Hogan Lovells recently helped the Kraft Group and the NFL’s New England Patriots secure the necessary government approvals so the team could use its plane to pick up 1.3 million N95 masks from Shenzhen, China and deliver them to Massachusetts where protective gear is in demand in the fight against Covid-19.

A California law firm overbilled for its work on a successful lemon-law case against BMW of North America LLC and a dealership, so reducing its fee award from nearly $350,000 to about $96,000 was proper, an appeals court in the state ruled.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld re-signed a prominent U.S. Health and Human Services Department attorney two months after the firm lost a health care legal team to Ropes & Gray.

On the heels of Cooley’s decision to delay its summer associate programming in light of the coronavirus crisis two more Big Law firms, DLA Piper and Vinson & Elkins, have announced they won’t welcome their newest crop of potential talent until June.

Crises often manifest themselves in unique ways.

The U.S. Supreme Court, a steadfast observer of tradition, still requires litigants to file paper copies of briefs despite health concerns over the spread of coronavirus. It’s a boost a for printing companies specializing in the precise guidelines for briefs and other documents as the economy craters.

The heads of Columbia, NYU and other New York law schools are proposing that members of this year’s class should be allowed to skip the bar exam because of the coronavirus outbreak.