"It is seldom a lack of rules or policies that causes non-compliance, but an individual's unwillingness to follow them," according to Global Relay's Compliant Communications Report 2024.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited...

Carlton Fields and Shutts & Bowen stood alone with more than one-quarter of the seats on their executive committees being filled by diverse attorneys.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online,...

Peter Michaud, 55, Firm Chair at Ballard Spahr, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Minneapolis, Minnesota Practice area: M&A/Private Equity (formerly) Law       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online,...

Utilizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in a law firm is crucial for evaluating performance, profitability, client satisfaction, and overall success. Understanding which attorneys are the most profitable, which matters are the most lucrative, and the cost of...

A federal judge in Illinois is allowing a drug company's lawsuit over the untimely development of drug medication to continue against pharmaceutical companies it had partnered with to develop medications.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just...

"Diverse workplaces have stronger governance, better resilience, and more effective problem-solving abilities," writes Danielle Carr, president of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals.       There are many false narratives about diversity, equity and...

The firm's leaders pointed to a strategy for expansion about a decade ago, pinpointing certain markets, practices and large lateral groups.       About 10 years ago, Willkie Farr & Gallagher was smaller than the average Am Law 100 law firm, with the New York firm...

Longtime Kasowitz Benson partner Jessica Rosenberg said the expectation is that the majority of her clients will move with her.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from...

Throughout the October 2023 term, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. reminded court watchers that, despite his reputation as an "institutionalist" who prizes consensus and moderation, he also holds strong conservative convictions.       Premium SubscriptionWith this...

At various times throughout his scheme, Richard Louis Crosby III used identifying information belonging to his elderly father, his girlfriend, a deceased man and others to attempt to gain employment at law firms across the country.       A disbarred Cincinnati...

Dig into must-see data from the Law.com Newsroom.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from well-respected faculty in the legal industry. This is perfect for attorneys...

Catch up on this week's data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including law firm's pro bono scores and what a quarter century of Am Law 200 data shows about the correlation between law firm growth and profitability.       Sometimes, it’s best to go by...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane found Giuliani had not been forthcoming about his financial situation.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from well-respected faculty in...

"The fact that the Chevron challenge was pending during the briefing cycle, in effect, robbed the Department of Education of the ability to rely on Chevron in its briefs, which I think was important and made the department's case weaker than it otherwise would have...

After wrapping up his 33-year BP career in December, Eric Nitcher updated his LinkedIn to say, "On to the next role."       Eric Nitcher, who in December retired as London-based BP’s group general counsel and executive vice president of legal, has joined the...

Covington & Burling, which signed for a new office at Hudson Yards, and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, which renewed its headquarters space, are among the big leases lately in Manhattan.       More law firms are signing office leases in Manhattan this year, as...

Prison conditions, which became of focus of the fight over Sarah Netburn's nomination, may have been a motivating factor in the Georgia Democrat's vote, said a leading observer of federal judicial selections.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will...

The Second Circuit sent the case back to the district court to weigh issuing a preliminary injunction.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from well-respected faculty in...

"We're past the era where someone has to explain what 'new law' is, the kind of advances it can offer," consultant and recruiter Frederick Shelton said, after an Am Law 200 firm launched a new remote lawyering platform.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription...

"Taken together, the evidence favoring WEX is overwhelming, while the evidence favoring HP is slight," U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. wrote. "Accordingly, the Court concludes that WEX is likely to succeed on the merits in this case because it has...

The developments follow the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on June 27 that rejected a nationwide settlement.       New York State officials said they are prepared to resume litigation against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family should the parties fail to agree by a...

A rural county is being challenged over an order intended to curtail voter intimidation at polling sites, an order the Texas Municipal League claims complies with a Texas election law the U.S. Fifth Circuit already upheld.       Premium SubscriptionWith this...

MSG Sports CEO Jim Dolan said that newly appointed COO Jamaal Lesane has "proven to be a strategic and effective leader, and his multifaceted experience across numerous aspects of our operations will be an asset as we continue to grow and innovate in our...

The settlement includes $12.7 million in attorney fees for the plaintiffs' lead counsel.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium content from well-respected faculty in the legal...

The mistake was not corrected over 9 years of litigation, the lawsuit states, and was ultimately dismissed with prejudice due to the error in January. The plaintiff is now time-barred from suing the proper entity.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you...

The law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton released an independent report in May on the FDIC, finding that the agency failed to provide a workplace safe from sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct. Last month, Goldsmith Romero was...

Liz Magill resigned as the University of Pennsylvania's president last December after providing controversial testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Education. Magill suggested "context" would determine whether calling for the "genocide of the Jewish people"...

