In 2020, the Maryland Supreme Court concluded that Baltimore was on the hook to pay settlements arising from the city’s Gun Trace Task Force police corruption scandal in which officers were found to have planted evidence, conducted illegal searches, robbed people during street and traffic stops and filed false affidavits.…

It’s anything but the usual summer doldrums in Canada’s legal scene this year following the Canada Day July 1 holiday. A burst of lawyer moves announced Tuesday includes a new five-lawyer team joining Littler Mendelson and a new CEO and managing partner at McMillan. Five new lawyers are joining Littler’s fast-growing Toronto…

More litigation and likely losses for federal agencies will be the result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday that the clock for challenging regulations begins when their harm is felt by the challenger, not when the rules were implemented, regulatory attorneys said in noting a rough week for agencies.…

After four years of operations, the Salt Lake City office of St. Louis-born law firm Armstrong Teasdale is closing for business, the firm’s managing partner confirmed in a statement Tuesday. Confirmation of Armstrong Teasdale’s exit from Utah’s capital city, adjacent to a growing hub of technology companies nicknamed “Silicon Slopes,” comes…

Brazil’s Demarest Advogados has hired an M&A partner from cross-town rival BMA Advogados as the firm prepares for an increase in M&A work in Brazil. Maria da Paz Tierno Lopes previously managed the Cuatrecasas office in São Paulo and also worked at White & Case in New York and Brazil.

Covington & Burling has created a new AI-focused role—director of artificial intelligence and e-discovery solutions—hiring Todd Itami in the position. Itami will lead Covington in its integration of AI and other technology tools at the firm, Covington said this week. Convington is the latest law firm to add talent for an AI-focused position. Latham…