A former prosecutor in Colorado should be disbarred for faking four texts that she attributed to a co-worker, including one referring to her as a “sex doll,” according to a Dec. 31 hearing board opinion.
A shifting “law firm talent model” is bad news for associates, who make up a lesser proportion of lawyers in law firms than they did during the Great Recession, according to the 2025 Report on the State of the U.S. Legal Market.
Since Tuesday, Los Angeles has been battling wildfires stoked by heavy winds in the Pacific Palisades, a coastal neighborhood near the Santa Monica Mountains, and Altadena, an area directly north of Pasadena, California.
New York, the jurisdiction with the largest number of bar candidates, will adopt the NextGen bar exam as it considers rejiggering the state-specific part of the exam, too, according to the New York Court of Appeals.
Updated: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he spoke with President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to provide a job reference for one of his former law clerks.
A subsidiary of accounting company KPMG US is applying to operate as an alternative business structure in Arizona under state ethics rules that permit nonlawyers to own or invest in law firms.
The ABA section that accredits law schools is once again facing pushback by attorneys general in Republican-controlled states over a diversity standard governing legal education.
As we begin 2025, three emerging trends point to a future where legal teams will have the insights they need to play an integral role in their organization’s revenue goals. Here’s a look at how these shifts will transform legal work.
When an organization’s in-house counsel or outside counsel communicates legal advice to its constituents, it should be clear that the lawyer represents the organization, not the individuals, according to a new ABA ethics opinion.
A former McCarter & English staff associate alleges that the law firm subjected him to a hostile workplace based on his status as a military combat veteran and fired him on the pretext of violating the firm’s social media policy.
Disbarred lawyer Rudy Giuliani is “in dire jeopardy” of having to turn over his Palm Beach, Florida, condo to two Georgia election workers who sued him for defamation after a federal judge held the former New York City mayor in civil contempt Monday, according to a report by Politico.
Educators and students preparing to begin a new semester can make good use of lessons about leadership and purposeful service that can be gleaned from the beautiful life of former President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter. That is especially so for law school communities for at least two reasons.
The judicial council of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Denver has tossed an ethics complaint against a federal judge who took corrective action after he was accused of giving presentations to a politically affiliated group.
