A diverse workforce brings a wealth of perspectives, experiences, and skills that enhance a law firm’s ability to serve its clients effectively and innovate in an increasingly complex legal landscape. Most law firms want to recruit and retain a diverse workforce. However, recent challenges to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)…

Texas Law to Shield Non-Commercial Gun Silencers Gets Shot Down | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/06/25/texas-law-shot-down-no-more-shielding-non-commercial-gun-silencers/ The U.S. Fifth Circuit ruled against a Texas law meant to allow residents to evade federal firearm reporting requirements. Credit: Paul/Adobe Stock Texas did not establish a valid quasi-sovereign interest because it has…

Counsel with Kirkland & Ellis filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of the Chicago Cubs Baseball Club, alleging a former licensee continued to sell tickets for rooftop views of its baseball games and other events at Wrigley Field in violation of the Cubs’ property rights and intellectual property rights. This suit…

Financial services and investment firms need a dramatic transformation to thrive in an economy of multiple threats and new opportunities, but they too often underutilize their in-house legal teams as they seek to innovate. That’s a takeaway from a study by Mayer Brown based on a survey of 635 business…

There are 208 law firms listed below, most of them ranked in the Am Law 200. The firms are ordered by diversity score, which takes into account percentages of minority attorneys overall, as well as in partner and leadership ranks. Collectively among the below firms, minority attorneys comprised 22.4% of lawyers and…

Courts don’t stall their dockets when we go away for a week. So, in fairness to litigation teams whose wins land while we’re out, we’ve recently made a habit of writing a backward-looking “Litigator of the (Past) Week” column when we get back. One of those is in the works…