Tuesday's order would allow nontrial proceedings in Washington, D.C., to start one day before a scheduled hearing in the criminal case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.      

Arizona's secretary of state, a Democrat, has brought on a Jenner & Block team at the Supreme Court to oppose the Republican attorney general, who's working with lawyers from Wilson Sonsini.      

In a national survey of attorneys, 91% of family law attorneys and 80% of criminal law attorneys reported that their income has decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of respondents had lost upward of 80% of their earnings.      

"I resigned from a job I loved because I was not willing to serve a department that would so easily abdicate its responsibility to this principle," former federal prosecutor Jonathan Kravis said in a commencement-style op-ed for his alma mater Williams College.      

Far from being cut off from clients, "We're talking to clients constantly. All day every day. It's a different kind of business development," says Jami Wintz McKeon.       

The coronavirus pandemic has caused about "10 years of evolution in 10 weeks," said managing partner John Langan, pointing to long-term changes in how the firm's attorneys will work remotely and take up office space.       

Troutman's pay cuts follow a similar move by Pepper earlier in May and mark the latest internal adjustments ahead of the July 1 merger.       

Law firms are returning to something approaching normal office life again, but few expect a quick economic recovery.