ABA Bows to Trump Pressure in Extending Diversity Rule Freeze
The American Bar Association is extending its suspension of its diversity, equity and inclusion mandate for law schools.
Law firms that are trying to push forward with diversity efforts are focusing on initiatives they see as clearly legal to avoid attracting the ire of the Trump administration.
Chicago-founded McDermott Will & Emery is in talks with Manhattan’s Schulte Roth & Zabel to combine, the law firms confirmed on Thursday.
New Jersey legislators can’t limit and penalize lawyers’ unlicensed consumer debt adjustment work, a state appellate court ruled Friday in a decision backing the State Bar.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she appeared at an American Bar Association event Thursday “as an act of solidarity” with the embattled organization.
President Donald Trump has selected Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro, a former district attorney who amplified false claims of election fraud in 2020, to serve as Washington’s interim chief prosecutor.
The American Bar Association is extending its suspension of its diversity, equity and inclusion mandate for law schools.
The US Supreme Court will sit for a special session May 15 to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
Jackson Walker LLP, a prestigious firm primarily in Texas, has hired former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Nathan Hecht as a partner in its Austin office, the firm announced Friday.
Bankruptcy trustees appointed in Chapter 13 proceedings must return collected payments, including trustee percentage fees, to debtors in cases where a financial restructuring plan isn’t approved, a federal appeals court said.
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New Jersey legislators can’t limit and penalize lawyers’ unlicensed consumer debt adjustment work, a state appellate court ruled Friday in a decision backing the State Bar.
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Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
Kirkland & Ellis retained its crown as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2024, nabbing several of the largest transactions of the year.
On May 28, 2012, Dewey & LeBoeuf, the product of a merger between two storied New York law firms, filed for bankruptcy. For the first time, Dewey's former chair Steven Davis opens up about the years, months, and weeks leading to his firm's collapse, the decisions he made and, looking back, whether he would have done anything differently.
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Law firms that are trying to push forward with diversity efforts are focusing on initiatives they see as clearly legal to avoid attracting the ire of the Trump administration.
German authorities closed down the crypto-swapping service “eXch” located in the nation and seized assets worth €34 million ($38 million).
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