U.S. District Judge J. Michelle Childs would bring extensive experience as a state and federal trial judge if nominated as the Supreme Court’s first Black woman.

More than a dozen lawyers are leaving Boies Schiller Flexner’s London office as its outgoing leader prepares to start a rival firm.

A federal court ruling canceling 80 million acres of oil and gas leases in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to force the Interior Department to ensure it looks twice at oil drilling’s effect on global climate change, lawyers say.

The top political official in the White House regulatory review office is departing her post, leaving the office without a leader appointed by President Joe Biden.

Kudos to Haynes Boone for its awesomely diverse new partners class. The only snag: No new Black partners.

The Fifth Circuit is getting bolder. Last week the appeals court further delayed the lawsuit challenging Texas’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy by kicking the case over to the state Supreme Court instead of sending it back down to the trial court to play out there.

Morgan Stanley’s top lawyer said Friday that veteran outsiders who criticized his push to end remote work are missing an opportunity to connect with the next generation of leaders.