"I would like to be known as someone who helped open up opportunities for women and minorities—those who are not traditionally in this field."

"Our presence and leadership within the bar is without question a byproduct of the freedom each of us has had to make reproductive decisions for ourselves," the thousands of signatories from about 190 firms wrote.

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Law firms already have an uphill climb in competing with other tech-savvy entities in the cyber space. The lack of qualified talent and increasing workloads don't help.

Alena Allen, a former interim dean at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) School of Law, and "nationally recognized figure in legal education," will become deputy director at the Association of American Law Schools on Aug. 1.

The Maryland Court of Appeals reinstated a man's murder conviction, finding a state's witness did not need to be qualified as an expert to testify that cellphone users can adjust a cellphone's ability to track and collect location data.

An Ohio attorney received a one-year suspension for multiple ethics violations after a disciplinary investigation revealed that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a client and made false statements about his conduct to opposing counsel, a police chief and a municipal court.

The Ohio bar may drop the question about mental health status from its character and fitness application, in part due to a law student petitioning the state Supreme Court to do so.

"If an attorney who has committed multiple felonies is ever to be reinstated—a debatable proposition in itself—at a minimum he or she must demonstrate a complete acceptance of responsibility and extraordinary remorse and rehabilitation," U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts wrote in his order filed Tuesday.

The Supreme Court might be done with patent eligibility for the foreseeable future. Practitioners say that, if there is still a path to review, it's going to require early and careful preparation.

Once the Port Authority received its supply of masks, a new policy continued the restriction on "political or social protest" masks and added a section detailing which masks may be worn.

By gaining 6.2% lawyers in 2021 compared with 2020, Texas moved past Illinois on total lawyer head count in the NLJ 500 report.

By putting their money—that is, their billable hours requirements—where their mouth is, firms will demonstrate they are serious about mental health and well-being—and reap valuable benefits for their bottom line, too.

"The lesson I learned was to never give up and also never settle."

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The U.S. decision, which runs counter to global trends toward more liberal abortion rights, led almost immediately to a global call to strengthen legal protections for reproductive rights, as well as heightened fears for the knock-on effects on civil rights, privacy rights, women's health, and even local law.

In recent weeks, insurance companies have racked up even more wins in business interruption cases. But earlier this month, a state appellate court broke rank, providing a potential avenue to victory for some policyholders even as so many others have proven to be dead ends.

Latham & Watkins and its client, VTB Bank, have already missed two deadlines to get substitute counsel to file an appearance notice, and requested, in a letter addressed to a federal judge, an additional two-week extension until July 7.

Litigation over a fizzed $100 million dispensary sale and a rule restricting Florida marijuana users' possession of guns advanced this week.

The complaint relies on the week-old SCOTUS decision in "Bruen," and colonial-era ordinances, as grounds to roll back D.C.'s ban on firearms in the city's public transit system.