described by special envoy Kirill Dmitriev as “productive”. Trump has expressed frustration with Putin over the state of talks. On Friday, he wrote on social media: “Russia has to get moving. Too many people ere…
2 hours agoNewsDuration 4:08A U.S. judge has ruled the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained last month for his role in pro-Palestinian protests. Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, called the decision a ‘clear violation’ of First Amendment principles related to free speech. Source link
Q&A By Ellena Erskine on Apr 10, 2025 at 10:11 am For 90 years, presidents have held the court’s unanimous decision in Humphrey’s Executor as good law. (Katie Barlow) In the two-and-a-half months since Donald Trump’s inauguration, a rush of challenges to executive orders and directives have made their way through the courts and have now started to reach the justices in earnest. Alongside those orders, Trump fired the heads of several independent government agencies, experts who oversee technical matters of government including the enforcement of antitrust laws and review of federal workers’ challenges to their dismissals. Although the president…
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. Trash is piling up at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers told ProPublica. Ecologists, chemists and biologists at Montlake Laboratory, the center’s headquarters in Seattle, are taking turns hauling garbage…
The US Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the Trump administration must try to release a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a mega-jail in El Salvador.In a 9-0 ruling, the justices declined to block a lower court’s order to “facilitate” bringing back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but they also said Judge Paula Xinis may have exceeded her authority.On Friday Judge Xinis directed the Trump administration to provide her with daily updates on what steps they are taking to bring Mr Garcia back to the US. The government has conceded Mr Garcia was deported due to an “administrative error”, though…
Many Canadians travelling to the United States will now have to newly register with the U.S. government as of Friday or face potential fines or jail time.The requirement stems from an executive order that U.S. President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office for non-citizens who are in the country for 30 days or longer, though the administration has argued that a registration requirement has always existed and that officials are now simply enforcing it for everyone.A U.S. federal judge on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with the requirement that unauthorized persons must register with the federal…