The tie-up would create a combined firm with up to about $95 million in combined gross revenue and a focus on agricultural and environmental clients.

"Do you think that it's fair for a 67-year-old man to be sent to prison to seven to nine years?" Barr asked one Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

In August or September, the board of the State Bar of Texas will discuss stripping President Larry McDougal of his spokesman duties, because of his online comments that offended many attorneys.

Law school admission offices are also counseling admitted students not to defer for a year, saying that scholarships will likely be harder to come by in 2021.

The complaint claimed that Ankur Mehta's advertisements as a litigation director and having a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree, without a short disclaimer next to these titles, led other lawyers to constantly ask Harris if Mehta was an attorney.

A lawsuit against Holland & Knight alleging the firm didn't do enough to prevent a wire transfer scam echoes a similar case involving Dentons.

The funder has seen boosted demand from the pandemic, completing more deals in the second quarter of 2020 than it did in all of 2019.

"This unnecessarily forceful treatment of protesters, at the expense of proper constitutional protections, casts a pall over future protests and cannot continue," the lawsuit reads.

This week's Ahead of the Curve looks at why the diploma privilege movement has lost some of the momentum it picked up in June. Plus, should law professors set aside their scholarship this fall and concentrate solely on teaching?

Coming into effect next spring, U.K. rules known as the IR35 have the power to upend the flourishing flexi-lawyer sector.

Wildly profitable Sullivan & Cromwell is cutting staff, begging the question as to whether other firms will be looking to cull their administrative personnel as well.

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Bar exam takers in Michigan couldn't access the second module of the exam temporarily when the website that distributes passwords crashed. The Michigan Supreme Court said the issue was quickly resolved.

The American Bar Association surveyed more than 1,000 new lawyers, and found that they owed an average $160,000 in student loans. That hefty debt is influencing their career paths and life decisions.

As a lawyer, it's axiomatic that your time is your most valuable asset—one that is non-renewable. You can't afford to get sucked into rabbit holes of distraction. Accordingly, we all must strike the right balance between consumption and creation. There's room for the former, but one's time and energy must be biased toward action. It's through action that we gain experience and wisdom.

"No one should complain that the business calls too much," John Gilmore, co-founder and managing partner at BarkerGilmore, said. "That is when the promotional opportunities come; when GCs hear from the business."

Sixty-one attorneys voiced their opinions about State Bar of Texas president Larry McDougal's controversial online comments at a specially called board meeting Monday.

It is critical that lawyers determine strategies that match their skills, personalities, and perceptions and experiences.

"It's clear that today's associates would see stealth layoffs as management failing to take responsibility, being dishonest and lacking compassion. They'd exact a heavy toll on relationships with partners and leaders, and thus on motivation and ultimately firm productivity and vitality," Hugh A. Simons writes.

The census statute "does not curtail the president's authority to direct the secretary in making policy judgments that result in 'the decennial census,'" then-Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote. John Roberts Jr., then a U.S. Justice Department lawyer, argued for the government.