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Credit reporting law firm Stein Saks PLLC headed up a nationwide scheme to "extort" Experian into settling "sham" lawsuits by consumers through creating fake credit denial letters in order to inflate damages and bolster their consumers' suits, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the credit reporting agency.

Ethnically diverse hires at Top 200 law firms have grown by about 22% since 2019, but 64% of diversity professionals say two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that struck down long-standing affirmative action policies in higher education will make their job more difficult, according to a new report out Tuesday from Leopard Solutions.

A Connecticut lawyer replied to a statewide grievance committee email about a trust account overdraft by saying he was too busy eating "delicious" fish he caught on vacation and telling authorities they weren't a priority in his life, triggering an audit, according to a presentment filed Thursday in Connecticut state court.

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder smiled at his supporters as he was led away in handcuffs Thursday after being sentenced to the maximum 20 years in prison for his role in an alleged $60 million bribery scheme.

A New York federal judge has ruled the friend of an ex-FBI trainee who secretly traded nonpublic information he stole from his BigLaw associate ex-girlfriend is liable for his role in the scheme, permanently enjoining him from committing insider trading or otherwise violating the Securities Act.

The legal industry is still reverberating from Allen & Overy LLP and Shearman & Sterling LLP's surprise weekend announcement that they plan to combine forces to create a new 3,900-lawyer global firm called Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, with more than $3.4 billion in revenue. Here's a look back at some of the biggest moments for the two firms over the past six months leading up to this moment.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.'s alleged policy of using facial recognition technology to prohibit attorneys whose firms are engaged in litigation against the company from entering its venues may be illegal and discriminatory, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a letter to the company made public Wednesday.

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.'s alleged policy of using facial recognition technology to prohibit attorneys whose firms are engaged in litigation against the company from entering its venues may be illegal and discriminatory, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a letter to the company made public Wednesday.

The American Bar Association's policymaking House of Delegates will meet next month to discuss a resolution urging Congress not to increase regulation of the legal profession, over concerns that attorney-client privilege is being narrowed.

Ava Ayers, an associate professor at Albany Law School who previously clerked for then-Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor, has been nominated to the New York State Commission on Ethics in Lobbying and Government, Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday.