Since its creation in 1982, the Federal Circuit has sent just one of its former clerks on to the Supreme Court. It took an extraordinary resume and years of effort to break the mold. A personal connec...

Justice Samuel Alito Jr., who has long held stock in the oil and gas sector, will not hear a major case next week over whether municipalities may sue energy companies in state court for alleged damage...

About 23.6% of the firm-to-firm lateral activity between Jan. 1 to June 30 of this year involved three or more attorneys moving from one firm to another, said Firm Prospects, which analyzed Am Law 200...

Violating the "spirit" of an injunction is not the proper grounds for contempt, the Justice Department wrote in a brief to the high court.

At least 11 law firms announced new talent in their D.C. offices this week, joining firm practices in white collar defense, public policy, litigation, food and drug, financial services and national se...

Less than two weeks after the justices blocked Missouri from using a new Republican-drawn map in the November midterm elections, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ordered state offi...

Last year, the judge excluded testimony of Gamon's damages expert, citing his unreliable damages calculations and methods.

The U.S. Department of Justice has petitioned the Supreme Court to review whether a federal district court overstepped its authority in mandating the release of a Georgetown academic detained for his ...

Partners Theodore Boutrous, Katie Townsend and Connor Sullivan are advising CNN, MS Now and Politico in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to restore their press access.

Several Am Law 200 law firms closed smaller offices last year, even in larger markets as D.C. and Chicago, as firms in general have grown more strategic about their footprints, decreased “convenience ...

Firms are hiring partners from smaller shops and telling them not to worry about bringing clients along, according to one recruiter, and a recent group move offers evidence of that dynamic.

“The legal principle on appeal reaches far beyond one university and one online retailer," said Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme, co-chair of Pryor Cashman's intellectual property group. "The decision could re...

Jenner & Block started taking a more structured approach to their recruiting and integration process for government attorneys about a decade ago, coinciding with investment in building their governmen...

Accepting a Philadelphia Bar Association award Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson praised Justice William J. Brennan Jr.'s commitment to democratic values and said judicial dis...

Hutt, a former chief counsel of the FDA, helped create the nutrition label format that is used today.

Viet Dinh, who as chief legal and policy officer helped Fox navigate defamation litigation in the wake of Fox News' 2020 presidential election coverage, is joining Sullivan & Cromwell's Los Angeles of...

In an effort to prepare students for legal practice while also providing flexibility in how they learn, Vanderbilt’s law school has teamed up with AltaClaro to deploy DepoSim.

Amit Agarwal, who recently argued in vain the Supreme Court case Trump v. Slaughter over agency independence, has joined the growing public interest firm Washington Litigation Group as its newest prin...

The Fifth Circuit said the magistrate judge did not share that she and the plaintiff's attorney had a personal friendship that spanned nearly 40 years and that the attorney had served as a groomsman i...

The Supreme Court lifted a federal court order requiring Missouri to use a new congressional map in the upcoming midterms that was likely to result in an additional House seat for Republicans.

The U.S. Department of Justice called the settlement "one of the largest recoveries ever obtained" in a case alleging violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Andrew Haden, an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and the former chair of the Stanford Alumni Association Board of Directors, served two stints as acting U.S. attorney in...

American Express' "refusal to pay the filing fees set by the arbitrator resulted in the foreseeable (and forewarned) outcome of closure of those arbitrations,” the appellate court held.

A divided federal appeals panel says Sarcone was not lawfully serving as acting U.S. attorney when he obtained subpoenas targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James' office; DOJ plans U.S. Supre...

The SEC's first formal crypto rule would give companies easier ways to raise money while creating a path for some tokens to eventually exit securities regulation.

The move comes as the Digital Market Clarity Act, a comprehensive market structure bill backed by the crypto industry, has stalled in the Senate.

The firm's co-managing partners shed light on AI and private equity considerations, talent strategy, and ambitious financial targets, as firm founder John Quinn steps into a non-executive role.

“The evidence showed that this increased threat of immigration enforcement at the plaintiffs’ houses of worship has resulted in substantial pressure on the plaintiffs to violate numerous beliefs,” the...

The Federal Vacancies Reform Act—which details the procedures for temporarily filling executive branch vacancies without Senate approval—allows only for the first assistant U.S. attorney at the time t...

"They've all but abandoned white-collar enforcement to focus on street crime and lawfare; I don't expect that to change," noted one practitioner.

The two litigation boutiques filed the lawsuit on Tuesday on behalf of the broadcast network, alleging that the FCC violated its First Amendment rights.

Lee Rudofsky’s confirmation would make the 11-member U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit—which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota—the first fe...

This wave of Hatch-Waxman cases comes as patent disputes involving GLP-1 receptor agonists, especially Novo Nordisk's Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, continue to proliferate around the world.

Latham & Watkins, Sullivan & Cromwell, Nixon Peabody and Morrison & Foerster are among the firms that have made hires in their national security practices in the past two months.

Only foreign companies will need to report beneficial ownership information under the rule, meant to combat money laundering. But their U.S. subsidiaries are also exempt.

The move to drop the case has been mired in controversy since it was reported in May that Adani’s lead lawyer, Robert Giuffra of Sullivan & Cromwell, privately told Justice Department officials the bu...

A Manhattan judge sharply criticized Luigi Mangione's defense team for suggesting that court officials and prosecutors were limiting public access to his upcoming murder trial, calling the allegations...

A federal appeals court ended Jack Daniel's decade-long fight against the "Bad Spaniels" dog toy, ruling the whiskey maker couldn't prove the parody actually harmed its brand's reputation.

The Federal Trade Commission's action falls in line with President Donald Trump's executive order, but does not affect discrimination claims by private parties and state regulators, attorneys say.

As the SEC rebuilds its fraud-fighting capabilities under new leadership, it plans to use AI to sift through vast quantities of public company filings and identify emerging risks and trends, an offici...

Meanwhile, most law firms that have received the DOJ's subpoenas have objected to them and, as of Tuesday, have produced nothing or minimal responses, according to a source familiar with the matter.

"Be demanding about things that you care about, not that the provider cares about," legal services regulatory expert Crispin Passmore said.

AI and innovation investments are rising faster than any other expense category, according to Q2 Law.com survey results.

New Jersey collected $2.5 billion for environmental pollution in four sites after following a litigation strategy consisting of identifying contamination, suing the responsible parties, establishing l...

The Second Circuit found Pillsbury violated an asset freeze by spending fraud proceeds on a convicted technology executive’s legal defense.

The amount of AI-related securities litigation might wind up dwarfing other recent trends, such as cryptocurrency-related or SPAC-related cases, according to Brian Cochran, a partner at Robbins Geller...

“For AI agents, I think it's going to be a good blueprint of what not to do," said attorney Jenna Schneider. "Don't let your AI agents touch the servers, and make sure that they are using user consent...

Kate Sherlock, an intellectual property and corporate partner with Archer & Greiner, served as outside counsel to Race Street Partners to bring back the event back after a 10-year hiatus.

“The court considers Meta’s platforms to be analogous to the factory, the advertising and other content displayed on those platforms to be what is produced by the factory, and the psychological harm t...

The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division alleges that Duke Law School deliberately used tools to slant admissions in favor of Blacks and Hispanics for the past three incoming classes.