Republicans opposed Netburn over her recommendation to allow a prison transfer for a transgender inmate to a women's detention facility.       Premium SubscriptionWith this subscription you will receive unlimited access to high quality, online, on-demand premium...

Whether this rapid reshaping is responding to real demands in the legal industry or propelled by a vision that may not pan out in reality is a matter of some debate.       Each week, the Law.com Barometer newsletter, powered by the ALM Global Newsroom and Legalweek...

"His disregard of this duty, along with his apparent willingness to engage in dishonest conduct to further his own ambitions, is not only harmful to the legal process, but raises serious concerns about his trustworthiness and overall fitness to continue the practice...

Maintaining consistent communication with clients can be time-consuming for most law firm professionals. Because balancing this task with other competing responsibilities becomes challenging, the time has never been better for firms to start introducing technology,...

The move is being viewed as a means to better compensate more hours billed in times of high demand, but without "actively encouraging a drive to a high billable culture."       Clifford Chance has adapted how it calculates its associate bonuses in the U.K. in what is...

"That was the last time anyone files in EDVA," one Am Law 100 bankruptcy partner said of the formerly popular jurisdiction.       This March, Vinson & Elkins came to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to restructure Enviva, a...

The firm will also bring on at least three attorneys across associate and counsel ranks.       Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has added three partners and will add a total of seven attorneys to its growing life sciences group as part of its overarching plan to...

According to some industry observers, $25 million to $30 million is the new top rung for valuable laterals, high-performing partners and some Big Law leaders. It's still very rare, but not unfathomable.       Big Law’s most successful lawyers continue to take home...

Jake Plattenberger told jurors in an opening statement on Tuesday that Abbott's cow's milk-based formula, sold under the Similac brand, caused plaintiff Margo Gill's premature daughter, Robynn Davis, to get necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC, a gastrointestinal...

Jonathan Youngwood, a partner and global co-chair of Simpson Thacher's Litigation Department, which took on the case pro bono, told Law.com that the plaintiffs have asked U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles to consider their preliminary injunction on an...

The case, brought on behalf of about 6,000 Twitter workers, alleged Elon Musk violated a federal law that governs benefit plans. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said ERISA did not apply to the severance program at issue but gave the plaintiffs the opportunity to...

Republicans questioned No l Wise—a state court judge who is the White House's choice to serve on the Northern District of California federal bench—over her writings, which some argued veered into political commentary.       State Judge Noël Wise of California faced...

New York City-based employment firm Wigdor filed a complaint July 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of Topaz Smith, a pregnant Black woman, who claims she was fired following maternity leave from the organization and replaced...

Lawyers, chief knowledge officers and data scientists are using HuggingFace to pull back the curtain on the artificial intelligence black box.       In an effort to pull back the curtain on artificial intelligence’s metaphorical “black box,” Louis Brulé Naudet, a...

"Kline & Specter was asking the court to be the first in the country to hold that a third party has standing to sue a TikTok user for supposedly violating TikTok's terms of service," Jassy Vick partner Jean-Paul Jassy, who represents Bosworth, said.       Premium...

"Sometimes there's an assumption that they're going to go back to their prior firm," one D.C. recruiter noted. "But sometimes we'll get surprised."       David Anderson, Sheila Armbrust and Kevin Rubino all left government to rejoin a law firm they’d been at before...

Jennifer O'Connor also was a former deputy White House counsel under President Barack Obama.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party who is not using FeedBlitz to send...

The judge testified he was never informed that using such sexually charged words toward women made them feel sexually harassed.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party...

"Do not be afraid to speak up about your desire for the role. You have to be your own advocate. Don't assume your billable hours or revenue numbers will speak for themselves."       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by...

"It really doesn't make any sense, in terms of judicial efficiency, to pause a case for an interlocutory appeal on a summary judgment motion when the trial is going to be completed this year," said Michelle C. Yau, chair of Cohen Milstein's Employee Benefits/ERISA...

"You've got to be realistic about where your clients are coming from and put your marketing efforts towards that," said Brendan Chard, founder and CEO of the law firm website design company The Modern Firm.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just...

"If the legal industry were truly advanced in DE&I, we wouldn't see such minimal progress," said Jean Lee, president of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It...

Lawyers for families of those who died in two 737 Max plane crashes will ask a judge to reject Boeing's criminal plea agreement.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown third party...

A former Am Law 200 diversity leader's recent suit against her old firm is a reminder that pursuing diversity is often easier said than done.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent by FeedBlitz. It was junk, sent by an unknown...

"After paying him generously during his unproductive year, the firm owes him nothing and we have parted ways," Kasowitz Benson said in response to Jay Deshmukh's claims in a Tuesday suit.       Hi there.The email you just opened, or link you just clicked, was not sent...