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Robyn Crowther, who now co-leads Stepoe & Johnson's LA office, is the third partner to leave litigation powerhouse Boies Schiller Flexner this year.

The New York City government has expanded its lawsuit against pharmaceutical distributors over the opioid epidemic that has impacted communities across the U.S. to include members of the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin and a group of major retailers.

Iconix, which purchased Rocawear from the rapper and businessman for $200 million, says there's no merit to his bid to scrap an arbitration stemming from that 2007 deal.

Manhattan attorney and Big Law alum Marc Koplik told an undercover anti-corruption activist that lawyers have special protections "because we run the country.”

Vicky Cornell, widow of Soundgarden and Audioslave singer Chris Cornell, has sued her late husband's doctor for medical malpractice, claiming he was “negligently and repeatedly prescribing medication that ultimately led to the singer's death on May 18, 2017.

Andrew Ferguson, a former Bancroft associate in Washington and UVA law grad, succeeds Mike Davis, a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Two years into the Trump administration, there is little discernible difference in how the government settles environmental lawsuits.

Oracle's lawyers at Orrick had challenged the appointment of U.S. Labor Department administrative law judges.

Joseph Saveri said a Fourth Circuit ruling leaves him "entirely vindicated" in a dispute over one of his firm's first big wins after he split from Lieff Cabraser in 2012.

An all-star team of seven partners from Cravath, Swaine & Moore led by firm chairman Evan Chesler will serve as lead litigation counsel for PG&E Corp. as the California utility prepares to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

US District Judge Richard Leon in Washington said a temporary restraining order would have caused "chaos and confusion."

A judge trimmed several claims from the case but allowed plaintiff Carl Hewitt to proceed on a sexual discrimination charge stemming from allegations that his employer failed to address reports that a non-employee with whom he had regular contact at work was sexually harassing him.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York said in the decision that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated the Administrative Procedure Act while deciding to add the citizenship question to the survey over the first year and a half of the Trump administration.

Barr, a Kirkland & Ellis counsel who previously led the Justice Department under the George H.W. Bush administration, said he would make the decision to oversee special counsel Robert Mueller III's probe in “good faith.

Alphabet has been hit with a pair of shareholder derivative suits claiming that board members hurt shareholder value by covering up a lengthy pattern of gender discrimination and sexual harassment perpetrated by Google executives.

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from enacting certain religious and moral exceptions to the Affordable Care Act that have been widely seen as a means to roll back the mandate for covering birth control medications.

"FedEx knowingly engaged in illegal and harmful behavior at the expense of New Yorkers' health” and it "swindled New York City and State out of millions of dollars in tax revenue,” Attorney General Letitia James said.

The lawyer for Justice Jeffrey W. Johnson issued a statement denying the allegations. "Justice Johnson remains respectful of the process of investigation and will rely on facts and documents to provide the truth," the attorney said.

The case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday asks the question: Can a third-party counterclaim defendant remove a class action under the Class Action Fairness Act?

Pro se litigants usually fare terribly in court. So how did a young immigrant from Guinea who was fired from his job at Whole Foods defeat a motion for summary judgment by employment law experts from Greenberg Traurig?