/legalindustry?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Legal Industry Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:04:28 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350553?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350553 For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Â鶹´«Ã½360 last week. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:23:28 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350272?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350272 Counsel representing two female teachers should receive nearly $218,000 in costs following a jury trial in which the workers were awarded $165,000 over claims that a Pennsylvania school district paid them less than men, the teachers told a federal court. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:39:46 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2349994?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2349994 New Jersey-based Seeger Weiss LLP is seeking to help protect judges with a $500,000 donation to an institute at Duke Â鶹´«Ã½ School that is named in honor of the murdered son of a federal judge in the Garden State. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:30:36 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350567 Many current state bar character and fitness tests fail to identify bad actors, and at the same time, certain aspects of the queries can hurt efforts to increase diversity in the profession, according to panelists at the American Bar Association's 2025 Virtual Equity Summit on Friday. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:27:30 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350254?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350254 The State Bar of California's board of trustees voted to approve a $185,000 contract with a nonprofit to review "exam scoring irregularities and testing accommodations" from its fraught February 2025 bar exam. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:24:58 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2335079?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2335079 The U.S. legal industry added 1,100 jobs in May, holding steady in the midst of economic uncertainty, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:19:38 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350585 The University of Virginia School of Â鶹´«Ã½ Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and attorney Edward Gilbert lead this week's edition of Â鶹´«Ã½360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Sixth Circuit's ruling that plaintiffs claiming anti-heterosexual workplace discrimination need to provide extra "background circumstances" evidence. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:05:51 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350094?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350094 In corporate legal news from the past week,​ in-house lawyers' use of alternative legal service providers remains low, and the top Justice Department merger official said that the Trump administration welcomes "fix-it-first proposals," where merging companies arrange to sell off overlapping business lines. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Â鶹´«Ã½ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:00:39 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2339045?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2339045 Michael Sobol has won significant settlements recently, including a $115 million deal over Oracle's allegedly unlawful sale of internet users' electronic profiles and a $62 million deal with Google over allegations it illegally stored and tracked the private location information of smartphone users, earning him a place among Â鶹´«Ã½360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:23:07 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350160?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350160 Litili, a company that connects expert witnesses to attorneys working on civil cases, has brought a lawsuit in California state court against its former account representative, alleging she took the firm's confidential proprietary business information and used it in her new role at a competing business. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:44:37 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350100?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350100 A California trial court erred when it blocked any reference to underlying legal malpractice allegations in a trial for recovery of fees brought by a San Francisco lawyer against his former clients, according to a Golden State appeals panel, which found the malpractice claims, though "effectively abandoned," had not reached final judgment on the merits. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:29:17 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2349194?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2349194 Fox Rothschild LLP has settled a Colorado real estate investor's legal malpractice lawsuit over a $3 million development deal that went wrong, according to a new order filed in state court directing the parties to file for dismissal within a month. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:32:43 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350471?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350471 A onetime Cramer & Anderson LLP partner was sentenced Friday to a seven-year prison term after being convicted of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting an attacker in the parking lot of his rural Litchfield, Connecticut, law firm, although his incarceration will be suspended after 2½ years. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 22:27:37 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2349903?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2349903 President Donald Trump's travel ban, which suffered multiple court losses during his first term before the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld it, may be on more solid legal footing in its renewed form, with lessons evidently applied from those losses. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:38:19 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2350001?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2350001 Senate Democrats have vowed to do whatever they can to defeat a provision in the budget reconciliation that would limit federal courts' ability to hold federal officials in contempt, and some Republicans are wary of it as well.  Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:23:57 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2349876?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2349876 Tom Girardi's son-in-law pled guilty to criminal contempt Thursday in Illinois federal court, admitting he knew the once-celebrated plaintiffs lawyer failed to pay millions of dollars in plane crash settlement funds they had been ordered to distribute to their clients "as soon as practical." Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:10:56 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2349748?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2349748 Foley & Lardner LLP urged an Illinois federal judge to dismiss a bias suit by a former summer associate, arguing her job offer was rescinded not due to her Arab Muslim identity but because her public comments on Hamas' 2023 attack on Israel "violated the firm's core values" and showed "incredibly poor judgment." Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:00:29 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2339078?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2339078 Joseph Saveri, now one of the most successful plaintiffs lawyers in the U.S., said he's thought often about the story of his paternal grandparents, who left Italy around 1918, immigrated to America and traveled across the continent to settle in San Francisco. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:30:35 +0000 /legalindustry/articles/2349987?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /legalindustry/articles/2349987 A group of lawyers, law professors and former judges asked the Florida Bar on Thursday to open an ethics investigation into Pam Bondi's actions as attorney general, saying she has pushed U.S. Department of Justice attorneys to violate their ethical obligations under the guise of "zealous advocacy."