“Although secondees are meant to function like a full-time attorney and provide relief for the in-house team, many clients find they provide only limited utility and require so much training that the costs outweigh the benefits," Navy Binning, a managing director at Major, Lindsey & Africa, wrote in a blog post.

       

The court denied the state agency's claim that Planned Parenthood was not a "party" under Missouri's fee-shifting state statute, which awards prevailing parties attorney fees against state agencies unless the state can show it was "substantially justified."

       

The firms that succeed in business development don't just rely on a handful of rainmakers. Instead, they build systems, mindsets, and cultures that support relationship-driven growth at scale. To illustrate what this looks like in action, I sat down with three professionals who live and breathe it every day.

       

The Board of Governors of Wayne State University accepted former President Kimberly Espy's abrupt resignation on Wednesday and later the same day appointed Richard Bierschbach as interim president.

       

The Supreme Court of Tennessee filed an order on Sept. 16 asking for public comments from the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners, the Tennessee Access to Justice Commission, law schools and the public on potential regulatory reforms of lawyer licensing.        

Humana is accused of halting contractual payments per its medicare agreement with International Motors to provide plans for International Motors' retirees who are eligible for Medicare.

       

Malpractice insurers for law firms are including AI usage in their consideration of policy agreements, according to Eileen Garczynski, of insurance brokerage EPIC Law Firm Group.

       

Insurer Great Northern Insurance Co., acting on behalf of its subrogee Korro Bio, a biopharmaceutical firm, filed a complaint against biotechnology company Boston Lab Services on Thursday, which alleges the defendant negligently unplugged refrigerators at Korro's facility and caused nearly $1 million in temperature-sensitive biomedical material to be rendered unusable.

       

Taking the latest Global 200 numbers, Law.com‘s intelligence department and senior editors analysed various aspects of firm performance to determine which law firms are racing ahead to make the "global elite."

       

Law firm leaders expect "robust" billing rate increases to continue into 2026, according to a new report, but such a consensus could hint that rate growth will be more "flat" or "contained" in the next few years.

       

The appeals court rejected the U.S. Justice Department's argument that a Supreme Court emergency docket decision from May was a predictor that the government would defeat the legal challenge on the merits.        

“To the extent the right of access is a fundamental right, we have already determined that it does not extend to insurance conservations. A rational relationship clearly exists between the classification of insurers by the Insurance Code and the legitimate state interest of regulating them, and the confidentiality provisions therefore are not unconstitutional special legislation, Appellate Court of Illinois Justice Raymond W. Mitchell said.

       

“Rather, [the evidence] suggests that [the doctors] engaged legal counsel to navigate a complicated legal landscape, Associate Justice Melissa Countway wrote in Tuesday's opinion, disagreeing that physicans' communications with a lawyer fell under the crime-fraud exception.

       

The largest 100 law firms in the world enjoyed a strong rise in profits over the last financial year.

       

Chinese law firms dominate the list ranking law firms by their total number of lawyers, with the world's largest firm now boasting almost 18,000.

       

The largest 200 law firms in the world had another strong period during the last financial year, driven largely by the top U.S.-based institutions.

       

Analysis of the latest Global 200 ranking plus interviews with the leaders of Latham & Watkins, Paul Weiss, Hogan Lovells and others shows the driving force at the top of the world's commercial legal industry.

       

"I think a lot of people have policies, but they don't have policies that were crafted for this era," said Rich Gold, leader of Holland & Knight's Public Policy & Regulation Group.

       

Law firms are beginning to strategize their practices based on the Trump administration's enforcement priorities and pivot to areas of more work.

       

“I get the impression that the judge is trying to confirm that all of the details are in place to ensure that the members of the class receive their due, said Lucas Amodio, a partner at Armstrong Teasdale.