A federal judge in Memphis, Tennessee, is advising law firms involved in a kerfuffle over double-spacing that they should spend less time “figuring out how many sometimes-useless words will fit on a page.”
It took three weeks of waiting after Milbank announced bonuses and raises for associates. But now, Cravath, Swaine & Moore has stepped into the BigLaw breach with its announcement.
The Kansas judicial branch is still dealing with the aftermath of an Oct. 12 cyberattack that affected computer systems used by district and appellate courts.
Hybrid partnerships are becoming more popular, particularly at law firms where the cost of becoming a full equity partner has increased significantly over the last few years.
Updated: A federal judge in California has certified a class action lawsuit alleging that online pornography companies were willfully blind to child sexual-abuse material that appeared on their websites.
A small law firm didn’t have standing to file a class action lawsuit on behalf of all U.S. firms against “robot lawyer” DoNotPay for the unauthorized practice of law, a federal judge in Illinois has ruled.
Updated: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has said she has “zero tolerance for immature sniping and sharp litigation practices,” yet “that behavior continues” in a case involving Walgreens and its former law firm.
David Boies, the co-founder of Boies Schiller Flexner, is planning to leave his role as chairman at the end of next year, a time when he expects the law firm to be in better financial shape following a wave of lawyer exits and a decline in revenue.
At least two lawyers who apparently used artificial intelligence chatbots to write legal documents ended up losing their jobs after the output included phony case citations.
Law firm revenue increased 4.6% through the third quarter of the year, thanks to a hike in billing rates, according to a survey of more that 120 firms by Wells Fargo’s Legal Specialty Group.
A former partner at Texas bankruptcy law firm Jackson Walker denied any current relationship with a bankruptcy judge when the firm questioned her in March 2021, the firm said in a court filing Monday.
A Columbia Law School professor has been banned from depositions in a trademark case after a former employee who was set to be deposed alleged that his post-traumatic stress disorder partly stemmed partly from the professor’s actions.
Legal technology company CS Disco has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with vLex company Fastcase to use the company’s large law library for “end-to-end” software for the practice of law.
