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U.S. District Judge David Faber, in a bench trial that concluded last year in the Southern District of West Virginia, sided with distributors McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen in a 184-page decision about the opioid crisis.

As law students begin and return to law school next month, they will be facing a very different landscape both personally and professionally now that the U.S. Supreme Court has overturned 'Roe v. Wade.' How will schools respond?

North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has appointed Malik Edwards as the interim dean of the School of Law, effective July 5, reporting to David H. Jackson Jr., provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.

Global chair claims a loss would impact all "quality" law firms and access to legal services in smaller markets.

The Appellate Division, First Department court denied English's motion asking that he be granted summary judgment on his breach-of-contract claim and it denied his request for dismissal of the company's counterclaim against him for breach of contract.

Four individuals who purchased and held long-term care policies with Virginia's Genworth Life Insurance Co. before 2002 filed a class action complaint against the insurer in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in January 2021.

"I would like to be known as someone who helped open up opportunities for women and minorities—those who are not traditionally in this field."

"Our presence and leadership within the bar is without question a byproduct of the freedom each of us has had to make reproductive decisions for ourselves," the thousands of signatories from about 190 firms wrote.

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Law firms already have an uphill climb in competing with other tech-savvy entities in the cyber space. The lack of qualified talent and increasing workloads don't help.

Law firm mergers rebounded in Q2, according to a new report from Fairfax Associates, but none of the acquired firms in the deals had more than 30 lawyers.

Alena Allen, a former interim dean at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) School of Law, and "nationally recognized figure in legal education," will become deputy director at the Association of American Law Schools on Aug. 1.

The Maryland Court of Appeals reinstated a man's murder conviction, finding a state's witness did not need to be qualified as an expert to testify that cellphone users can adjust a cellphone's ability to track and collect location data.

An Ohio attorney received a one-year suspension for multiple ethics violations after a disciplinary investigation revealed that he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a client and made false statements about his conduct to opposing counsel, a police chief and a municipal court.

The Ohio bar may drop the question about mental health status from its character and fitness application, in part due to a law student petitioning the state Supreme Court to do so.

"If an attorney who has committed multiple felonies is ever to be reinstated—a debatable proposition in itself—at a minimum he or she must demonstrate a complete acceptance of responsibility and extraordinary remorse and rehabilitation," U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts wrote in his order filed Tuesday.

The Supreme Court might be done with patent eligibility for the foreseeable future. Practitioners say that, if there is still a path to review, it's going to require early and careful preparation.

Once the Port Authority received its supply of masks, a new policy continued the restriction on "political or social protest" masks and added a section detailing which masks may be worn.

By gaining 6.2% lawyers in 2021 compared with 2020, Texas moved past Illinois on total lawyer head count in the NLJ 500 report.

By putting their money—that is, their billable hours requirements—where their mouth is, firms will demonstrate they are serious about mental health and well-being—and reap valuable benefits for their bottom line, too.