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Top judiciary officials will make the case this week that they need $9.4 billion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2026, a 9.3% increase over fiscal 2025, in order to rectify past funding shortfalls and meet increasing challenges with judicial threats, among other things.
More than 1,000 law students voiced support for Jenner & Block's bid to invalidate an executive order targeting the firm, arguing Monday that the Trump administration's directive threatens to compromise the legal profession and derail their careers before they can begin.
A new legal advocacy organization alleged that a decades-old program that partners with dozens of BigLaw firms to support incoming law students is racially discriminatory.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Friday moved to dismiss a 14-count indictment accusing him of accepting bribes in exchange for political favors, arguing it violates the immunity representatives are afforded under the Constitution's speech and debate clause.
A veteran U.S. Department of State official with over 35 years of experience in federal government has made the move to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP as a senior international policy adviser, the firm said Monday.
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added a derivatives-focused corporate partner based in New York and Washington, D.C., and who previously worked at FisherBroyles LLP before Pierson Ferdinand was formed by former partners of the fellow remote-based firm.
Johns Hopkins University has named its deputy general counsel, a veteran appellate lawyer who was racial justice and equity counsel under the Biden administration, to serve as its top in-house attorney, according to an announcement on Monday.
Honigman LLP continued to grow its Washington D.C. office with the addition of a seasoned intellectual property litigator who moved his practice after 11 years with Tucker Ellis LLP.
King & Spalding LLP has rehired Patrick Murphy, a life sciences and healthcare regulatory compliance attorney, who told Law360 Pulse in an interview on Monday that he never lost contact with his former colleagues even after spending a quarter-century working as an in-house attorney.
The former U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland has joined Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's white collar defense and government investigations practice, where he'll also take the reins as leader of its crisis management and strategic response team, the firm announced Monday.
The former undersecretary of commerce for industry and security during the Biden administration has joined Covington & Burling LLP as a senior adviser.
A former chief of the U.S. Department of Justice's litigation unit for the criminal fraud section has joined Hogan Lovells as a partner in the investigations, white collar and fraud practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Monday.
Legal coaches are donating their time to assist government attorneys who either lost their jobs or quit in the early days of the Trump administration.
Former Fox News host and judge Jeanine Pirro will soon take the helm of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia after more than a decade at the network where she was a figure in high-profile defamation cases.
Prosecutors asked a federal judge in Houston on Friday to require U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, to disclose whether he plans to blame attorneys or other advisers as a defense in his trial on bribery charges.
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
The number of BigLaw partners publicly backing litigation against the federal government over executive orders targeting firms continues to grow, as a group representing more than 800 partners and members of major U.S. law firms has filed an amicus brief in support of Jenner & Block.
K&L Gates LLP boosted its office in Washington, D.C., with two former Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP attorneys with deep experience with public policy matters.
Behind a towering legal legacy was a man who loved to hike mountains, could recall details of things he read decades ago and was always there for those he cared about, a New Hampshire attorney said as he reflected on a lifelong friendship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
Good government groups on Friday urged lawmakers to increase judicial security funding amid a wave of violent threats against judges, and to reject proposals that "undercut the judiciary's independence" like stripping judges of contempt powers and the ability to issue national injunctions.
Milbank LLP has hired the one-time director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Market Participants Division, who joins the team as a special counsel in Washington, D.C.
A former U.S. Supreme Court clerk with years of government appellate experience has left the U.S. Department of Justice to work for San Francisco-based appellate boutique Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP in its new Washington, D.C., office, the firm announced this week.
A veteran U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy leader has returned to private practice at Ropes & Gray LLP, where he'll co-chair the firm's national security practice, splitting time between Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley, the firm announced on Friday.
Washington, D.C.-based Mitchell Sandler PLLC has launched a government investigations and white collar criminal practice group with the addition of four attorneys, including two brought on from Dickinson Wright PLLC and Ballard Spahr LLP.