Five law firms, including Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis, have reached agreements with the Trump administration in recent days.

       

Judges Lawrence VanDyke, Daniel Collins and Salvador Mendoza said the U.S. district court judge lacked jurisdiction to confirm the award under the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision Badgerow v. Walters and ordered the case dismissed.        

"I believe it all comes down to mastering the art of connection. If you can be someone who others find approachable and easy to talk to, you'll naturally find yourself in line for leadership roles. In my view, these 'softer' skills are key to inspiring others and unlocking doors to new opportunities."

       

Catch up on data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including a timeline of President Donald Trump's battle against Big Law.

       

       

Harbor CEO Harbor CEO Matt Sunderman said Michael Stahl "brings a unique combination of experience in operational, legal and compliance roles in tech-enabled services organizations, as well as experience as a company founder building critical infrastructure for growth."

       

After an underlying case was transferred from Miller County to Greene County in Missouri, a Greene County Circuit judge denied a party's request for a change in judges. An appellate panel disagreed with the trial court's decision.

       

"[A]ny signal from this Court that the Fed's independence is in jeopardy will further destabilize jittery markets," a fired labor official told the Supreme Court Tuesday.

       

Fletman determined that, because Greenblatt Pierce helped resolve key legal issues that led to the settlement, “it would be unjust for the Marrone defendants to retain the benefits without payment.

       

"The judgment shows that the SEC is going to continue to pursue areas it thinks are fraud in connection with any offer or sale of tokens that meet the definition of a security," said Kit Addleman, a partner at Haynes Boone and a former director of the SEC's Atlanta regional office.

       

For lawyers in Hong Kong, the first quarter of 2025 showed signs of a market that was finally turning around. Trump has now ruined any hope of a market revival.

       

Despite plenty of cynicism around the effectiveness of DEI, partners from ethnic minority backgrounds say that certain measures associated with it still highlighted valuable concepts like unconscious bias and made them feel ‘more seen'.

       

The suit expresses fear that should the government obtain the plaintiffs' data, “the government may use their data improperly to target them or their families for any activity or speech it wishes to stifle.

       

At Speak Up For Justice, organized by attorney Paul Kiesel, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky and mediator Ken Feinberg were among those calling on the legal community to respond to increasing judicial attacks.

       

Fifty-eight firms posted gross revenue of $1 billion or more in 2024, four more than in 2023.

       

As a whole, revenue per lawyer, the metric that we've long regarded as the most reliable measure of a firm's financial health, increased by 5.2%.

       

Partners embrace the office for leadership visibility and in-person meetings with clients and colleagues, while associates look for technology access and training, according to a new report from Gensler Research Institute.

       

Susman Godfrey became the fourth law firm to obtain a temporary restraining order against the administration over executive orders.

       

While U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi on April 1 publicly stated the DOJ would try Luigi Mangione's case as a capital offense, federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday called the defense motion premature, arguing that they may not move to preclude the death penalty when their client hasn't been indicted.

       

WilmerHale partner Felicia Ellsworth, representing the Times, said the piece at the center of the lawsuit is not about the former Alaska governor, but about a tragic incident of gun violence that ended the career of a promising member of Congress. The statement came at the beginning of the second trial in the case; the first ended in 2019 with U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff's decision to grant summary judgment to the defense as the jury deliberated.