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The pandemic has seen firms realign their priorities to matters including staff well-being, remote working and diversification of work.

The latest partner to leave Boies Schiller for Jenner worked with his new colleagues on Apple antitrust matters.

Nelson Mullins and Redgrave never lost sight of conflict-of-interest issues, but they evolved during the course of the negotiations, said Jonathan Redgrave in an interview.

Law.com reporters recently caught up with litigators around the country to get their predictions for this year and hit upon a common theme: even with a vaccine, the challenges—and opportunities—presented by COVID-19 are not going anywhere any time soon.

Elissa Miller, a partner at Los Angeles-based SulmeyerKupetz, will serve as interim trustee for the bankruptcy of Girardi Keese, according to a notice filed on Wednesday.

For two brilliant legal minds, Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley have tanked their careers.

In 2019, Bloomberg won an appeal to remove himself from the litigation. Arguments before the state's highest court focused on that same issue.

Donald Trump wasn't alone when he stoked unsubstantiated conspiracy theories in order to cling to power. He had a team of lawyers behind him.

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Carr also claimed that Trump's lawyer violated a bar rule during Saturday's telephone call in which the president pressed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" enough votes for the president to prevail in Georgia, according to a recording of the call published by news outlets.

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Will law firms that represented Trump and the GOP in post-election litigation face financial or reputational damage after a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday?

"To reengage the 74 million people who voted for him, he would welcome and support the new administration, utterly denounce yesterday's events," said Kendall Brindley Coffey, partner in Coffey Burlington in Miami, who represented the Trump Organization in 2015.

A bankruptcy judge ordered the appointment of a trustee to protect the assets of Tom Girardi and his firm, even after the plaintiffs' attorney failed to show up at the first hearing.

"I have loved being a judge, but to serve as attorney general at this critical time—to lead the more than 113,000 dedicated men and women who work in this department to ensure the rule of law—is a calling I am honored and eager to answer," Garland said in his first public remarks since his nomination was announced.

It is not clear how long Paul Davis, who questioned election results in his Instagram story, served as associate general counsel at Goosehead Insurance.

Chairman Philip Inglima said he plans to contact as many law firm leaders as possible Thursday, asking them to join Crowell's statement.

it is worth considering whether a progressive discipline policy (PDP) should include language that allows, for example, employers to combine or skip steps in the disciplinary process based on the specific circumstances at hand.

Many attorneys, technologists and legal experts expect continued change in the legal ecosystem in 2021. But it's not just alternative legal service providers—it's how law firms and corporate legal departments fundamentally interact with their data, their people, and even each other.