Sara Merken is a Legal Reporter at Reuters. She covers the business of law and the evolving legal market, focusing on themes such as litigation, legal technology, and the intersection of AI and the legal sector. Sara's insights and reporting have been featured in Yahoo Finance and Reuters.
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Victoria Nuland, who was the third-ranking U.S. diplomat until March, is joining U.S. law firm Covington & Burling as a senior advisor in Washington, D.C., the firm said on Monday.
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A team of King & Spalding electronic discovery lawyers, including a practice leader, has departed for smaller litigation firm Hilgers Graben.
U.S. law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison plans to close its office in Beijing, ending its presence in China and joining a parade of law firms that have pulled back from the country's legal market.
Coinbase's CEO and its top lawyer threatened to withhold business from law firms that hire senior U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys, claiming they harmed the cryptocurrency industry during the Biden administration.
Heading into 2025, U.S. law firms are upbeat about growth opportunities and the impact of artificial intelligence, as this year shapes up to be a strong one, legal industry analysts said.
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to a pilot initiative that would relax rules on who can deliver legal services in the state.
Milbank said on Friday that it is closing its office in Beijing, becoming the latest large U.S. law firm to pull back from China's legal market.
U.S. law firm Baker & Hostetler said on Tuesday that it is launching an office in Austin with a 10-lawyer team from rival Locke Lord, becoming the latest large firm to establish an outpost in the Texas capital.
Judges and attorneys in Illinois are allowed to use artificial intelligence tools in their work under certain conditions, the state's top court said in a new policy.
The new year will usher in a slate of major law firm mergers across the United States, bringing more consolidation to the legal industry in 2025.
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