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.

With the rest of Washington beginning to grind to a halt over coronavirus and social distancing not yet the norm, senior paralegal Cheryl Olson left Jenner & Block’s office March 19 for a four-mile round trip to deliver briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court—on foot.

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.

A woman from the United Kingdom may still be eligible for lawful permanent residency in the U.S. even though she fell out of lawful status when her attorney failed to file her visa renewal petition, the Ninth Circuit said.