A new KPMG survey found that company leaders increasingly are asking GCs to weigh in on nonlegal matters. But just 23% of legal chiefs say that's happening constantly.

       

Kent Walker's legal team last year lost an antitrust trial over whether Google illegally monopolized advertising technology. But it avoided a calamitous outcome in a separate case in which a judge ruled it illegally monopolized search.

       

This week: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monsanto's defense of federal preemption in lawsuits over its Roundup pesticide. The first bellwether trial among more than 3,000 lawsuits over Bard's PowerPort medical devices began in Arizona. Find out who stepped in to represent fertilizer manufacturers, such as Koch Industries and The Mosaic Co., in a string of new antitrust lawsuits.        

Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, the 2026 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law report.

       

The American Bar Association agrees to offer its Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fund on a "race/ethnicity-neutral basis," as it was changed to in October. 

       

"Threatening the life of the President of the United States is a grave violation of our nation's laws," acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said after a federal grand jury in North Carolina returned an indictment alleging Comey threatened to kill President Donald Trump in a May 2025 social media post.

       

“Our clients are very eager that [AI] be used and leveraged, and they and we are obviously interested in it being used responsibly, said Robert Hays of King & Spalding.

       

Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes said the state government was grossly negligent in its duty to preserve two attendance lists from a committee that hears incarcerated individuals' appeals.

       

The court appears on the verge of closing the door to new types of claims brought under the 1789 Alien Tort Statute, which adherents of a Chinese minority religion are using to sue Cisco for allegedly aiding China's human rights abuses against them.

       

New Jersey Law Journal seeks nominations for great attorneys deserving of recognition in the state

       

Paul Weiss' head of European M&A is joining the world's largest law firm in the U.K., marking the first major loss for Paul Weiss in recent years and a signal of intent for Kirkland.

       

Pierre Gentin was one of two veteran corporate legal chiefs to take senior roles in Donald Trump's second presidential administration.

       

As lawyers, we are very good at understanding the systems we operate in, and we are good at fixating on risk. But ask lawyers about the future of lawyering, and see if they can outline the principles, purpose, and mission of their organizations and roles.

       

The planned May 1 separation of Taylor Wessing's U.K. arm from some of its key continental European offices has been pushed to June as the disentanglement proves more time-consuming than anticipated.

       

Davis Polk & Wardwell, WongPartnership, Ogier, and Maples and Calder advised on the multi-billion-dollar deal.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-host Cedra Mayfield interviews American Negotiation Institute Founder Kwame Christian, live from the General Counsel Conference Midwest 2026 in Chicago.

       

A Law.com analysis reveals that 20 firms have achieved compound annual growth rates in revenue of greater than 8% since fiscal 2000. Meanwhile, growth multiples range from 6.88x to 22.46x.

       

A wave of arbitration claims alleges that personalized recommendations Sephora provides violate a California civil rights law because they're based on customers' skin tones and age ranges.

       

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said the SEC can be nimble to provide the crypto industry market clarity but that "nothing future-proofs things like a statute."

       

“The rules haven't really changed, but we're just having trouble following them when the output of some AI is so seductively good, said Adams & Reese legal ethics expert Lucian Pera. “And it's hard. It's hard to convince people to do it.