"The threshold question is, what are people already calling you? The reality is, your marketplace is already calling you this. Let's agree with them. Let's simply reflect the marketplace."

"Maintaining strong relationships with existing clients is key. It is easier to expand work at an existing client than build entirely new client relationships," says the 38-year-old finance partner.

They are putting an undisclosed amount of money into Reynan Court, the highly touted tech venture that provides law firms with a single platform to manage the procurement, deployment and management of third-party apps. The CIOs of both firms have joined the tech startup's board of directors.

Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who said she was approached about running for governor, chose to reregister this fall with no party preference.

The first-ever global Crisis Management Benchmarking Report was issued Thursday by law firm Morrison & Foerster in partnership with the Ethisphere Institute. The law firm said the report is designed to give corporate legal departments insights into trends in crisis management and to highlight best practices for crisis planning.

A recent law firm diversity survey shows that women are actually making some progress in the law firm world—but only some women.

"How can you defy the president?" U.S. District Judge James Robart said. "That's what my job is—to be sure the Constitution is followed. If that means telling the president he is wrong, that is what I am supposed to do."

As CBS considers the legal fallout after findings from an internal investigation of sexual misconduct allegations went public last week, two major law firms leading the probe face questions about their efforts to protect confidential witnesses. For Debevoise & Plimpton, this marks the second time this year the firm has been thrust into the spotlight for such a failure.

"District judges must require a showing of nationwide impact or sufficient similarity to the plaintiff states to foreclose litigation in other districts, from Alaska to Puerto Rico to Maine to Guam," wrote Judge J. Clifford Wallace in narrowing an injunction barring changes to rules affecting contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

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Am Law 200 leadership changes in 2018 included some big surprises.

The lawsuit Philadelphia filed against Wells Fargo over its allegedly discriminatory lending practices has been put on hold as the parties work to see if they can come to an out-of-court agreement.

If Miami-based cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. hadn't promoted a zip line excursion with a history of emergency brake failures, Igal Tyszman would not have died in a mid-air collision with his wife on their honeymoon, argued Debi Chalik of Chalik & Chalik Law Offices in Plantation.

Jared Rice Sr. and Stanley Ford, who served as CEO and COO of the Dallas-based AriseBank, respectively, also have been barred for life from serving as officers and directors of public companies and participating in digital securities offerings.

James Dolan, executive chairman and CEO of Madison Square Garden Company, agreed to pay a $609,810 fine for an antitrust reporting violation. Behind the scenes, Dolan had reached a separate deal on who'd pick up the tab.

The Wisconsin bill runs contrary to a decadeslong trend toward increasing the number of state solicitors general nationwide to improve the advocacy and professionalism of state litigators.

Cybersecurity professionals said the benefits of publicly listing attorneys' law firm email addresses outweigh the risks, so long as lawyers are equipped with appropriate cyber training.

Beijing-based LexField Law Offices is behind Qualcomm's successful iPhone sales ban in China.

The vast majority of legal departments are not prepared to support their company's digitization process, according to a report released on Wednesday by Gartner.

Butina admitted she worked at the behest of a Russian official as she sought to infiltrate Republican political circles.