The California State Bar admitted more new attorneys in fiscal year 2025, compared to the year prior, the bar announced in its digital annual report, as it dealt with the fallout of its botched February bar exam.
The Archdiocese of New York announced an $800 million settlement to resolve about 1,300 child sex abuse lawsuits and avoid bankruptcy.
Some enterprising students have been carving a path to plaintiffs’ firms straight out of top law schools, seeing trial work as a way to weather the disruption of AI or avoid Big Law after Trump’s attacks on firms last year.
Ohio primary voters who head to the polls Tuesday won’t struggle to comprehend where some judges and judicial candidates stand on hot-button issues.
Former California State Bar Executive Director Joe Dunn failed to convince the state Supreme Court to review his suspension from practicing law for moral turpitude.
Winston & Strawn will ask the Ninth Circuit to axe an order sanctioning the firm for including a “factually baseless” allegation in client Musi Inc.'s lawsuit seeking to restore the music-streaming app to
Ellis Boyle, the top federal prosecutor in eastern North Carolina charging former FBI Director James Comey with allegedly threatening the president’s life, has emulated President Donald Trump’s style throughout his nine months on the job.
Marvel Entertainment is owed more than $319,600 for discovery costs it incurred after being drawn into a tort suit against the former head of the company, Isaac Perlmutter, a New York appellate court ruled Thursday.
Trump administration officials enabled misconduct by federal immigration and border patrol agents as part of an enforcement crackdown last year in Chicago, which led to mass raids, many arrests and some violent conflicts with protesters, according to an Illinois state investigation.
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