Younger lawyers are steering their careers around their personal values, with some finding solo practice a better fit. And the barriers to entry for solo practice are lower than ever.

Deriding what they called the "carnival-like" atmosphere of trial, Weinstein's lawyers said their client's 20-year sentence was the product of his portrayal as a "villain" in the media.

"I saw women kicking ass from the very beginning, so that allowed me to expand my perception of what I can do."

Judges have split on some of the more than 200 tuition refund cases filed by college and university students, with some surviving motions to dismiss and others not.

The Supreme Court justices rule 6-2 that Google used only the amount of Oracle code necessary to transform Java into "a highly creative and innovative tool for a smartphone environment."

Rule 29 does not define the circumstances in which a court will grant leave to file an amicus brief. Seventh Circuit Rule 29 likewise, does not provide that guidance.

While legal departments don't believe law firms can match up to legal tech providers, they still say there's room for law firms' software efforts.

"Identify a mentor or mentors and leverage their knowledge. When you find the right mentors, they will serve as your biggest advocate. Also, find those people that you can bounce questions off of or just vent to when you are having a bad day."

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The investigation into Joshua Schiller's arrest for alleged domestic violence has divided senior partners at the firm and more are looking to leave in the coming months.

The legal profession continues to embrace legal analytics and its advantages in increasing numbers every year. Now, the more interesting questions pertain to how legal professionals use legal analytics and what the likely path is for legal analytics in the future.

Known equally for his extensive academic and publishing work and for his legal accomplishments, Gaillard, who led a 38-lawyer exodus from Shearman & Sterling two months ago to form a boutique, died suddenly and unexpectedly on April 1 in Paris.

Perkins Coie partner Tiffany Cunningham is poised to make history at the Federal Circuit.

In what some recruiters say is a growing trend, corporate GCs are finding new jobs at firms, where they hope to leverage their business skills and contacts in building a practice.

Law.com Radar, ALM's legal news feed, uses automation and data processing to quickly surface and summarize new federal cases. Here's what has turned up for Pennsylvania lately.

A year into a remote transition, firms still haven't defined all workflows that may benefit from tech-enabled efficiencies.

Hogan Lovells had launched a plan to build out a back-office center to support transactional work before COVID-19. But the pandemic made the strategy even more logical.

"It's not rocket science. You have to look forward to the next generation," Denise Smyler, the former GC of Pennsylvania, said.

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It's an issue that has been discussed before, and while progress has been made, it hasn't translated to overall results just yet.