The national mean scaled score for the February 2026 Multistate Bar Examination reveals a slight increase compared to 2025, but still trails results from two of the three previous years.

       

On or around March 17, 2026, former Williams & Connolly clerk Dante Chambers allegedly began posting what is now "hundreds of communications on Instagram related to Williams & Connolly, some of which contained confidential information related to the firm's clients."

       

The departure of Toshiro Mochizuki and Kana Morimura from A&O Shearman leaves the firm with no capital markets and dispute offerings in Tokyo.

       

On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Rukhsanah Singh disqualified Beasley Allen from representing thousands of women in the talcum powder multidistrict litigation against Johnson & Johnson and removed the Montgomery, Alabama-based firm from the steering committee.

       

Opposing the rising Big Law trend of recruiting law students within their first year, Susman Godfrey is going another direction.

       

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough partner Sheria Clark is one of President Donald Trump's latest judicial nominees to weather intense Democratic criticism after refusing to say who won the 2020 presidential election during her nomination hearing to be a South Carolina federal judge.

       

For the first time since the 1990s, the gender pay gap grew slightly in the U.S. in 2026, providing a wake-up call to employers and litigators. But on the local level, some states with pay-transparency laws—and others with no such laws—have succeeded in closing the gap.

       

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein was skeptical that the U.S. government's interests in maintaining sanctions on Venezuela justified preventing the country from paying Nicolás Maduro's legal fees, pointing out that the U.S. was now doing business in Venezuela and that Maduro could no longer engage in the conduct that resulted in the sanctions.        

A new ethics advisory opinion released last month permits sitting federal judges to speak openly about threats against the judiciary and address “persecution. The judges are taking advantage.

       

The move comes after the firm suffered notable losses of top partners in the past two years, including a former name partner and a former managing partner.

       

"All of these companies need ... to figure out whether or not they're covered by these age-appropriate design codes. I think there are some people who are going to be shocked that they fall under them," said Nerissa Coyle McGinn, a partner at Loeb & Loeb.

       

Mathew Cooper, Capital One's legal chief since 2018, took on the additional title "president of Discover integration" last spring.

       

Honario Rosario-Silverio was awarded a verdict of $36.4 million in his suit against PPC Commercial and Foodtown.

       

The ruling allows the case to move forward on behalf of investors who purchased NVIDIA shares between August 2017 and November 2018, a period marked by surging and then collapsing cryptocurrency markets.

       

The state high court reinstated a $67,361.25 attorney fee award in connection with plaintiff Andres Hidalgo's successful challenge of anti-SLAPP counterclaims brought by his employer Watch City Construction Corp.

       

Major real estate firms will have to face claims that their commission practices drove up home prices across the nation, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said this week.

       

Everett Martinez, who's led the airport's 18-person team since 2022, says he raised concerns about the propriety of a city land swap and about how the city sought to justify refusing to grant a lease to Key Lime Air, a contractor for U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Luminance Technologies Chief of Staff Jaeger Glucina, live from the Legalweek 2026 Conference in New York.

       

With data showing the proportion of women partners shrinking at AmLaw 200 firms in London, Law.com speaks with senior female partners at top U.S. firms who point to a range of explanations, including the recent curtailment of DEI in Big Law.

       

In this Legal Speak episode, co-hosts Cedra Mayfield and Patrick Smith interview Lexis Nexis CEO Jeff Reihl and EVP and GC Alexandra Smyth.