The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cited convenience for the attorneys involved as one of the primary reasons the action should stay in D.C. Now, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan is presiding over the case, which involves the 2022 disclosure of Musk's acquisition of stock in what was at the time Twitter Inc.

Applications for the MSL in labor and employment law, which offers in-depth legal knowledge without requiring a J.D., are being accepted now for the spring 2026 semester.

Chinese manufacturers fight back against IP claims.

Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, including the 2025 Midlevel Associates Survey.

Am Law 200 firm Offit Kurman will open an office in Dallas on Oct.1 with four lawyers coming from Dallas' Ross & Smith, which does bankruptcy, restructuring, insolvency, mediation and civil litigation.

On a panel with other in-house legal leaders, Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Jon Palmer likened AI's rise to the invention of the printing press, which eliminated the work of scribes but created whole new industries no one could have foreseen.

“If an earlier President and earlier Senate had confirmed Bernie Madoff or Charles Ponzi to be Federal Reserve Governors, it would blink reality to suggest that a later President could not remove them based on their misdeeds, regardless of whether they occurred in office or not, the U.S. Justice Department wrote in its motion.

"If employers could avoid OSHA regulations simply by refusing to accept certified mail, the provision requiring the commission to send notification by certified mail would essentially eviscerate any enforcement powers in the act," said Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner, who authored the opinion.

"Never burn bridges. Treat everyone with respect and kindness. I feel one should approach everyone that way, but it is especially important to do so within your firm because you cannot anticipate how your paths may cross in the future. Work on building relationships and bridges. In my view, it's always the best approach in life and at a firm."

The 2025 Navigating Compensation Negotiations report provides a detailed look at how negotiation is evolving, where professionals succeed or struggle, and what employers can do to retain top legal talent. The findings suggest a profession that accepts negotiation as standard practice but continues to struggle with inequities in information, internal advancement, and the valuation of non-cash compensation.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Ninth Circuit pick Eric Tung and First Circuit pick Joshua Dunlap in 12-10 votes.

In this week's Legal Speak episode, Spotlight Marketing and Branding Co-Founder Danny Decker reveals three steps attorneys and law firm operators can deploy to help attract potential clients via ChatGPT.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh spoke Thursday evening at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, about not allowing cameras in the courtroom, the importance of the Constitution and President George W. Bush's leadership on 9/11.

The list of firms demanding four days a week or more of office attendance is short, but with few exceptions, all these firms are compensating their associates and partners at the top of the market.

Hoffman, a firm CEO in the 1990s, led the firm's expansion throughout Florida and into key markets, such as New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Orlando, Tallahassee and Boca Raton, the firm said.

Sharif Jacob, a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters who is representing the plaintiffs, said the executive order is "an alarming example of presidential overreach."

McGuireWoods and Debevoise & Plimpton on behalf of plaintiff Capital One allege the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. misinterpreted the statutory definition of 'uninsured deposit' to erroneously conclude Capital One must pay a $475 million special assessment to the FDIC.

“All that Perplexity's answer engine' does is copy the expression, meaning, and message of others and repackage it to the consumer, the plaintiffs allege.

The federal judge highlighted decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Eighth Circuits determining that inmates with knowledge of recordings undermines privilege given the Seventh Circuit's lack of precedent on the issue, the memorandum opinion and order said.

I have been using ChatGPT in my personal life for the past eight months (never for work) for a myriad of things, and found that my personal experience with AI came in handy when I wrote two stories about it last week.