In this Legal Speak episode, host Patrick Smith interviews Carolyn Burbrink, director of volume mobility safety and insurance litigation at Uber.

David Smith, a solo practitioner with a criminal defense practice in Texas, talks about how he has saved time and clients with AI.

"Producing excellent legal work is table stakes when it comes to making partner. You also need to actively demonstrate that you are ready for this next step. Seek out the tough assignments, build relationships across the firm, and take ownership of your professional growth."

"In February 2025, the SEC communicated it was closing this inquiry without enforcement action," PayPal Holdings Inc. disclosed Tuesday in its Form 10-Q.

LL Bean voluntarily dropped its trademark suit against a promotional merchandiser for infringing on its "Boat and Tote" canvas bags design less than a month after filing the complaint.

In a little-publicized but powerful campaign, Amazon has been teaming up with intellectual property owners to take counterfeiters to court—often footing the legal bill itself. The lawsuits have targeted a wide range of counterfeit goods, from unauthorized copies of the now-ubiquitous “Stanley cup to unlicensed replicas of the WWE heavyweight champion belt.

See hiring stats for every law school that sent a 2024 graduate to one of the largest 500 firms.

Search our Go-To Law Schools data by school to see the firms where 2024 graduates found associate jobs.

Here's a look at how much it costs to attend a law school that has a strong Big Law track record.

These law schools sent the highest percentage of 2024 graduates to associate jobs at the largest 100 law firms.

Top-ranked law schools sent the most students to top-performing law firms in profits per lawyer, but firms ranked outside the top 50 by U.S. News sent nearly twice as many students to those most profitable firms in 2024 as they did in 2020.

For the survey's 20th anniversary, Law.com expanded the survey to include the full NLJ 500, instead of only the top 100 largest firms from the NJL survey, in order to get a more complete picture of the data.

Plaintiffs filed the proposed class action lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Conservative appellate lawyer and former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement has joined the defense team representing Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested April 25 for allegedly interfering with an immigrant arrest and deportation operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Even then, Mr. Kachouroff represented that he personally outlined and wrote a draft of a brief before utilizing generative artificial intelligence," U.S. District Judge Nina Y. Wang of the District of Colorado said. "Given the pervasiveness of the errors in the legal authority provided to it, this court treats this representation with skepticism."

All but one of the nine law firm deals with Trump include language about “law enforcement pro bono work. But some types of pro bono work for law enforcement could meet resistance at firms.

Garrigues employees in Madrid were inaugurating new headquarters when the power went out.

Citing recent orders in other courts, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary sought on Tuesday to reopen its 2023 lawsuit against plaintiffs' talc expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline.

In an open letter to employees, an American Airlines executive disclosed that the company had sued JetBlue to recoup money allegedly owed following the dissolution of their former Northeast Alliance, an arrangement that was ultimately blocked by a Massachusetts federal court for antitrust concerns.