In a proposed amicus brief, 12 state attorneys general, including 10 that were part of a $113 million settlement with Apple last month, criticized the $87.7 million in attorney fees proposed in a class action settlement over older Apple iPhones.

"I don't understand your constitutional claim," said Justice Eva Guzman to a lawyer arguing for an ex-law student suing over his dismissal for a 1.98 GPA. "Why didn't he just go back, when he could have?"

After initially delaying payouts of the additional bonus, Paul Hastings decided it didn't want its associates to wait for the normal year-end bonus schedule in March to get that extra cash.

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Geoffrey Berman will chair the firm's white-collar defense practice and sit on its governance committee.

Captives focused on e-discovery, alternative staffing and automated legal expertise all witnessed clients back off amid the widespread economic uncertainty of late March and April, but interest then rebounded.

"It benefits a lawyer to be more conversational than the stemwinder, old-style fire and brimstone type of oratory because you're literally in the jurors' face," Alameda County Superior Judge Brad Seligman said during the second day of an online summit called "COVID, the Court, and the Future of the Jury Trial."

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Law firm demand contracted by about 0.7% in the first nine months of the year, but total expenses were down 2.1%, according to a new report that projected a positive 2021 outlook for firms with strong brands and diverse practice areas.

Pass rates are up in two of the first three states to report results from the National Conference of Bar Examiners' October online exam.

"I made the decision I was even more ready to retire now than I was," Austin said. "It's just a reminder that life is unpredictable."

Also on Monday, seven families and two community groups sued the state in Alameda County Superior Court, alleging the state's pandemic-related restrictions on school operations are illegally infringing on the education of students who don't have ready access to technology.

Economic conditions and underperforming lawyers are among the greatest risks to profitability, firm business leaders said in a recent Thomson Reuters survey.

A new tax work-around has the potential to benefit law firm partners who pay high state and local taxes, but the complexities may prevent some firms from using it.

Like some others, both firms put small twists on their end-of-year bonus announcements, so it's not the same scale for all associates.

An app developer alleged that MLB's tech arm fraudulently entered a nonexclusive contract for STA to develop an in-game app that allowed users to earn points by predicting the outcome of events in baseball games.

During Monday's arguments, the justices focused almost exclusively on whether the case was ripe to decide and whether the court should await more information about how many undocumented immigrants would be excluded.

Counsel for U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pennsylvania, who challenged the expansion of mail-in voting, said he was busy filing an appeal. Lawyers for the Trump campaign, which lost in its case against Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar over administration of vote counting, have said they are turning to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The rule says that staff "must report" any incident of sexual harassment they witness, hear about or experience.

While law firms are embracing experimentation and innovation at a large scale, their risk aversion is impacting how far they will go, according to a new report from Thomson Reuters.