Davis Polk & Wardwell is bringing on Nicole Brookshire, the co-chair of Cooley’s public companies practice group, as the Wall Street firm looks to expand its booming capital markets practice.

Amid the revelry at the weekend’s gay-pride events, there was an undercurrent of apprehension. Members of the LGBTQ community are growing worried that the hard-fought legal rights gained over the past two decades could be ripped away.

The Paul Hastings leadership transition in October will test whether Frank Lopez as a newcomer can build on the growth record of Seth Zachary, who has led the Los Angeles-founded firm through almost a third of its 70-year existence.

The US Supreme Court decision overturning federal abortion rights sets the stage for conservative states to drastically limit access to a pill used to end early pregnancies.

The US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade could fragment the nation’s medical education system and slash the number of new obstetricians and gynecologists who are trained to perform abortions.

Justice Elena Kagan’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade gets one thing right: The ruling doesn’t just open the door to states to ban abortion. It removes the key legal obstacle to a federal ban on abortion, too. Whether and how to take advantage of that opening will now become a strategic choice, and debate, for pro-lifers.