First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli on Friday morning said his office “has multiple election fraud investigations underway,” in coordination with the FBI in Los Angeles. Essayli’s remarks, posted to X, seemed to be in response to President Trump alleging in his own social media post late Wednesday that Democrats […] Read More
California, the epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, continues to grow its economy faster than the nation, but more people are losing their jobs and the cost of living remains high. New economic indicators released this week show how the Golden State is grappling with the effects of the Iran […] Read More
The U.S. Senate has approved legislation providing an additional $70 billion for immigration enforcement, a move seen as a political win for Donald Trump and his allies and advancing one of the most ambitious border security initiatives backed by Trump. The measure passed in a 52-47 vote early Friday and […] Read More
Biglaw associates have spent the last few days doing what they do best when compensation news breaks: refreshing Above the Law, obsessively texting group chats, and wondering whether their own firm is about to make an announcement. Ever since Milbank kicked off the latest round of salary increases, the market […] Read More
It has been a busy spring for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the U.S. Treasury Department agency responsible for administering and enforcing U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) laws. At the end of March, the agency announced a settlement with a broker-deal for $80 million, one of the larger penalties FinCEN has ever […] Read More
The Budapest 5th and 13th District Prosecutor’s Office dropped the charges Thursday against the city’s Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the 2025 Budapest Pride March. In Thursday’s statement, the Hungarian prosecution maintained that it had brought the charges lawfully, in accordance with the law in force at the time. However, […] Read More
Crandall Melvin Professor of Law Shubha Ghosh spoke with Bloomberg Law on a possible appeal by Elon Musk after the jury decision in the Elon Musk v. Sam Altman trial. The jury found that the statute of limitations expired before Musk filed the suit and did not wade into the […] Read More
A few months ago, I wrote about the new partnership between Masters AI Legal, the newly launched division of The Masters Conference, and Cat Casey, founder of The TechnoCat, a consulting and speaking practice focused on legal AI, to produce a global conference series devoted to making legal professionals “genuinely fluent […] Read More
A reader writes: My company has steadily tightened remote work over the past year from two days remote allowed, to five days in-office with exceptions, to now: mandatory in-office five days a week, eight hours a day minimum, no remote option at all. Any time away from the office requires […] Read More
A California jury has answered a legal question that could have consequences far beyond one tragic case: can someone be held financially responsible for a fatal crash even if their vehicle never struck the victims? According to a jury verdict issued this week, the answer can be yes. Former Los […] Read More
Simon Kuper’s first World Cup memory is of watching the 1978 final in his pajamas from the living room of his home in the Netherlands. He was 8. But he quickly was smitten with the game and the tournament — so much so he has attended every World Cup since […] Read More
Quinn Emanuel Matches Milbank’s Salary Scale: With $2.7 billion in revenue for 2025, they can afford it! This Boutique Is Doling Out Milbank Money: Vartabedian Katz Hester Haynes is spreading the riches! Spring Bonuses!: Dunn Isaacson Rhee announces special bonuses up to $25K! Shia LeBeouf Pleads Guilty To Battery: He […] Read More
WASHINGTON — President Trump announced Wednesday night at a White House dinner that he wanted to make acting Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche’s leadership of the Department of Justice permanent. The president said he thought the confirmation of his onetime personal defense attorney would go “very quickly,” according to a video posted from […] Read More
On June 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the SEC need not prove investors suffered actual financial losses to obtain disgorgement. Sripetch v. Securities and Exchange Commission, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), resolves a circuit split, eliminates a meaningful defense, and confirms that the Commission’s power to strip […] Read More
WASHINGTON — Initial efforts in the Senate failed Thursday to block the $1.8-billion fund that the Trump administration has sought to establish to pay people who claim the government wronged them, though further attempts were likely to come Thursday afternoon. Republicans narrowly voted down a Democratic amendment to ban the payout fund […] Read More
A bipartisan majority in the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a resolution to end US involvement in the war with Iran, emphasizing the growing distrust and disapproval over the Trump administration’s handling of the conflict. Four Republicans flipped to join Democrats, passing the War Powers Resolution (WPR) by a vote […] Read More
MEXICO CITY — Former Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador issued a blistering statement criticizing President Trump and describing what he called a conspiracy by his administration to weaken the Mexican left. He said a U.S. campaign against “narco-terrorism” was not a genuine attempt to solve a serious problem but a […] Read More
