Over 100 entries featuring women practicing in Continental Europe and Ireland have been whittled down to the top 25 women aged under 40 tipped to spearhead the next generation of leading partners.

       

The choices law firms have made, to make a deal with or fight Trump, are leaving an impression on firm partnerships, firm morale, culture and unity.

       

The proposed deal would create a firm with a combined revenue of $2.8 billion, a size that currently fits within the top 20 of the Am Law 100, and a firm with more than 1,600 lawyers.

       

“What I am seeing in these crypto cases is an ambiguity in the laws regarding what's reachable, and it is whether it is the value of the crypto or whether it is the value of the value received, said Joseph Pack, a bankruptcy attorney at Pack Law.

       

A shareholder alleged that in the months following Brian Thompson's death, UnitedHealth Group secretly moved away from the coverage policies that reportedly motivated Thompson's alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, and drew an enraged elements of the public to the his side.

       

This reflects a notable jump from the class of 2023, which entered law school during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, which reported about 3.3 million pro bono hours during their three years in school.

       

"He wasn't getting the support from people that I thought," President Donald Trump said of interim U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. and the withdrawal of Martin's nomination to serve as the permanent top prosecutor for Washington, D.C.

       

Louise Pentland, a former legal chief at Nokia and PayPal, had to stay aboard a year to keep her entire $300,000 signing bonus and to avoid forfeiting her entire $9.75 million new hire stock grant.

       

The nation's highest-ranking verdicts were compiled by Law.com analyst team VerdictSearch.

       

Litigators and judges reveal how they're using artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency and productivity in their private practices and courtrooms.

       

“When Defendants urged people to invest in FTX, they solicited the purchases that followed, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore ruled Wednesday in a 49-page order.

       

"We can no longer trust that law firms will put their professional ethics and their clients' long-term interests first over political influence, fear of retribution, and their own short-term interests," General Counsels United stated.

       

The appellate court said Thomas Foster's appeal differed from a 2021 ruling in Piano Factory Group v. Schiedmayer Celesta GmbH, which held that facts being considered were dated to the time the mark was registered. Foster's case differs, it said, because it involves a refusal to register.        

California Attorney General Rob Bonta led a coalition of 17 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration for unlawfully withholding billions of dollars in funding approved by bipartisan majorities in Congress for electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure.

       

President Trump's nomination of Brittany Bull Panuccio as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission could return the agency to a quorum, which would allow it to enact more of the president's agenda on issues like transgender use of restrooms, employment law observers said. But getting the nomination confirmed could be a lengthy and arduous process.

       

We rank all Am Law 200 firms in three metrics: revenue per lawyer (the best measure of law firm health), profits per equity partner, and value per lawyer.

       

Catch up on data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including the 2025 Go to Law Schools: Big Law report.

       

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The 2025 edition of the guide incorporates opinions from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court, along with a number of additional appellate court decisions that did not appear in prior editions.

       

In an April 16 motion, Johnson & Johnson cited 'serious ethical lapses' that justified removing Beasley Allen from the talc plaintiffs' steering committee. Beasley Allen denied the accusations on Tuesday.