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The government wants a defendant to spend at least 30 years in prison for attempting to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, while defense counsel is seeking an eight-year sentence.
The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. announced Monday that it has hired an experienced in-house attorney who most recently worked for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group to be its general counsel and help steer its legal department.
Perkins Coie LLP has brought on a聽tax attorney who worked in the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Tax Policy, where he handled work related to laws such as the Inflation Reduction Act and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the firm announced Monday.聽
The head of Tucker Ellis LLP's Chicago office will take over as its next managing partner at the start of 2026, replacing the managing partner who has led the firm since 2010, the firm announced Monday.
A career U.S. Department of Justice environmental lawyer, who most recently was the deputy assistant attorney general of the agency's Environmental and Natural Resources Division, has taken his first role in private practice at Bracewell LLP, where he'll work as a partner, the firm announced Monday.
While the president's recently renewed proposal to end quarterly reporting requirements for publicly traded U.S. companies could help reduce workloads for general counsel in theory, investor demand for more regular disclosures makes it unlikely that such a change would make a meaningful difference.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled聽Monday聽that President Donald Trump can fire Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter without cause, and it agreed to reconsider limits on the president's authority to remove members of the FTC.
Alfred Youngwood, a tax attorney, business adviser and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's first democratically elected firm chair, died Friday at the age of 87, the firm has announced.
A D.C. federal judge reduced the amount an attorney who represented Proud Boys members in their Jan. 6 criminal trial owes to a researcher who sued him over unpaid work, dropping a jury's award of $77,000 to just $30,000.
Congress left for recess Friday afternoon after the Senate failed to pass a stopgap spending measure that includes funds for judicial security and the courts.
Susman Godfrey's representation of Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster in an AI copyright suit and Foley Hoag's work on a Massachusetts energy project lead this edition of 蓝莓视频 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Sept. 5 to 19.
The legal industry marked the last official week of summer with attorneys taking on new roles at law departments and firms across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with 蓝莓视频 Pulse's weekly quiz.
The former chief of the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division has left the agency after 22陆 years to join the Washington office of SouthBank Legal, which opened in 2021 with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's husband at the helm.
Agnifilo Intrater LLP leads this week's edition of 蓝莓视频 Legal Lions, after a New York judge threw out the top two charges against Luigi Mangione concerning allegations he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to lift a nationwide order requiring the U.S. Department of State to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary individuals that reflect their gender identity, arguing the mandate wrongly compels the government to express speech it disagrees with.
The legal department at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is facing some shake-ups, with two of its top officials slated to leave the agency in the coming weeks.
Internal Revenue Service officials were among the government attorneys to leave for private practice in recent weeks, with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Baker McKenzie both announcing hires from the agency.
An international arbitration attorney who has worked at The Hague and large law firms in the U.S. has left his most-recent role at Squire Patton Boggs LLP to co-lead Diamond McCarthy LLP's international dispute resolutions practice alongside a colleague and friend he met more than 15 years ago.
Some law firms are taking new steps to stop cyberattacks before they occur, including the use of threat hunting, increased automation and updated training to prepare staff for today's more sophisticated bad actors.
A judge for the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., was confirmed on Thursday as part of the en bloc confirmation of 48 nominees to various positions following Republicans voting in favor of changing the rules.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Dilworth Paxson LLP partner John Squires to serve as the next U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director.
Vinson & Elkins LLP has hired a 10-year veteran of Sidley Austin LLP who is bringing a practice focused on representing clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other energy regulators to a team that recently saw one of its own nominated to chair the agency.
A German lawyer who advises clients on issues at the intersection of technology, privacy, and global technology and telecommunications regulation will join remote law firm Potomac Law Group, where he'll continue his practice in Washington, D.C., after 10 years at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to allow him to move forward with firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, escalating a fight over presidential removal power that will test the boundaries of the central bank's traditional independence.
Continuing on efforts to grow its intellectual property group and build a nationally acclaimed patent litigation practice, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Thursday that it is bringing in a 21-attorney IP team from Ropes & Gray LLP.
Amid uncertainty in the legal job market, attorneys who are considering a transition to a leadership role must fundamentally reimagine their approach to value creation and develop a new set of skills, say Stacy Bratcher at Cottage Health and Michael Watkins at Genesis Advisers.
As the legal industry increasingly looks to impose responsive guardrails for artificial intelligence use, firms and organizations鈥 internal use policies, outside counsel guidelines and vendor contracts can address confidentiality and data retention concerns in several ways, say attorneys at KXT Law.
Firms can develop a strong pro bono culture without hiring dedicated professionals through strategies like demonstrating active involvement by leadership, tailoring volunteer tasks to individual professional development needs and building trusted partnerships within the legal aid community, says Stacy Zinken at Paladin.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Extend Your Content's LifeAttorneys often limit the impact of their thought leadership by letting their content languish after initial publication, but through four easy strategies for retooling existing content, they can maximize its reach and further their business development goals, says Jillian McKenna at Verrill Dana.
鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧婣s the student debt crisis evolves under changing federal policies, firms that proactively address the burden will have significant advantages in recruiting and retaining the best young lawyers, says Brian Kabateck at Kabateck.
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Talking Mental Health: Encouraging New Attys To Find JoyRudene Haynes at Hunton discusses her experiences as a hiring partner, common sources of stress that newer attorneys face and steps that law firms can take to protect their attorneys' mental health and encourage personal life fulfillment.
The incident response plan developed by the Florida Bar's cybersecurity and privacy committee might not seem all that consequential, but it's a long overdue framework that could go a long way toward protecting the highly sensitive data law firms handle聽鈥 and could even set a model for other professional organizations to follow, says Chris Boehm at Zero Networks.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson鈥檚 searing dissents this past term serve as a reminder for attorneys to analyze U.S. Supreme Court minority opinions in their thought leadership for three key reasons, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
Mozart鈥檚 opera 鈥淭he Magic Flute鈥 offers a useful framework for attorneys to build relationships and develop new business, inspired by Prince Tamino鈥檚 curiosity, courage and consistency, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
As in-house legal departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, developing a thoughtful framework to measure key performance indicators can help them both maximize and demonstrate their contribution to business success, say co-founders at New Era ADR.
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Defining The Culture For A Legal NonprofitWe co-founded The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators to connect leading trial lawyers, litigation experts and academics, and our experience has shown that embracing opportunity, responding fearlessly to market realities, and relentlessly defining the organization鈥檚 culture have all been integral to success, say St茅phane Bonifassi, Lincoln Caylor and Elizabeth Ortega.
A few key trends have arisen in partners鈥 lateral movements in the first half of 2025, reflecting a legal market defined by macroeconomic uncertainty, shifts in firm structures and rising scrutiny of firm affiliations, say legal recruiters at Macrae.
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Biz Development Tip Of The Month: Be A Mentor Or MenteeMentorship is a powerful tool for business development when both mentors and mentees approach their relationships with strategic purpose, ensuring professional success while supporting broader business goals, say Angela Liu at Dechert and Jessica Lewis at WilmerHale.
Junior attorneys are increasingly expected to start building books of business while they are still figuring out their long-term career goals, but a few pointers can help young lawyers develop business even when they鈥檙e uncertain about their future direction, says Lana Manganiello at Practice Growth Partner.
As cyberattacks on law firms continue to escalate, bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers must all take steps to protect client funds in attorney trust accounts 鈥 from imposing cyber hygiene mandates to reimagining malpractice coverage 鈥 because once that money is gone, it鈥檚 generally gone for good, says Michael Epstein at The Epstein Law Firm.