The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that neither Governor Greg Abbott nor the state's attorney general had the authority to order child abuse investigations of families that provide certain medical treatment for their transgender children.
New report on law firm finances highlights the toll of rising attorney compensation. It also points to a gradual slowdown in demand for corporate work, while litigation ticked up.
Nine nursing home operators have sued Massachusetts over regulations against housing more than two people in a room, which were adopted around the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and took effect May 1.
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– New data from Russell Reynolds Associates shows that nearly half of the top lawyers appointed at the 500 biggest companies in the U.S. in 2021 were female.
– Stanford Law School this week became the second elite U.S. law school to commit to fully eliminating tuition payments for low-income students.
– Proskauer Rose hired Kristina Trauger, a capital markets partner from Shearman & Sterling, for its corporate department in New York.
Families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre will be dismissed from the InfoWars bankruptcy case, allowing them to resume their defamation lawsuits against the website's owner, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, attorneys said in court on Friday.
Bar exam officials in Washington, D.C., have secured a second site for the upcoming attorney licensing test in July, enabling them to accommodate 450 additional examinees.
A group of Republican U.S. lawmakers has criticized a U.S. labor agency's case seeking to force Amazon.com Inc to re-hire a warehouse employee after he engaged in a vulgar tirade against a female coworker, calling its pursuit of the claims "disturbing."
Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his $44-billion cash deal for Twitter Inc was "temporarily on hold" while he waits for the social media company to provide data on the proportion of its fake accounts.
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