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A quick-thinking prosecutor is being credited with helping save a woman who was overdosing in the Will County, Illinois, courthouse outside Chicago.

Alpha Brady is the ABAs new executive director, the association announced on Monday. Brady, who has served as the interim executive director of the ABA since March, will be the first person of color to hold the position of executive director of the association in its 145-year history.

As stories of some CEOs outrageous behaviors continue, the amount of activist shareholder activities keeps growing, say Kenneth Mantel and Megan Reda, partners at Olshan Frome Wolosky in New York. They represent investment funds, family offices and people trying to bring change at public companies—and maybe get a seat on the board.

More than 1,700 California lawyers have failed to comply with new trust account rules, leading to their administrative suspensions.

Justice Samuel Alito doesnt think that Congress has the authority to bind the U.S. Supreme Court on ethics issues.

In 1982, as a healthy 29-year-old with a brand-new JD, I joined a Washington, D.C., law firm handling class action tort litigation. Workdays there were fast and furious. Sixty-hour work weeks were the norm, but I was young and hungry, the work was stimulating and I leaned in.

Ropes & Gray is the latest BigLaw firm to require lawyers to work in the office Monday through Thursday.

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has said it continues to talk with other law firms about a possible merger after 27 of its lawyers left for Steptoe & Johnson.

A municipal judge in Ohio suspended from the bench for running her court in a “reckless and cavalier manner” is now facing criminal charges for allegedly falsifying docket entries.