U.S District Judge Leo T. Sorokin dismissed both securities fraud and insider trading claims against the pharmaceutical firm, which was represented by Latham & Watkins.

       

A total of 45 law schools appointed 47 law deans—23 were interim appointments—during the calendar year 2025

       

Judicial appointees Cary Fischer, Natalie Barros and Andrés Casas all have backgrounds as prosecutors. The trio have also various worked as pro bono counsel, a professor, a litigator and court attorneys.

       

"I have no doubt that the President wants to seek retribution against me," former Special Counsel Jack Smith said during a closed-door congressional deposition defending his former prosecutions of President Donald Trump.

       

The recently-filed High Court constructive dismissal claim includes a series of allegations against the firm and one of its partners.

       

Explore how evolving trends, technology, and data-driven insights are reshaping Alternative Dispute Resolution to meet rising demands for efficiency, fairness, and strategic alignment in 2026.

       

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, of the Northern District of California, rejected Uber's request to postpone the Jan. 13 bellwether trial in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation.

       

Partners from Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, HSF Kramer and other firms give their take on what is expected to be an big year for corporates and their advisers.

       

The data figures provide an all-time view of which firms have built relationships with leading tech companies where AI is a material driver of business, over the past 10 years.

       

“Being raised by a criminal law professor and an administrative law judge, I have tremendous respect for the judiciary and the valuable service they provide to our country and their communities each day, Aviva Abramovsky said in a statement.

       

Laura Kadetsky's arrival at the Legal Defense Fund bolsters its leadership firepower at a time the Trump administration is rolling back legal protections for marginalized communities.

       

"I think we're probably going to see some applications that we're not anticipating. I'm sure people will be creative with it," said plaintiff's attorney, Sam Wilson.

       

"The court's decision makes clear that school districts injure teachers when they compel or chill their speech on matters of public importance. A huge victory for the First Amendment, we are hopeful it gives others the courage to fight back against discriminatory equity trainings," said the legal nonprofit organization representing the plaintiffs.

       

Latham & Watkins advised Coinbase on its acquisition of prediction markets startup The Clearing Co., bolstering the cryptocurrency exchange's push toward a unified “Everything Exchange.

       

The two defense teams are no strangers to high-profile proceedings. Maduro's lawyer has represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, while one of Flores' attorneys was part of a team that recommended impeachment proceedings against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

       

“This was not a case of a typographical-type error or a couple of small inaccuracies, wrote U.S Magistrate Judge Justin Anand.

       

Microsoft replaced Hossein Nowbar this fall without saying why. A press release issued by ServiceNow Monday included a glowing quote from Microsoft President Brad Smith, who'd been Nowbar's boss.

       

Ali Najmi, formerly in private practice, will helm an advisory committee with a mandate to create a more legally and demographically diverse bench in New York City. Mamdani's executive order forming the committee also details new transparency and ethics requirements.

       

“There is no record of any law restricting open carry at the Founding, let alone a distinctly similar historical regulation,'" wrote Ninth Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, quoting from the high court's 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.        

Defense counsel Barry Pollack, the former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said that Maduro's status as head of a sovereign state, as well as the legality of the U.S. military operation in which he was taken, would be raised in forthcoming court papers. Maduro insisted to the court that he remains president of the Republic of Venezuela.