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Demand in the Washington, D.C., legal market was relatively flat the first half of 2024, trailing law firms nationally, according to new data shared with Law360 Pulse.
DLA Piper has continued its recent expansion of the firm's government affairs and public policy practice with the addition of another Williams & Jensen PLLC attorney.
Bolstered by technological advancements, BigLaw firms are relying more on specialized e-discovery attorneys who can provide more focused legal guidance and technical support.
The road for many lawyers to their final career destination is winding. What a person thinks they want in law school may change once, twice or more in the following decades. Here, Law360 presents four stories about the winding path of lawyer career aspirations.
A former Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP attorney, who most recently worked with communications infrastructure company Crown Castle as a government relations lawyer, has returned to work at the Federal Communications Commission in Commissioner Brendan Carr's office as a legal adviser.
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday returned a superseding indictment accusing Donald Trump of conspiring to subvert the results of the 2020 election, maintaining the same four criminal counts contained in the original indictment after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that former presidents possess immunity from prosecution related to official acts.
Fish & Richardson PC has hired the general counsel at Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox PLLC as its new chief legal risk officer, who is bringing her more than 15 years of experience with intellectual property law firm risk management and compliance to the firm.
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP has a new director of marketing and communications who previously served in similar roles at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls still believes in the importance of informing the public about the judiciary, but these days she's a little more careful about what she says.
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association has named Wells Fargo, CBRE and Articulate as its 2024 Employer of Choice Award winners, recognizing those companies for their commitment to championing diversity, equity and inclusion in their legal departments.
A D.C. federal judge has again blocked a Republican attorney general from demanding a slew of records from liberal media watchdog Media Matters, this time halting a probe from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
Rhoda Weeks-Brown, a veteran of more than 27 years with the International Monetary Fund who has been its general counsel since 2018 and was the first woman tapped for the role, is retiring at the end of next month, the group announced Monday.
U.S. law firm revenue was up 11.4% during the first half of 2024 compared to this time last year, marking one of the industry's best first halves in memory, second only to 2021, according to survey results released Monday by Wells Fargo Private Bank.
Just over a year after the American Bar Association formalized long-standing due diligence rules for attorneys' interactions with clients, an ABA committee on Friday released its first ethics opinion providing guidance on interpreting the rules amendment.
A prominent conservative lawyer says like-minded election integrity group True the Vote owes his firm over $500,000 in attorney fees for a suit against the Internal Revenue Service that was settled years ago, telling a D.C. federal judge Friday that it's time for TTV to pay up.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LP has named a former Nevada state senator and onetime deputy general counsel of the FBI as co-leader of its government investigations and white collar defense practice, the firm announced this week.
Richards Layton's handling of a suit over Tesla's Texas relocation and Wiley's representation of an American solar panel makers' interest group lead this edition of Law360 Pulse's Spotlight On Mid-Law Work, recapping the top matters for Mid-Law firms from Aug. 9 to 23.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as BigLaw firms expanded practices, shook up partnership models, and outlined new policies on office attendance. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Fillmore Law Firm LLP, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center and the Business Roundtable lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a Texas federal judge blocked a Federal Trade Commission ban on noncompete agreements in employment contracts.
Washington, D.C., firms in recent weeks hired attorneys experienced in securities enforcement and government investigations, with McGuireWoods bringing on the chief of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's cryptocurrency-focused unit, and Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP adding a former U.S. Department of Justice official.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Arizona can enforce part of a law that requires proof of citizenship when residents register to vote, but won't unblock a provision extending the requirement to voting by mail or in presidential elections.
The bribery trial of former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez's wife is delayed until at least January because she is being treated for cancer, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday.
Fisher Phillips' new D.C.-based agriculture employment partner has practiced several types of law throughout his career, and told Law360 Pulse Thursday that his employment law career started unexpectedly after a managing partner at one of his first firms called out sick before an interview.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is continuing to grow its talent in the energy space, announcing Wednesday that it has hired two Locke Lord LLP attorneys.
Midsize firm Roetzel & Andress will complete the largest single expansion in the firm's nearly 150-year history when it adds more than 40 attorneys from regional firm Brouse McDowell at the beginning of October.