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Sean "Diddy" Combs is appealing a Manhattan federal judge's decision to deny him bail in a criminal case accusing the hip-hop mogul of sex trafficking and has bolstered his legal team, according to filings Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The U.S. Trustee's Office is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to claw back the fees and expenses law firm Reed Smith LLP has earned representing shipping firm Eletson Holdings in its Chapter 11 case, saying it failed to disclose ties with Eletson directors.
Cozen O'Connor's continuous steady growth over the last 12 years has prompted the firm's leadership to reelect its current chief executive for another three-year term.
Ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black cannot dodge a lawsuit accusing him of raping an autistic teenager in 2002, as New York City's extension of the time limit to file the suit is not preempted by state law, a New York federal judge has ruled.
The Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff PLLC, a New York personal injury firm, has accused competitor Harmon Linder & Rogowsky of offering a former client a loan after learning they were being booted as counsel.
The top lawyer for fashion holding company Tapestry Inc., the parent of Coach, Kate Spade New York and Stuart Weitzman, saw his compensation rise by almost $500,000 to about $2.7 million in fiscal year 2024, according to the company's latest federal filing.
Sarah Harrington has dedicated almost her entire legal career to public service. But on Dec. 1, following 3½ years overseeing the U.S. Department of Justice's appellate staff in the Civil Division as deputy assistant attorney general, she'll return to private practice as the new co-leader of the appellate and Supreme Court practice at Covington & Burling LLP, the firm said Monday.
McDermott Will & Emery LLP has continued its investment in technology and innovation by creating a new role focused on artificial intelligence, the firm said Monday.
New York-based legal services provider Expert Institute has been sold to private equity firm Levine Leichtman Capital Partners from its previous owner Spectrum Equity, according to a Monday announcement.
Akin is redoubling its commitment to emerging technology and artificial intelligence with a new director of practice technology and AI innovation at its London office who most recently was at Bryan Cave and previously spent more than seven years with Akin.
After over 30 years working as an appellate attorney at New York's attorney general office and later at the state's highest court, the former chief clerk and legal counsel to the New York Court of Appeals joined Harris Beach PLLC as a member, the firm announced this month.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams moved swiftly to dismiss the bribery charge from his federal indictment on Monday, arguing that evidence of Turkish officials' gifts to curry favor with him fails to meet a high legal standard laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP partners have voted to select litigation cochair Jaime Drozd as its next firmwide managing partner, filling a role left empty after its former managing partner resigned in March, according to a Monday announcement.
Rudy Giuliani's lawyer told a New York federal judge Friday that whether the ex-New York City mayor's Florida condo can be taken to help satisfy a $148 million defamation trial bill hinges not on whether he spends any time in Florida but on his residency "state of mind."
A senior aide and confidante of New York City Mayor Eric Adams had her phone and records seized by state prosecutors and was separately subpoenaed by federal agents on Friday, the same day Adams was arraigned on federal corruption charges.
After 17 years under the leadership of a single managing partner, Pryor Cashman LLP is in the process of transitioning to a new firm head, with both the outgoing and incoming managing partner saying they want to preserve the midsize firm's character and independence.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s request to have his name printed on New York state's presidential ballot Friday.
Fox Corp.'s former chief legal and policy officer and his successor earned about $36.5 million in total compensation in fiscal year 2024, most of which went to departed top attorney Viet Dinh, who now serves in a special advisory role at the company, according to a public filing.
A non-attorney New York judge resigned from the bench amid the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct's investigation into allegations that include attending former President Donald Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, rally in Washington, D.C.
Coty Inc. paid its chief legal officer more than $6.4 million during the recent fiscal year, almost double the total she previously saw, largely due to nonequity incentive plan compensation and an increase in stock awards, according to a Thursday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kicking off this week's legal lions list are four law firms that secured a summary judgment win Tuesday for DoorDash Inc. and other food app delivery companies in their federal lawsuit challenging a New York City law requiring delivery services to provide restaurants with certain customer info.
Seward & Kissel LLP announced on Thursday the hiring of a former attorney at Allen Overy Shearman Sterling as special counsel in its real estate group out of New York.
The legal industry had another action-packed week as law firms promoted partners and federal prosecutors charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with bribery and fraud. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse’s weekly quiz.
Freshfields is taking big swings in the American market and at home with a rebrand and a willingness to plunge headfirst into salary battles for the best lawyers. And London managing partner Mark Sansom told Law360 that he's not about to slow down.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams pled not guilty to federal corruption charges Friday in a packed courtroom in Lower Manhattan, with his attorney deriding the indictment outside the courthouse as not "a real case" and vowing to file a motion to dismiss.
Recent law firm trademark disputes highlight how the tension between legal ethics rules and trademark law can make it difficult for firms to select brands that are distinctive and entitled to protection, say Kimberly Maynard and Tyler Maulsby at Frankfurt Kurnit.