American Bar Association

The ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has announced its 2024-2025 council slate.

There are law firms in which Carrie Garber Siegrist, a senior associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Goodwin Procter, might have had to be secretive about her diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD.

The artificial intelligence legal field is rapidly expanding, says Bradley Merrill Thompson, a member and the AI practice leader at Epstein Becker & Green. As of 2023, the law firm had been hired to file more than 200 AI-related lawsuits. “But I can tell you that number has grown substantially since then,” he says. (Photo illustration by Sara Wadford/ABA Journal)

Prosecutors are planning to retry a former Atlanta lawyer after his murder conviction was overturned Tuesday by the Georgia Supreme Court. (Photo from Shutterstock)

Many states are trying to figure out how to help people like 44-year-old lawyer Rob Dart, who is living on the streets of Los Angeles after rejecting his medication for psychosis.

Former President Donald Trump awaits the start of his criminal trial at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Monday, May 6 2024. (Peter Foley/Pool Photo via AP)

Law firms had a robust first quarter of 2024, helped by growth in billing rates, according to two reports released within the past week.

An associate at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith was fatally shot at a McDonald’s in Houston on Saturday after trying to calm an angry customer who was dissatisfied with his order, according to Houston police.

Thirteen federal judges, all of them appointees of former President Donald Trump, have announced that they won’t hire clerks who graduate from Columbia University or Columbia Law School.

A partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith is alleging that a federal judge pushed him and challenged him to a fight when they were working at the same law firm in 2008.