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The Supreme Court's Week: By The Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including in one of the term's most anticipated disputes over Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors and another involving art taken from Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Legal Hiring Continues Growth In November
The U.S. legal sector saw job growth continue in November, logging its third consecutive month of increases after a four-month decline earlier this year, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
The legal industry began December with another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump continued to make appointments and BigLaw firms shifted their physical footprints. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Judge Newman Brings Fight To End Her Suspension To DC Circ.
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to rule that a suspension her colleagues have imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge violates the U.S. Constitution.
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Covington Helps Take Calif. Court Reporter Shortage To Court
Covington & Burling LLP is among the counsel for groups petitioning the California Supreme Court to address the state's court reporter shortage by mandating the use of electronic recording when court reporters are unavailable.
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Ex-Posner Staffer Asks Court To Allow Salary Suit To Proceed
A former staffer suing retired U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner for $170,000 in back pay has rejected Judge Posner's claim that the suit is untimely, arguing the onetime Seventh Circuit jurist's conduct was so egregious that it's exempt from otherwise relevant statutes of limitations.
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Ex-Leader At Seton Hall Law Gets 3 Years For Embezzlement
A New Jersey federal judge sentenced on Thursday a former assistant dean at Seton Hall University School of Law to three years in prison for leading a 13-year embezzlement scheme that defrauded her former employer of $1.3 million.
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Disgruntled Dems Move On From Appellate Noms Deal
While some Democrats have gripes about the deal Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made with Republicans before Thanksgiving on judicial confirmations, they grudgingly concede the deal helps them fill as many seats as possible even if it means leaving choice circuit seats for President-elect Donald Trump to fill.
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Sentencing Judge Wants Jail Healthcare Info In Threats Case
Saying he needed additional briefs on mental health treatments in federal prisons, a Connecticut federal judge on Thursday postponed sentencing a man who pled guilty to mailing more than 150 threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court justices, state and federal judges, other officials and journalists.
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Lowenstein Sandler Suit Gets New NJ Judge After DQ Request
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has persuaded an Essex County Superior Court judge to recuse himself from the firm's $800,000 fee suit against a cannabis dispensary over social connections to the litigants and their counsel and had the case assigned to a new judge this week.
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'A Different Ballgame': Courts Contend With AI Deepfakes
Lawyers, judges and forensics experts must be proactive in recognizing deepfakes, or artificial intelligence-modified content, in courts, a panel of experts said during a webinar on Thursday.
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Meet The Nominee For Next Vice Chancellor In Delaware
Bonnie W. David, who has served as a magistrate in Delaware Chancery Court since last year, has been nominated by outgoing Gov. John Carney to serve as a vice chancellor to fill a seat that will be left vacant by the judge she clerked for a decade ago.
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Combs Demands Court Inquiry Into Copied Jail Notes
Sean "Diddy" Combs urged a Manhattan federal judge to hold a special hearing and consider dismissing his sex-trafficking indictment after staff at the Metropolitan Detention Center photographed his allegedly privileged, handwritten notes during a sweep of the prison and sent them to prosecutors, who he says used the information to argue against bail.
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NC's Top Justice Elevates 2 Judges To Chief Roles
North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby on Wednesday named two new chief judges to helm multiple county courts in the Tar Heel State, one in the east and one in the west, one of whom has already started serving in her new role overseeing state district court proceedings.
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Senate Confirms New Mexico Prosecutor To Federal Bench
The Senate voted 52-45 on Thursday to confirm Sarah Davenport, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico, as district judge.
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What's Next For The Global Legal Market In 2025?
While U.S.-based firms with an international footprint are pulling back from some locations, they may still consider building out a new, albeit smaller, footprint in other countries, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia.
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These Law Firms Are Law360 Pulse's Global Leaders
What does it mean to be a truly global legal powerhouse? The law firms spotlighted in our 2024 ranking are setting the standard for worldwide reach.
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Chancery Gets Another Magistrate To Help Move Its Caseload
Another former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney who previously worked for Delaware's Department of Justice, and most recently was chief legal counsel to outgoing Gov. John Carney, has joined the Chancery Court as a magistrate.
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Senate Confirms Judges To NY's Central, Northern Districts
The Senate confirmed two judges on Wednesday for the Northern District of New York, one of whom is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Jackson's 'Quite Worried' About Equal Protection Precedent
The U.S. Supreme Court's Republican-appointed justices' apparent willingness Wednesday to rule that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors didn't rely on sex-based classifications worried Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who warned that such a decision would undermine decades of the court's equal protection clause precedent.
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Gorsuch Exits Utah NEPA Suit Amid Flak Over Billionaire Ties
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from a case involving a controversial railway project Wednesday afternoon, the high court's clerk said, following calls for him to step away from the National Environmental Policy Act dispute in light of his connections to a Colorado billionaire.
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Trump Asks Ga. Appeals Court To End Election Prosecution
President-elect Donald Trump moved Wednesday to scuttle the last pending criminal charges against him, telling the Georgia Court of Appeals it's time to end the election interference case against him as he prepares to return to the White House next year.
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DeSantis Says Ousted Fla. Atty's Election Loss Dooms Case
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a state attorney he suspended made competing pitches to the Eleventh Circuit this week over whether the ousted prosecutor's First Amendment lawsuit is now moot since he lost his bid for reelection last month.
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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Looks To Invalidate Ga. Plea Deal
Kenneth Chesebro, a former attorney for President-elect Donald Trump and one of four Trump co-defendants to strike a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors, sought to overturn his agreement in a filing on Wednesday.
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For ADR And Judiciary In Ga., Diversity Brings Understanding
Fostering greater diversity among alternative dispute resolution providers and judges in Georgia is critical for navigating cultural differences and helping litigants feel better understood, according to a series of panel discussions this week.