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Graduates of Columbia Law School earn a median salary of $280,926 four years after graduation, making it the top Ivy League law school for pay.

Boston law firm Choate Hall & Stewart has announced job cuts affecting about 5% of its employees.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an executive order Wednesday that suspends a second elected prosecutor from office, citing actions that she took to avoid triggering mandatory minimum sentences.

Prior reporting on free luxury travel accepted by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t capture the extent of his billionaire friends’ largesse.

A Kentucky lawyer facing a recommended three-year suspension has told a Kentucky broadcast station that he will be returning to Ukraine to manage a relief operation in Kherson, Ukraine.

Dentons announced Tuesday that it is separating from the Beijing Dacheng Law Offices but will continue a “preferred” relationship with the Chinese law firm.

A lawyer accused of filing nearly 300 lawsuits on behalf of two people who weren’t clients has been sentenced to four years in prison.

The year was 1961. Freshly minted attorney James J. Brosnahan had been on the job as a federal prosecutor in Phoenix for two days when he was handed his first trial: a capital murder case. Twelve days into the job, hed won his first jury trial and caught the trial bug. (Though to his relief, the two young defendants escaped the death penalty.) For the next six decades, Brosnahan chased every opportunity to present to a jury, in civil and criminal court.

A federal judge in Dallas has ordered three in-house lawyers for Southwest Airlines to attend classes with Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group, to purge itself of civil contempt for

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan hasn’t given up on the idea of a merger.