Law librarians are pushing back on the idea that generative artificial intelligence will eventually replace them. If anything, they have become more relevant as they test and promote new AI-based tools for government, law schools and law firms, says Jenny Silbiger, the president of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Former special counsel Jack Smith and three other high-profile former prosecutors who have been in President Donald Trump’s crosshairs opened a boutique Washington, D.C. law firm Monday that they say will be dedicated to white-collar litigation and internal investigations.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, the central bank said Sunday, tied to the renovation of the Fed’s headquarters along the National Mall.

A judge on Thursday barred the top federal prosecutor in Albany from overseeing a criminal investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James, delivering the latest blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies.

A federal judge this week ordered Lindsey Halligan, a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump whom he installed as interim U.S. attorney in Virginia, to explain why she continues to say in court filings that she is still in that role despite another judge’s ruling that her appointment was unconstitutional.

Becky Pepper-Jackson was assigned male at birth but began transitioning to a female gender identity in third grade. Her West Virginia school district has been sympathetic, providing a gender support plan that among other things respects her chosen name and pronouns.

Members of the military and their spouses who are licensed attorneys in one state can now practice anywhere in the country, according to a December update issued by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.

Nick Reiner’s high-profile attorney, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the case Wednesday, during a court hearing where Reiner had been expected to enter a plea for two first-degree murder charges in the fatal stabbing of his parents, the renowned filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, 70.

In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts took a historical perspective, examining the evolution of the nation’s founding documents and how they shaped society and the judiciary.

The Texas Supreme Court has officially cut ties with the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as its law school accreditor.