Federal Trade Commission Warns Law Firms About DEI Hiring February 2, 2026 By Mike Scarcella The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Friday it had written to 42 law firms warning them about diversity, equity,...
Dechert Law Firm Settles Claims It Used Hired Hackers With No Admission of Liability July 11, 2025 By Raphael Satter Philadelphia-based law firm Dechert said on Thursday that a pair of U.S. lawsuits accusing it of using hired hackers to...
Law Students Sue Civil Rights Agency Over Crackdown on Law-Firm DEI Policies April 16, 2025 By Daniel Wiessner Three law students on Tuesday sued a U.S. civil rights agency, claiming that its probe into diversity policies at 20...
Paul Weiss Firm, Assailed by Trump, Quietly Scrubs ESG From Website April 13, 2025 By Ben Elgin Law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has long held itself up as a trailblazer on environmental, social and...
Activist Behind Affirmative Action Cases Sues Major Law Firms August 22, 2023 By Nate Raymond A group founded by the conservative activist who led the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the consideration of race...
Law Firm Must Name Clients Affected by 2020 Cyberattack, Judge Says July 25, 2023 By Andrew Goudsward Covington & Burling must identify some clients caught up in a 2020 hack on the law firm to the U.S....
Booz Allen Pays $377.5 Million to Settle US Civil Probe July 24, 2023 Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. said it will pay $377.5 million under a settlement agreement with the US Department of...
Law Firms Are Recruiting More AI Experts as Clients Demand ‘More for Less’ July 5, 2023 By Irina Anghel Chatbots, data scientists, software engineers. As clients demand more for less, law firms are hiring growing numbers of staff who’ve...
London Law Firms Face Reckoning in 2023 After Big Salary Hikes This Year December 28, 2022 By Irina Anghel London’s biggest law firms paid generously to secure the brightest young recruits they could this year. Meeting those salary pledges...
SME Law Firms in England & Wales May See Rise in Professional Indemnity Rates: Marsh September 26, 2018 Some professional indemnity (PI) insurers are applying greater rigor, are being increasingly selective, or are repricing risks, for small and...