While 2024 proved solid, the pressing question now is whether firms—including those at the top of the Pro Bono Scorecard ranking—have scaled back or adjusted their focus.

       

Jenner & Block leads in average hours and has the most committed attorneys, based on the firm's percentage of lawyers who contributed at least 20 hours of pro bono last year.

       

Jenner & Block has knocked Dechert out of the number one spot as having the highest pro bono score among its non-U.S. lawyers.

       

Jenner & Block remained in the top spot in this year's Pro Bono Scorecard.

       

Insiders said that the firm's partnership is unwilling to disrupt the progress the firm has made in the past four years, particularly stateside.

       

The New Jersey Supreme Court ordered Multicounty Litigation designation for more than 40 Roundup cases pending in New Jersey state courts.

       

The order followed Anthropic's removal of the case from a California Superior Court to federal court, arguing that Reddit's claim over scraping data for AI training was, in essence, a copyright claim.

       

The federal government is asking the appeals court to lift a preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali on March 10 ordering the Trump administration to make available for obligation billions of dollars appropriated in the 2024 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.

       

"Plaintiffs, accordingly, may not circumvent the Tucker Act or the APA's reviewability bar by reframing an alleged statutory violation as a constitutional claim," U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss of the District of Columbia wrote in a ruling allowing the Trump administration to terminate or restructure five immigration court programs.

       

Peter Davis is the second lateral litigation partner at Jenner in recent weeks to come from a firm that made a deal with President Donald Trump.

       

New York State has issued a preliminary response to a Department of Justice lawsuit seeking to strike protections against civil immigration arrests in and around courthouses in the Empire State.
       

Althea Brown spent 11 years at Google before joining the wealth management company LPL in September 2023.

       

Wendy Fiel spent two years at Heineken USA and was serving as assistant AG when she left in 2019 to join Sabra Dipping Co., a maker of hummus and other Middle Eastern foods. The company hired her as senior counsel and promoted her to chief legal officer in 2021.

       

Henry Liu, former director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition under the Biden administration, has returned to Covington as a partner and co-chair of its global antitrust and competition law practice group.

       

The twin 8-year-old girls were at Camp Mystic in Kerr County, Texas, when the deadly flash flood struck over the holiday weekend.

       

The Judicial Council of Georgia Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence has outlined next steps toward implementing generative artificial intelligence into court rules and procedures.

       

Robert Gottlieb has elevated Paul Townsend to name partner. “I am proud and excited to change the name of the firm to Gottlieb Townsend, stated Gottlieb, who established the business more than 40 years ago and has since built a highly respected firm both in New York and on the national stage.

       

“A combination of increased investment in crypto and decreased criminal and regulatory enforcement is a perfect storm for an explosion in crypto civil litigation, said Mark E. Bini, a partner at Reed Smith's global regulatory enforcement division.

       

Neel Chatterjee's former firm had supplied diversity data on lawyers to the EEOC and quit industry organizations promoting DEI.

       

"Focus on developing your network, not only outside of your firm but internally as well; colleagues have the potential to become some of your greatest supporters and also sources of work. Find a niche area that interests you and become an expert in it; develop it as your area of specialty and use it to distinguish yourself."