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The California Supreme Court has rejected a proposal that would have allowed bar applicants to submit a portfolio of work they did with real clients under supervision instead of taking the bar exam.
The chief human resources officer at McDermott Will & Emery LLP was named to the board of directors of LGBTQ+ advocacy group Lambda Legal, the organization has announced.
Goodwin Procter LLP's new global litigation department leader has plans to continue building on years of meteoric growth while also preparing the firm's next generation of leaders.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP has formalized a private credit practice co-led by partners David Berg and Yasho Lahiri, putting a name to the work the firm has already been doing in the space.
Three outlier megadeals pushed funding for legal technology companies to $1.57 billion in the third quarter of 2024, up from $392.5 million in the same period last year, but the number of mergers and acquisitions fell by about 50%.
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Georgia's overall pass rate for its July bar exam rose to a 10-year high of 70.4%, largely because of passing scores from first-time test takers from American Bar Association-approved Georgia law schools, state officials say.
Proskauer Rose LLP is expanding its private funds team, bringing in an Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP knowledge management expert as a partner in its New York office.
A slew of lawsuits related to the Gaza war in the Middle East have already yielded mixed outcomes and, in the view of some, contradictory rulings as they've moved through the courts, revealing a tension between free speech and college campus safety while also stoking concerns over the fairness of the judicial system.
Gunster has struck a settlement agreement in one of the two proposed class actions it faces in Florida federal court over a 2022 data breach, while the plaintiffs in the second case urged the court the same day to reject the law firm's dismissal bid in their suit.
Looking to be at the so-called epicenter of life sciences, Dickinson Wright PLLC discovered in San Diego the ideal spot to expand its West Coast footprint.
An attorney who has more than 25 years of experience working on energy regulatory matters and most recently spent several years as a partner at Balch & Bingham LLP is rejoining McGuireWoods LLP's Washington office, where he previously worked for over five and a half years, the firm announced Thursday.
A pair of attorneys specializing in advising clients on insurance technology matters have moved their practices this week from Goodwin Procter LLP to Holland & Knight LLP's offices in New York and Philadelphia.
An attorney representing McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer — who is behind bars on charges of stealing from the firm — has asked to be relieved as counsel in the firm's New Jersey suit against the former CFO because he has not paid his legal bills.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP said Thursday that it has added a nonequity partnership tier to better manage talent.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's 3-year-old Miami office has just surpassed the 20-lawyer mark with the addition of seven attorneys in the past two months.
McCarter & English LLP has continued the recent expansion of its trusts, estates and private clients practice in New England with the addition of a five-person team from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP.
A Philadelphia federal judge Wednesday refused to disqualify Blank Rome from representing three of its attorneys facing claims they brought a baseless lawsuit against another attorney in retaliation for switching from corporate defense to the plaintiffs bar.
The owner of a popular Philadelphia nightclub claims a now-disbarred ex-Blank Rome real estate attorney falsified court records, forged documents and failed to represent the club owner in several legal matters over a five-year period.
International law firm Clark Hill PLC has grown its new Atlanta office with a trio of former Election Law Group LLP attorneys who are defending Georgia in a challenge to its 2021 election law and represented the state's Court of Appeals judgeship election winner this year amid an unsuccessful residency challenge.
Amid a number of recent legal challenges, large law firms in the U.S. have amped up many of their environmental, social and governance-related efforts, with particular growth in environmental sustainability action, while areas like diversity, equity and inclusion have been less successful, according to a report out Wednesday that examined firms' public-facing communications.
The co-chair of Carlton Fields' commercial finance industry group, who has nearly 40 years of legal experience and served as vice president and deputy general counsel of Fannie Mae, has moved her practice to Ballard Spahr LLP, where she'll continue working on housing finance matters, the firm announced Wednesday.
An attorney known for becoming the first woman to head a major professional sports union in North America has decided to take the next step of her career at JAMS, the alternative dispute resolution service announced on Tuesday.
Duane Morris LLP has brought on a former Stinson LLP partner for its corporate practice group in New York, the firm said Wednesday.
FTX customers dismissed Sullivan & Cromwell LLP from ongoing multidistrict litigation over the crypto exchange's collapse on Wednesday, after an investigation by the customers' counsel into the firm and dialogue with the FTX bankruptcy estate and appointed examiner resolved concerns about the law firm's conduct.