Big Law’s most successful lawyers continue to take home bigger and bigger paychecks. But as their firms continue to make tectonic compensation shifts inside partnerships, does partner pay have nowhere to go but up? It’s conceivable that pay increases could slow down or temporarily reverse, said law firm leaders, recruiters and…

Total bans on electioneering in or near a voting site is constitutional, but a federal appeals court debated a regulation complying with state law that allows limited electioneering. The case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit concerns a regulation adopted by the Palo Pinto County Commissioners…

NY Top Court Affirms November Ballot Question Asking to Codify Abortive Rights | New York Law Journal Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2024/07/11/ny-top-court-affirms-november-ballot-question-asking-to-codify-abortive-rights/ A panel of Court of Appeals Judges is joined by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, center, for the investiture ceremony of Court of Appeals Associate Judge Caitlin J. Halligan…

Tokyo-based firm Atsumi & Sakai has opened an office in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing in two lawyers from Japan and another from Vietnam to spearhead its operations. The Vietnam office marks the firm’s fifth office outside of Japan and first in Southeast Asia. The firm, which has been expanding…

New York State officials said they are prepared to resume litigation against Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family should the parties fail to agree by a Sept. 9 court-imposed deadline on a comprehensive settlement for damages related to fueling the opioid epidemic. David Nachman, special counsel for the state Attorney…

After spending over two decades on tech procurement and compliance in-house at organizations like BlackRock, Viacom and J.P. Morgan, Vandana Dhamija returned to consulting on legal operations earlier this year. As the founder and CEO of Legal Operations Consulting, a firm she started over nine years ago, Dhamija came back to it…