"It's good to have the vacancies filled," University of Richmond Law School professor Carl Tobias said after the U.S. Senate confirmed all four of President Donald Trump's judicial picks to serve on North Carolina federal trial courts.

U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield is mulling whether to join other federal judges who have struck U.S. Attorneys selected by President Donald Trump's administration.

Despite “grave and disturbing allegations that Kathryn “Lee Boyd and Michael Hausfeld have made against each other, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the Southern District of New York decided on Thursday that the pair must continue co-leading a suit seeking to hold BNP Paribas liable for the human rights abuses that forced 23,000 people to flee Sudan in the early 2000s.

"The timing of a judge's decision to assume senior status—or to reconsider that decision—is no analogue to the types of activities determined by the Committee [on the Codes of Conduct] to trigger Canon 5's prohibition on political activity,” the dismissal order stated.

Savvy firms have been looking to realize efficiencies from their back office operations for several decades now, and private equity has played an indirect role. But the willingness to take the relationship a step further could be revolutionary.

This decision directly impacts the initial stage of collective actions—the process of determining which employees are "similarly situated" and should receive official notice of the lawsuit.

"Not a single witness testified about the approximate dollar amount of Sterilite's lost goodwill or how that amount could be calculated," a federal judge said about part of a jury verdict in favor of the plastic manufacturer.

On this podcast edition of Supreme Court Brief, Harvard Law School professor Richard Re discusses his scholarship on the "realignment" of conservative and liberal justices on the fundamental principles of legal discretion and constraint.

“I think they really are going to kick it into high gear, said Jason Schwartz, cochair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's labor and employment group.

Gretchen Greene, a former Ropes & Gray associate, returns to the firm with a mandate to "accelerate the firm's leadership" in legal artificial intelligence adoption and innovation across the firm's offices and practices.

Besides top and bottom lines this year, a "soft" middle market could affect recruiting, staffing and strategy for law firms in 2026 and beyond.

Van Kwawegen expects JVK Law to include at least nine former Bernstein Litowitz lawyers, including three former partners.

Solo law practice has long been misunderstood. It's been seen as a step back, a retreat, a sign of failing to “be strong and stay the course. Yet the survey data directly contradicts these assumptions.

Safety must remain the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's top priority and it should be achieved more efficiently, said nominee Douglas Weaver.

The two lawsuits filed Wednesday are the first wrongful death claims brought in connection with the accident. Both were brought in Kentucky state court and are represented by attorneys from Clifford Law Offices out of Chicago, and the Louisville-based law firm Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers.

Wednesday's mistrial motion, filed by Walmart, Walgreens and CVS, cites the extraordinary length of jury deliberations and some of the notes sent by the jury, including one that asked for the sworn oath of jurors.

Mastick was six months pregnant when she got scheduled to appear on the show—in the nick of time before she was too far along to fly across the country from her home in Indiana.

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared hesitant to allow a federal civil rights lawsuit from a Mississippi preacher convicted of violating a local ordinance for evangelizing outside a public amphitheater.

Any sale of the Pierre which would result in a termination of the proprietary leases would require appropriate disclosure and shareholder approval, the judge stated.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California wrote that the court would not bar an attorney from a litigation role because they had previously worked with the client during the underlying transaction.