By Bruce Love | May 13, 2021
Jonathan Brightbill said he chose not to return to Kirkland because he was looking for a firm where he could concentrate on his litigation practice, rather than transactional work and bankruptcy.
By Dan Packel | April 14, 2021
If confirmed, Tommy Beaudreau will be one of no fewer than eight one-time Latham attorneys working in executive branch agencies.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 5, 2021
The $202 million in attorney fees requested by lawyers who obtained a settlement for residents of Flint, Michigan, faces objections in court, and in public.
By Mike Scarcella | April 1, 2021
Todd Kim, the longtime former solicitor for the District of Columbia, joined the Biden administration in January as a deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy. He's now up for assistant attorney general in charge of the DOJ's environment and natural resources division.
National Law Journal | Commentary
By Zach Terwilliger, Branden Stein, and John Greil | March 12, 2021
Two months in, the Biden administration has already signaled certain departures from the Trump era on white-collar enforcement.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 9, 2021
The fee request, outlined in a Monday court filing, is part of a $641.25 million settlement with the state of Michigan, former Michigan Gov. Richard Snyder, the city of Flint, and several individual government defendants. It includes both common benefit fees and a 27% cap on contingency fees.
By Marcia Coyle | March 4, 2021
The "customary criteria" for a debut majority decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, one court scholar writes, is a "unanimous decision in a case lacking great controversy."
By Marcia Coyle | January 15, 2021
"Given her father's long-term work for Shell and the American Petroleum Institute, Justice Barrett should recuse herself from this case and all future cases involving the oil industry," an environmental rights advocate said in a statement.
By Max Mitchell | August 20, 2020
Litigation is still ongoing against the two private engineering firms that allegedly gave the city negligent advice regarding its efforts to change its water supply, which eventually led to the city's drinking water becoming contaminated with lead.
By Marcia Coyle | April 23, 2020
Although the majority cited the late Justice Antonin Scalia's 2006 plurality opinion in "Rapanos v. United States" only once for support, Justice Brett Kavanaugh devoted a three-page concurring opinion to the ruling.
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