In a "transformative moment for law," as one leader put it, "our strategy has been: get there first."

       

With progress in key areas, these 20 firms could climb the ranks to join next year's A-List.

       

The firms topping our annual A-List posted strong results in RPL, pro bono, diversity, female equity partner percentages and associate satisfaction.

       

None of the four most highly compensated legal chiefs in Texas come from the industry the state is best known for.

       

The news will be seen as a major win for AI tool Harvey which has been fending off competion from other offerings such as Legora.

       

“If the collection lag persists or deepens, then I think we will see firms getting anxious, said Kristin Stark, a law firm management consultant at Fairfax Associates.

       

The likely absence of a comprehensive U.S. AI regulatory regime creates the potential for a “guidance gap for the responsible use of AI. Corporate leadership will be called to respond with internal controls intended to assure appropriate AI protections and to reduce the company's exposure to liability.

       

The firm follows Latham & Watkins which announced its own partnership with the platform this week.

       

Market Basket, a New England-based grocery store chain, claims Schmidt and Gordon, a pair of recently terminated former executives, defied orders to stay away from company property after their dismissals and instead entered Market Basket stores in three states a total of 26 times over six days.

       

At a Tuesday hearing, Southern California Edison attorney Douglas Dixon told a Los Angeles judge that his client planned to sue numerous government agencies that he claims share responsibility for this year's Eaton fire.

       

“To come in at the 11th hour on a shell of a company that is all but dead that is not going to do anymore business and now demand a scalp in the form of a hollow guilty plea that will only hurt all of the investors who have waited years for their money, literally flies in the face of doing justice, said Judge Rodolfo Ruiz.

       

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New York's Assembly Judiciary chairman is seeking answers after proctors didn't stop a state bar exam while a woman collapsed from her chair from a cardiac episode.

       

“The complaint does enough to give the managers and corporate entities fair notice of the plaintiffs' claim that they failed to create a safe workplace for dancers, failed to institute policies to prevent attacks, and failed to take proper action once they were notified of attacks occurring. At this pleading stage, that is enough," said U.S. District Judge Edmond E. Chang.

       

A federal trial is underway to determine the legality of President Donald Trump's federalization of the National Guard in Los Angeles to quell protests against local Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in June. The trial, which opened Monday in San Francisco federal court, coincides with the Trump administration's same-day announcement that it will deploy 800 National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to assume control over the capital's police department.

       

The Walt Disney Co. and InterDigital Inc. have failed to reach an amicable video streaming license agreement, prompting InterDigital to take foreign and domestic action against Disney while Disney fights back with claims and counterclaims of its own.

       

While open roles exist, they're fewer and more competitive than they were previously, recruiters said.

       

Orrick conducted a survey of 1,282 jury-eligible adults across red and blue states in February, asking more than 150 questions, including many asked in the firm's prior research in 2022. A growing loss of faith in large institutions—especially big business—spans generations, geographies and political parties.

       

This summer, only eight states' supreme courts heard argument in July, and 12 heard at least one oral argument in August. Justices, court staff and attorneys who practice in state appellate courts aren't getting much of a break from their work.