The bill would prevent the kind of shareholder action that ultimately led Elon Musk's Tesla compensation package to be voided.

More than 30,000 lawyers, or about 34% of eligible members, have already voted in the election since it opened April 15, the CEO of the D.C. Bar said this week. Paul Hastings partner Brad Bondi is running for president against solo practitioner Diane Seltzer.

"Personally I would question a law firm that bent the knee at bullies, and I would hire a lawyer who was a zealous advocate," Sandra Leung said on the 'Original Jurisdiction' podcast.

The former associates launched a campaign inviting the public to ask nonprofits and law schools to remove management-level partners from their boards due to their firms' deals with the Trump administration.

In a SEC filing dated Sunday, Incyte, which is both incorporated and headquartered in Delaware, indicated the payment represents roughly five years of disputed royalty payments linked to the drug Jakafi. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Paul Hastings represented Wilmington, Delaware-based Incyte.

“With our budget request, we're also acting responsibly to try to contain our courthouse footprint and ask you for funding only when it's absolutely necessary," said Robert Conrad, former U.S. district judge and director of the Administrative Office of the Courts.

The case stemmed from allegedly defamatory statements made by a Ghanaian member of Parliament—broadcast from his home in New Jersey—about a BBC journalist. The politician argued that, once the court properly dismissed the claim for actual damages because the plaintiff journalist failed to establish any harm to his reputation from the alleged defamatory statements, the plaintiff therefore could only recover presumed, nominal damages, not to exceed $500 and could not collect punitive damages. The judge agreed.

Foreign lawyers and firms will be allowed to open offices in India and engage in corporate legal matters such as joint ventures, M&A and other related transactional work on a reciprocal basis, as well as represent clients in arbitration cases conducted in the country.

Leaders from the world's largest law firm by revenue looked to gather as many firms on the EEOC list as possible, sources say.

"Even if this Court found a sound basis to exercise discretion under Rule 62.1, Defendants have not made the showing necessary to warrant partial dissolution of the preliminary injunction," U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali wrote in his order denying a Trump administration motion for an indicative ruling.

The stage is set for the justices to finally debate the propriety of nationwide injunctions, and whether President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order—widely seen by scholars as running afoul of the 14th Amendment—should be reinstated as court challenges play out.

A person who was not a creditor of a bankruptcy estate was entitled to actual notice of an injunction that would bar the non-creditor from suing the debtors' insurance carriers, a federal court has ruled.

Steven Lovell will continue to advise Emporia State University but as an outside consultant, not an employee.

Independence, Mary Jo White told Danielle Sassoon, is “something you have to preserve. Because if you lose it, you could not get it back.

"Trust your value. Not every firm will see your worth, but that doesn't mean it's not there. Continue to work hard, seek out supportive environments, and don't settle for a firm that doesn't align with your goals. Confidence and perseverance will lead you to the right opportunities."

Leaders and other personnel in some law firms' pro bono practices initially responded to the Trump administration's executive orders with a “pause as they tried to make sense of the current environment, according to one director at a civil rights organization.

The lawsuit is part of a larger fight from former Philadelphia prosecutor Beth McCaffery to refute misconduct accusations that originated from a 2018 bid from District Attorney Larry Krasner's then-newly installed administration to overturn a murder conviction in a case McCaffery had helped to prosecute.

“She is known for being engaged and responsive, and she has significant Hill experience, so I expect her to succeed in her new role, said Renato Mariotti, a partner at Paul Hastings' investigations and white-collar defense practice in the Am Law 30 firm's Chicago office.

Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing—only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by plaintiff's counsel, which appeared to "strongly support their position on the privilege issue," did not exist at all.