New Jersey Pulse
By Nick Muscavage
Although the staff of New Jersey s judiciary has been handling the pandemic and its effects on the courts with vigor, the acting administrative director for New Jersey s courts warned that there could be a pending crisis looming.
By Nick Muscavage
President Joe Biden recently announced the formation of a commission to study possible reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the majority of the experts tapped for the commission are working as professors at the nation s top law schools.
By Nick Muscavage
The New Jersey Supreme Court has pushed back the potential date for resuming in-person jury trials to June after assessing rising COVID-19 infection trends.
Pennsylvania Pulse
By James Boyle
Flaster Greenberg PC expanded its intellectual property practice by adding an attorney with more than 20 years of patent experience, part of the firm s goal to become a full-service platform for IP services.
By James Boyle
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin PC has added a veteran attorney to its professional liability department in the firm s Philadelphia headquarters.
By Kevin Penton
Burns White LLC has appointed a member in the Philadelphia area as co-chair of its employment practices liability group, a unit geared toward resolving disputes between workers and their employers, the firm said Monday.
By Kevin Penton
Texas Pulse
By Steven Lerner
Outdated technology, lowball salary offers and a “checkbox” approach to security are among the reasons law firms could be having trouble attracting top cybersecurity professionals, experts say.
By Cara Bayles
Women in the legal industry cut down their hours, took leave, or quit when the pandemic toppled the precarious balance of work and life. Will the coronavirus exacerbate gender inequities in BigLaw, even when life returns to normal?
By J. Edward Moreno
Late last month, DLA Piper hired a trio of trial attorneys in Dallas, adding depth to the firm s growing litigation powerhouse in the city. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a closer look at the office and its work.
By Adrian Cruz
California-based Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP continued the expansion of its office in Orange County with a pair of experienced attorneys as partners in its trusts and estates group, the firm announced.
By Emma Cueto
After more than two decades of litigation, Best Best & Krieger LLP last week won an appellate decision for a waterworks district in Los Angeles County in a high-stakes case over water rights in an area with around 400,000 people, several agricultural interests and a federal air base.
By Adrian Cruz
In a first-of-its-kind jury trial involving a university s student disciplinary process, Burr & Forman LLP partners Jim Gilliam and Hunter Freeman convinced a South Carolina federal jury that Coastal Carolina University didn t discriminate against a male student by expelling him from the school following a sexual assault investigation.
By Sue Reisinger
Beacon Roofing Supply Inc., the largest publicly traded roofing product business in the U.S. and Canada, named former Fannie Mae deputy general counsel Christine Reddy as executive vice president and general counsel Monday, effective later this month.
By Sue Reisinger
Barbara Kosacz s first general counsel job ended with a jolt when the e-health startup she was at became financially distressed, but she took the lessons she learned to forge a successful legal career and is now chief operating officer and general counsel for Kronos Bio Inc. in Palo Alto, California.
By Mike Curley
He began it on a whim to help students get through the hell that is law school, but Devin J. Stone now stands as perhaps the most popular attorney on YouTube, where his weekly videos draw audiences in the millions eager to think like a lawyer.