From the directory
Verification practices, legal marketing, and the data behind the US legal market — from the team that checks every firm on this directory.
From Thomson Reuters v. Ross to the Times suit and a $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement, the fair-use fight over AI training data hardened into real law by late 2025.
A professional responsibility teacher on single-judge divisions, the March 2024 Judicial Conference policy, Waco's patent docket, and whether choosing your judge corrodes the courts.
The 2025 executive orders against Perkins Coie, Paul Weiss, WilmerHale and others forced a choice: fight in court or cut a deal. Both answers left marks.
A former senior associate on how BigLaw drifted from the 2020 remote experiment to four and five day mandates, badge tracking, and a fight that was never really about mentorship.
A data study of 2025 federal filings across the district courts, courts of appeals, and bankruptcy courts, with figures drawn from uscourts.gov.
A professor of professional responsibility on the Supreme Court's rejection of nonconsensual third-party releases, the Texas two-step, and how the mass-tort bar adjusted in 2025.
A walk through our full pipeline: submission, evidence upload, human review of each check, the publish gate, and why we attest with dates instead of running reviews.
A data study of the ABA National Lawyer Population Survey: where US lawyers concentrate, how density varies by state, and the rural counties that function as legal deserts.
A general counsel on what the end of Chevron deference, plus Corner Post, actually changed about buying regulatory legal work in 2024 and 2025.
We recheck attorney bar standing every quarter. Here is why the cadence matters, how state lookup tools differ, and what a sweep really surfaces.
From Mata v. Avianca through 2025, judges have sanctioned lawyer after lawyer for AI-invented cases. A trial lawyer on what verification really requires.
A data study of lawyer discipline systems: court-run versus bar-run structures, public sanction ladders, reinstatement rules, and what published statistics reveal about enforcement variation.
The Texas Business Court opened in September 2024 with a $5 million threshold and appointed judges. One year of filings, remand fights, and Delaware's counterpunch.
Notes from our editorial desk on what we check, what clients notice, and what fails review when a law firm profile crosses our queue.
A data study of NCSC Court Statistics Project figures on state court caseload composition, from traffic volume and debt collection to self-represented litigants and post-pandemic filing recovery.
A professional responsibility teacher reads the Tripadvisor and Musk rulings, SB 21, and the Nevada-Texas courtship, and asks who the reincorporation lawyer really serves.
The sunset that drove seven years of gifting is gone. The exemption sits at $15 million from 2026. Here is what that does to the numbers behind estate practices.
A partner recruiter reads the post-Milbank pay tables like tea leaves: the raises, the bonus theater, the widening gap, and what the money does to who stays and who runs.
A data study tracing the US lawyer pipeline from LSAC applicants and ABA 509 enrollment through bar passage and NALP employment, and where each stage narrows.
A&O Shearman and Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer sold the transatlantic story. The spreadsheets tell a harder one about profit gaps, verein hedges, and quiet failure.
Paying and being verified are two separate things here. We explain what each tier buys, what it can never buy, and the incentive problems we built the whole system to resist.
A data study of firm-size distribution, revenue concentration, the nonequity partner tier, and what a decade of Am Law and NLJ 500 rankings shows about consolidation.
A former BigLaw associate on why the blocked FTC noncompete rule never mattered much for lawyers, what Model Rule 5.6 already does, and how partner exits really get built.
Burford's YPF judgment, Judge Connolly's Delaware disclosure orders, and a wave of state statutes moved third-party funding from the margins into ordinary case-selection math.
Amended Rule 702 took effect in December 2023. Here is how it changed expert reports, Daubert motions, and the toxic tort and product cases that felt it first.
A professional responsibility professor on the July 2026 NextGen rollout, Oregon's supervised pathway, California's testing meltdown, and why format was never the real problem.
A solo practitioner reads the Arizona ABS and Utah sandbox data, watches KPMG Law walk in the door, and asks the blunt question: does any of this help the small firm?
A general counsel's real diligence routine for hiring outside counsel: directories, bar records, discipline lookups, the FTC's 2024 fake-review rule, and what verified credentials change.
Half a million claims, one small federal district, and a settlement engine still sputtering. A look at how the Camp Lejeune Justice Act reshaped plaintiff-side practice through 2025.