The fastest-growing Am Law 200 firm by revenue over the last half-decade isn’t necessarily who you’d expect. Spencer Fane, once a regional firm mostly known in the Midwest, has leapfrogged 21 spots in the Am Law 200 rankings in the last two years to No. 142 this year, generating $266.8…

A financial expert talks about the “severe” consequences of retail credit cards. A federal judge said Friday that card issuers Visa and Mastercard could likely withstand a “substantially greater” settlement with merchants who argued they overpaid swipe fees than the proposed $30 billion settlement she rejected last week. U.S. District…

Fish & Richardson, with new office leadership in Washington, D.C., plans to continue slow, but steady head count growth in the District, with the office a mix of IP and litigation lawyers. Litigation principal Richard Sterba has been appointed as office managing principal of Fish & Richardson’s D.C. office, succeeding…

Leticia Ossa Daza accomplished a lot during her 23 years at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. The Colombia-born M&A partner ascended to partner a decade after starting her career in the firm’s Paris office. She moved to New York, launched the firm’s Latin America practice and joined its executive board.

Former Department of Transportation official Diana Furchtgott-Roth says the Federal Aviation Administration ‘is investigating’ on ‘The Evening Edit.’  Federal prosecutors are meeting with planemaker Boeing and the relatives of victims killed in two 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 ahead of a July 7 deadline for the Justice Department…

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference Friday, some lawyers expect legal fights to emerge in lower courts over the ability to challenge prior federal agency rules that relied on the long-standing doctrine. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the justices overturned the landmark 1984 decision that established the…