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A D.C. district judge late Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Trump Administration from replacing the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel until the court rules on request for a preliminary injunction blocking the move.
President Donald Trump's nominee to head the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, Gail Slater, pledged on Wednesday to enforce antitrust laws "vigorously and fairly" if she is confirmed to the role.
Jennifer Pizer, general counsel of the LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group Lambda Legal, went from handling intellectual property cases in private practice in California to leading a national legal team fighting for civil rights amid today's heated anti-diversity backlash.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired the most Class of 2023 law graduates among the top 50 law firms, bringing on 411 new attorneys, almost as many as the second and third-ranking firms combined, according to an analysis released Wednesday by legal data company Firm Prospects LLC.
President Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche, who was nominated for deputy attorney general, testified in the Senate on Wednesday that politics shouldn't be a part of the U.S. Department of Justice.
A&O Shearman has increased the benefits it offers U.S.-based personnel, with unlimited in vitro fertilization treatment and $40,000 in adoption or surrogacy services, the firm said.
A discrimination complaint filed by a former patent prosecution specialist against her former employer, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, has been dismissed from Washington, D.C., federal court after both sides reached a settlement agreement.
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney, who most recently was the principal assistant deputy chief of the Criminal Division's fraud section, is among the latest lawyers to leave the agency, rejoining DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has nominated Sidley Austin LLP regulatory litigation and white collar partner Brian P. Morrissey to become the U.S. Department of the Treasury's top lawyer, which would mark a return to the department where he was previously the number two lawyer.
Reed Smith LLP has hired a former King & Spalding LLP finance partner to represent clients in transportation-related financial matters as part of the firm's Washington, D.C., team.
President Donald Trump has tapped Jonathan McKernan, formerly of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau full time, part of a slate of top financial regulatory nominees that has many in industry breathing a sigh of relief.
Veteran appellate litigator and former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal is leaving Hogan Lovells for Milbank LLP in Washington, D.C., Milbank announced Wednesday.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals Committee on Admissions will administer the Next Generation bar exam developed by the National Conference of Bar Examiners beginning February 2028.
The American Bar Association expressed concerns Tuesday over recent remarks coming out of the Trump administration that raised questions on the judiciary's authority to keep the executive branch's power in check, saying that judicial review was among the "oldest and most revered precedent" in the nation's legal history.
Covington & Burling LLP said Tuesday a former associate who most recently served at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services working on drug pricing negotiation programs will return as a partner to the firm's healthcare and life sciences practice groups in Washington, D.C.
The Central Intelligence Agency's new deputy director received a $1 million payment when he recently left his position as general counsel to the video-sharing site Rumble, according to a new public filing by the company.
Each quarter, Law360 Pulse reports on U.S. law firms' financial results from Wells Fargo and Citibank, often highlighting industry averages. But I wanted to dive deeper into the 2024 year-end results that just came out to dissect the highs and lows of law firm performance last year.
Crowell & Moring LLP has hired two attorneys who most recently worked in-house in leadership roles with the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the global technology investor Naspers, now joining the firm's privacy and cybersecurity group as senior counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.
Washington, D.C., firm Wiley Rein LLP has added a former Federal Trade Commission official as counsel, the firm said in a Tuesday announcement.
Amid an absence of activity on the court docket, New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared Tuesday that the federal bribery case against him "will no longer continue," following reports of a U.S. Department of Justice memo directing prosecutors to drop the case.
New York federal Judge Frederic Block has been on a campaign lately, arguing that state court judges should enjoy the same discretion he does to reconsider the sentences of people condemned to spend decades in prison.
Two King & Spalding LLP real estate attorneys who have worked together for at least a decade have moved their practices to Paul Hastings LLP's Washington, D.C., shop, telling Law360 Pulse on Monday that they wanted to join the team because of the firm's recent growth.
The recently fired head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel will remain in his position, at least for a few more days, after a D.C. federal judge on Monday ordered a short pause on his termination the same day he sued to challenge the allegedly "unlawful" removal.
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman again urged the D.C. Circuit on Monday to end the suspension her colleagues imposed on her amid a probe of her fitness to serve as a judge, arguing that her suspension is effectively indefinite and violates the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to drop public corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, an extraordinary development in the wake of a public courtship between the embattled mayor and President Donald Trump.