While few firm leaders will predict an associate recruiting dropoff, some are more willing to dust off the crystal ball on a related question: what will the prototypical associate of the future be like?

Courts will remain open, but staff may only perform “certain excepted activities permitted under the Anti-Deficiency Act, including those needed to carry out constitutional duties of resolving cases and for the safety of human life and protection of property, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said.

"This settlement ensures accountability and puts protections in place to stop Health Net's misleading practices and give patients access to the care they expect from their health insurance," San Diego City Attorney Heather Ferbert said.

The justices will continue hearing and deciding cases during the government shutdown, a court official said.

Eastern Point Trust's lawsuit against Justice Escrow is the third one between the rivals so far this year.

U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang has deep familiarity with criminal law, including matters involving allegations of public corruption, and will preside over the U.S. Department of Justice's case against defendant John Bolton alleging President Donald Trump's former national security adviser-turned-adversary mishandled classified documents.

Catch up on the latest data from across the Law.com newsroom, including how lawyers of color are losing leadership gains in multidistrict litigation.

Lawsuits pile up over prediction markets.

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"I would advise my younger self to be more intentional about business development. As a litigation associate or junior partner, you get the opportunity to form many great relationships with clients and potential clients through meetings, depositions, trials, etc. But as one litigation leads to another involving different clients and different people, and given the demands of a litigation schedule, it's easy to let prior relationships go stale."

Guess what it's back! WIPL is back and back where it started.

Guess what it's back! WIPL is back and back where it started.

Meanwhile, Macfarlanes has appointed a director of innovation.

“A verdict here could set the tone for other individuals from traditional industries, who see crypto as a great get-rich-quick opportunity' from a fund launch perspective, said Tyler Harttraft, a partner at Bull Blockchain Law, who is not involved in the case.

U.S. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, of the Southern District of Illinois, ordered plaintiffs' attorney Aimee Wagstaff not to interfere with settlement negotiations in the paraquat multidistrict litigation.

Over the past few months, there has been simmering tension and a shift in tone between the high court and lower courts sparked by the Supreme Court's emergency-docket decisions

Lawyers for more than 20 states are following a playbook set out by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barett in their attempt to free $7 billion in solar project grants from the Trump administration.

The suit filed on behalf of writers Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore is the 11th copyright lawsuit filed by Joseph Saveri Law Firm over the use of protected works to train artificial intelligence.

Originalist legal commentator Josh Blackman joins Supreme Court Brief to discuss the rise of originalism from a fringe legal theory to the dominant method of interpreting the Constitution in today's court system.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Bodenhausen of the Eastern District of Missouri approved the class action settlement in a data breach class action against Nahon, Saharovich & Trotz, and granted the motion for fees and costs to be awarded to the data breach and employment firm Cole & Van Note, which represented the plaintiff, Susan Garbarino.