It's hard to imagine a less surprising outcome than Iancu v. Brunetti, Monday's Supreme Court decision striking down the Lanham Act's prohibition on registering "immoral" or "scandalous" trademarks.

The e-discovery giant is set to make its first CEO change in the company's history, as founder Andrew Sieja moves to a role working more deeply with product and technical teams.

“We look forward to hearing his testimony, as do all Americans, the leaders of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees said. Mueller had expressed an unwillingness to testify about his work as special counsel.

It's hard to imagine a less surprising outcome than Iancu v. Brunetti, Monday's Supreme Court decision striking down the Lanham Act's prohibition on registering "immoral" or "scandalous" trademarks.

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In-house lawyers can compare their team's size and spend in a new report from the Association of Corporate Counsel.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Stuart M. Bernstein nixed trustee Irving H. Picard's motion for summary judgment on his fraudulent transfer claim to recover transfers from Legacy Capital Ltd.'s account with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities that were made within two years of its founder being arrested for securities fraud in 2008.

Timothy Thornton, CEO of 150-lawyer Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, was biking Sunday when he was struck by a pickup truck.

The complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleged Newman did not file a "termination" financial disclosure, a required filing for many executive branch employees after they leave public service.

The university said June 21 it is hiring McDermott Will & Emery to conduct a probe three years after convicted ex-doctor Larry Nassar's arrest in 2016.

Angelee Harris, most recently the general counsel of Banc of California, began her role as the top lawyer at Opus Bank earlier this month.

The government is resisting the former Skadden partner's move to call Arnold & Porter's Amy Jeffress as a defense expert witness.

Val DiGiorgio stepped down from his position as chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania hours after The Philadelphia Inquirer published a report on his messages with a City Council candidate.

At a Tuesday hearing, plaintiffs' attorneys who proposed a "negotiation class" to settle all the opioid lawsuits agreed to give more time for objections, some of which have come from distributors, pharmacies and state attorneys general.

Mellis, who has worked at some iteration of Major League Baseball for more than 20 years, will join the New York Yankees as executive vice president and chief counsel in mid-July.

A newly unredacted complaint made public Monday appears to show several Big Pharma companies conspiring to fix prices. Here are some of the key takeaways in the lawsuit by 44 states against Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sandoz Inc., Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. and other corporate and individual defendants.

The Pipeline Parity Project, which is working to end mandatory arbitration among legal employers, has rebranded as the People's Parity Project and unveiled plans to establish law school chapters across the country.

The ruling by a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit allows additional proceedings in the Maryland trial court, where a judge said this week new evidence paints a "disturbing picture" of alleged discriminatory motivations by the Trump administration.

Instead of racking their brains about how to gain access to male networks, why aren't women playing the big boys' favorite sport?

"At the end of the day, a law firm is a business. And with the rapidly changing legal landscape, law firms have to constantly be thinking of strategic and innovative ways to keep up with the times, and, in fact, to stay ahead of the curve."