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Representing video game makers Epic Games and Take-Two Interactive, the Kirkland trio has fended off a series of 10 lawsuits, including the most recent—a claim by University of Maryland basketball players Jaylen Brantley and Jared Nickens.

In an eight-page order, U.S. District Judge Michael Watson of the Southern District of Ohio denies Trump's notice of registered foreign judgment seeking $293,052 of Daniels' settlement and tosses aside Avenatti's attorney lien seeking allegedly unpaid attorney fees from unrelated representation of...

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The D.C. Court of Appeals said Roy Pearson Jr. had "chosen at every step of the disciplinary process, including as recently as his oral argument in this appeal, to levy accusations against disciplinary counsel, the board, the hearing committee, and this court."

The complaint centers on a Monday protest in Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Park, which was broken up by federal law enforcement with tear gas and pepper spray.

"In my view, Mr. Madoff's crimes were 'extraordinarily evil,' and I sentenced him accordingly," U.S. District Judge Denny Chin wrote on Thursday.

"That's some devastating evidence, but we don't know if it's going to be admissible," criminal defense attorney Page Pate observed.

With the latest award, the SEC topped its previous record: a $39 million bounty issued in 2018.

What's so unusual is how U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has handled competing claims by Labaton Sucharow and Robbins Geller to lead the nearly $4 billion case against Apple.

Genentech is looking to block sales of Amgen's cancer biosimilar Mvasi, because Amgen failed to provide 180 days' notice when it shifted manufacturing plans from California to Rhode Island. Judge Kimberly Moore said Genentech is proposing "an extraordinarily broad view" of the Biologics Price...

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A three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based federal appeals court ruled that the subpoenas, which date back to 2017, were unenforceable because they had not been issued by sitting grand juries.

Texas attorneys in Austin, Dallas and San Antonio are joining a national trend in which criminal-defense lawyers are taking cases of protesters' cases for free. Other attorneys who have done the same hail from California, New York, Florida and other states.

McDonald's lawyer Jonathan Bunge, of Quinn Emanuel, admitted he was "incensed" that workers didn't raise their concerns with governmental agencies before filing a lawsuit.

A series of petitions at the court now urge the justices to reconsider, restrict or abolish the judge-made doctrine of qualified immunity.

Black attorneys and legal industry leaders recounted their own experiences with racism and their hopes for the future.

Rather than protecting privacy, the suits invoking the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act often feel more like attempts at "gotcha."

The lawsuit claims the president's order violates the free speech protections of social media companies and its users.

In the new filing, Jessica Denson, who is represented by Bowles & Johnson, Ballard Spahr and the advocacy group United to Protect Democracy, asked for a judgment declaring the NDA null, void and unenforceable.

The complaint accuses New York-based Columbia Care of tortious interference with contract, unjust enrichment, civil conspiracy, aiding and abetting fraud and aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, among other offenses,

In the first oral arguments over a Roundup verdict, a California appeals court raised numerous questions about Monsanto's defense of federal preemption but appeared hesitant to retain the $39 million in compensatory damages within the $289 million jury award.

L. Chris Stewart, Ben Crump and S. Lee Merritt are calling for federal legislation to create a uniform process of holding police accountable for deadly force and United Nations representation for human rights and economic sanctions.