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What Will Happen To BigLaw When Gen Z Is In Charge?
By Natalie Rodriguez
By Jacqueline Bell
Progress on diversity in the legal industry has been slow, but some law firms are demonstrating that strides can be made toward diversifying the upper ranks. Here are the 40 firms outpacing their peers as the legal industry works toward increasing minority representation.
Microsoft Atty Looks To A Legal Future Saved From Drudgery
By Michele Gorman
Microsoft assistant general counsel Jason Barnwell gives his take on whether tech will replace lawyers, the challenges of getting them on board with innovation and what the practice of law will look like for his team’s youngest members when they take the helm.
By Michele Gorman
A year after signing on to the first in-house version of the Mansfield Rule, legal teams are finding they deliberately consider more diverse attorneys and other staff for significant leadership roles internally and for outside counsel representation.
By Brandon Lowrey
The changes that COVID-19 has caused to most aspects of daily life have dramatically varying implications for people with different disabilities. Law360 spoke with several attorneys about what working from home means for them and how their firms have handled it.
By Cara Bayles
Law360 asked three Black lawyers who left BigLaw about how firms could better serve attorneys of color. Here's what they had to say to the firms and the attorneys who are choosing to stay.
By Marco Poggio
Felony murder murder charges permit people to be convicted of murder, even when they neither killed nor intended to kill. Critics say the charges drive excessive sentences, and a wave of reconsideration in courts and legislatures have led states like California to narrow their reach, while others...
By Jack Karp
Police are increasingly using drones as first responders to 911 calls, a practice they say helps them respond to crises much faster with far fewer officers, but that privacy advocates warn could lead to mass, warrantless surveillance.
By Rachel Rippetoe
Jamaican-born Eric Tolliver is nearing the end of his 33-year prison sentence in New York, but what waits for him on the other side might be worse: deportation to his home country, where many want him dead.
By Marco Poggio
Eight former immigration judges who spoke to Law360 say the rough treatment of the immigration courts in President Donald Trump's second term poses an unprecedented threat to judicial independence and is eroding immigrants' due process rights.
By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley
Twenty years after John Roberts became the 17th chief justice of the United States, he faces a U.S. Supreme Court term that's looking transformative for the country and its institutions. How Justice Roberts and his colleagues navigate mounting distrust in the judiciary and set the boundaries of...
By Jack Karp
Law enforcement says the relatively new science of using DNA to generate an estimation of a person's physical appearance is a powerful tool that can help lead police to suspects, but critics of the practice warn that the still-untested technology will lead to racial profiling.
By Daniel Connolly
As the Trump administration follows through on campaign promises to arrest and deport millions, immigrants are increasingly finding that hiring an immigration lawyer is impossible. And without lawyers, they usually lose, no matter how strong their case is.
By Marco Poggio
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers violently arrest unauthorized immigrants in court buildings' hallways, former and current judges warn that the Trump administration is using courts as a dragnet, arresting people indiscriminately and expelling them with little to no due process in a...
By Clara Geoghegan
Publishers Clearing House, which started as a magazine subscription seller known for giant check giveaways, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday in New York with plans to focus on its digital advertising operations and sell its assets.
By Law360 Staff
Attorneys worked tirelessly Tuesday to support citizens and election workers on the final day of voting in one of history's most contentious presidential contests.
By Xiumei Dong
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
By Gerald Schifman
Law360’s law firm survey shows that firms' efforts to diversify their equity partner ranks are lagging. But some have embraced a broader talent pool at the equity partner level. Here are the ones that stood out.
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This term, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, a precedent established 40 years ago that said when judges could defer to federal agencies' interpretations of law in rulemaking. Here, catch up with Law360's coverage of what is likely to happen next.
By Catherine Marfin
Along the hallways leading to U.S. District Judge Keith P. Ellison's Houston courtroom hang hundreds of notes, photos, thank-you cards and other correspondence, serving as a kind of interactive scrapbook of Judge Ellison's 25 years on the bench.
By Christopher Cole
The legal fight over how to treat broadband service hits a new milestone Thursday in Washington, the latest in a dispute that started a generation ago, soon after consumers began widely using the internet in the 1990s.
By
One year has passed since it came to light that the Federal Circuit's judges were investigating whether their colleague, U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, was mentally competent to remain on the court. In that time, Judge Newman has garnered support from many in the patent community, but has...
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Will the U.S. Supreme Court overturn 40 years of doctrine telling courts to defer to federal agencies when interpreting laws? That's what is at stake Wednesday when the justices hear two cases, both from fishing companies that have asked the court to turn its back or limit the impact of the 1984...
By Kevin Penton
The legal industry still has a long way to go before it can achieve gender parity at its upper levels. But these law firms are performing better than others in breaking the proverbial glass ceiling that prevents women from attaining leadership roles.
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For nearly a decade, Law360 has been tracking gender equity at law firms as they continue working to close the gender gap. Our latest report shows where firms are succeeding and where they’re falling short on reaching gender parity.
By Xiumei Dong
Law firms have made only modest progress in moving the needle on diversity, particularly at the equity partnership level. Still, a few are setting a new standard and actively increasing their representation of attorneys of color.
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Check out our annual survey of diversity at U.S. law firms to see how they stack up against each other, how far they’ve come, and how far they still have to go.
By Law360 staff
This U.S. Supreme Court term was packed with blockbuster cases and decisions regarding speech, affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, voting rights and more. Here, Law360 takes a look at the cases and those who litigated them, as well as the unusual alliances and big opinions that defined...
By Jacqueline Bell
Law firms still have a long way to go when it comes to closing the gender gap, particularly at the top. But at these firms, women have made inroads into the upper ranks, and are smashing the glass ceiling that has long kept women from making it into leadership roles.
By Jacqueline Bell
Law firms are working to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in their ranks. But Law360 Pulse's Glass Ceiling Report: Women in Law shows only modest growth in the number of female lawyers in private practice in the U.S.
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For nearly a decade, Law360 has been tracking gender equity at law firms as they continue working to close the gender gap. Our latest report shows where firms are succeeding and where they’re falling short on reaching gender parity.
By Ivan Moreno
A Texas federal judge's recent ruling lambasting the NFL's retirement plan has resonated with attorneys for former players who have spent years fighting for full benefits in court, typically meeting stiff resistance from the league and the law.
By Jacqueline Bell
While law firms overall continue to take only modest steps toward achieving their long-standing diversity and inclusion goals, some firms are making significant strides and showing that progress is possible even in the uppermost ranks.
By Jacqueline Bell
As many law firms have renewed their commitments to diversity, the task of the past year has been to bring new energy to the work and put those promises into action. Here's our data dive into minority representation at law firms in 2021.
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For the eighth year in a row, Law360 is taking an in-depth look at law firms’ diversity data to show how they stack up against each other, how far they’ve come, and how far they still have to go.
By Law360 Staff
A surprising leak. A big retirement. Blockbuster decisions. Here, Law360 looks at the moments, arguments and opinions that defined the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term.