For the first time, the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association are simultaneously led by Black women—Deborah Enix-Ross and Lonita Baker, respectively. In a wide-ranging Q&A, the leaders discussed diversity in the legal profession, their individual career paths, and how lawyers can press forward on social justice issues.

President Joe Biden intends to nominate a University of Montana law professor to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a Susman Godfrey partner to the Southern District of New York, the White House announced.

Baylor College of Medicine won a Texas state court jury verdict that one of its insurers, units of Lloyd’s of London, must pay $12 million to cover pandemic-related losses, or roughly a quarter of the $48.5 million damage incurred.

Attorneys for an artist alleged to have sold fake Bored Ape Yatch Club nonfungible tokens could face a $1,500 sanction for “repeated violations” of a Los Angeles federal court’s standing order, US District Judge John F. Walter said Thursday.

States’ legal arguments against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be moot after the government’s new regulations take effect, the Biden administration told a federal appeals court.

Honeywell International Inc.'s recent appeals court win—where it evaded damages in the US government’s 12-year body armor fraud suit—may provide a roadmap for other False Claims Act defendants, but the road could be one that is less traveled.