A new legal service designed to help New York City renters recover their security deposits launched Friday.

A federal judge in Miami has tossed dueling defamation claims stemming from a dispute over condo repairs in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that involve a New York federal judge.

The Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will take up a pair of cases next term dealing with the contentious issue of transgender athletes competing in school sports.

A federal court jury in the Sean “Diddy” Combs case rejected the government’s theory that he ran a criminal enterprise that helped him carry out serious crimes including sex trafficking and drug distribution. “Even reading the indictment, it did seem like a stretch to charge Combs with the RICO statute,” said Anna Cominsky, who heads New York Law School’s Criminal Defense Clinic.

A former part-time prosecutor convicted for secretly recording intimate images of two lovers, including a woman he prosecuted, has been disbarred.

Clio has purchased Spanish startup vLex for a whopping $1 billion. The combination of the Canadian software company Clio and vLex, a legal intelligence and global research platform, was announced Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether an internet service provider can be liable for materially contributing to copyright infringement if it failed to terminate internet access for customers known to be pirating music.

John C.P. Goldberg, who has been Harvard Law School’s interim dean since March 2024, was formally appointed to the position, effective immediately.

A fourth federal judge has granted a permanent injunction blocking President Donald Trump from targeting law firms because of the clients they represent and the causes that they back.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners’ “blueprint” for the NextGen UBE offers welcome info about how the new test will be different than the current Uniform Bar Exam, legal academics say. But they also say that critical pieces of information are still missing—and can’t come soon enough for law schools and bar candidates.