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A medical-school style model of legal education is expanding to a second California law school, giving law students the option of a year of hands-on training experience and a head start for post-graduation employment while providing much-needed support for nonprofits and government agencies.
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has added more litigation muscle with a nine-attorney pickup from Pillinger Miller Tarallo LLP, expanding the larger firm's head count in locations including New Jersey and New York.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP said Tuesday it has signed lease extensions and is expanding its base in London as it commits to getting its staff to work in the office.
Kennedys Law LLP said Tuesday it has opened new offices in Los Angeles and Seattle as the firm looks to build on its accelerating U.S. growth.
U.S. legal professionals may be adopting generative artificial intelligence tools far faster than they started using cloud-based tools, according to results released Tuesday from a survey on technology trends in litigation and investigation that e-discovery software provider Everlaw conducted with the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists.
Womble Bond Dickinson said Tuesday that its U.S. business is merging with regional law firm Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP at the start of the new year, the third law firm merger to be announced in the last week.
Cooley LLP said Tuesday that it has recruited the head of Taylor Wessing LLP's emerging companies and venture capital practice, one of three partner hires as it seeks to boost its transactional ability in London, part of a broader plan for growth in the English capital.
Clifford Chance LLP is expanding its capital markets team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Latham & Watkins LLP energy and infrastructure expert as a partner in its Houston office.
Greenberg Traurig LLP bolstered its new San Diego office this week with the addition of a five-attorney team to the firm's private wealth services practice from Withers LLP.
A recent student debt study by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division has found that student debt affects young attorneys in many ways — including changing their career plans.
A longtime DLA Piper attorney focused on real estate investment and development is stepping up to co-lead the firm's U.S. real estate practice, according to an announcement Monday.
A longtime partner and chair of the antitrust and competition practice at Foley & Lardner LLP is now the general counsel at the Major League Baseball Milwaukee Brewers, the lawyer said in a recent LinkedIn post.
A former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP partner and trial attorney has made his new home in King & Spalding LLP's product liability and mass torts practice group in Miami, the firm announced Monday.
The head of the global finance practice at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, an attorney with a history of working on multibillion-dollar transactions, is joining Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Skadden announced Monday.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP announced Monday that it has hired for its antitrust practice a new partner who worked as an in-house attorney at Google for 15 years.
Philadelphia-founded Ballard Spahr LLP and Seattle-based Lane Powell PC announced on Monday their plans to merge and form a combined firm with more than 750 lawyers under the Ballard Spahr name.
The New York City Bar Association has launched a presidential task force on artificial intelligence and digital technologies with nine subcommittees focused on different areas of AI including access to justice, healthcare and national security, the organization said Monday.
Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has hired a public mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance lawyer from King & Spalding LLP as a partner in New York to strengthen its global M&A platform.
An Eleventh Circuit judge who has explored how courts might use artificial intelligence to interpret terms in legal disputes revisited this idea in a recent concurring opinion in a criminal appeal, though he acknowledged the notion is "fairly provocative."
The upcoming merger of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP and Locke Lord LLP, set for January 2025 and expected to create a firm with over 1,600 attorneys across 33 offices, is indicative of a broader, accelerating trend of consolidation in the legal industry, according to consultants and experts.
Two international arbitrators from WilmerHale and Hanotiau & van den Berg have left their previous firms after near-20-year stints to set up their own boutique practice.
The former chief investigator for the torts division at the New York City Law Department has agreed to pay a $2,000 fine to resolve violations related to the use of her government email account in communications with management of her cooperative apartment.
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss a Chapter 11 petition from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former CFO, who is currently incarcerated for embezzling millions from the firm, because he has stonewalled the trustee's requests for information about his finances.
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Melissa Hart on Friday said she had the "scariest night of my life" following a decision to bar former president Donald Trump from the state's ballot, adding that judges involved in Trump election cases "live in fear" because of death threats and a divisive political climate.
Steptoe LLP has expanded its transactions and tax practice by hiring a New York-based partner as a co-leader of the firm's insolvency and restructuring team.