Several issues came up during the trial of Tom Goldstein that could be fodder for a successful appeal, according to Bloomberg Law reporter Holly Barker. Barker covered the trial of the disgraced SCOTUSblog founder and she joins our podcast, On The Merits, to talk about why the jury split its verdict and about how Goldstein’s famous propensity for risk taking influenced his defense strategy.

Wisner Baum, the mass torts firm that filed a legal challenge to California’s restrictions on legal fee-sharing with out-of-state firms owned by non-lawyers, dropped the suit three months into the case.

KPMG LLP on Friday named a new US division leader who is tasked with integrating the firm’s growing legal services offerings with its corporate advisory work.

Optimum Communications Inc. said a top law firm’s withdrawal from representing it under pressure from Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, Oaktree Capital Management and others showed that they were participating in a cartel against it.

Zach Podolsky leveraged a big break on a Texas energy deal to jump from Wachtell to Latham & Watkins. The New York lawyer is now out to prove he can bring in enough business to thrive in the firm’s “entrepreneurial” system.