“The case's consequences for the financial industry and its impact on the state-federal balance in banking regulation make it exceptionally important," U.S. Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich said in his dissent to the majority's ruling.

       

Judge Lawrence VanDyke called the matter "a case of swinging dicks," prompting fellow judges to write, "We are better than this."

       

Erin Nealy Cox succeeds Rachel Brand, who stepped down in January after nearly eight years in the role.

       

While there's growing buzz about private equity investment in law firms, there's been limited discussion of the potential impacts on the talent market.

       

"Focus on building a very solid and technical knowledge in your practice area while cultivating interpersonal relationships inside and outside the firm. A well-rounded lawyer with the right combination of hard and soft skills is most likely to make partner and succeed at it."

       

One critic of the Justice Department settlement, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson, called it “barely a slap on the wrist.


       

Dubai International Financial Center is home to many Global 200 law firms, many of which have shifted to remote work or are sheltering in place as the ongoing conflict disrupts the region.

       

The full court on Tuesday vacated a stay of a removal for a Peruvian family that was in place for more than a year.

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There is a paradox at the heart of AI trustworthiness: The path to being trusted is admitting when you are uncertain. Uniformly confident AI that never acknowledges doubt is, counterintuitively, less trustworthy than the humble AI that flags its own weak spots. We would never tolerate an associate who delivered every statement with identical certainty. We should not tolerate it from our AI tools, either.

       

The American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar released its annual bar passage rate data for all ABA-accredited law schools Wednesday, with four schools attaining 100% ultimate bar passage rate.

       

"The request is not out of the ordinary in this circuit, where source code is discoverable as long as adequate protection for such trade secret information is in place," the magistrate wrote.

       

Average PEP surged by nearly 22% to $3.2 million, as it expanded its single-tier partnership by about 2% to around 324.

       

Salas' son was murdered in her home in 2020 by an attorney seeking to kill her. In a Q&A with Law.com, she discusses the importance of judicial security to the rule of law.

       

Here are the courts and judges seeing the heaviest caseloads, the busiest law firms and the most active defendants.

       

Closing arguments were presented Thursday in the first-ever trial blaming social media for a teenager's mental health problems.

       

"We will continue to hold accountable insurers that knowingly submit inaccurate or unsupported diagnoses to improperly inflate reimbursement," said assistant attorney general Brett A. Shumate of the Justice Department's Civil Division.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Brittany Casey, Vice President of Customer Success & Enablement at DISCO, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

"All I can say is right now, I am sad, but tomorrow I'm going to be mad. When I get mad, I'm going to have my crosshairs set on Salesforce, and they are not going to get away," the plaintiff's attorney told Law.com.

       

Yingke has confirmed its longtime leader's resignation as unverified social media allegations link him to a multi-billion-yuan financing scheme involving prepaid legal fees.

       

The move comes amidst a growing period of law firm consolidation.