"These principles flow naturally from the court's interest in vigorously defending the integrity of the legal process and procedural rules. When a party is served properly and fails to appear, as is undisputed here, the party faces the consequences of that failure. One such consequence is that the party is charged with notice of all future proceedings, including any judgment entered," said Chief Judge John P. Torbitzky, who authored the opinion.

Associate work is already being written off at a relatively high pace—realization for associates is only about 85.6%—and this is where AI can help.

It's been one of the more challenging years for higher education and most disruptive years for legal education in the amount of things that have been happening, Austen Parrish told Law.com.

U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna, D-California, and Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, sought leave to appear as amici curiae in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, saying they believe the DOJ requires oversight to comply with the law.

It may be "business as usual" for Greenland's law firms today, but tomorrow's tremors threaten to rewrite legal history.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said there was reason to accept Bruce Fein's request to represent Maduro, after Fein admitted he was neither retained by Maduro, nor Barry Pollack, Maduro's actual attorney.

"If permitted to stand, the secretary's censure and the grade-determination proceedings that he has directed will inflict immediate and irreparable harm," counsel for U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly wrote in a complaint alleging U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unlawfully censured Kelly for recording a video that advised U.S. servicemembers to disregard unlawful orders.

The keynote will take place Monday, March 9 as part of Legalweek's expanded programming. The conference will be held at the Javits Center in New York City from March 9 to 12.

Rate hikes remained the primary profitability driver for a cohort of nearly 150 regional law firms, according to a new Law.com survey.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday in a pair of cases involving state bans on trans athletes competing on girls' sports teams.

When managing associate Tanya Sadoughi found a recurring problem in the banking and finance practice, she put her newfound coding skills to the test and created a tool that is now used across the firm globally.

The record figure is a 7% jump from the previous year.

The claims by a former counsel—strongly denied by Latham—have ignited debate across Asia's legal community about opaque promotion processes, origination%E2%80%91credit practices and deeper systemic flaws in Big Law.

The state bar's leaders must decide soon what its future bar exams will look like, and how they will be administered, if they are to comply with a new law requiring two years' notice before changing the licensing test's format.

Elizabeth Burch, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, and expert on mass torts, talked to Law.com about her new book, 'The Pain Brokers,' which is about a sordid scheme within the pelvic mesh litigation that shocked the mass tort world.

"As we told the judge, what happened with the dissolution was like if Tim Cook started a company called Apple 2.0, transferred all of Apple's assets to the new company, and told the existing Apple shareholders, 'Oops, your stock is worthless now,'" plaintiff's attorney Michael Forde said.

"A lot of the men involved in this case are older, and dozens have died during the bankruptcy proceedings. My first thought after seeing the decision this morning is that it finally gives these men closure and the ability to move forward," said Ken Rothweiler, of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck in Philadelphia.

A federal judge dismissed claims seeking to turn alleged anti-money-laundering lapses by a cryptocurrency exchange and an analytics firm into civil RICO liability for hacker thefts.

Challenges to these laws are now working their way through the federal appeals process, with courts set to wade into issues of standing and the litigants with their eyes likely set on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to observers.

"The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President," Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in response to a U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation targeting Powell over testimony he previously delivered to Congress.