Kirkland & Ellis is poised to hire Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz partner Joshua Feltman, who has handled major liability management transactions, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

Bloomberg Law reporters attended 55 bond hearings in five states in February and March to chronicle proceedings before immigration judges. They offered a window into an uneven system beleaguered by an avalanche of cases and whipsawed by changing legal decisions.

Two judges appointed by former President Barack Obama and another who worked in the first Trump administration will decide whether to overturn lower court rulings blocking White House orders targeting Big Law firms.

Patent monetization firm IP Edge, once the poster child for patent litigation that critics described as troll-like, says it is shifting its approach from high volume to high quality, after a federal judge’s investigation into the company.

Partners at Perkins Coie and Ashurst voted to combine the two firms, resulting in a $2.8 billion, 3,000-lawyer entity by the third quarter of the year.

As law firms use MSOs to attract investor cash, regulators are cracking down on structures that allow non-lawyers to influence legal work.