Somebody once told Antti Innanen that he had built a veggie burger dressed up to look like real meat. He thought it was a fun criticism, but he also thought it missed the point. That burger is Lavern, an open-source “multi-agent legal system” that Innanen, a Finnish lawyer and law […] Read More
Rising youth unemployment rates since the 2020 pandemic may be tied to a trend in remote work, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said in an analysis published on Monday. In the report, the re… The post Remote work may be locking younger workers out of labor force: NY Fed […] Read More
The applicant had a PhD in immunology of aging and a credible path to Canadian permanent residence. What the refusal letter said she did for a living was wire and assemble control circuits, build robot panels, and program industrial equipment. None of that was real. The job description did not […] Read More
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to a recent Law.com survey on Biglaw firms, what was the average distance between the highest- to lowest-paid partners in the Am Law 100 in 2025? Hint: The numbers reflect the increased flexibility in Biglaw’s “free-agent era […] Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on June 1, 2026, that it has filed an administrative complaint against Wego Chemical Group and related companies (Wego) for violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). According to EPA, the complaint is the result of Wego’s “years-long” failure to report properly […] Read More
Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has permanently abandoned the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created as part of a May 18 settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue […] Read More
Foundation 365, Litera’s AI-powered CRM platform for law firms, is now available across Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company said today. Built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Foundation 365 was formerly known as Peppermint Client Engagement. The product came to Litera through its acquistion last year […] Read More
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday again accused the U.S. of meddling in Mexico’s internal affairs after The Times published a report about two Mexican governors from her party who have had their U.S. visas revoked amid criminal probes into their possible links to organized crime. Sheinbaum, speaking at […] Read More
NEW YORK, NY (June 3, 2026) — Nationwide employment law firm Jackson Lewis P.C. is pleased to announce Minnie Fu, Michael H. Neifach, Otieno B. Ombok and Amy L. Peck have been included in Lawdragon’s 2026 list of 100 Leading Immigration Lawyers. The guide recognizes lawyers for their work navigating U.S. and global immigration laws. “This recognition […] Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.) — Secured Signing, a leading provider of secure digital signature, online notarization, video signing and identity verification solutions, announces a powerful new integration with Actionstep, the cloud-based practice management platform trusted by modern law firms. This integration delivers a frictionless workflow that empowers legal professionals […] Read More
“I Think He Will, Yeah”: Trump thinks his former criminal defense attorney is doing a “very good job.” Explaining Is For Lower Courts: SCOTUS opts out of justifying Alabama’s use of racist election maps. I’m Busy, Go Talk To Me*: Biglaw firm launches AI partners for associates to interact with. […] Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (SAN RAFAEL, Calif.) — Love takes center stage under the summer sky as Marin Shakespeare Company presents “As You Like It,” adapted and directed by Evren Odcikin and running June 19 through July 19 at the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre. A dazzling, music-filled, fashion-forward romp through the Forest of […] Read More
The following state housing bills were passed by the applicable house of origin by the May 29, 2026 legislative deadline, meaning that they will continue to move forward in the legislative process. The bills must be finally approved by the State Legislature by August 31, 2026, after which they will […] Read More
The US Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Tuesday allowing Alabama to use a congressional map that is expected to benefit Republican candidates during the midterms, effectively eliminating a district currently represented by a Black Democrat. Over the dissent of the three liberal justices, the court released the order despite […] Read More
E. I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law Robin Paul Malloy has published the “Mastering Land Use and Zoning” textbook with Carolina Academic Press. According to the publisher, the book “Mastering Land Use and Zoning provides a readily accessible and concise discussion of land use and zoning. It is written […] Read More
Harbor, a global professional and technology services firm focused on the legal industry, has acquired CE Global Partners, a specialist in HR transformation, payroll transformation, and people-process change, it announced today. The acquisition expands Harbor’s Human Capital Management (HCM) Advisory line, which the company launched just last month, on May […] Read More
