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Prominent U.S. Supreme Court attorney and SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein has a negative net worth of more than $3.3 million and is mired in debt to his attorneys, he said in a filing Wednesday seeking to modify the conditions of his release ahead of a trial on federal criminal tax evasion charges.
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP has hired the former vice president for political strategy and external partnerships at Visa Inc. who is joining the firm as its policy director in the state government relations group, the firm announced Wednesday.
The Wagner Law Group has added a benefits and executive compensation attorney from Paul Hastings LLP to its ranks in Washington, D.C., picking up a lawyer who can draw on almost three decades of experience to assist the boutique firm's clients.
The public courtship between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and President Donald Trump is worrying some white collar legal experts, who say that Trump influencing the U.S. Department of Justice to drop Adams' corruption case would depart from over 40 years of policies aimed at keeping politics out of prosecutorial decisions.
As law firms battle for business in a more competitive market, the new year has seen a wave of chief marketing officer appointments. This shift, experts say, reflects a growing emphasis on strategic leadership and business development, as firms look to differentiate themselves and drive growth.
Amid a patent litigation landscape dominated by BigLaw, Chicago-based intellectual property boutique Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP has teamed up with litigation firm MoloLamken LLP to reclaim the litigation work that bigger players have siphoned away.
Kash Patel had his nomination hearing to be FBI director less than a week ago, but Democrats and outside groups want him to appear before lawmakers again due to the agency officials fired and sidelined in recent days, and questions raised about Patel's past consulting work, according to letters written to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated McKinsey & Co.'s Chief Legal Officer Pierre Gentin to serve as the next general counsel at the U.S. Department of Commerce, according to congressional records.
White & Case LLP announced on Tuesday it was growing its white collar team with the addition of partner Brent Wible, who told Law360 Pulse that it was time for him to step back into private practice following a five-year stint with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Despite a federal judge and a House panel saying otherwise, the CEO and the chief counsel of shareholder advocacy group As You Sow want to set the record straight about what investor activists have done to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s financial value.
Honigman LLP hired a former Miles & Stockbridge PC environmental and energy principal for its real estate services practice group, marking the firm's fourth addition to its Washington, D.C., office in recent months.
FBI staff members filed two suits against the Trump administration on Tuesday in D.C. federal court, seeking to stop the president from compiling a list of agents and employees who worked on investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and his retention and storage of classified documents.
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein’s bombshell tax evasion indictment puts the renowned appellate lawyer on a long list of attorneys to find themselves in hot water as a result of a gambling habit. And for small firms or solo practitioners, experts say the consequences can be even more dire.
As President Donald Trump brings international trade to the front of the nation's consciousness by moving to enact 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has added two attorneys from the Commerce Department with experience working on major trade policy issues to its D.C. team.
Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC has hired six attorneys in offices across the United States, including some based in Arizona and Virginia who focus their practices on election and constitutional law issues.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped a top aide to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's acting head for the role of the agency's acting general counsel, elevating an attorney who formerly worked for Paul Hastings LLP and Littler Mendelson PC.
A former assistant chief in the U.S. Department of Justice's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act unit has joined Crowell & Moring LLP as a partner in the firm's white collar and regulatory enforcement group, according to an announcement made Tuesday.
The D.C. Circuit on Monday denied U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to unseal documents about her suspension for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness, saying such documents are confidential unless both the judge under investigation and the chief judge agree to release them.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor lifted a temporary pause Monday on a public corruption case that resulted in a landmark 2023 decision eliminating the right-to-control theory of fraud, clearing the way for a retrial on a traditional theory of property fraud.
Law students whose job offers were revoked because of the federal government's hiring freeze are seeing an outpouring of support from people across the legal community.
Karla Gilbride, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission general counsel whom President Trump fired last week, has landed a new job as deputy director of Public Citizen Litigation Group.
Legal department moves in the past month included high-profile appointments at Hilton Hotels, the Baltimore Orioles baseball team and the restaurant chain White Castle. Meanwhile, several legal leaders left notable companies, including American Airlines, music streamer Spotify and radio broadcaster SiriusXM.
The American Bar Association's policymaking body recommended Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court adopt a binding ethics code as strict as the code of conduct that other U.S. federal judges must follow.
An attorney specializing in trademark and copyright matters has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Washington, D.C., office after 11 years with K&L Gates LLP.
A quartet of insurance attorneys who all focus their practices on a range of related coverage, reinsurance and insurance regulatory matters has joined Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP's offices in Washington, D.C., and New York, according to a Monday announcement.