A year's worth of Am Law 200 hiring data, Big Law's flurry of government hires, candid advice from top firm leaders to lateral partners, a look at how "serial laterals" are received at firms—and of course, Big Law's Biggest Lateral Hires of 2024.

       

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Partners have approved plans for integration, which management hopes will improve profitability and cut costs, after years of delays due to opposition.

       

"This announcement harkens back to the SEC's traditional mission: investigating fraud and charging fraud that impacts investors," said Scott Armstrong, a principal at McGovern Weems and a former federal prosecutor who served as senior leadership in cases involving cryptocurrencies.

       

By taking a proactive approach, law firms can navigate the complexities of use tax and avoid potential penalties by obtaining guidance.

       

Among the changes, Weil is adding two managing partner roles and creating a new leadership committee.

       

Attorneys say a landmark 2020 Supreme Court ruling trumps the president's executive order recognizing only two genders, male and female.

       

Latham, Jenner and others have made compensation tweaks that benefit both top performers and others throughout the partnership.

       

In a move that may clear the path for app stores to exert more control over deleting third-party apps, a California federal judge has denied music-streaming company Musi's motion to force Apple to reinstate its app on the Apple app store, which it removed in September 2024 due to copyright infringement concerns.

       

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) stands at a critical juncture heading into 2025. Federal agencies are grappling with mounting backlogs, increasingly complex data landscapes, and rising cybersecurity threats. As a new administration takes office, the urgency to adopt innovative, effective solutions has never been greater.

       

“I think that the creation of chaos certainly seems intentional, Kayleigh Baker, an attorney and senior consultant with TNG Consulting, told Law.com. “That makes it very hard for everyone to catch their breath and figure out the actual implications of any one set of materials.

       

Trump ordered independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Communications Commission to submit proposed regulations to the White House to ensure they are in line with the president's priorities.

       

“I don't think, and I don't think it's correct, that even if there was a quid pro quo, there would be any issue with this motion, Acting Attorney General Emil Bove told federal judge Dale Ho as he insisted the public corruption case be dismissed.

       

More employers who are dismissing workers are opting to deliver the bad news remotely, but a face-to-face meeting is seen as reducing the chance of future litigation.

       

"Together, HPE and Juniper would be better equipped to bring new, better, and more secure networking products to public and private sector customers in the U.S. and worldwide," Freshfields and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher litigators wrote in a court filing defending the HPE-Juniper merger proposal.

       

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The case involves major constitutional questions about presidential power—but its unusual posture could make it a dud.

       

The former appellate judge said he interviewed with King & Spalding upon leaving the federal bench in 2023 and came close to joining the firm then.

       

       

The current narrative that overregulation has harmed the EU's competitiveness may cast a cloud on the appeal of copying the bloc's rules in other parts of the world.