Weeks after Trump administration officials announced that management of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would open to competitive bidding for the first time, questions remain as to why Caltech could lose control of the lab its researchers founded in 1936. On one hand, observers note, high-profile delays and cost overruns on […] Read More
Pensive disappointed business people supervising an AI robot working in the office getty It’s week two into an AI rollout. The executive team is excited. The vendor demo was flawless. The pilot group smiled at the kickoff. And then the adoption dashboard tells the truth: usage is flat, managers are […] Read More
MEXICO CITY — The U.S. is investigating two prominent Mexican governors, multiple sources said, as the Trump administration expands its campaign against high-level Mexican officials suspected of ties to organized crime. The move against sitting government officials threatens to undermine Mexico’s ruling party — which came to power on a promise […] Read More
U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Whitton v. Dixon has clarified how courts must assess claims that false testimony affected a criminal verdict, holding that evidence never presented to the jury cannot be used to assess whether an alleged constitutional error influenced the jury’s verdict. The Court vacated an Eleventh Circuit […] Read More
California defense tech startup Mach Industries said Tuesday it raised $300 million, nearly quadrupling the company’s valuation to $1.8 billion within a year. The Huntington Beach startup’s soaring valuation underscores how defense tech funding is booming as armed conflicts such as the Iran war and the Russian-Ukrainian war continue. Infinite […] Read More
We Love To See The Associate Compensation!: And Milbank loves setting the scale. We Have A Match!: McDermott Will & Schulte the first to match the Milbank scale! Todd Blanche Got Mossed: The DOJ’s Comey 86 prosecutions comes up with goose egg. Law Firms Are Buying Up Real Estate: Remarkable! […] Read More
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the federal government to establish a voluntary early review process for the country’s most advanced artificial intelligence models, following a months-long internal battle over how aggressively Washington should move to regulate the fast-growing technology. Under the order, companies are asked to allow […] Read More
When does a company’s failure to disclose that a warned-of risk has materialized cross the line into securities fraud? In Smith v. The Gap, Inc., No. 25-1130, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 15173 (2d Cir. May 28, 2026), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit drew a clear line: repeating generic risk warnings […] Read More
Human remains discovered next to a handgun in a remote northern New Mexico forest were identified this week as those of a missing woman who had worked at a high-security federal lab. Melissa Casias was first reported missing almost a year ago from her home in Taos, N.M., where her […] Read More
The Canadian Teachers’ Federation on Tuesday called on governments to engage in meaningful labor negotiations and refrain from invoking the “notwithstanding clause.” The statement urged all governments to respect teachers’ labor rights, including the right to association, collective bargaining and strike. The group called on the government to engage in […] Read More
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles is reportedly under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over sexual misconduct allegations. The investigation came after the New York Post reported in April that the 51-year-old, five-term congressman had been spotted kissing a much younger congressional staffer from a different office in […] Read More
Neil Araujo, the CEO and cofounder of iManage, was last on this podcast almost exactly two years ago. In the dog years of the legal industry’s AI age, that feels like a long time ago. Our conversation then was about law firms still feeling their way around generative AI. But […] Read More
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday night that Alabama Republican leaders may redraw their congressional voting districts to oust a Black Democrat and elect a white Republican. The court’s conservatives, who ruled for Louisiana Republicans in a redistricting dispute, extended that decision to Alabama. The three liberals dissented. The decision […] Read More
Just a few years ago, remote work was something like a matter of life or death. In the pandemic-stricken early years of the 2020s, most white-collar workers who fled to the country or even changed their living situations counted their blessings as bosses seemed inclined to let home offices be […] Read More
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, under intense grilling at a Senate hearing Tuesday, refused to commit to abiding by federal court orders. Mullin also conceded that his predecessor as secretary, Kristi Noem, had inaccurately described two shootings involving immigration officers in Minneapolis. His refusal to commit to complying with court […] Read More
Professor Nina Kohn Comments on the ABA and State Bars Encouraging Alternatives to Guardianship
Distinguished Professor of Law Nina Kohn spoke with Bloomberg Law for the article “ABA, State Bars Urging Attorneys to Pivot From Guardianships.” State Bars are beginning to adopt the ABA’s new Model Rule of Professional Conduct (MRPC) 1.14, which addresses how lawyers work with clients with decision-making limitations. Kohn noted […] Read More