By Ross Todd | January 31, 2024
George Hazel joined the firm last year in Washington, D.C. after serving on the District of Maryland bench. Gregg Costa joined in Houston in 2022 after time on both the Fifth Circuit and the trial bench in the Southern District of Texas. They're pairing for the podcast "A View from the Bench."
By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | January 12, 2024
In this week's Legal Speak episode, Judge Lida Kharooti, who served as a judge on Afghanistan's anti-corruption serious crimes court for 13 years, shares how she fled the country when the Taliban took over.
By Justin Henry | December 12, 2023
A look at the career and impact of John Gleeson, one of The American Lawyer's 2023 Lifetime Achievement honorees.
By Dan Roe | October 13, 2023
A long-term romantic relationship between a Texas bankruptcy judge and a former Jackson Walker partner raises questions about law firms' obligations to disclose such information, a legal ethics professor said.
By Dan Roe | September 29, 2023
Former U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin said Boies Schiller's focus on litigation, mediation and arbitration represented a better fit for her practice as a neutral.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 9, 2023
"This case is an example of a wealthy client (Facebook) and its high-powered law firm (Gibson Dunn) using delay, misdirection, and frivolous arguments to make litigation unfairly difficult and expensive for their opponents," U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria ruled.
By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | October 14, 2022
In U.S. District Judge William Alsup's latest book, the judge aims to construct the best line of defense in an alternate universe where Lee Harvey Oswald had to stand trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
By Dan Packel | Paul Hodkinson | September 13, 2022
Enrich explains the background and logic behind the explosive book that is set to rock the legal industry.
By Alaina Lancaster | Zack Needles | September 9, 2022
In this week's episode, Federal Bar Council leaders discuss the dangers judges face, how those dangers threaten the fair administration of justice and, most importantly, what can be done about the problem.
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By Dan Roe | July 28, 2022
Weil, Kirkland, Skadden and Latham once outpaced the rest of Big Law on what they could charge, but that may begin to change.
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