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'When I listen to the protesters who are now urging law students around the country to refuse to interview at Paul, Weiss unless it drops ExxonMobil as a client, I wonder if they understand the difference between a law firm and an NGO,' writes Richard Levick.

Even if an accuser had a personal relationship with Weinstein, the Manhattan assistant DA said, his sudden sexual aggression still amounted to sexual assault or rape.

Hicks could become the first sitting White House official called to testify in a private civil suit against Trump if Zervos' lawsuit and subpoena are allowed to proceed.

"This is what extortion looks like," assistant U.S. attorney Matthew Podolsky said during the government's closing arguments Tuesday.

Honorable mention goes to litigators from Quinn Emanuel; Hogan Lovells; Latham & Watkins and Skadden.

The U.S. government announced new criminal charges against Huawei days after the Chinese telecom giant's chief legal officer, Song Liuping, accused rival Verizon Communications Inc. of patent infringement.

Newly released court transcripts, posted on Friday, further revealed a Washington judge's frustration with the pace of the McCabe investigation, the secrecy surrounding it and the apparent pressure Trump was putting on the Justice Department to bring charges.

'Our core argument was simple: the world with the merger is more competitive and consumer-friendly than the world without the merger.'

Over an hourlong hearing, three judges hammered the Federal Trade Commission over its antitrust theory while suggesting Qualcomm shouldn't be penalized for succeeding.

"Women don't look or talk like Perry Mason, and you don't want us to," the Williams & Connolly partner and longtime U.S. Supreme Court advocate wrote in a personal, widely shared essay.

President Donald Trump has personally targeted U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over Roger Stone's case, ahead of Stone's sentencing next week.

In a reversal from a prior decision against Google earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that while a shelf or server rack could be considered a place of business, it's not enough to determine venue without the presence of an employee.

Former law clerk Olivia Warren's testimony about alleged sexual harassment from the late Judge Stephen Reinhardt is helping to spur members of Congress to act further on judicial misconduct.

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge on Thursday issued a sealed preliminary injunction, an early win for Amazon and its lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

Plaintiffs lawyers from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd are leveraging their newfound advantage after Ghosn in December escaped from Japan, where he faces criminal charges of financial misconduct.

"Your gestures illustrate what your words mean. That's why listeners say, 'I see what you mean.' What they see are the gestures that accompany your words," writes courtroom communications expert Brian K. Johnson.

California's First District Court of Appeal ordered additional briefing on Monsanto's defense of federal preemption—an issue that could have wide ramifications for all Roundup lawsuits. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed an amicus brief supporting plaintiffs' claims against...

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Former federal judges said Jackson would be within her rights to question DOJ about how to weigh its conflicting sentencing recommendations for the Trump ally.

The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and the former president of the blood-testing company largely denied their motions to dismiss but found that the government couldn't show that they intended to deprive doctors or insured patients of money since...

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Jennifer Rearden, of Gibson Dunn's litigation & crisis management practice group, is set to be named to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; and Brooklyn federal prosecutor Saritha Komatireddy, a clerk to Brett Kavanaugh, is set to be named to the U.S. District Court for...

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