Washington has become the first state to require premerger notification for deals in any industry. Other states are hot on its heels.

       

"It would have been appropriate for the court to state that a proposed sentence without a term of incarceration was too lenient but the court's gratuitous comment that an acceptable plea would include 'some months' of incarceration was unnecessarily descriptive," wrote U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton in agreeing to step down from a criminal case.

       

If there is a revival, which firms are set to be the biggest winners and losers?

       

"I've met many lawyers who are highly successful in building their book of business but had blinders on when it came to what the colleagues around them were doing. Such rainmakers are often in high demand (with corresponding compensation) but this does not always translate into becoming a strong leader. The institutional goodwill you build by being the best firm citizen you can be will be remembered when that time comes for you to be called upon to lead."

       

Here's a first look at the law schools that sent the highest percentage of 2024 graduates to associate jobs at the largest 500 law firms.

       

After five hours of deliberation, the jury found that Cutter Financial Group and its president, Jeffrey Cutter, liable for violating Section 206(2) of the Investment Advisers Act, which prohibits “fraud or deceit upon any client or prospective client," but sided with the defendant on two other counts.

       

Fourteen law school deans and a key state lawmaker say they have deep concerns about the integrity of the bar exam after the state bar revealed a vendor used artificial intelligence to develop some questions on the February test.

       

The parent of Google saw its stock price, revenue and profit surge in 2024, even as courts rebuked it for anticompetitive practices.

       

How Bob Giuffra ended up in those discussions appears to be in dispute, and a Sullivan & Cromwell spokesperson said there's been a "misunderstanding of the facts."

       

“In the Nike case, the plaintiffs' allegations of an unregistered securities violation and deceptive practices might not have had the same outcome had the lawsuit been filed before this shift in policy, said Nicolle Lafosse, a digital asset attorney at the international law firm Diaz Reus.

       

The April 24 complaint filed against Dugan in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin accuses the judge of concealing and impeding the arrest of a Mexican immigrant.

       

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Major retailers are facing patent claims over 'carousel ads' on their websites.

       

A behind-the-scenes look at the EU's powerful Legal Service.

       

The National Law Journal is excited to announce an extended call for nominations for its 2025 NLJ Legal Awards to highlight the top work in Washington, D.C.

       

Law.com International first reported on the law firm's plans to trim its equity partnership by 10% in September last year.

       

After two years of declining hiring, participating firms reported hiring 6,092 associates in 2024, up from 5,236 in 2023, according to data from the NALP Foundation.

       

West Palm Beach law firms Rabin Kammerer Johnson and Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley represented one of the four whistleblowers involved in a $300 million settlement obtained from Walgreens.

       

Disputes over weight-loss drugs are landing on court dockets.

       

A Winston & Strawn spokesperson declined to comment on whether Lowell's departure had anything to do with the representation of James, who faces a criminal referral from a Trump administration official.