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Despite a modest recovery in the latter half of last year, law firm lateral recruitment tapered off once again in the first quarter of 2024, with the hiring of associate candidates dropping the most during that period, according to Firm Prospects LLC.
In a split decision Thursday, a Houston attorney accused of malpractice was handed a win by the majority of a three-justice Lone Star State appellate panel that cleared her of negligence in connection with a 2014 contract inked between the owner of a property management company and a pair of apartment complex investors, finding that she obtained no "improper benefit" from representing both sides.
Spencer Fane LLP has added two new real estate partners to its Dallas office, including a former in-house general counsel at a marina company and a former Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP attorney.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., along with 37 other Democratic and two independent senators, introduced legislation on Wednesday to codify the new Judicial Conference of the United States policy against judge shopping after pushback from Republicans and a Texas court.
Law firms' hiring of new associates and the rate at which associates moved on both declined in 2023 for the second consecutive year, while more female associates were hired than male, according to a study released Wednesday.
When interviewed about client service, corporate legal decision-makers praised a select few law firms, even as the overall satisfaction of corporate clients has fallen in recent years, according to a report released Wednesday by BTI Consulting Group.
The former general counsel of supply chain software company E2open Inc. has jumped aboard legal technology company Onit Inc., following in the footsteps of former E2open CEO Michael Farlekas, who made the leap in January.
Law360 Pulse spoke with Gene Besen, managing partner of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP's Dallas shop, about how the firm is expanding its footprint there to accommodate the growing operation.
After months of turbulence marked by a co-founder's unexpected departure, e-discovery software company CS Disco hired Eric Friedrichsen as president, CEO and a member of its board of directors Wednesday.
Eversheds Sutherland announced Wednesday that it had added a counsel to its real estate practice in Houston who joined after more than a quarter-century working in-house for energy technology company Baker Hughes.
In March, Women's History Month, Law360 looked at gender diversity among the real estate groups at 20 large law firms and found that those firms vary widely on that point.
The Fifth Circuit has ordered additional briefing in a banking industry-backed legal challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's $8 credit card late-fee rule amid questions that have been raised about a potential conflict of interest involving a circuit court judge on the case.
A Los Angeles man suing Elon Musk for defamation has asked a Texas court to sanction Musk's attorney, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro, arguing that the lawyer showed up "unannounced" to defend Musk in a deposition despite lacking permission to practice law there.
A former business executive at a Texas law firm and legal technology company called on a Texas federal court Monday to toss her former employer's lawsuit against her, claiming the company and its founders attempted to preempt her New York lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and unlawful termination.
Insurance law firm MMA Law Firm on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court, weeks after a federal judge declined to toss a suit seeking class damages over the Houston firm's allegedly illegal efforts to solicit clients in hurricane-related property damage cases.
Legal advisory firm Baretz & Brunelle LLC announced Tuesday that Mike McNamara, the former CEO of Dentons US, has been hired as its first chief executive officer.
Despite increased demand for artificial intelligence, most professionals are not using this technology at work, with legal professionals lagging behind other sectors, according to a new survey on Tuesday.
The American Bar Association's president on Monday warned that attacks on judges and the U.S. court system have skyrocketed in recent years and urged lawyers to stand up for the judicial process by defending judges who are unjustly criticized.
Victims of a former Texas attorney's multimillion-dollar fraud urged a Lone Star State federal court on Monday to keep alive their lawsuit accusing Wells Fargo Bank NA of enabling the scheme, arguing the bank was aware the lawyer was misusing clients' money and profited from the arrangement.
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has expanded the labor and employment department in its Dallas office after opening the office late last year, bringing on a former longtime Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP partner to serve as its founding L&E partner in the North Texas city, the firm announced on Monday.
Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP announced Monday that they have promoted 40 lawyers to partner ahead of the finalization of their merger in May.
Attorneys from White & Case LLP are representing information technology company ConvergeOne Holdings Inc. as it seeks to cut $1.6 billion in debt with a prepackaged equity-swap Chapter 11 plan.
The total compensation for Southwest Airlines' chief legal and regulatory officer jumped $1.6 million in 2023 to $4.2 million, thanks mainly to nonequity incentive plan pay that was five times what he earned in 2022, according to a securities filing Friday.
Following a modest uptick in February, the U.S. legal sector shed more jobs in March, with a loss of 3,000 jobs compared with the previous month, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The American College of Bankruptcy has elected a seasoned Haynes and Boone LLP attorney with deep Texas roots and experience in oil and gas industry bankruptcies to take over as chair of its Board of Directors, according to announcements by the college and firm.