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Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday made the case at an event adjacent to the Democratic National Convention that U.S. Supreme Court reform is an issue that everyday Americans should care about and championed the progress made thus far.
A hearing transcript unsealed Wednesday unpacks a secret meeting between Jackson Walker LLP and former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, covering Jones being criminally investigated for concealing his romance with an ex-firm partner, him accusing the U.S. trustee of leaking news of that probe and that Jones likely has failed to avoid a deposition.
A former attorney for the far-right Oath Keepers group pled guilty Wednesday to charges connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, copping to entering restricted Capitol grounds and advising Oath Keepers affiliates to delete incriminating digital evidence following the riot.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced several appointments for Peach State attorneys, including a superior court seat, a district attorney and a county solicitor.
With technology like artificial intelligence poised to reshape the legal industry, New Jersey litigation experts and judges are forecasting an "evolution" in how parts of the practice law, from meet and confers to evidentiary hearings, will be handled, according to a panel discussion broadcast Wednesday.
Lawyers from Dickinson Wright PLLC told a New York federal judge on Wednesday that they have been discharged by the former CEO of real estate investment firm ArciTerra ahead of his October trial for issuing a bogus $77 million offer for WeWork shares.
Ohio Court of Appeals Chief Judge Thomas J. Osowik is now ensnared in state Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Brunner's challenge to a state law requiring candidates for Ohio's appellate courts to list their political party affiliation on the ballot, appearing as a defendant in a retooled version of her complaint.
A Boston federal judge said Wednesday he will allow briefing on whether he should recuse himself from the case of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is seeking a new sentencing trial over claims of possible jury bias.
The former fiancee of ex-Girardi Keese executive Chris Kamon told a California federal jury in Tom Girardi's criminal trial Tuesday about a dramatic call she received from Kamon, during which he told her he was about to be "pinned" for the firm's crimes and wanted her to flee to the Bahamas with him.
A former assistant U.S. attorney with senior counsel experience at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined technology company Tools For Humanity, a startup co-founded and chaired by OpenAI head Sam Altman, as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer.
The Florida Supreme Court has suspended the licenses of a Tallahassee attorney couple after they pled no contest to charges related to a criminal case in which their former babysitter accused them of sexual assault during an incident at the couple's home.
A former judicial assistant to a Wayne County Circuit Court judge pled guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $60,000 from the jurist, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.
Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is vying to upend her convictions for perjury and mortgage fraud, telling the Fourth Circuit the federal prosecution was riddled with errors from the outset.
Stanford Law School announced it has received a grant to bolster an ongoing partnership with the Superior Court of Los Angeles County that aims to implement new approaches to lower the barrier to participate in the judicial process across the county.
A Michigan state judge said she now knows the "injustice" of being falsely accused, urging a judicial watchdog to reject charges that she lied to investigators who were probing another judge's misconduct.
The legal industry continues to see incremental gains for female lawyers in private practice in the U.S., according to a Law360 Pulse analysis, with women now representing 40.6% of all attorneys and 51% of all associates.
The Law360 Pulse Women in Law Report provides a data-driven view of U.S. law firms at the end of 2023. Here, we look at the representation of women at all levels of a typical law firm, from associates to equity partners.
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
Female attorneys have reached a new high in their share of law firm equity partnerships, but firms' progress simply hasn't been significant enough to shatter the longstanding glass ceiling in the industry.
A Michigan county has agreed to pause plans to consolidate seven court locations into one courthouse in Flint and get judges' buy-in on the future of the court facilities, resolving a lawsuit filed by the judges.
Convicted U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and two of his co-defendants want their guilty verdicts thrown out, telling a New York federal judge the government failed to offer any evidence of how the senator used his office's power to benefit any of the alleged bribe givers.
At least four former attorneys with the defunct Girardi Keese law firm are under active investigation related to the federal government's California wire fraud case and have received letters informing them they are targets, an IRS criminal investigator disclosed Monday under cross-examination by Tom Girardi's attorney at his criminal trial.
A federal employee who was denied top-up pay while on active duty as a military reservist urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to rule that all federally employed reservists are owed differential pay if serving during a national emergency, regardless of the circumstances.
Massachusetts federal prosecutors have shaved 11 months off of a nine-year sentencing request for an Illinois attorney who was convicted of collecting proceeds from an email fraud scheme, after the First Circuit vacated three of the lawyer's six counts on venue grounds.
The Second Circuit on Monday once again greenlighted an investor lawsuit accusing Macquarie Infrastructure Corp. of hiding the expected impact of a high-sulfur fuel ban on its oil storage business, saying that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Macquarie's favor had little impact on the circuit court's earlier ruling that the case should move forward.