Big Law firms’ best chance at growth in 2021 could be picking up lateral hires in big cities for higher-rate practice groups as existing clients may balk at further rate increases.

Manhattan prosecutors have started gathering information in an investigation of Steve Bannon, the former presidential aide who was pardoned by Donald Trump on his last day as president, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A Connecticut man sentenced to 80 years in prison after being convicted of participating in the robbery of a New Haven convenience store and the murder of its on-duty employee failed to convince a state appeals court that evidence from his cell phone shouldn’t have been admitted as evidence at his trial.

Claims against Thomas Girardi and his law firm, Girardi Keese, over unpaid attorneys’ fees and missing settlement funds meant for Lion Air crash plaintiffs have been paused by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Novelist Stephen King persuaded a federal appeals court Tuesday to uphold his victory over claims that the protagonist of King’s “magnum opus,” the Dark Tower series, was “substantially similar” to a comic book hero known as “The Rook.”

Silicon Valley-founded law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has signed a deal with Morgan Stanley that will give the investment bank access to proprietary software the firm created that manages startup finances, a rare instance of a major law firm capitalizing on its internal software development.

Records produced by a hospital committee considering whether to give a doctor privileges may be subject to discovery in a medical malpractice action because they are less likely to contain information protected by a peer review privilege than investigations of “bad outcomes,” a Delaware court said.

Donald Trump, who managed to keep his tax returns a secret the entire time he was in the White House, is about to see them fall into the hands of a New York prosecutor looking into possible criminal charges against him.