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The New York City Bar Association will honor six assistant district attorneys Monday night — many known for their work on sprawling cases and organizational leadership — with an annual award named after the famed 20th century prosecutor and former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey.
Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge that evidence that was mistakenly loaded onto a laptop given to the jury that convicted former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., of bribery charges most likely wasn't seen by the jurors and didn't impact their verdict in a way that would merit a new trial.
The New York City Council sued Mayor Eric Adams on Monday for failing to end the use of solitary confinement in city jails after the lawmaking body passed a bill banning the practice earlier this year, arguing that his "emergency" order violated the separation of powers.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review Boston's allegedly discriminatory COVID-19 pandemic-era admissions policy for three elite public schools, turning away the second case to challenge the use of race-neutral diversity initiatives in a decision Justice Samuel Alito claims ignores a "glaring constitutional error" and undermines the court's affirmative action decision.
The New Jersey-based litigator who represented Donald Trump in suits that saddled him with multimillion-dollar civil judgments will serve as his counselor when he returns to the White House, the president-elect said Sunday in announcing a new round of picks for his upcoming administration.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear its final set of oral arguments for the 2024 calendar year starting Monday, including disputes over the proper scope of federal environmental reviews and whether corporate affiliates can be ordered to pay disgorgement awards in trademark infringement disputes.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case that could make it easier for prisoners to amend their habeas corpus petitions, brought by a man who claims his drunken attorney never pointed out that key evidence in his child pornography trial was marked as "not child porn" by investigators.
As a litigator for workers and consumers, Jennifer D. Bennett made her debut at the U.S. Supreme Court at an inauspicious time, when conservative justices were consistently helping corporations move major cases onto advantageous turf in arbitration. But since then, Bennett has amassed a flawless argument record and helped to turn the tide, making her one of the high court's most promising young advocates.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a 2019 law gives courts jurisdiction over the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization or conflicts with the Fifth Amendment's due process clause.
Over the last five years, Keker Van Nest & Peters LLP has helped imprisoned Californians petition to reduce their life sentences following a 2018 change to the state's felony murder rules, most recently securing the release of a man who was originally sentenced to death.
Veterans treatment courts have helped thousands of justice-involved vets with addiction and mental health issues, but strict eligibility rules, difficulty identifying defendants and a lack of courts mean many former service members are still falling through the cracks.
Washington's high court has approved a pilot program that will allow the Evergreen State to loosen rules on who can practice law, with the aim of empowering businesses and organizations not run by lawyers to innovate on providing legal services, and perhaps make them more affordable.
The two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani have asked a federal judge to hold the former Donald Trump attorney in civil contempt and impose "severe" sanctions for his "willful flouting" and "blatant disregard" of court orders.
A bipartisan bill to create more federal judgeships to meet increasing caseloads is on the House's schedule for next week, but its support from some Democrats appears to be waning.
Patent cases in Delaware federal court have dropped by 41% since Delaware's Chief U.S. District Judge Colm Connolly issued disclosure rules in 2022, and litigation-funded cases there "have virtually dried up," according to a Utah law professor's study.
The Florida Supreme Court is fine tuning its new framework for the active management of civil cases, including adopting federal language on proportionality, before a number of changes to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure take effect Jan. 1.
A second state court judge has been sanctioned in an ethics flap over improper out-of-court communications in a contested divorce case involving a law firm run by a friend of his, the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced this week.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in four cases this week, including in one of the term's most anticipated disputes over Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors and another involving art taken from Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The U.S. legal sector saw job growth continue in November, logging its third consecutive month of increases after a four-month decline earlier this year, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The legal industry began December with another busy week as President-elect Donald Trump continued to make appointments and BigLaw firms shifted their physical footprints. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to rule that a suspension her colleagues have imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge violates the U.S. Constitution.
Covington & Burling LLP is among the counsel for groups petitioning the California Supreme Court to address the state's court reporter shortage by mandating the use of electronic recording when court reporters are unavailable.
A former staffer suing retired U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner for $170,000 in back pay has rejected Judge Posner's claim that the suit is untimely, arguing the onetime Seventh Circuit jurist's conduct was so egregious that it's exempt from otherwise relevant statutes of limitations.
A New Jersey federal judge sentenced on Thursday a former assistant dean at Seton Hall University School of Law to three years in prison for leading a 13-year embezzlement scheme that defrauded her former employer of $1.3 million.
While some Democrats have gripes about the deal Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made with Republicans before Thanksgiving on judicial confirmations, they grudgingly concede the deal helps them fill as many seats as possible even if it means leaving choice circuit seats for President-elect Donald Trump to fill.