"My advice to associates looking to make partner is that doing great work is the baseline expectation. You must take initiative, be responsive, and embrace an ownership mentality. I learned early on that there's a huge amount of value in speaking up and providing your own thoughts on strategy and potential next steps, no matter how junior you are or how much about the law you think you don't know."

       

In the legal profession, the central challenge is not unequal pay within the same job.

       

Every decision to onboard a client, partner, lateral hire, contractor, consultant or expert witness carries risk. Yet many firms continue to rely on onboarding practices that have not kept pace with the digital world in which their clients and people operate.

       

Gregory Katsas talked about how originalism has gone from a controversial idea when he was a law student to a theory embraced by many on the bench today.

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Many leaders in the Am Law 100 are taking time to investigate—and listen. Here's some of what they're hearing.

       

The court found X did not prove international defendants Shell International, Lego A/S, Nestle S.A., and Orsted Services were involved in the alleged boycott and dismissed the claims against them without prejudice due to lack of personal jurisdiction.

       

The national mean scaled score for the February 2026 Multistate Bar Examination reveals a slight increase compared to 2025, but still trails results from two of the three previous years.

       

On or around March 17, 2026, former Williams & Connolly clerk Dante Chambers allegedly began posting what is now "hundreds of communications on Instagram related to Williams & Connolly, some of which contained confidential information related to the firm's clients."

       

The departure of Toshiro Mochizuki and Kana Morimura from A&O Shearman leaves the firm with no capital markets and dispute offerings in Tokyo.

       

On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Rukhsanah Singh disqualified Beasley Allen from representing thousands of women in the talcum powder multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson and removed the Montgomery, Alabama-based firm from the steering committee.

       

Opposing the rising Big Law trend of recruiting law students within their first year, Susman Godfrey is going another direction.

       

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner Sheria Clark is one of President Donald Trump's latest judicial nominees to weather intense Democratic criticism after refusing to say who won the 2020 presidential election during her nomination hearing to be a South Carolina federal judge.

       

For the first time since the 1990s, the gender pay gap grew slightly in the U.S. in 2026, providing a wake-up call to employers and litigators. But on the local level, some states with pay-transparency laws—and others with no such laws—have succeeded in closing the gap.

       

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein was skeptical that the U.S. government's interests in maintaining sanctions on Venezuela justified preventing the country from paying Nicolás Maduro's legal fees, pointing out that the U.S. was now doing business in Venezuela and that Maduro could no longer engage in the conduct that resulted in the sanctions.        

A new ethics advisory opinion released last month permits sitting federal judges to speak openly about threats against the judiciary and address “persecution. The judges are taking advantage.

       

The move comes after the firm suffered notable losses of top partners in the past two years, including a former name partner and a former managing partner.

       

"All of these companies need ... to figure out whether or not they're covered by these age-appropriate design codes. I think there are some people who are going to be shocked that they fall under them," said Nerissa Coyle McGinn, a partner at Loeb & Loeb.

       

Mathew Cooper, Capital One's legal chief since 2018, took on the additional title "president of Discover integration" last spring.

       

Honario Rosario-Silverio was awarded a verdict of $36.4 million in his suit against PPC Commercial and Foodtown.

       

The ruling allows the case to move forward on behalf of investors who purchased NVIDIA shares between August 2017 and November 2018, a period marked by surging and then collapsing cryptocurrency markets.