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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP on Thursday announced that a former assistant U.S. attorney and in-house lawyer at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority joined the firm's San Francisco office as a partner.
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner of New Jersey Supreme Court promoted an Essex County presiding judge to Hudson County assignment judge on Thursday.
The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline this week censured a former Allegheny County judge accused of misconduct with three teenage boys, ordering that the former judge's resignation and pledge to never again serve as a judge be binding and irrevocable.
The Georgia judge overseeing the Apalachee High School shooting case recused himself Wednesday due to his upcoming retirement.
A North Carolina appeals panel found in a precedential ruling that a trial court was right to toss a man's sex abuse suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh as an appropriate sanction for his counsel having "deliberately and unreasonably delayed service of process."
Delaware's judiciary announced this week that a former Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP attorney who also previously worked for the state's Department of Justice has been appointed to serve as a magistrate in the Chancery Court.
The fate of President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction in New York remains unclear following his resounding electoral victory Tuesday night, as last-minute motions, a pending decision on presidential immunity and appeals may derail or delay a punishment slated to be handed down before Thanksgiving.
Despite support from a jurist who televised a mass murderer's trial, the lead rulemaking body for federal criminal cases voted Wednesday against loosening limits on courtroom broadcasts, but members exchanged sharply conflicting views and predicted that digital age pressure will keep rising.
A New Jersey state judge on Wednesday ordered McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former chief financial officer to pay the firm $1.2 million in restitution for the "excess salary and bonuses" he paid himself.
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to hand Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. a narrow victory in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as justices put up a range of hypothetical scenarios to try to pin down when exactly a company needs to disclose to investors that a past event could cause future damage to its business.
With a little more than two months left in the Biden administration following Republicans' capture of the White House and Senate on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Durbin intends to confirm "every possible nominee" before time runs out on this Congress.
A Florida state appeals court upheld a directed verdict finding an auto insurer acted in bad faith while attempting to settle a woman's injury claims over a drunken driving crash, affirming Wednesday that the company must fully cover her $1.17 million compensatory damages award, less a prior $25,000 payment.
The former Georgia district attorney accused of obstructing the investigation of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery will stand trial in January, a state court judge said Tuesday, after her defense attorney was recently freed up by the conclusion of the prosecution of Atlanta rapper Young Thug.
Former President Donald Trump's return to the White House following his election victory on Tuesday is sure to bring a series of policy changes that will keep lawyers busy, particularly attorneys working in international trade, immigration, tax and antitrust.
The Ninth Circuit partially revived a lawsuit by a former Santa Clara County, California, deputy district attorney who alleged First Amendment retaliation when he was unlawfully transferred after publishing an op-ed that disagreed with the views of his boss, the district attorney.
Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, easily won reelection Tuesday, securing a second four-year term as Fulton County's district attorney.
A law clerk under New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron who faced death threats after being singled out by now President-elect Donald Trump during his civil fraud trial last year has been elected as a judge.
Law360 Pulse takes a close look at the new state tax court approved by Peach State voters in Tuesday's election.
The North Carolina federal judge overseeing a budding antitrust case against NASCAR will remain on the case after attorneys waived concerns about the apparent conflict posed by one of his former clerks working on the suit.
A Florida state judge facing ethics charges over previous campaign statements has again claimed that authorities should be blocked from presenting evidence or argument that her "philosophical beliefs" and comments violate judicial ethics guidelines, saying they are protected by the First Amendment.
A Georgia judge facing ethics charges for delaying a series of cases, the most severe of which has sat open for more than seven years, has admitted to nine of the 10 counts lodged against him but denied that his actions were prejudicial to the administration of justice.
Latham & Watkins LLP expanded its capabilities in complex investigations and proceedings with the addition of the deputy chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
Whether the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity extends to subordinates who follow a president's orders has become a more pressing question in the wake of Donald Trump's projected election win, according to legal experts.
Donald Trump's projected victory at the polls also translates to a win in the courts, as the second-term president will have the power to end both of his federal criminal cases. And the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity would shield him from any consequences for ordering his charges to be dismissed, experts say.
With former President Donald Trump projected to win the 2024 presidential election and the Republicans' success in securing the U.S. Senate majority, Trump may now get the chance to appoint two more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, cementing the court's conservative tilt for decades to come.