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The Top Law Schools For Legal Industry Jobs: A Data Review
A law degree can lead to careers across law firms, government, business and public interest, according to the latest ABA data. See which schools stand out for placing graduates in BigLaw, federal and state clerkships, public interest roles and more.
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Aiming For BigLaw? These Schools Deliver
Law school students continue to set their sights on law firm jobs post-graduation, with interest in BigLaw roles holding strong. Here's a look at how those preferences are playing out and which schools are sending the highest percentage of graduates directly to BigLaw.
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Miller & Chevalier Hires DOJ Nat'l Security Atty In DC
Miller & Chevalier Chtd. has hired an attorney who spent the past nine years working in the federal government, most recently with the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division in a section focused on export controls and counterintelligence issues.
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Seward & Kissel Adds Goldman Sachs VP As Group Co-Chair
Seward & Kissel LLP has hired a former Goldman Sachs vice president to help co-lead its banking, payments and fintech practice, who has private practice experience and other perspective as a bank regulatory counsel, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Firm Leaders Report Rising Rates Fueling Client Churn
While rate increases are the primary driver of law firm revenue, legal leaders also fear those price hikes are leading to client churn, according to a report released Wednesday by marketing technology platform Passle.
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Court Rule Changes Uncertain After Few Deepfake Challenges
Very few federal judges have handled challenges to audiovisual evidence that litigants claim has been faked by artificial intelligence, raising questions about whether changes to the rules of evidence are actually necessary.
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Senate Panels' Bills Would Steer $70B To Immigration
Immigration enforcement would get nearly $70 billion between two budget reconciliation bills released by Senate committees on Monday.
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Taft IP Litigators Join Saul Ewing's DC Practice
Saul Ewing LLP has hired two Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP lawyers, who have more than four decades of combined experience as patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright litigators in courts across the country, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Freshfields Adds Skadden White Collar Lawyer In DC, NY
Freshfields LLP has hired a Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP white collar defense lawyer, who spent years working as a federal prosecutor investigating corporate financial crime, international money laundering and other related matters.
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DOJ's In-House Detention Legal Aid Plan Is MIA
A year ago, U.S. Department of Justice officials said the government would be taking over a program historically run by nonprofits to provide legal orientations and referrals for pro bono representation for adults in immigration detention facilities. But those involved in the program say the Trump administration hasn't taken any steps to run the program.
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Justices Skip Wait To Remand Louisiana Election Map Case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to remand to Louisiana district court a fight over the state's election map, which the justices just deemed an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander," bypassing the typical waiting period to allow state lawmakers to draw up a new map ahead of midterms.
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Military Atty Can Prosecute Minn. Civilian Despite Regulations
A Minnesota federal judge won't stop a military attorney from being appointed to prosecute a civilian accused of assaulting federal immigration officers, despite finding that the appointment violates binding U.S. Department of Defense regulations.
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Cooley Adds Kirkland Partner To Lead DC Antitrust Practice
A nearly 20-year veteran of the Federal Trade Commission, who most recently was a Kirkland & Ellis LLP antitrust and competition partner, has joined Cooley LLP as chair of the firm's global antitrust and competition practice, the firm said Monday.
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Bondi Spurs Ethics Doubts By Using DOJ Official As Counsel
Harmeet Dhillon, an official with the U.S. Department of Justice, is representing former Attorney General Pam Bondi in proceedings before the House oversight committee, which Democrats on the panel say raises ethical quandaries.
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DOJ Seeks To Freeze Jan. 6 Civil Suits Against Trump
The U.S. Department of Justice is calling for a halt to discovery in consolidated lawsuits against President Donald Trump over his involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol while the D.C. Circuit decides whether he should be immune from the litigation.
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Women Lag In BigLaw Tech Leadership, Except For One Role
The percentage of women holding tech-focused C-suite positions at the largest U.S. law firms is just under 20%, though women hold parity in roles centered on innovation, a Law360 Pulse analysis found.
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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition
The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.
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How Paul Clement Does It All
For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers.
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Data Center Boom Unites Wide-Ranging Practice Areas
As the legal industry vies to take advantage of the trillions of dollars of investment on the horizon for data center development, a range of law firms have formed multidisciplinary groups that can handle various aspects of the projects, from real estate and energy to finance and regulatory work.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.
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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer
Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.
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Beltway Moves: Davis Polk, Gibson Dunn, Greenberg Traurig
Moves by top appellate lawyers made headlines over the last few weeks, as Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP hired from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP while Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced additions from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.
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Voir Dire: Law360 Pulse's Weekly Quiz
Insights on 2026 law firm performance and BigLaw firm efforts to expand practice offerings made this another action-packed week for the legal industry. Test your legal news savvy here with Law360 Pulse's weekly quiz.
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Potomac Law Grows In Texas With Lee & Desenberg Founder
Washington, D.C.-headquartered Potomac Law Group PLLC announced Friday that it has opened its first Texas location with a Houston-based partner who joins from Lee & Desenberg PLLC, a firm she co-founded 15 years ago.
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Choice Of Trump's Attys For Bench Worries Some, Not Others
President Donald Trump is drawing from a pool of his own personal lawyers to fill some seats on the federal bench — a change in strategy from his first term that some experts say is unremarkable, but that others worry will undermine the legitimacy of the courts.
Expert Analysis
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4 Ways To Break Down Barriers For Women Of Color In Law
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Female lawyers belonging to minority groups continue to be paid less and promoted less than their male counterparts, so law firms and corporate legal departments must stop treating women as a monolithic group and create initiatives that address the unique barriers women of color face, say Daphne Turpin Forbes at Microsoft and Linda Chanow at the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession.
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Opinion
We Need More Professional Diversity In The Federal Judiciary
With the current overrepresentation of former corporate lawyers on the federal bench, the Biden administration must prioritize professional diversity in judicial nominations and consider lawyers who have represented workers, consumers and patients, says Navan Ward, president of the American Association for Justice.