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Despite a growing interest in alternative career paths, most law students still gravitate towards joining private law firms, according to the American Bar Association's latest data. Find out which schools came out on top for job placements in BigLaw, federal and state court clerkships, public interest and more.
Want to know which schools are sending the highest percentage of graduates to BigLaw? How big a slice are landing those prized clerkships in federal or state courts? Explore the ins and outs of law school graduate placement in our interactive graphic.
Corporate legal department leaders are using and planning to use generative artificial intelligence to automate legal tasks, manage contracts and eliminate duplicate data, panelists said at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual conference in Las Vegas.
Steptoe LLP has hired a former Miller & Chevalier Chtd. member, who joins the firm to lead its U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement practice in the firm's Washington and New York offices.
Reed Smith LLP has hired legal technology company Epiq's managing director of applied artificial intelligence to serve as its first director of applied AI, the firm said Tuesday.
FordHarrison LLP tapped an Atlanta partner who has spent her entire career at the management-side labor and employment law firm to serve as its next general counsel.
House Democratic leadership has continued its defense of Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, following the recent bribery indictment against him and his wife, saying the situation is different from the indictments last year against Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., and Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.
Midsize law firms have been getting pummeled lately as large law firms position themselves to take on transactional work in a warming mergers and acquisitions market, in some cases hiring away groups that make up 10% or more of the lawyers at their previous firms.
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP said Monday that a former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. executive is the fourth bank regulatory lawyer to join the firm this year, reuniting with multiple previous Davis Wright Tremaine LLP colleagues.
Attorneys Jim Black and Julie Ryan don't just want to help public benefit and B Corporations through their newly launched Washington, D.C., boutique ImpactGC, they also want to be one.
Midsize law firms Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP on Tuesday announced plans to combine starting next year, creating one firm with a footprint across Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and nearby states.
A former 30-year veteran of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's division of trading and markets, has left retirement to rejoin the ranks of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as an of counsel in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
Law360 Pulse caught up with longtime Washington, D.C., white collar attorney Peggy Bennett about her recent move to legal recruiter Macrae and her advice for lawyers making their own career transitions.
Baker McKenzie announced Monday that it has hired an experienced attorney with more than a decade spent working on international trade matters as a partner in its Washington, D.C., office.
An attorney who worked in-house for healthcare industry trade and advocacy associations has joined healthcare boutique Hooper Lundy & Bookman PC as director of government relations and public policy.
Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP has hired a former Eastern District of Virginia assistant U.S. attorney, who has prosecuted high-ranking ISIS terrorists and a myriad of other criminals during his 18 years with the agency's national security and international crime unit.
The legal recruiting industry is made up of many former practicing lawyers, but not every BigLaw associate or partner is poised to make it in the world of recruiting.
Guatemala's newly elected government has decided not to have Greenberg Traurig as its counsel in its fight against a construction and engineering firm's bid to enforce $31 million in arbitral awards, according to a Friday filing in a D.C. federal court.
Research on the capabilities of generative AI tools to help self-represented people has shown potential, but there is broad disagreement about how and when pro se litigants should be using them alone.
A former attorney who is now a legal recruiter, Karen Vladeck, has opened her own recruiting business, with experienced government attorney Katy Robinette joining her as managing director.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, blasted a Massachusetts judicial nominee on Friday for failing to disclose prior to his nomination hearing that his name appears on the letterhead of a 2020 public statement issued in the wake of protests following the murder of George Floyd by police.
Clement & Murphy PLLC and Yetter Coleman LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Fifth Circuit reversed a Texas federal court's $1.6 billion ruling against IBM in an operating agreement dispute with Houston-based software company BMC.
A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission senior official headed to a new affiliate of Cranfill Sumner LLP to launch a white collar office, and a former top antitrust prosecutor joined a boutique firm as a name partner, in some of the latest moves in the Washington, D.C., legal world.
Aswathi "Ash" Zachariah, general counsel for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., is taking on some additional duties two years after she took over the post, the organization said.
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP said Friday it has launched a Latin America practice to be led by a former longtime Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner.