Is being a lawyer hard? What happens if a bad client wants to hire you? Why do lawyers keep secrets? On this episode of Legal Speak, we let kids ask the questions.      

The ruling against Christopher Garvey, formerly among Morgan Stanley's top lawyers in Hong Kong, was the latest decision exploring the contours of anti-retaliation provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.      

While Kaplan Hecker has a presence in D.C., the new office marks an official expansion to the region.      

A Winston & Strawn-launched consortium, made up of participants including Am Law 100 firms, Fortune 500 legal-ops departments, ALSPs and others, is designing real-time metric dashboards to change how and when legal teams create and use client evaluations.      

The American Bar Association this month adopted a resolution encouraging state bars to consider "innovative approaches" to expanding legal services.       

Former DLA Piper Miami litigation chair Angela Crawford and Rolls Royce in-house counsel Lila Acharya, both women of color, say their experience as in-house and outside counsel makes them a strong choice for corporate clients.       

The ruling marked the latest development in Halkbank's four-month standoff with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, which has charged the bank with six counts of fraud, money laundering and other sanctions-related offenses in the record-breaking scheme.       

A relatively rosy 2019 for law firms wasn't confined to the country's big money centers.