National Law Journal

Ex-Clerk to Kavanaugh: Potential Pick 'Would Not Go Wobbly' on Conservatives In this week’s Washington Wrap: Stakeholders line up in the SCOTUS sweepstakes, and the latest lawyer moves in D.C. Read More

Countdown to the Nomination: Who Will Fill Kennedy's Seat? Take a look at who's in contention and other Kennedy news from the NLJ. Read More

CIVIL APPEALS | NEWS Bush v. Gore, Abortion Rights & More: 5 Things to Know About Amy Barrett By Marcia Coyle | Tony Mauro Five confirmation and career moments that could reappear at any Supreme Court confirmation hearing if President Trump... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | NEWS Ex-Clerk to Kavanaugh: Potential Pick 'Would Not Go Wobbly' on Conservatives By Ryan Lovelace In this week's Washington Wrap: Stakeholders line up in the SCOTUS sweepstakes, and the latest lawyer moves in D.C. Read More LAW FIRM CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS | NEWS Trump's CFPB Bashing Brings Halt to Big Law Workflow By Miriam Rozen What was once a revenue driver for several large firms has now slowed to a trickle, although some have managed to adjust... Read More Inside the Court for Trump v. Hawaii | Feuding Footnotes: Alito v. Sotomayor | Justices Decline Legal Malpractice Dispute | Supreme Court Brief | National Law Journal Go inside the Supreme Court for the dramatic announcement of the Trump v. Hawaii ruling and scroll down for our report... Read More

The NLJ 500: Career-Nurturing Firms Win High Rankings on Women-in-Law Scorecard “Women attract women. They know we want to pay it forward,” a managing partner of firm that moved up on the NLJ Women... Read More

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW | NEWS As One of Kennedy's Few Female Clerks, Law Dean Recalls Her Job—and Her Son's—With the Justice By Karen Sloan Wendy Collins Perdue clerked for Kennedy during his stint on the Ninth Circuit. Her son was Kennedy's clerk on the U.S.... Read More

LGBT Workplace Cases Arrive at SCOTUS as Kennedy Punches Out “It’s not a right versus left, conservative versus liberal issue,” Seyfarth Shaw's Sam Schwartz-Fenwick said. “It will... Read More

What Brett Kavanaugh Says About Indicting a Sitting President "A serious constitutional question exists regarding whether a president can be criminally indicted and tried while in... Read More

CAREER DEVELOPMENT | NEWS Kennedy's Retirement Leaves His Future Law Clerks in Limbo By Tony Mauro Depending on when Kennedy's successor joins the bench, an orphaned clerk could possibly work for the new justice. Retired... Read More

LAW FIRM COMPETITION | ANALYSIS The NLJ 500: Four Law Firms to Note By Ryan Lovelace The Pacific Northwest's Miller Nash Graham & Dunn joins the NLJ 500 this year as the highest-ranked firm not appearing... Read More

LAW FIRM MANAGEMENT | NEWS Conservative Women Lawyers Mobilize for Kennedy Replacement to Overturn 'Roe v. Wade' By Ryan Lovelace With the fate of abortion rights bound to be central to the fight to replace Justice Kennedy, women on the right will... Read More

LABOR LAW | RANKING The NLJ 500: Career-Nurturing Firms Win High Rankings on Women-in-Law Scorecard By Miriam Rozen “Women attract women. They know we want to pay it forward, a managing partner of firm that moved up on the NLJ... Read More

Tenure Nod for Justice Patterson Brings State Back to Normal | New Jersey Law Journal Gov. Murphy has relinquished an opportunity both for high-level patronage and for partisan revenge. In this age of increasingly... Read More

The Summary Stage: This Week's Biggest News (in Brief) | The Legal Intelligencer The Legal Intelligencer Another shakeup in the Philly DA's Office an historic family law ruling from the state Supreme Court and more. Read More

Embracing Paternity Leave: A Father’s Sabbatical Can be Part of a Successful Career | Daily Business Review Daily Business Review People thought I was joking when I told them that I was taking four weeks off after my wife and I welcomed our third... Read More