The number of U.S. lawyers showed marked growth for the first time since 2020, due to a 2024 graduating class that was nearly 12% larger than any other class since 2012, a study from the American Bar Association released Monday showed.
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US Lawyer Numbers Surge With Hefty 2024 Graduating Class

By Tracey Read

The number of U.S. lawyers showed marked growth for the first time since 2020, due to a 2024 graduating class that was nearly 12% larger than any other class since 2012, a study from the American Bar Association released Monday showed.

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Eversheds Adds Ex-SDNY Atty As Investigations Co-Leader

By Sydney Price

Eversheds Sutherland has added a former assistant U.S. attorney from the Southern District of New York to co-lead its corporate crime and investigations practice, the firm announced.

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Bernstein Litowitz Corp. Founder Returns To 'Stabilize' Group

By Rose Krebs

Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP announced Monday that it has welcomed back a prominent shareholder lawyer to co-lead its corporate governance practice following the controversial departure of the group's former leader to launch a boutique firm.

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Eckert Seamans Expands CFO Role To Also Serve As COO

By James Boyle

A year after moving from Reed Smith LLP, the chief financial officer for Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has seen his duties expanded to also lead the firm's operations.

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Eversheds Sutherland Leaders Talk Strategic Growth

By Alison Knezevich

Growth is top of mind for Eversheds Sutherland's two global leaders, but as they wrap up 2025 in their new leadership roles with the transatlantic firm, they emphasized in a recent interview with Law360 Pulse they're taking a strategic approach to expansion.

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$32M Malpractice Suit Was Filed Too Late, Judge Says

By Andrea Keckley

A federal magistrate judge recommended tossing a lawsuit accusing Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP and one of its partners of aiding a scheme to divert tens of millions of dollars from the Orly Genger 1993 Trust, finding on Friday that every claim lodged by the trust's assignee is barred by the statute of limitations.

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Ex-DOJ Criminal Chief For NJ Joins Abell Eskew Landau

By Jake Maher

The former chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey moved into private practice as a partner at the white collar boutique Abell Eskew Landau LLP after a 13-year run as a prosecutor.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abell Eskew

Ashurst LLP

Baker McKenzie

Bernstein Litowitz

Chamberlain Hrdlicka

Crowell & Moring

Eckert Seamans

Eversheds Sutherland

JVK Law

Perkins Coie

Pollock Cohen

Reed Smith

Skadden Arps

Sullivan & Worcester

White and Williams

Williams & Connolly

Zeichner Ellman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Duke University

Johns Hopkins University

LinkedIn Corp.

National Association for Law Placement Inc.

New York University

Toronto-Dominion Bank

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

New York County District Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York