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The relatively low percentage of Latinos in the legal industry may be part of the reason the ethnic group sees less engagement in civic activities nationwide and is underrepresented in civic leadership roles, according to a new American Bar Association report released Saturday.
A divided Second Circuit panel on Friday upheld the convictions of three men who recruited patients for a more than $31 million trip-and-fall fraud scam that personal injury lawyers and doctors orchestrated, but remanded the case for further findings on the number of bogus accidents involved in the scheme.
In an unpublished opinion Friday, the Second Circuit upheld a former U.S. Department of Justice paralegal's 33-month sentence for helping her gang-affiliated son expose two associates who cooperated with a law enforcement probe into a 2018 robbery.
The American Bar Association's Task Force for American Democracy, launched last year, published a 12-page report Friday outlining the importance of lawyers knowing their state's election laws and encouraging them to volunteer their time to bolster faith in elections.
This coming week at its annual meeting in Chicago, the American Bar Association's policymaking body is expected to discuss the "traumatic" practice of requiring would-be lawyers to disclose and discuss their experiences of sexual violence during the attorney licensure process.
The Manhattan district attorney pilloried Donald Trump's renewed request for the judge overseeing his hush money case to recuse himself, branding it a "regurgitated" attempt to rehash issues the court already decided without any new facts — besides Kamala Harris' presidential bid.
A former Loeb & Loeb LLP attorney is bringing his experience in U.S. federal tax matters and real estate transactions to Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, the firm announced Thursday.
Internal audits found New York City courts violated state law by failing to turn over $9.5 million to the state treasury — the result of clerks not keeping tabs on public money in recent years.
Wilkinson Stekloff LLP and Covington & Burling LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge overturned a Los Angeles jury's $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League for violating antitrust laws with its Sunday Ticket television package.
Kaufman Dolowich has bolstered its Westchester County, New York, office with four professional liability attorneys from Keidel & Cunningham, including three partners.
The legal industry shed 500 jobs in July, continuing a three-month streak of declines following a gain in April, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced that a business trial partner has been named co-leader of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Attorney Network, which is a firmwide affinity group for its attorneys of color.
Some employees from Crowell & Moring LLP, whose mascot is a rubber duck, spent the summer helping to rescue real-life ducklings who were caught in precarious situations on the firm's Washington, D.C., balconies. Here, Law360 Pulse talks to a firm wildlife expert who made it her mission to help the baby Mallards.
Withers has hired a nearly 16-year veteran of Duane Morris LLP, who's joining in New York to continue her cross-border corporate practice, focusing on a range of international and domestic clients, the firm announced Thursday.
The legal industry marked the end of July with another action-packed week of news as BigLaw made hires across the country. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
A visiting scholar, an associate judge from Maryland and a public interest lawyer are among the five attorneys who will be presented with the 2024 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award on Sunday during the American Bar Association's annual meeting in Chicago.
Kaplan Martin LLP, the firm co-founded in June by intrepid litigator Robbie Kaplan, announced Thursday that two seasoned attorneys are joining as partners from Kaplan's previous firm, Hecker Fink LLP.
Longtime Foley & Lardner LLP managing partner Stan Jaspan, who died on July 27, is being remembered as a "brilliant man" and "ultimate mentor" who dedicated his entire legal career to the firm.
A trio of life sciences intellectual property litigation attorneys from Desmarais LLP have joined Morrison Foerster LLP in New York.
Boston-based Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP announced Thursday the firm expanded its litigation resources and will launch a new consulting group catering to design and engineering professionals after acquiring another Boston law firm, Donovan Hatem.
A plan to return to Philadelphia has prompted a former Pennsylvania deputy attorney general to move his white collar defense practice to Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP after more than two years in Saxton & Stump's Harrisburg office.
Greenberg Traurig Germany LLP has expanded its data protection practice with a former senior associate from Morrison Foerster LLP who helped shape ground-breaking projects and proceedings in Berlin and New York over the past eight years, the firm said Thursday.
Skadden tapped seasoned transactional attorney Elizabeth Gonzalez-Sussman to lead the firm’s shareholder engagement and activism practice as more clients seek help navigating investor demands.
A New York appeals court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to strike down a gag order that bars him from threatening court and district attorney staff in his criminal hush money case ahead of his scheduled sentencing next month, as the former president renewed his bid to vacate his conviction following the U.S. Supreme Court's immunity ruling.
An attorney known for civil litigation work on major cases, such as Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, is leaving their position as a deputy practice chair at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP to lead Her Justice, a New York City nonprofit dedicated to serving women living in poverty.