Most lawyers are meticulous, detail-oriented and analytic, which serve them well in practice. But a Type A personality can be a hindrance when it comes to bringing in clients.

The Sixth Circuit's decision raises the larger question of what law should be used to govern the interpretation of a consent decree entered by a federal court: federal common law or state contract law?

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A report from Citi Private Bank and Hildebrandt Consulting found that firms progressively improved their financial performance after a slow start to 2019. That's a good sign for the coming year.

The accounting giant launches Shanghai SF Lawyers with a group from China's Grandall Law Firm, led by senior partner Paula Yu.

The Supreme Court is definitely going to weigh in again soon on Section 101, maybe.

Trump's picked Jessie Liu, the U.S. attorney for D.C., for a key sanctions post at US Treasury. Plus: law firms are snagging government officials with national security experience. Scroll down for our weekly feature Who Got the Work, and for all the notable moves. Thanks for reading!

Los Angeles associate Sherry William and Linklaters senior counsel Joshua Ashley Klayman withdrew their request to proceed anonymously in a lawsuit claiming that Morrison & Foerster discriminates against pregnant women and new mothers.

Avenatti claims he was merely doing his job as an advocate for his client, and said he plans to subpoena Nike over its payment practices. Trial in the case is set to begin Jan. 21.

The Swedish telecom giant appears to have placed the company's fate in the hands of its recently hired chief compliance officer along with chief legal officer Xavier Dedullen.

John Gately III is accused of murdering his brother-in-law, Mayer Brown appellate practice founder Stephen Shapiro, in August 2018.

The firm's lawyers write that in "the most perverse form of art imitating life imitating art" the government shut down free access to the hotline after it appeared in a plotline in the popular Netflix prison series.

"I don't think he wanted people in the legal industry knowing he sued his former clients," said a defense attorney in the breach of contract suit Partners Legal Search filed over a search fee.

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Page has hired Arnold & Porter's Amy Jeffress and Kaitlin Konkel for the lawsuit.

Bumatay, whose nomination was opposed by California's Democratic senators, is the first openly gay appellate judge and the first of Filipino descent appointed by President Donald Trump.

"Why doesn't the government have to pay its contracts like everyone else?" Justice Stephen Breyer asked at one point during Tuesday's arguments.

Gottlieb Keller will retire in March after serving as GC for more than a decade. His successor, Claudia Bo ckstiegel, is being promoted from her post as legal head of Roche's diagnostics division.

Police say the former student at Oklahoma City University School of Law does not pose a physical threat to the campus.

Cities across the U.S., Europe and Asia were listed as emerging legal tech hot spots by a new report from the U.K.'s Law Society. But the list was equally notable for the localities it left out as those it included.