The Big Law salary scale no longer starts below $200,000—just one change from an extraordinary period of competition for young lawyers that is being driven by relentless work demands.

AbbVie Inc. unit Forest Laboratories and another drug company lost their bid Friday to head off an antitrust trial in federal court in Manhattan over their alleged scheme to delay generic versions of the Alzheimer’s disease treatment Namenda through unlawful patent settlements.

Northwestern University and a proposed class of employees continue to spar over whether the U.S. Supreme Court should resolve their retirement plan dispute after the acting U.S. solicitor general recommended that the case be heard.

Banner Health employees who challenged the company’s 401(k) plan fees on Friday failed to convince the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to boost the $2.3 million they were awarded after an eight-day trial.

Universal Health Services Inc. investors who accuse the company of making misleading statements about its billing practices want a federal judge in Pennsylvania to sign off on their $17.5 million settlement.

A former assistant public defender in Yazoo County, Miss., waited too long to file a lawsuit claiming he was wrongly excluded from the state’s public retirement plan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled.